This is why people invented garages.
from Statoil
Snowstorm? Remember to leave time to clean your car.
Feb 112013
Feb 112013
At 31, MP eligible for benefits he has voted against for other workers.
from the Rick Mercer Report
Rick Mercer congratulates Pierre Poilievre.
Feb 062013
"Too generous" contract setttlement cited.
from The Record
The Record in Kitchener, Ontario reports that city council is looking at cost-saving measures for its fire department, including privatization. Outrage at the generosity of an arbitrated contract settlement prompted one veteran councillor to point to the privatized fire services in some American cities, but a spokesman for the Ontario Professional Firefighters' Association noted that US privatization experiments tended to be short ones when lives on are the line.
Feb 062013
Meet Mikus Duffius, the Eastern Bald Senator.
by Perry Williams
Hinterland Who's Who identifies Senator's occasional landing place.
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Feb 042013
Indigenous peoples reject author's depiction of their lives.
from Survival International
Leaders across West Papua have demanded controversial author Jared Diamond [who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Guns, Germs and Steel] apologize for describing them in his new book [The World Until Yesterday] as warlike, and strengthening the idea that indigenous people are "backwards".
Feb 042013
Flash mob takes over busy airport, plays invisible instruments.
from T Mobile
Mobile phone commercial celebrates affectionate connections.
Feb 032013
Ideology, not economics, drives decision.
from the Ottawa Citizen
The Ottawa Citizen recently broke the story that the federal government will be handing over some of the defence department's large stock of properties to the private sector. To answer the auditor general's concerns about crumbling military infrastructure, Defense Minister Peter McKay is looking to "leverage private sector capabilities". The plan, short on details, constitutes blind faith in the private sector, says NDP critic Jack Harris.
Jan 312013
While private care growth is fueled with public money, public care faces bed closures.
from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Guy Smith is calling on Premier Alison Redford to launch a public inquiry into the state of seniors health care and has requested an investigation by the Office of the Auditor General.
Jan 312013
Most affected students are African-American.
from The Nation
Allison Kilkenny, writing for The Nation.com, explores a recent Philadelphia school district's decision to close six public schools serving a student population that is 81 percent African-American. Just last spring, 5,000 new charter school seats were approved, to the tune of $139 million over five years. The district claims a cost-savings overall of $28 million, but the numbers don't add up, says Kilkenny.
Jan 312013
Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness trump the right to gun ownership.
by David Wheeler
“Thomas Jefferson described our inalienable rights as life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness — the rights with which we are endowed, for the protection of which we have instituted governments. I do not think the composition of that foundational phrase was an accident. I do not think the order of those important words was haphazard or casual. The liberty of any person to own a military-style assault weapon and a high-capacity magazine, and keep them in their home, is second to the right of my son to his life — to his life; to the right to live of all of those children and those teachers, to the right to the lives of your children, of you, of all of us — all of our lives — it is second. Let’s honor the founding documents and get our priorities straight. Thank you.”
David Wheeler's 6-year-old son was shot to death in his elementary school.
