Ottawa bus fare hikes, service cuts proposed
Night and weekend bus service in Ottawa could be reduced and fares raised under a proposal aimed at keeping next year’s property tax hike under four per cent.
Inuit were moved 2,000 km in Cold War manoeuvring
Uprooted from their homes to the south, the so-called high-Arctic exiles were promised they could return if they didn’t like their new lives. They were lied to.
The government of Canada has known (but doesn’t actually admit) for a very long time that the best way to stake a claim to the Arctic, and to defend and make that claim stick, is to have Canadians on the ground in the Arctic. Not on the ground in the sense of an annual flag waving military exercise, or in the sense of (if they ever actually appear) a couple of ice capable military vessels of some sort patrolling the Northwest passage during the warm summer months, and not in the sense of a deep sea port staffed by rotations of southerners — no, they know that Canadians have to be living there….. hence the relocation of those we call the High Arctic Exiles.
Back in 1992, Tim Robbins’ film “Bob Roberts” seemed an amusing parody of the American right. Did Sarah Palin use it as her campaign manual?
The True Spirit of Christmas, as pitched by your Favourite Furiosa.
ThePolitic was doing its best to establish its credibility as an adult conservative forum – and for a while there it seemed it was working. And then…whoops.
Bright and early tomorrow morning I’m on a plane headed for Toronto and then on to Hamilton for the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. In addition to being asked to perform Tumivut is nominated for awards in the “Best Female Traditional Cultural”, “Best Group or Duo”, and “Best Rap or Hip Hop Music Video” categories.
The Cactus of Liberty Sez: Enough!! Yet another photograph of Barack HUSSEIN Obama shamelessly carousing with the sworn enemies of America.
A quick post based on a short segment I watched on CTV AM this morning – one of the authors of Superfreakonomics (there’s apparently one chapter on climate change) was interviewed and he asked the question (paraphrased),
Human kind has solved virtually every other problem that it has faced in the last couple of hundred years with technology, so why then is that approach (for example.. strategic seeding the atmosphere with the same material that is issued from volcanoes when they erupt as large eruptions tend to block the sun and cool the planet) considered so off the table in the climate change issue.
If the many worlds hypothesis is correct, every moment generates an infinity of alternate realities. And yet we can all look back to one moment, one choice, that set our life on a radically different path.
What was yours?
First thing yesterday morning, before I’d even finished my first cup of coffee, I came across this – “Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released”
An unknown person put postings on some climate skeptic websites that advertised an FTP file on a Russian FTP server, here is the message that was placed on the Air Vent today:
We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps.
We hereby release a random selection of correspondence, code, and documents
The Bunker’s Surveillance Bureau has obtained the draft text of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s Financial Update. We assume there will be some edits prior to delivery.
Yesterday I had a little time to kill at 2:00PM so logged in to see what goes on in Question Period live chat hosted by the CBC to see what goes on there – I won’t be going back, I can’t abide echo chambers .
Some lawmakers at Queens Park are blasting comments by Dr. Alain Poirier that “there is no evidence yet a [H1N1] booster shot is necessary” for “children between the ages of six months and 9 years old“, questioning whether the comments are tantamount to health care “rationing” in the fight against H1N1.
Soldiers could get uniforms for urban jungle
Future Canadian soldiers could be wearing new uniforms designed to provide camouflage on the streets of our largest cities.
The Defence Department will know by March what designs might work for what is being called a Canadian Urban Environment Pattern.
It is characteristic of once-great powers in decline that their weaker, more fearful citizens and sycophants becomes obsessed with the form and symbols of dwindling power, rather than its substance.
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