An article on Enter Stage Right makes fun of a "terrorist drill" featuring a school invasion by "extremist Christians." What was left unsaid in it was that the propaganda used in that "drill" is not unlike the kind used to bully conscript troops into the front lines.

Thank goodness for the all-volunteer military. As recent events have shown, the AVM is quite capable of getting the job done.

Greg Weston, in today's Calgary Sun, reporting on a new SEC poll, on leadership. Dion is toast, but voters in Ontario would still elect liberals, even tho the majority of those in Ont think Harper is the better leader. Why do voters in Ont hate their country so much?

Why do voters in Ont hate their country so much?

We are lemmings. We vote the way our parents vote. We cannot change. Save us from ourselves. Please.

What are they going to do when they "discover" that the runaway AGW machine has an awesome set of four-wheel-disc-brakes AND a reverse gear?

All said in one headline:

http://newsbusters.org/node/11902

Ain't Mother Nature perverse... :-)

I am a day late but feel the need to comment on the re-dedication of the memorial at Vimy.

Normally we (my wife and I ) would be at Timmy's enjoying our midmorning coffee but chose to stay at home and watch the ceremony live instead.

I am happy we did.

I can truthfully say I was proud as a Canadian of the re-dedication of the memorial and how as a nation we truly remember and honour our heroes for giving their lives for us to enjoy freedom in a distant land.

Our leaders have given us reason to be proud.

Admitting to geting teary eyed over a ceremony thousands of miles away is not perhaps manly, but I confess to doing just that as that beautiful young Canadian girl from Winnpeg stood all alone on the monument playing the mournful Warrior's Lament.

( Canada's Beccy Cole?)

I was truly proud of her as though she was my personal representative honouring those long ago lost.

Thank you Stephen Harper and of course our media for your teaching Canadians more History in one day than Canadian schools have done in the past fifty years!

Well done.

Sadly six more Canadians have joined the ranks of those lost in the fight for right.

My hope is that the Afghanis will begin to realize that Candians are paying with their lives on their behalf and join in the fight in a greater degree.

And my last hope is "Rollover" Taliban Jack and Dion get behind the troops rather than turn tail and leave the Taliban to subjugate their women and girls.

mary T:

I don't think the poll results can necessarily be taken at face value on their own. I think you have to look at all the recent polls and draw some conclustions.

A few weeks ago several polls showed the Conservatives well out in the lead and in slim majority territory. Then the pundits all started talking about an impending election because Harper would HAVE to call one with those numbers. Then an SES poll comes out yesterday showing the Conservatives and Liberals much closer. But todays SES poll shows Canadians prefer Harper overwhelmingly as PM.

What all of this tells me is that Canadians in general are happy with how things are going. And they realize that Harper is a "Prime Minister" in a sense that we haven't seen in quite some time. Also, Canadians don't want an election right now. We like how things are going, we like Stephen Harper and his government so why change? So every time it looks like Harper is in a position to call an election, the soft Conservative support flops back to the Liberals just to say, "No election today thank you."

That said, if an election were to happen, I think you'd see the Conservative numbers move to Stephen Harper's personal numbers rather than the opposite.

I'm not sure if this has been brought up yet. The link from the CBC is from March 30. But I just heard a bump for Rutherford's show today where they're going to talk about this report.

But it seems that emissions from ethanol blended fuel is no better than those of pure gasoline.

So don't buy those Saskatchewan farms just yet in the hopes that you're going to sell your crops to Exxon.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/03/30/ethanol-emissions.html

Mary T: Liberal, Tory, same old story.

Vote Family Coalition Party of Ontario. :D

One or the other, it's the same thing.

Ontario consists of Toronto when it comes to electing the Liberals. They get the bulk of the seats in Toronto and environs. The place is rife with immigrants who have no history with us and our way of life.
They have been fed lies from Liberals since they first set foot in the Country as they know it from the Liberal bastion which is Toronto, period.

Westerners and rural Ontario people know about what is going on, where we came from, and the principles this country was built on.

Dependent provinces in the East seem to head to Liberals as their security blanket. Liberals will coddle for votes rather than face up to fixing the need for dependency.
This is not a politically correct statement, this truth hurts some delicate sensibilities.

Danny Williams is an example of a thankless greedy
leader. His province has been given the best deal ever in their history, they stand to reverse their dependency. Danny Boy doesn't want to share, it's his cake and he wants to eat it too.

Election coming in the spring. 2008.

Liz J is correct. It really is the "immigrant vote",although a substantial number of them are 3rd and 4th generation "Immigrants". For example, my in-laws emigrated from Italy in the 1950's. They, along with their children and grandchildren (my wife excluded)would never vote anything other than Liberal. I really don't know why other than they just never consider another party as being credible. When I try to broach the subject of the Conservative party, they brush off the whole topic of politics as "all politicians are crooks." I have a suspicion that because they are devout Catholics, they may be getting their cue from the parish priest.

The leadership poll numbers from Weston's article reinforces the thinking behind the strategies currently being employed by the two parties. The CPC obviously wants to make the ballot "question" all about leadership. For another example of that, we see the CPC war room with posters of Harper plastered all over the place. The LPC is countering with talk of their "dream team". But lets fast forward to the fall session of Parliament (I don't expect a Spring election, as more time is needed for Dion to further weaken the Liberals from inside. Plus we can furthere intimidate the Libs into spending from their war chest). There will be more empty chairs behind Dion, due first to the retired Liberal MPs, plus the lazy or over-worked ones who won't/can't show up. This will be the daily image for the public--weak leader Dion, nitpicking and whining, fewer and fewer loyal MPs behind him--hardly the picture of a party motivated to charge into battle. It's these depressing images of a beaten Party which will hopefully discourage many Liberal supporters to either not help out in the campaign or not even bother voting. Harper and the CPC are very good at motivating the troops (donations being a good current indicator). The only rallying cry from Dion that I can see is the tired old "stop that scary Harper, don't waste your vote on the NDP/Green/BLOC." Time is on our side, which Harper can use to "cook" the Liberal beast !

“You can observe a lot by watching.” [YB]...-

Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high
BBC News ^ | Tuesday, 6 July, 2004 | Dr David Whitehouse

Sunspots reaching 1,000-year high

Sunspots are plentiful nowadays [Not YB]

A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814930/posts

Deputy Liberal Leader Ignatieff Insults Queen Elizabeth at Vimy Ridge Memorial:

David Akin of CTV thought he could stir up a nice little political controversy and give the Liberals a positive boost at the Vimy Ridge ceremonies yesterday.

Bridging from the fact that PM Harper had mentioned Afghanistan during his speech on Easter Sunday, predicated by the fact that he was informing the attendees of the tragic deaths of 6 brave soldiers, Akin asked Prince Iggy the next day if it was "appropriate" to talk about the current military mission during ceremonies to honour one 90 years past.

True to Liberal form to take shots at Conservatives, especially when Akin was opening the door so wide, Iggy expressed his dismay that bringing up Afghanistan at Vimy was entirely inappropriate.

Was this said by Iggy BEFORE or AFTER the Queen of England lamented the Canadian soldiers deaths and linked the courage of our soldiers at Vimy to the current Afghanistan mission?

For crass Liberal political opportunism Ignatieff trashed the Queen and inferred her comments were inappropriate. Note- PM Harper did not mention Afghanistan at the Vimy ceremonies. Only the Queen did.

Iggy- You have insulted the Queen of England and we demand an apology from you.

You've got big problems when you try to count 481 ballots for band chief and manage to count 12 votes twice...

http://taxpayersfederation.blogspot.com/2007/04/explain-this-one.html

Suzanne: "Vote Family Coalition Party of Ontario. :D"

Don't count on my vote. I cannot imagine the parties we have now preforming so poorly that my vote would go to a "lobby group" whining for power.

Even the Green party in Canada after several elections is just in the last few years actually putting forth a full platform showing that they are capable of governing.

Until you come up with a better platform than: "put me in power so I can enact this one issue" (environment, family, marijuana, Christian values, animal rights), then all your really doing is trying to get a bit of press during an election period.... I'd rather vote for Dion and shoot myself in th foot then vote for some fringe lobby group.

The government is scaling back funding for global warming research. The "science is settled" and we need to start taking action.

John Baird is quoted in the article below as saying, "At some point, it's sort of like the planet's on fire, we've got to throw water on it. We don't need to research it, we need to act."

I guess the science isn't 100% settled though, because gw scientists are not happy about not getting the $250 million they asked for.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/cns_writers/story.html?id=eb013ce1-8bdd-4fcd-85bc-73cf9695c968&k=64486

Did Iggy go to Vimy with PMSH or did he go on his own. Libs can't find a candidate in a BC riding.
I hope that when a majority conservative government is elected, that the AG will really do an audit of the immigration department, during the Trudeau years. If those facts ever become public, it will explain why so many 3rd world immigrants vote liberal. Ever wonder where these people got the money they had to have on entering Canada. Talk to retired immigration officers, who were sent to these countries to pre process applicants.

Belisarius, I saw that article and I thought what a brilliant move by Tories. Defund the welfare scientists who are screaming that the world is ending and we must do something. Then take that money and pretend to actually do something. This could be good fun.

What it actually exposes is that these scientists are not scientist at all but paid lobbyists who are producing a product for which there is demand. When they are no longer being paid to produce global warming hysteria they will have to find another cause to put bread on the table.

In either tis morning's Vancouver Sun or Province there was a small clip indicating that the Liberals couldn't find a candidate in an Interior riding (not sure which). Seems that no one wanted to spend his/her money to get beaten badly (or so the theory goes).

Mike in White Rock

Actually, Lorraine, she is the Queen of Canada and was there in that capacity.

Both the Queen and the French PM mentioned Afghanistan and made the link. Harper did not do so at this meeting; he had done so the day before, making the link that day.

Ignatieff was criticizing for the sake of being opposed. Very petty. It was a perfect ceremony - including all speeches - and the young woman playing the Warrior's Lament from the heights of the Memorial.

Ratfuc - yes, it's the immigrant vote, but this is from the 1950s. Canada has essentially had only one party for over a generation. And since the big cities are where the immigrants go - that means they are Liberal. Not because they consider the policies; they don't. It's about multiculturalism, which has been transformed into a mythic religious ideology, obscuring its diseased results.

The Liberal multiculturalism ideology has only one purpose - getting the vote from the massive post war immigration. Why? Not because they believe in multiculturalism for the sake of the immigrants. No. The Liberals have only one belief and one agenda. Power.

But, Harper is appealing to the working families regardless of ethnic, religious or other 'origin'. His focus is that we are all Canadian - not hyphenated people and most certainly, not trapped within isolate ethnic identities that each compete with each other for funds and power.

Multiculturalism is, for the immigrants, a disastrous policy. For the Liberals, it was part of their platform-to-power.

Hey Kate

If your "Cat Ownership Offsets" aren't generating as much revenue you as you'd like, you could always try making money this way:

Lucky chocolate covered champion dog turd

Global warming debunked, sort of:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm

provides information about how the sun's sunspot activity
is the highest it has been in over 400 years. After the
"Little Ice Age" of the late 1600's, sunspot activity has
steadily increased, Here's a quote from the article:

" But the most striking feature, he says, is that looking at the past 1,150 years the
Sun has never been as active as it has been during the past 60 years."

But, as usual, they have to appease the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) crowd, so he also adds:

"Over the past 20 years, however, the number of sunspots has remained roughly constant,
yet the average temperature of the Earth has continued to increase.
This is put down to a human-produced greenhouse effect caused by the combustion of fossil fuels.
This latest analysis shows that the Sun has had a considerable indirect influence on the global climate in the past,
causing the Earth to warm or chill, and that mankind is amplifying the Sun's latest attempt to warm the Earth. "

Uh-huh. So when we argue that we are NOT seeing the changes in temperature
predicted by the AGW wingnuts, they claim it's because there are "lagging effects" in the
earth's ecosystem. But if we tried to point out that when you apply an impulse to a system
in the form of a suddenly raised input, the system generally overshoots at first, and then
settles down after a few cycles at a new level, (as an electrical engineer, I know that this
is common when you suddenly apply power to a circuit), we're still "AGW deniers". We
can't win!

God knows I'd love to meet David Suzuki in person so I could cram the article down his
sanctimonious little mouth.

Mike in White Rock:

The riding is currently held by the NDP. But to be fair, the incumbent Conservative retired and his replacement was booted out of the Party in the last election for having a criminal taint attached to him.

I wonder if the Libs could recruit Derek Zeisman to run for them? After all they let the AdScam crooks back. The Liberal Party of Canada: We accept all crooks, big or small.

From the Province:

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=0a08221b-3506-4b5f-87ac-139265099b09

"The NDP and Conservatives have candidates in place for the B.C. Southern Interior riding, but the Liberals have failed to arouse any enthusiasm for their party's nomination, a riding association spokeswoman admits.

"We have approached people but we have not been able to find anyone interested," said Rose Calderon."

There is a very good article on Iraq at (of all places) Huffpo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tish-durkin/iraq-a-place-of-ambivale_b_45145.html

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/04/yglesias_award_.html

and Harry's Place
http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2007/04/10/iraq_then_and_now.php

Liberals can't find Kootney candidate that runs from Kootney Lake to Manning Park. -"We have approached people but we have not been able to find anyone interested" said Rose Calderon. The conservatives and ndp have candidates in place. Story in Lethbridge Herald, page 2, from Trail BC,(cp).

The Liberals have a very affirmative action criteria for candidates in those ridings they cannot win: (for PR purposes only - the candidate is disposable but useful for photo ops)

The perfect Liberal candidate would be:

- a First Nations disabled woman wearing a burka

Money and the ethnic vote? When did Jacques Parizeau start commenting here?

Why do voters in Ont hate their country so much?

Because it's not their country. It belongs to some self centred elites.

I was on a bus tour in europe once and every couple was upset with all the shenanigans going on back home that ran against every value they held.

Whether it was schools crime etc. Funny how that happens in democracies like Kanuckistan, Australia, UK, New Zealand,

God bless the blogs,

- a First Nations disabled woman wearing a burka
... at least lesbian, possibly transgendered, and with a limp

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Pikangikum back on the radar

This place is apparently a near iron-age ghetto,
with one of the world's highest suicide rates.
The people who live here have just stopped
caring.

This isn't a problem you can solve by throwing
up some infrastructure.

It's subsidising a culture of defeat.

*

Re: Belinda's bake a better competitive pie vanity article in today's National Post:

I had to go hmmmmmmm? I wonder who Belinda hired to write this article.

In all of the wordiness and throwing around of quite trite cliches (condensed: better education = better jobs = better workforce = better competitive pie. (Oooooohhhhhh - that must be DEEP dish pie)

The fact that the author actually thought this well known premise was something profound leads me to think Belinda hired a recent business or economics grad or somebody equally without real world experience.

It is like penning an article as some kind of new thought on, say, the sun will come up in the morning. If it does not we will have perpetual night.

Embarassing shallowness. I am surprised Belinda would allow her byline on this kindergarten lesson in economics but then maybe her so called "business acumen" as "the head " of Magna really was a token way for her Daddy to funnel $9 million per year in "salary" to his little girl and get the write offs..

Can you imagine if this is Belinda's depth of business acumen what would happen to any company, even daddy's, if she was in a decision making role?

Y2Kyoto oopsie

Following are weather forecast highlights from Weather Trends International:

LAST WEEK’s WEATHER TREND (1-7 APR): Temperatures plummeted as a strong Arctic cold front dove deep into the South late in the week. There were 100s of record low temperatures across the U.S. with the Southwest being the one exception. Hard freezes most likely did 10s of millions of dollars damage to trees and crops in the Southeast over the Easter weekend. Snowfall was also the most in at least 14 years with dozens of record snowfall totals from Texas to the Middle Atlantic and throughout the interior Northeast and Great Lakes. Even Dallas had a trace of snow which was the latest snowfall in 69 years.

After 3 consecutive weeks of mild temperatures across the Corn Belt, last weeks temperatures were the coldest in 15 years. The same week in 1996 and 2002 were cold. Corn Belt moisture was not overpowering. However, with cold temperatures, evaporation was minimal so field firming was at a snail’s pace. The commodity markets are primed for instability and this past weeks weather can only be called unsettling.

THIS WEEK (8-14 APR): Last year was record warm, this year record cold! April is currently tracking as the coldest April in 113 years "

3w.agweb.com/get_article.aspx?pageid=135336&src=gennews

The easiest way to save ourselves(the ROC) from the Islamofacists....nuke Ontario and Quebec!!!

Barcs wrote:

"I cannot imagine the parties we have now preforming so poorly that my vote would go to a "lobby group" whining for power."

Whining for power? How is going out and EARNING votes "whining" for power.

"Until you come up with a better platform than: "put me in power so I can enact this one issue" (environment, family, marijuana, Christian values, animal rights), then all your really doing is trying to get a bit of press during an election period.... I'd rather vote for Dion and shoot myself in th foot then vote for some fringe lobby group."

The fact that you'd rather vote for Dion than another right-wing group says more about you than the FCP.

Here are the FCP policies on a wide variety of issues.

The *experts* at Volvo have compared 18 auto fuels and allow you to choose the 7 you think are lowest in co2 emissions.

You select those 7 in the form of race cars and then watch the *contest*. Beer bets are only valid on the first run.

Hint* Results are surprising. One has to find a farmer with a certain specialty in order to fuel up with a winner.

volvocars.com/corporation/environment/Alternativefuels/
AlternativeFuelsAndPowertrains.htm

http://tinyurl.com/38m5gu

There is no mention of any battery type. Volvo, like any big automaker would prefer not to consider the death of the Internal Combustion engine. A golden goose of profit.= TG

The crying game: Misery clubs come to the UK

Forget happiness, the in-crowd is being moved to tears by a new wave of super cool misery clubs, which give visitors (with the help of a pile of chopped onions) the chance to weep away their woes.

I guess they'll have to go back to inbreeding for entertainment:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070409/ap_on_re_us/louisiana_cockfighting

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If I lost a child, under any circumstances, the last thing
I would welcome is someone looking to make a buck
off my misery.

I'm sure the media can report this sad event without
having to wrench a ten second sound-bite out of some
grieving mother's soul.

*

The problem with Ontario is the same problem with most large cities. The conservatives have left the cities. Small businessmen, Families, even the backbone manufacturing jobs that are left (trust me, private sector unions may talk left, but most unionists vote right) have all moved to suburbia and beyond. What is left in Toronto is students, academia, the CBC, and public sector workers in a happy little multicultural utopia. Vote conservative? Never goin' to happen.

Ahmadinejad wants 50,000 uranium centrifuges to bolster enriched uranium production for Iran's 'civilian' nuclear program.

India, for comparison, operates about 3,000 centrifuges, which individually can produce about 30 grams of weapons-grade uranium a year (and, presumably, more fuel-grade uranium, since it doesn't have to be enriched anywhere near as much). And they are able to run six nuclear power plants and crank out 18 or so Agni missiles per year.

So why does Iran -- with a population barely 1/16th that of India -- need over sixteen times as many centrifuges for a 'civilian' power generation program?

I just found this article on the Financial Post.

Hookers can legally write off condoms as a business expense.

Criminals ordered to pay restitution to a victim can legally write off that restitution payment.

How crazy is this?

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=993f0813-6e39-4ed4-8dbd-00d5b0bb08f5

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18027515/

57 percent of americans disapprove of congress...but the headline spin is great: "Public approval of congress is rising!"

Joe Molnar referred to her as "Canada's Beccy Cole" - to my knowledge Beccy Cole was and still is Australian. But, I like her music and message and would adopt her into Canada in a minute.

The Liberals are now claiming that THEY were the origin and initiators and driving force behind the 'Quebec is a nation' motion in the House of Commons.

Fabrice Rivault is running for the Liberals in Quebec, and he is claiming that the 'Quebec is a nation' Motion is a Liberal motion - and that Harper was opposed.

Note also that he is distorting the truth. He is saying that the motion was about 'Quebec is a nation'. No. It was 'the Quebecois are a nation within a united Canada'. The Quebecois are not a synonym for the territory of Quebec.

The site is on National Newswatch

http://www.rivault.ca/default_e.aspx?id=224

How come the G&M has some article about the Queen of the North fuel spillage spoiling the shellfish?

Why has the crew responsible for steering the ship not been charged a year after the fact?

Why have the crew of the Sea Diamond been relieved of duty and charged by Greek authorities less than a week after that tragedy?

Canadians are pussies.....

Dion takes credit for the clarity act, so why not have liberals take credit for the quebecois nation idea. If they keep up this theft of ideas, maybe they will turn against suzuki/gore and come out saying GW is a scam. Since their source of stolen funds is gone, all they have left to steal are ideas.

VIA Canadian Gunnutz forums:

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/E2-420-2001E.pdf

Wendy Cukier and her coalition for gun control munching on tax dollars consulting the government on 'policy'...

NEW CONSERVATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO YOUTUBE

http://qubetv.tv/

It's about time! Why let the left have a monopoly on the medium?

So Prince Iggy attended the Vimy memorial as the 2nd in Command of the divided Librano Party.

If he could attend that magnificent commemoration of such a pivotal event in our history and come away with ANY CRITICISM OF ANY OF THE PEOPLE THERE, HE'S ONE SICK AND DESPICABLY STUNNED INDIVIDUAL.

I saw the whole thing twice. The Queen, our Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of France gave amazing, thought provoking speeches. They were all sincere and appeared to be genuine, no sign of hypocrisy to be found.
Never have I seen such a class act.

Always thought the guts of Clarity Act was the brainchild of Preston Manning and Stephen Harper.
Do we have a case of plagiarism here?

It is the Liberal way, take someone else's ideas and run on them. The all things to all people philosophy.

We saw the Vimy rededication twice too...and it certainly was touching. Very well done.It had an effect. Did anyone else notice the soldiers tearing up?
And a lighter moment...Rachel Harper giving the Queen a bouquet.

though crescent rolls celebrated the defeat of the Turks it is a suggestion

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265132,00.html

Alienated says: "Election coming in the spring. 2008."

Agreed -- the CPC will go down over a popular but conservative budget, thus consolidating their base support (by then larger than it was in 05-06), and attracting enough others for a majority. Also provides another year of pathetic unfair bullying against Dion.

But I could be wrong.

AGW laugh of the week - CO2 levels in 1830 were higher than they are now and have lagged temperature changes since then. Whole puddle of nonsense is based on bad science, followed by worse science, closely chased by morons like Gore and that lying little geek Suzuki. Ha ha.

http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/003901.html

http://www.biokurs.de/treibhaus/180CO2_supp.htm

Sample the hateful, self-loathing from CP, aka Canadian Press. Down with the narcissist Canadian Press.
...-

Canadians in Afghanistan face grief, guilt after death of comrades
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Lt. Ben Rogerson will never forget the explosion that destroyed a light armoured vehicle killing six soldiers under his command. (cnews)
...-

Re: The "British Hospital Rolls Over on Hot-Cross Bun Ban" story that cal2 brought to our attention, I am now officially embarassed or my British ancestory. I took the fact that besides roast beef and yorkshire pudding, English cuisine sucked, and that the English with their stiff upper lips were not regarded as great lovers, dancers or swashbucklers. I did however take great comfort in knowing that the Royal Navy for centuries ruled the seas, the Royal Airforce showed great resolve during the Battle of Britian, and Scotland Yard usually got their man (with the help of Mr Holmes). Now a once great nation is reduced to letting their sailors be captured without so much as a shot being fired and banning hot cross buns lest they offend someone. My grandfather would probably have thanked his lucky stars that he came to Canada when he did if he were alive today.

From Belinda's article in the Post:

"From 2000 to 2005, the number of undergraduates pursuing degrees in computer science in Canada fell 70%."

I hope this is a "Liberal statistic" and not a real, actual statistic.

Bob - "computer science" university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads.

Here in Edmonton the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology has absolutely exploded in growth and size.

We also have something here called "campus Alberta" where all of the universities and colleges have reciprocal credits for courses across the province and life long learning is promoted even for seniors.

If Belinda was just looking at University graduate statistics to try to stack her shallow little article then, of course, it is misleading.

Belinda should go back to Daddy's Corp. and act important.

As for Amadiddydo of Iran, he's working on a big boomer and the Western Powers are sitting by watching. He really needs those 50,000 uranium centrifuges up his ass.

Lorraine: "Bob - "computer science" university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads."

Not sure I would describe it that way ... there is a big difference. If you have to speculate as to the reason to the drop in enrollment take a look what the major computer/software vendors were doing in the late 90s and the early 2000s ... 100s of thousands of jobs were dropped (these were mainly university grads). In the mean time there was an increase in demand for diploma grads.

To oversimplify (and use a single example) the university grads at microsoft write the tools that diploma grads use ... to suggest the university grads aren't capable of using them doesn't make sense.

Bob - I think the drop was first noticed in the US. No big deal, it's a changing world.

Report out from British scientists states that if your family is prone to parkinsons, smoking and drinking coffee can help prevent you getting it. Seems smoking and coffee raise dopemine levels. No mention of help from embryonic stem cells.

The drop in enrollment in computer science programs is understandable. And anyone dumbfounded by it must have been living with their head in the sand since 1999.

All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India. India, with a billion people, has an extremely high proportion of their population with University degrees. They're as educated as a North American or European. Only they work for a fraction of the cost.

So to Belinda I say, "duh."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/01/BU106520.DTL&type=tech

The young woman who played "Warrior's Lament" at the Vimy memorial is a superbly talented Manitoban by the name of Sierra Noble. More info http://www.sierranoble.ca/bio.html

Who had the most to gain from the tax free status of Income Trusts, the Trust Owners themselves and investment bankers?

They wouldn't be hiding behind the emotional plea that it is for the poor seniors now would they?

Here are the founding members of CAITI- the group organizing the propaganda campaign against the changes to Income Trusts:

Founding Members
Four Individuals (with an average age of 62 years)
Coalition of Canadian Energy Trusts
Sentry Select Capital Corp.
CI Investments
Dynamic Funds
Acuity Funds Ltd.
Citadel Group of Funds
Brompton Funds
Gluskin Sheff + Associates
Borden Ladner Gervais
Lawrence Asset Management Inc.
Canadian Energy Infrastructure Group
Pengrowth Energy Trust

http://www.caiti.info/about_us_founding_members.php

Reid: " ... All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India."

Yeah, and that also. I classify the diploma grads more like service workers and trades - proximity matters.

With the trades, welding in Australia in particular, the guys that build truck boxes decided to import contract Chinese workers to be able to compete with China.

Who knows where all this is going ... but it is changing.

Thanks - buglady for the info on the Sierra Noble website.

In an earlier post on this thread this morning I had compared her performance to the Australian singer Beccy Cole in her tribute to the Australian Diggers at war in Iraq.

While this tribute was not political as the Cole "Poster Girl" song it was just as moving, perhaps more so on the occasion and the setting where it was performed.

Congratulations to Sierra Noble for her contribution to a proud Canadian moment in world affairs, I wish her all the success in the world!

Down with Trudeau's Fraud; Down with the Charter of Wrongs.
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PM Passes On Marking Charter Anniversary
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The Harper government is passing on a major Ottawa conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Charter of Rights, with the Prime Minister and three Cabinet ministers turning down invitations to speak.
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"For a sitting prime minister, these job numbers are better than any poll."

[www.lianmacdonald.ca]

Employment numbers make Harper's day

At current growth, economy could produce a million jobs in just two years [...]

Except that Ontario, the manufacturing heartland of the country, continues to bleed industrial jobs, [...]

Alberta's oil boom continues to fuel an economy [...] ...-
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=cd2c08ed-7c85-4e59-9714-e0ab3e48476f&p=2

The Glob-Mail's "rob tv" changed it's name! LOL.
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Al Rosen skewers the greedy media: greed of money, greed of ego. Go, Al. This is a keeper.
Would one of those greedy-ego journos be Diane Francis, aka Miss Shrill-Shill? Doesn't she toil-sweat-scribble for the Financial Post?
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On trusts and Greedy Media

Al Rosen
Financial Post

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Roughly 25 new income trust offerings have lost more than half their value in the past few years after being sold mostly to retail investors. The common reason behind the $2.1- billion in losses is clear: pure, unmitigated greed. Greed by investors, greed by underwriters, lawyers, and accountants, and greed by the media.

We should focus on that last cohort first, because without the greed of the media, investors wouldn't have been burned as badly as they were by income trust investments over the past few years.

It seems investors have forgotten that the media are businesses too. They survive on advertising dollars, and they rely on content to fill their pages and airtime. In the case of income trusts, the two frequently went hand in hand. Both national newspapers ran several insert sections dedicated solely to income trusts. Pages of lucrative advertising dollars were accompanied by puff pieces on income trust investing.

I had to laugh recently when that other newspaper's television station renamed itself, partly because it didn't like people referring to it as "rob" TV. After all, what could have been a more telling name during the past few years, considering the parade of shills that regularly circuited through the station, misleading investors about the risks of income trust investing?

However, it's not just greed for money that has infected the media, it's also greed of ego that is doing investors a serious disservice. Lately, it's a couple of regular business columnists who seem to be hell bent on ignoring plain facts so they can bask in the attention they get from being mouthpieces for pro-trust lobbying efforts.$$$
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=e09c50f1-6cc1-4b52-96da-77d7b2426fce
(via bourque)

"Newspeak - The official language of Oceania. Newspeak is "politically correct" speech taken to its maximum extent." ...-

Thoughtcriminals Served
(updated daily)

The Newspeak Wiktionary in now open for editing.

All across Oceania, loyal party members are filling the new database with goodthinkful articles. To join the struggle and add content to the wiktionary yourself, you must first declare loyalty to the party and become a member of the forum. ...-
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com
(via free republic)

Canada Wins Gold At Women's Hockey Worlds

Once again, Canada reigns supreme in women's hockey, capturing its ninth world title Tuesday night in Winnipeg. (national newswatch)

She shoots; she scores. ...-

Great comment from an Iraqi blogger at:

MichaelTotten.com

**like i said, pray for bush every day, right after u pray for god otherwise u wud have to walk to work every day coz of high petrol prices.

am iraqi but i like bush, i know he did this war partly because of oil, but atleast we benefited from that. having 50% of somthin is better than %100 of nothing.

what condition do u think kwait and saudi be in right now if they hadnt cooperated with america in 1991? they would be part of iraq and the cities probably looked worse than the deserts in afghanistan. no offence to aghanis or anything.

Regards,
Shvan **
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There are probably thousands of Iraqi who feel this way but would not dare express their opinion.

That opinion is worth a Muqtada beheading. = TG

From cbc.ca/nb

Here's what the City of Dieppe feels about financial transparency:

"To put [on the internet] that I have $4,000 left or $2,000 left in my expense budget, I don't see the public interest in that," he said." - MAyor Achille Maillet

""She's the only one that believes that citizens need transparency," - Councillor Charles Cormier

"http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/ 2007/04/11/nb-dieppeexpenses.html"

This is the same City of Dieppe which had to raise property taxes to deal with spiralling spending, and which uses 25% of the budget simply to service debt.

Maurice-Mao Stlong is the Mayol of "Woman Town", aka the Blothel. One eggloll, 2 eggloll, 3 ...
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Women to rule new town [in China}

China is to create the world's first 'Woman Town' where women make all the decisions and disobedient men face punishments.

Chongqing is to convert its Shuangqiao district into Woman Town, covering 2.3 square km, reports Chongqing Morning News.

The slogan: "A woman never makes a mistake. A man can never reject a woman's request" will be carved into the town gates. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815526/posts

Hindus eye Niagara as their Ganges - Community seeks designated waterway for burial rituals

canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d71f9582-344f-42d3-a75c-2dec149320ac

What is becoming of Rideau Hall?
National Post
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Rideau Hall is not "Canada's national home," as the Governor- General's Web site now says. It is the home of the representative of Queen Elizabeth, and it is not primarily an art gallery, as the current resident, Michaelle Jean, and her staff seem to think....

....These moves may or may not be stealth republicanism, or an attempted constitutional amendment by curatorial decree. But Ms. Jean and her staff are evidently trying to siphon off the great symbolic power of the monarchy, to further their particular tastes and agendas. If they continue on this path, they will undermine a highly honourable office, and consequently validate the warnings offered by Ms. Jean's detractors at the time she was appointed.

Belinda leaving politics! Bob Fife on CTV just had a "love'in" on what a great person blah, blah, blah!
Looks like Liberal party is dropping like flies.

To grip made a cross on elections in 2007

Joel-Denis Bellavance

The Press

Stephen Harper will measure the popularity of his minority government from here a few months in three bys-election in Quebec, and gives at spring the 2008 possibility of starting general elections, according to information's obtained by the Press. ...-
googoo translation (via national newswatch)

Yes, Belinda jumped to Titanic Librano$ and now jumping to Titanic Magna$.

It will take longer, but Magna$ fortunes are headed downhill unless they decide to get into the Electric Vehicle mfng business. = TG

Dementia Democraticus Edwardsanassis.
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Caption John Edwards' "Walk A Day In My Shoes" stunt at a nursing home ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815644/posts

WarnK comments, puts up a pic, (JChr included), and links to this:

Prime Minister Harper pays tribute to Jean Béliveau

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media_gallery.asp?media_category_id=121&media_category_typ_id=3&media_id=870#tag

Chretien asked/wanted/urged Beliveau to be Governor-General. Jean refused Jean.
As Citoyen Dion said, Bam, the dog. End of story.

Another two Canadians killed in Afghanistan today and once again the story is ignored by SDA. Funny when one finds "Support our Troops" on the main page, you'd think when those troops make the ultimate sacrifice to the country they serve, it would at least rate some sort of small mention.
So what gives?
Is the phrase "Support Our Troops" just a con feel good saying that’s to be ignored when those troops have the audacity to end up dead shedding Prime Minister Tubby Guts in a bad light?

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Stand by for Dummy Coderre's latest strokes of genius...
the first completely segregated Tamil, Paraplegic
and Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered Bases in the
Canadian military establishment.

Because it's all about showing sensitivity.

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April says... "once again the story is ignored by SDA"

Hey, Ape...

Not to minimise this terrible blow to family and friends
of these soldiers... but let's get some perspective here.

We've been in Afghanistan for 5-6 years, which works
out to roughly 10 deaths per year...

"About 3,000 people per year die in motor vehicle crashes
in Canada. Of that total, 40 per cent (1,200 deaths) are
attributed to alcohol. Canadians are spending up to
$25 billion annually in emergency care,
rehabilitation and other costs resulting from traffic collisions."

So maybe take your manufactured outrage back to
Blogging Dippers... where it belongs.

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my bad... it's albatros39a, not the month of april...
who's being a complete donkey-head about this

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Lloyds of London recorded a profit of $7 Billion for 2006. Profit !!

Thanks Al. Because of calamity Jane, the world was scared stiff, bought more insurance, ...and, .. and, .. got stiffed.