Another day governed, and deeper in debt;
Lysyk’s report pointed out that the government now spends more on debt interest than it does on post-secondary education, and those interest costs are growing.
And that ain’t all;
People in Ontario are paying billions of dollars extra for electricity thanks to a flawed smart meter program and the above-market rates the province pays most power generators, Ontario’s auditor general reported Tuesday.
Mark Steyn: Climategate Five Years On
From Robert Dutesco’s 2008 documentary Chasing Wild Horses, here’s the short video Sable Island.
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Mr. Mulcair’s twisted logic drew a quick response from a very interesting source: the federal NDP. Charlie Angus, NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay, put a press release up on his website with the rather blunt headline, “NDP NOT BRINGING BACK THE GUN REGISTRY — PERIOD.” (Yes, it was all in capital letters.) Mr. Angus then told reporters that Mr. Mulcair’s comments made him “[bang] my head on the table.” The NDP, Mr. Angus said, would work on cracking down on black market guns and on making sure firearms are classified appropriately. But no, repeat no, registry.
At Business Insider: The Breakeven Oil Prices For Every Drilling Project In The World
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Two 20 year old men are in custody after a sandwich order went wrong at a local restaurant.
Police were called to the restaurant in the 600 block of 22nd Street West at approximately 7:30 a.m, December 8, 2014. Staff members had fled the store in fear after a snake was thrown behind the counter. They reported that two male customers had been arguing with an employee about the preparation of their sandwiches. The men wanted their onions diced. As the argument escalated one of the men reached into the pocket of his friend’s coat, pulled out a snake and threw it behind the counter. No one was physically injured. Officers were able to quickly locate the snake and determined it was non-poisonous. They took the snake and the two men, who were located nearby, into custody.
The men are now facing charges of mischief and causing a disturbance. Officers have located a temporary home for the snake until it can be released into the wild in the spring.
Nothing says "I'm a pasty, privileged, leftist" like looting & vandalizing a Whole Foods. #BerkeleyProtests http://t.co/N17JrAPE6v
— Kimberly C (@conkc2) December 8, 2014
Rubbish strewn on streets at Shattuck Ave #berkeleyprotests pic.twitter.com/yUBAjNUGoJ
— Jessie Lau (@jessielau93) December 8, 2014
Eaten Alive Viewers Outraged Man Wasn’t Actually Eaten Alive
As the preferred party of the fringe and alienated, the Green Party of Canada has had a long and complicated relationship with the Truther community.
On the one hand, among the deranged subcultures of the extreme left, Truthers represent a constituency who are organized, energetic, and (in their own way) politically informed - precisely the sort of highly-motivated go-getters any self-respecting kook party would want onside.
On the other hand, their preferred cause is undeniably toxic from a PR perspective, championing, as it does, stomping on the graves of the nearly 3,000 souls slaughtered in New York and Washington by absolving guilt from the fundamentalist sadists who have repeatedly claimed responsibility.
The Green’s preferred solution to this dilemma, it seems, is to utilize the gifts of Truthers so long as they remain quiet and unseen, while simultaneously engaging in high-profile purges of those whose prominence crosses that thin line separating asset from liability.
With 6.6 million votes counted: The revealed truth is that of the sixteen choices given to people regarding what they think are the important issues in their lives, climate change is dead last. Not only that, but in every sub-category, by age, by sex, by education, by country grouping, it’s right down at the bottom of the list. NOBODY thinks it’s important.
Victor Davis Hanson on post-Ferguson policing:
[Officer Darren] Wilson’s second apparent error was in winning the fight over Brown for his gun. Had he allowed Brown to beat him, then Wilson might well have had a chance of surviving the wounds, and thus he might now still be a policeman with a career, rather than ostracised, in danger, and unemployed. Neither the community nor the media would have found newsworthy the shooting or beating of a white policeman by an African-American youth — in the manner that the murder of two California sheriffs by a twice-deported illegal alien was one-day news.
In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips proto-punk rocker Iggy Pop and sultry jazz singer Miss Peggy Lee are tossed into a sonic blender to whip up a musical concoction called I Say Passenger La La Fever.
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SATIRE ALERT> Tonight on @CBCTheNational: @walrusmagazine's correspondent @DesmondCole & incoming editor @jonkay talk about #WhitePrivilege
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 8, 2014
Absolutely no one funded Mary Landrieu’s pointless runoff against Bill Cassidy. The Senate Democrats didn’t do it. Instead they used Keystone to kick her out the door. Even Bloomberg has better things to do with his money.
But not the Human Society Legislative Fund which dropped $132K on the race with an awkward ad.
Love the headline: Enemies Of Sukh Dhaliwal Gang Up On Former MP As Mother Of All Nomination Battles Set For Next Saturday In Surrey-Newton
But where is the money coming from and how are the memberships being purchased given the party’s strict rules regarding members paying for the membership?
Well places sources within both camps say the inner circle power players (the backers) of the contestants are using prepaid $20 visa cards purchased in bulk to pay for the memberships even though the money may be coming from one, two, 10 or 20 big donours.
h/t John Groves
NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration.
Former Canadian Forces general Andrew Leslie will carry the Liberal banner in Orléans in next year’s federal election, but his nomination Saturday was marred by a chaotic and divisive scene in which police had to break up a noisy scuffle.
Leslie, an advisor to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, was acclaimed by Liberals in Ottawa-Orléans as their candidate for the 2015 election, when the riding will be known simply as Orléans.
But the event turned into a political embarrassment for Leslie when his only rival, Ottawa lawyer David Bertschi, showed up with some angry supporters to complain that the party had acted undemocratically last month in disqualifying him from seeking the nomination.
“Shame, shame, shame,” some of those Liberals chanted as it became clear that Leslie was about to be acclaimed without a fight from his rival.
