I’m still encountering a lot of difficulty getting online with my regular machine. I also have a shop day scheduled for most of tomorrow, so use this post for any finds or trackbacks to your own stuff until things are up to speed here. Hopefully, by the time I’m done in the booth, this “two hour disruption” will be over with.
A reminder to those of you who make it a habit – try to confine your link dumps to these Reader Tip threads and keep other posts free of them unless they are at least tangentially on topic. And keep quoting brief. A paragraph or two- no more. Some of you are easily exceeding copyright “fair use” exemptions.
A bit more from the National Post article above on the observations by Jack Granatstein (whom I would nominate for the Post’s Canadian “most important public intellectual”):
‘…Canada needs to do much more to integrate newcomers from non-traditional countries, who now comprise the vast majority of immigrants. “We must make Canadians of those who come here,” he declared, adding that polls show Canadians “want immigrants to understand that we are part of Western civilization, with all its values.”
Within several ethnic immigrant groups, he noted, Canada has “failed to erase the link of blood and soil.” A prime example was the conflict that tore apart the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, he said. “Serbs and Croats got into scuffles on the streets of Toronto. They raised funds for the old country, and many returned to Serbia or Croatia to lend the political and military muscle to the war.”
Gojko Susak, a Croat emigre who lived in Canada for 20 years, became Croatia’s minister of defence and used his Canadian connections to raise $200-million for weapons and aid. He died in 1998, but not before presiding over the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia’s Medak Pocket.
“Canada simply failed to turn Susak into a Canadian,” Mr. Granatstein said. “His allegiance was to Croatia first, last and always.”
Similarly, some in the Sikh, Sri Lankan, Ukrainian, Muslim and Jewish communities have advocated policies based primarily on the interests of their home countries. “These things may be right or wrong in and of themselves,” the historian said. “But they ought to be Canadian policy only if they are done not to win support from the padrones of the ethnic group, but whether they serve our interests.’
Mark
Ottawa
CBC Radio One revamping to give taxpayers more for their taxdollars:
…sweeping afternoon changes….mix of 60-per-cent music and 40-per-cent talk, the emphasis will be on water-cooler stories, those that people talk about, but which aren’t considered hard news…”we spoke to a man who had gone to a soap-opera fantasy camp. We talked to a woman who was the silver medalist from the world rock-paper-scissors championship…”we talked to a man designing billboards for dogs: They are two feet high off the ground.”…”This is the kind of show you can have on in the background at work, in the dentist office, moms at home. We’re really hoping we can move into the work market, the office market, retail…”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051101.wxcbcradio01/BNStory/Entertainment/
Kate. What is the copyright ‘fair use” exemptions?
I’m always up for some fun; some light entertaining diversion. All the better when it amounts to a giant step in the right dirction.
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=97&contentId=7006978
or
http://www.bp.com/
and look for Hydorgen , C02 recovery , Scotland.
TG
Are you a Conservative or a Liberal ?
A conservative gets up in the morning and turns on the hot water tank breaker for twenty minutes.
Jumps in the shower and makes sure the tub is plugged so hot water heats up the bathroom. A Liberal would just let that expensive heat drain away.
Out of the shower, 10 minutes, and the hot water tank is turned off.
There is always enough hot [not scalding], water this way and when the water tank is not cycling on and off for 23 � hours every day, the savings on one�s hydro electric bill are very obvious.
A conservative is likely to have two micro-wave ovens. One oven gets the Apple & Cinnamon Quaker oats� 2 minutes. The other micro-wave oven gets the instant coffee � 2 minutes.
Breakfast and coffee cooked and enjoyed� five minutes. Lots of time to check Email and blogsite rants.
A conservative has no tungsten lamps in the apartment at all. Lamps have long ago been replaced with compact fluorescent and LED lamps.
A conservative is most likely to have clear plastic film on the inside of windows in order to conserve apartment heat.
A conservative is likely not to have a residential phone at all. The most reasonable service is gained with a cellphone and a $20 monthly phone card. The cell number is only known to one or two essential people.
A conservative is likely to be self employed and so in need of a telephone answering service. In this case he asks a girl friend a few blocks away to do the phone answering. Mutual dining out is how this debt is resolved.
Real conservatives always live *close-in*, and never ever commute.
Criminal waste of time and fossil fuels.
An ultra – conservative does not own a car. He always takes a taxi . everywhere and saves hundreds of dollars every year over car ownership. There is never any risk of public liability by using taxi services exclusively. In fact, should there ever be an accident, the conservative would collect a big windfall settlement if injured in a taxi.
Myself, being a slacker conservative, I do own a four cylinder Jeep and so pay out extra money for insurance, fuel and service.
A conservative always has extra money to blow here and there and
A conservative knows why.
A liberal is always broke and almost always, has no idea why.
Liberals, this is your opportunity to switch to conservatism and thereby enjoy all the built in advantages. Watching your overhead is not that difficult and it becomes second nature with a little practice.
Next time, vote CPC and give Ottawa a chance to clean up the mess and install bill C-11. The CPC in office will allow the Liberals time off to clear out the criminals and the dead – wood so their party can regain some respect by Canadians.
Whistle-Blower Protection Bill C-11 is a sort of boiler – plate protection for our national revenues. That, along with individual ministry department Audit & accounting, as promised by Paul Martin himself will help ensure integrity in government. TG