28 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Today’s Sun News poll asks if we believe that the world will end on 21 May. 91% said ‘no’ and 9% said ‘yes’. That is exactly the same ratio as said ‘no’ to funding the CBC and ‘yes’ to funding the CBC. Therefore my statistical interpretation is that the CBC funding will end on 21 May. PMSH please take note

  3. Lorrie Goldstein’s new column is a superb follow-up to the article I posted on the weekend about BC schools being forced to indirectly fund Encana.
    He & Charles Adler discussed the issue at length today. I also forwarded this all to Vaughn Palmer, BC’s top government columnist. Hopefully he’ll ask some TOUGH questions of the BC Liberals, the BC NDP, and the BC Teacher’s Federation!

  5. The City of Saskatoon is turning into one big pile of CRAP. Does anybody else see the decay. I truly can’t believe that I am the only one that is angered by the lack of action on the part of Mayor Don Atchison and City council. The clowns at the city put about 3 million dollars into LOW INCOME HOUSING last year. How does this help me? It is almost the middle of May and the streets are still full of dirt and gravel. Where are the Street Cleaners? If the citizens of Saskatoon want to settle for this two bit Mayor then fine. In the last 10 years taxes rose by 30 percent. Good service from city hall is a thing of the past. The voters in Saskatoon are just plain stupid.

  8. “The City of Saskatoon is turning into one big pile of CRAP”
    Sounds similar to the City of Vancouver that recently turned down a billion dollar Casino/hotel complex that would have seen MILLIONS of extra dollars in revenue go to the city and province every year. And, as you would expect, every left wing group looking for handouts were campaigning against this project. But, of course, that doesn’t stop them from still expecting the gravy train to continue. Only good part is that now, when approached to donate to these groups, I ask them what they did with the money from the casino. I then suggest “don’t come to me looking for money when you helped kill the cash cow”.Kinda like the “Walk to Cure Breat Cancer” that turned down a big donation from a “strippers” association. I don’t give to them either.

  9. DJ, as HT alluded to, it sure does sound a whole lot like the “crap” that has gone on here in Vancouver. Note: After you start complaining, fully expect to be called “unintelligent”, “selfish”, “not seeing the big picture”, and a host of other pejoratives. Such tactics tend to shut up the vast majority of people. If that doesn’t work then they’ll pull out the “insensitive” and “racist” cards. 🙁

  11. Robert W. I just read through both Goldstein’s column and the Chomsky articles, interesting, then I tried reading the comments on both.
    The comments for Goldstein’s article got off on if Global Warming existed or not with only a few mentioning that the article really was about the application of cap and trade, sheesh, it ended with some nut bar espousing that, well, if in the long run it saved the world…
    Then I got to the Chomsky comments…
    I realize that everything in the States is times 10 (10 times the people, money, etc,) but that comment section was 10 to the exponential, 10 times the nut jobs with ideas 10 times as whacky.
    I’m not sure how I will adjust back to coffee row involving only a brisk discussion on the new school bus routes in the morning…

  12. Nice bunch of Freaks.
    Of course they won’t say who is doing the raping.
    We know though.
    More than 1,100 rapes daily in DRCongo: study
    More than 400,000 women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped in the vast, war-ravaged country in central Africa during a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, according to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
    http://tinyurl.com/3wq9u3j

  13. PET Cemetery Report.
    Bienvenue/Welcome, Taliban Jacques Bloc.
    Come on down, Jacques.
    …-
    “For the Liberal demise in Quebec, blame Pierre Trudeau”
    “But then Trudeau hijacked the results of the referendum for his own ends – the patriation of the Constitution with an entrenched Charter of Rights over the objections of Quebec, principal home to one of Canada’s two official language communities. Or in his own words: “le foyer principale du Canada francais.”
    Two events in the fall of 1980 would have long-term consequences for the Liberals. One was the National Energy Program, which has left the party in the wilderness in the West from that day to this.
    And the other was the failed first ministers conference that led to the patriation of the Constitution, which began the decline of the Liberal brand in Quebec, leading to its utter devastation this past May 2.
    The party of Laurier, St. Laurent, Trudeau, Chrétien and Martin was reduced to 14 per cent of the vote in Quebec and seven seats, all of them on the island of Montreal, all of them in anglophone and allophone ridings.
    Including Papineau, where Justin Trudeau survived the NDP wave thanks to the vote splits between the socialists and separatists, as well as his own impressive retail skills, as someone you want to vote for rather than against.
    The compelling aftermath question of this election is this: what happened in the last three decades to bring the Liberals, the most storied franchise in Canadian politics, from domination to ruination?
    And who’s to blame?
    The answer to both questions is one and the same.
    Trudeau. Not this Trudeau, that Trudeau.”
    http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/Liberal+demise+Quebec+blame+Pierre+Trudeau/4761656/story.html

  14. PET Cemetery Report.
    Our contributor is “a government concentrator” at Harvard; a Canadian “Just Visiting”.
    Bid Shalini a Welcome.
    “Farewell to Iggy, but also farewell to Canada as we know it.”
    “Shalini K. Rao ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, is a government concentrator in Winthrop House.”
    …-
    “A Country Torn”
    “The Canadian election results mean the demise of liberalism”
    “As a Canadian, going to school in the United States can present difficulties—besides my struggle to incorrectly say “pasta,” I often wrestle with the lack of awareness about Canadian politics. As I sat on my couch last week eagerly awaiting the results of the Canadian federal election, I watched as the political dynamic of my country changed substantially and historically. The right-leaning Conservative Party led by our prime minister, Stephen Harper, won a majority government, while for the first time in Canadian history the left-leaning New Democratic Party became the Official Opposition. This majority ensures that the next election may not be until 2015. The question begged by this election, however, is one of a fading Canadian distinctiveness as we have quite apparently become willing to compromise our values for the sake of our economy, and to bid adieu (see, we are bilingual) to our conventionally centrist political identity.
    Perhaps the most relevant impact of this election for students of Harvard is the defeat of Michael Ignatieff, the former leader of the Liberal Party and the former leader of the Opposition. Ignatieff’s most trying test during his time as Liberal leader was to reconcile his American education at Harvard and elsewhere abroad with his identity as a true Canadian. Crafted as “elitist,” “insincere,” and “just visiting,” Ignatieff not only had to argue for broad political ideals regarding open democracy—which were oftentimes compromised by Harper’s politics, but he was also forced by his opponents and the media to prove himself as a legitimate candidate. Instead, Ignatieff ought to be thought of as the real icon of what a Canadian looks like; born to a Russian immigrant father and Canadian mother, he worked hard to achieve a world-class education and now stands as a prominent figure in both political thought and academia. Additionally, in his defense of human rights and the protection of democracy, Ignatieff represents the very ideals that Canada prides herself on in the first place.
    The defeat of Ignatieff and his Liberal Party is, indeed, a sad moment in Canada’s narrative not only for what it signifies politically, but also because it shows a widespread fear of progress.”
    http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/canadian-party-ignatieff-government/

  15. At the link maz2 provided at 7:10, above, the “government concentrator” gets her editorial rippd a new a$$hole by the comments provided to her article.
    I need to find out what is a “government concentrator”? does it pay more than starting wages for a New DemocRat Party Quebec MP does?

  18. Of Taliban Jacques Bloc.
    Jacques loves da Export.
    …-
    “Exports, imports and trade surplus all rose in March, StatsCan finds
    Toronto Star – ‎43 minutes ago‎
    OTTAWA—Statistics Canada says merchandise exports and imports both rose in March, pushing the trade surplus to $627 million. That’s an increase from a surplus of $356 million in February.”
    …-
    “Tensions emerge within the Bloc Quebecois as it begins to look for a new leader
    Winnipeg Free Press”

  19. Just to add to the comments left at the crimson… Canadians are reputed to be one of the highest internet users on the planet.
    Ideas, and more importantly INFORMATION shared so broadly, gave the voters a very clear picture of Canadas situation.
    And so they decided, on Mat 2 2011.
    Liberals screwed the country, and were tossed like used asswipe. They’ll be a LONG time rebuilding.

  22. The Quebec judge who took the children away is likely being misquoted. She says the children need more socializing. I think she meant to say that the children need more socialism.

  26. So, who does Jack Layton think that “hard-working families” are? Are they all under the ownership of the NDP?
    What a duplicitous bad actor.
    Hard-working families come in all shapes, sizes, and political persuasions, Jack, just in case you haven’t noticed.
    What does Jack know about “hard-working families”? He and his family need not apply. They’re all public-teat sucking parasites.
    Keep hobbling on that cane, Jack. You need it.

  28. Everyone must be having dinner. I’ve just had mine!
    Scott Brison, a former leadership candidate in 2006, also said the party must stake out its position as a moderate alternative to left-wing New Democrats and right-wing Conservatives.
    “We see a polarization now of Canadian politics,” Mr. Brison said. “In some ways, the role of a centrist Liberal party has never been more important. And so we must be careful not to lean left, or lean right, we need to lean forward, and move forward as a party.”
    Isn’t it ironic that Scotty B. hasn’t grasped the fact that it’s in large part the Liberal$ and their apparatchiks in the media who polarized Canadian politics?
    Hopefully, they’ll have a long time in the wilderness to meditate on this reality. Time in the desert tends to plug one into what’s really happening — ‘not much room for deluding oneself, as delusion usually results in mirages and eventual death.

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