34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Stop, look, listen, sort of reminds me of Obambas Homeland Security Moto – “See something, say something”.
    I took a ride on the bike a few weeks ago on a fairly cool day to a nice semi isolated public Alberta lake. There were three Middle Eastern men walking about by themselves, completely out of character for the place, and inappropriately dressed for the weather (typical cheap Palestinian territory garb). They attempted to stare me down with glares as I idled through on the bike. I stared back and they more or less reluctantly backed down with heated attitude.
    All I could think pulling away was – where is our Canadian “see something, say something” hotline??

  5. Quebecor turns up the heat in the battle to have CBC obey the law.
    “For weeks the CBC has been sweating about a parliamentary investigation into its bad behaviour, including its violation of the Access to Information law. That’s an important law to allow taxpayers to scrutinize how government agencies spend our money.
    The non-partisan information commissioner has given the CBC a grade of “F” for its secrecy — but it still violates her order for it to disclose the truth. It’s spending millions in legal expenses to hide how it’s spending billions in other expenses.”
    http://m.torontosun.com/2011/10/21/cbc-running-scared-state-broadcasters-false-attack-ads-demonstrate-how-financial-probe-is-desperately-needed

  7. Oh, and Kate, forgive this, but:
    I want to give a shout out to all the Oiler fans out there. Even though I’ve been a Maple Leaf fan since I was five years old, I was impressed by the Oilers tonight. Until (if?) Sid the Kid comes back, I see Hall, Eberle, and the Nooge as the new face of Canadian hockey. And while I’ve enjoyed watching Ryan Smith and Shawn Horcoff play for the Canada in the World Championships for what seems like forever, I hope I’m denied the pleasure this year, as I hope they’re playing in round three of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

  8. Globe and Mail, Saturday, Oct. 22.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/mark-carney-on-a-mission-first-canada-now-the-world/article2210023/page3/
    “Within weeks, [Bank of Canada governor Mark] Carney is expected to be tapped to lead the Financial Stability Board, an international committee of policy heavyweights that aims to prevent the sort of reckless lending that brought the world’s largest financial institutions to their knees in 2008 and almost caused another depression.”
    The “reckless lending” was prompted by government regulations requiring it. It would not have happened in a free market economy.
    “On the eve of the Paris meeting, he caused a stir by endorsing the Occupy Wall Street Movement in an interview with CBC’s Peter Mansbridge, calling the demonstrations an ‘entirely constructive’ expression of frustration with the global economic and financial system and saying they highlight the need for policy makers to show they are serious about forcing change.”
    Rational people are frustrated over governments spending and borrowing too much. That is not at all the concern of the vacant Occupy hippies.
    “The global crisis in 2008 revealed that financial markets can have a major impact on what happens in the real-world economy – not just the other way around. That suggests there is a crucial role in the future for financial regulations that are crafted with the aim of avoiding another market-driven economic catastrophe that drives up unemployment and hurts incomes.”
    “Mr. Carney has championed this idea for years, rejecting the notion that periodic financial crises are simply a natural part of economic life and cannot be avoided. In other words, he thinks that policy can make a difference – can help create a more stable global economy. Leading the FSB would put him at the forefront of ensuring that governments embrace that thinking, too.”
    The economic catastrophe, such as it was, was not “market-driven” — it was driven by regulations requiring banks and other financial institutions to do things against their best interests. Minor periodic financial crises are simply a natural part of economic life, and they will correct themselves soon enough. To really screw things up requires government intervention.
    The only difference between government and other institutions is that government can use coercion. Coercion does not create, produce wealth or discover anything, and it cannot solve economic problems, although it certainly can cause them. Governments should only use force on individuals who have already used force on others.
    Meanwhile …
    National Post, Saturday, Oct. 22, Terence Corcoran.
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/10/21/terence-corcoran-inflated-sense-of-self/
    “The news on consumer price inflation in Canada isn’t good – 3.2% over the past 12 months, Statistics Canada reported Friday. That’s above the Bank of Canada’s official inflation target, as agreed with the Department of Finance and as promised to Canadians.”
    The handiwork of Mark Carney. If this is “financial stability”, who needs upheaval?

  12. Saw this coming. The real story is in the comments, my favourite is this one by Matt:
    “Please report to Google/Youtube/Yahoo/Facebook with your Name, Soc Sec#, Fingerprints, Blood type, DNA, and a picture for our Facial Recognition software. Do not question authority …THIS IS FOR YOUR PROTECTION. Don’t worry were not storing any of this info, We are honest really.”
    http://news.yahoo.com/report-google-mulling-role-possible-yahoo-bid-163734904.html

  14. “Book excerpt: Conspiracy of silence”
    “New book goes inside IPCC climate-science reports to find use of grad students, lack of peer reviews warrant an ‘F'”
    “By Donna Laframboise”
    “Next month thousands of bureaucrats, politicians, media, activists and scientists will travel to Durban, South Africa, for the latest round of UN climate talks. We’ll be advised that the world must slash its carbon-dioxide emissions because a United Nations report, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has concluded that humans are changing the climate in dangerous ways.
    “The people who write the IPCC’s report — which is informally known as the Climate Bible — are supposedly the crème de la crème of world science. Rajendra Pachauri, the person who has been the IPCC’s chairman since 2002, tells us this repeatedly. In 2007 he explained to a newspaper how his organization selects individuals to help write the Climate Bible: “These are people who have been chosen on the basis of their track record, on their record of publications, on the research that they have done,” he said. “They are people who are at the top of their profession.”
    Two years later, when testifying before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Pachauri argued that “all rational persons” should be persuaded by the IPCC’s conclusions since his organization mobilizes “the best talent available across the world.””
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/10/21/book-excerpt-conspiracy-of-silence/

  15. via nv53’s post: “Within weeks, [Bank of Canada governor Mark] Carney is expected to be tapped to lead the Financial Stability Board, an international committee of policy heavyweights that aims to prevent the sort of reckless lending that brought the world’s largest financial institutions to their knees in 2008 and almost caused another depression.”
    Isn’t this more impressive than Canada’s gaining a seat on the U.N.’s Security (corruption) Council?
    As to the “almost caused another depression,” isn’t the jury still out on this?

  17. remember the ‘occupiers’ ? looks like the yfound out the old song is true….”meet the new boss-same as the old boss” and it looks good on them…maybe they should have read a little Orwell before making their ‘utopia’.
    from nypost.com
    Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.
    Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in — but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protesters is fraying tempers.
    Some drummers — incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday — are threatening to splinter off.
    “F–k Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.
    Smith is a member of the Comfort Working Group — one of about 30 small collectives that have sprung up within OWS. The Comfort group is charged with finding out what basic necessities campers need, like thermal underwear, and then raising money by soliciting donations on the street.
    “The other day, I took in $2,000. I kept $650 for my group, and gave the rest to Finance. Then I went to them with a request — so many people need things, and they should not be going without basic comfort items — and I was told to fill out paperwork. Paperwork! Are they the government now?” Smith fumed, even as he cajoled the passing crowd for more cash.
    The Finance Committee dives on whatever dollars are raised by all the OWS working groups, said Smith, and doesn’t give it back.
    The Comfort group has an allowance of $150 a day, while larger working groups, like the Kitchen group, get up to $2,000.
    “What can I do with $150?” said Smith. “We have three tons of wet laundry here from the rainstorm — how do I get that done? We need winter gear, shoes, socks. I could spend $10,000 alone for backpacks people need. We raise all this money. Where is it?”
    Pete Dutro, 36, a Brooklyn tattoo artist who is getting a master’s in finance and sits on the Finance Committee, said big purchases like Smith’s can’t get immediate approval.
    “We don’t have the power for that. They have to go to the General Assembly. If it’s approved, we pay out that amount and make sure everything is accounted for,” he said.
    Within the next few days, the Financial Committee will release a detailed report, he said.
    Yesterday, a huge flat-screen TV went up in Zuccotti Park for a movie night and pajama party with popcorn. Organizers hoped it would attract new recruits — even as some long-timers complained that the movement was getting too diffuse after yesterday’s lackluster showing at a police-brutality event in Union Square that barely attracted 50 participants.
    “I think it’s getting too spread out,” said John Glowa, 57. “My sense from where I live is that it’s losing steam. We gotta plug the holes.”
    Some activists, like those in Pulse, the committee that represents Zuccotti Park drummers, are a bit worn out by all the collective activity.
    Last week, on a rainy night, someone stabbed holes in many of the protesters’ drums with a knife, said Elijah Moses, 19, of Queens, a founder of the Pulse Working Group. Moses asked the General Assembly — the nightly meeting where protesters collectively vote on OWS decisions — for $8,000 to replace the drums, and build a small shed to lock them up.

  18. Bobby Jindal wins second term as governor of Louisiana in a Landslide!!!
    We need a truckload of Jindals here in Canada.
    Fox News

  22. Been seeing the usual suspects complaining about $35 billion over 30 years for the new ship building plan.
    If their causes are really that important to them, I know where they can find a billion a year we don’t need to spend.
    http://www.cbcoptout.ca/

  23. ““F–k Finance.”
    “Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.”
    “Last week, on a rainy night, someone stabbed holes in many of the protesters’ drums with a knife, said Elijah Moses, 19, of Queens, a founder of the Pulse Working Group. Moses asked the General Assembly — the nightly meeting where protesters collectively vote on OWS decisions — for $8,000 to replace the drums, and build a small shed to lock them up.
    “They said no — they turned us down. I’m really frustrated,” said Moses.”
    …-
    “They want $lice of the occu-pie”
    “500G fight at Zuccotti”
    “Even in Zuccotti Park, greed is good.
    Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank, and donations continue to pour in — but its reluctance to share the wealth with other protestErs is fraying tempers.
    Some drummers — incensed they got no money to replace or safeguard their drums after a midnight vandal destroyed their instruments Wednesday — are threatening to splinter off.
    “F–k Finance. I hope Mayor Bloomberg gets an injunction and demands to see the movement’s books. We need to know how much money we really have and where it’s going,” said a frustrated Bryan Smith, 45, who joined OWS in Lower Manhattan nearly three weeks ago from Los Angeles, where he works in TV production.”
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYkafMb8UJ

  24. Bemused: Why didn’t you tell me you’d posted that anti-greed stuff?
    As Liberal Ad$Cam Chretien said, wod’s cubble millions?

  25. maz2, I am so not surprised by sharia taking hold in Libya.
    next up: … Egypt and the “foreign election observers not welcome here”, outcome? We already know the outcome.
    literally, nothing follows!

  27. h/t to KevinB @ 12:22am
    Check out the millionaires and billionaires pictured dining with Obama in 2010. You know, the ones he is constantly using in his class warfare speeches?
    Guest list: Left, from President Obama, Apple chairman and CEO Steve Jobs, Westly group founder Steve Westly, host’s wife Ann Doerr, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Genentech chairman Art Levinson, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, venture capitalist John Doerr (host) Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Stanford University president John Hennessy, Yahoo president Carol Bartz, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, unknown, Facebook founder, president and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052110/Steve-Jobs-biography-Bill-Clintons-late-night-phone-Monica-Lewinsky-scandal.html#ixzz1befaVIU0

  31. Hey, I made movies like that some thirty years ago.
    Took movie making at SAIT in Calgary.
    The instructor was some guy with a lot of space in his skull from, where else, Vancouver.

  33. Re: “Occupy Wall Street’s Finance Committee has nearly $500,000 in the bank”
    Hypocrites! Shouldn’t they withdraw it and “redistribute” it to the “occupiers”?

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