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  1. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/no-department-is-safe-as-universities-employ-us-cost-cutting-strategy/article6711261/
    “At the University of Regina, the impetus for a review came in 2009 as immigration, demographic changes and new provincial priorities created high demand for programs like geology, petroleum engineering and public policy. Since then, a bachelor’s degree in arts and culture has been cancelled due to a lack of demand.”
    Quick, somebody grab the violin.

  6. Globe and Mail, Wednesday, Dec. 26.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lack-of-publicity-and-scrutiny-when-appointing-judges-renews-calls-for-overhaul-of-process/article6710398/
    Recently, Richard Wagner was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and Peter Lauwers to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Critics say the appointment processes are shrouded in secrecy. Judge Wagner himself recently suggested that appellate level judges be subject to the same sort of public questioning that Supreme Court nominees have undergone since 2006.
    The Globe: “But critics say that Judge Wagner’s suggestion does not come to grips with the real problem that plagues the appointment process: Governments have carte blanche to sift through hundreds of names and choose the one they desire. ‘It is all politically driven,’ said Prof. [Jacob] Ziegel [of the law faculty at U of T]. ‘We mustn’t be fooled by this. When a judicial vacancy arises, the Minister decides who is going to be appointed.'”
    “‘We need an independent nominating committee that represents major constituencies inside and outside the law, including the judges themselves,” Prof. Ziegel said. “In Canada, we just do not have transparency and balance in the nomination process.'”
    The problem with this suggestion is that an “independent nominating committee” isn’t any more independent than the government, and the latter at least has the benefit of having been democratically elected. Who would be in charge of appointments to the “independent nominating committee”? If there is the slightest bit of politicking, and surely there would be, then that process is just as political as the current one. You can be sure that “major constituencies inside and outside the law” would include every half-baked leftist group with an axe to grind.
    The suggestion sounds far more like an attempt to stack the deck with activist judges than with the best ones, as its proponents claim. If I were facing a judge in court, I would much rather he or she be appointed by Jean Chretien than by Rosalie Abella.
    I would make this suggestion instead: Judges could periodically be subject to a recall referendum. One way would be to hold them concurrently with federal elections. Given the sometimes unpredictable incidence of these votes, I would skip it if the previous vote were within the last two (maybe three) years. I would also give every judge a grace period of at least five years before the referendum requirement kicked in.

  10. If the Brits won’t take piers Morgan back we need to deport him to Canada.
    On second thought maybe we should just shoot him.

  12. CSA @7:54 – “If the Brits won’t take piers Morgan back we need to deport him to Canada.”
    This is exactly what I’m talking about. I’d start a petition myself but as an anonymous coward I’m unwilling to give the White House my email address.

  13. Christmas carols, of course, were banned in Romania by the communist government—not that that stopped albums of Romanian carols being recorded for export. My in-laws have an album of carols at home produced in 1980, that wasn’t available in Romania until after the revolution.
    Here’s famed folk musician Dumitru Farcas playing “O, ce veste minunata” (“Oh, what wonderful news”), as he has done at the Bucharest Opera concert every Christmas since the revolution (and what wonderful news Romanians received that day in 1989):
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?=TPCOt9F927g
    La multi ani!

  15. O’Cliff. Drop over some time, c/o G-M.
    …-
    “Senate Democratic leader warns U.S. going over ‘fiscal cliff'”
    More: “Creative food ideas for leftover turkey”

  18. “Liberals Panic As They Lose the Gun Narrative”
    “Kurt Schlichter”
    “When you argue for a living, you can tell how an argument is going for you. The evidence and my gut both tell me that the liberals have lost control of the gun control narrative.
    Not for lack of trying – it was almost as if they were poised to leap into action across the political, media and cultural spectrum the second the next semi-human creep shot up another “gun free zone.” This was their big opening to shift the debate and now it’s closing. They’ve lost, and they are going nuts.”
    http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2012/12/26/liberals-panic-as-they-lose-the-gun-narrative-n1473885

  19. Forster: …Le Mann wid da broken hockey stick passes it over to Richard … s’elance … le smash …
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    “Montrealers take snow in stride as storm smashes 1971 record”
    “The last time it snowed this much in Montreal, 17 people died, the Canadiens took the drastic step of cancelling a game and Environment Canada dubbed it the city’s Storm of the Century.
    As Montreal’s all-time record for snowfall, set in 1971, was broken on Thursday with at least 45 centimetres on the ground by evening, Quebeckers seemed to take the storm in stride, with no deaths reported and a few minor injuries, mainly in car accidents. Environment Canada, which keeps snowfall records back to 1942, predicted up to five more centimetres of snow would fall in Montreal overnight.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/montrealers-takes-snow-in-stride-as-storm-smashes-1971-record/article6758046/

  20. MSM has reached deep into its verbal root cellar:
    “a historic hibernal blanket”.
    “The snowstorm squashed plans”.
    “the swirling tempest that forced Environment Canada to drastically revise its forecast over the course of the day.”
    ““We’re talking snowmobiles and snowshoes,”.
    All this ’cause it snowed. In December. In winter.
    Let the warmistas roast in July.
    http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/860339–update-a-record-storm-in-eastern-canada-cancels-flights-has-cops-using-snowmobiles

  21. Good grief EBD, where do you find these! Very harmonious, but lord, I thought the Finnish was hard to follow!

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