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  2. Man.. not one thread on the new Ontario premier? Canada’s first openly lesbian premier leading the country’s largest (by pop) province?
    I’m expecting her career trajectory to follow Kim Campbell’s.

  3. Cute animals ….
    Here’s a twofer from Tim Blair at the Daily Telegraph (Australia)…
    His post START AGAIN touches on two themes we face here in Canada.
    1- The old “new flag” efforts of the revisionist left … Oz is going through THAT.
    2- The self inflicted demise of News Papaers … in this case the Australian version of the Globe&Mail…

  7. I see what’s her name is touting herself as “the first openly gay premier” .
    So who does she say is the first gay premier?

  9. I saw that too Shawn. Alarming!! Why would the American troops be asked to shoot American citizens? What kind of country slaughters the people who live in that country?

  10. So who does she say is the first gay premier?
    Posted by: richfisher
    yeah, I also wondered about what that implied

  11. Why would the American troops be asked to shoot American citizens?
    gun confiscations gone wrong

  12. Not that it’s a story, but don’t you find it odd that 3 Canadians can be lost, and then die in an Antarctic plane crash, during the part of the southern hemisphere summer that we would call late July, and not once does the temperature get mentioned in any news story.
    Yes, they mentioned snow, yes they mentioned high winds, but not once did the temperature make the news.
    Here’s Terra Nova Bay, where they were going, http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89662.html?MR=1
    and here’s South Pole Station, were they were coming from, http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89009.html
    and here’s a little Nasa blurb about the station: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/sp-stay.html
    “The South Pole Station is situated at 90 degrees South on the Polar Plateau. The station was originally constructed 400 meters from the geographic South Pole; however, ice movement, at the rate of 10 meters per year, will eventually carry the station over the actual Pole.
    The site is at an elevation of approximately 2850 meters (9300 ft), most of which is measured in ice thickness. The very low atmospheric temperatures produce an effective average pressure altitude of approximately 3230 meters (10,600 ft). The mean annual temperature is -49.3 degrees C (-56.7 F). The lowest recorded temperature is -82.8 degrees C (-117.0 F) and the highest temperature is -13.6 C (+7.5 F).”
    But it’s melting…….

  14. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    …-
    “Toronto weather: Freezing rain cancels York, Peel, Halton school buses
    Toronto Star”
    “Romanians and Bulgarians to be told: Britain’s too cold for you in advertising campaign to try and deter them from coming here” (dailymail)
    “Number of the Week: 8°C +/- 4°C (about 14°F +/-7°F).)”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/

  15. Today’s Liberalism: Of Pauline & Kathleen’s New Feminist Movement.
    Just Say No/Non? to an election! from toke & spend Liberals.
    …-
    “Kathleen Wynne says she doesn’t want an election, but do her opponents?”
    “Scotland far closer to sovereignty than Quebec as Marois heads to Edinburgh for meeting with separatists”
    “Legalize pot and reap the benefit from influx of toking tourists: Liberals”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html

  16. Justthinkin’ — Well, you might be right, and red Toryism isn’t my cup of tea, either. But Tim Hudak doesn’t strike me as an Ernie Eves or John Tory figure, and I’d point out that Dalton McGuinty was pretty much nobody’s choice for premier, until one day he was (like the day after Mike Harris left).
    Mr. Hudak’s chances took a big leap forward over the weekend, and it’s Andrea Horwath with the dilemma now, and I don’t see either option — support or defeat the Liberals, assuming the latter is willing to, you know, recall the legislature — working very well for the NDP.

  17. Good point,David. My question would be….just how the he77 did Mickdinky get elected in the first place? A Turdough moment?

  18. Robert, that interview with former Spanish PM Azner was great. Unfortunately the entitlement mentality is only becoming stronger in Europe, in Canada and now in the US. This will not end well and our children and grandchildren will have to pay the bill, monetary and, as I fully expect, otherwise.
    I can understand newspaper pay walls as they are all losing money with their print editions. I just lately subscribed to the Toronto Sun and this does not give me access to their other papers. The Globe went there some time ago. I guess we will just have to be more selective about what we read, unless one has deep pockets.
    It is usually only dictators or wannabe dictators of various sorts who ask their troops to fire on civilians, so we know where the US is headed.

  21. Librano$ News, aka L$N: A Proprietary Appellation of LPC.
    Source: PET Cemetery.
    …-
    From bing:
    “News about snc-lavalin bribes”
    “SNC-Lavalin accused of paying $160 million in bribes to Gadhafi …
    MONTREAL—SNC-Lavalin says an unsealed affidavit used to obtain an RCMP search warrant of its headquarters last April contains new details about the company’s …”
    …-
    “My moment with Moammar”
    “It was December, 2004. Our media bus holding a dozen journalists, cameramen and photographers had been delayed after taking a wrong turn on the way in from the Tripoli Airport. Then-prime minister Paul Martin was already in the Bedouin tent inside the compound that the Libyan leader still calls home. If we didn’t hustle, we’d miss the one photo-op: a brief handshake.
    As we jumped off the bus, Alphee Moreau, the PMO’s advance man at the time, shouted: “Run! Run! Be careful, the camels are dangerous!”
    Jet-lagged and culture shocked, we giggled in spite of ourselves as we closed in on the tent. There, in a dimly-lit and incense-clouded corner, was the man of the hour, resplendent in robes and his trademark hat. He was shaking hands with our pale-faced Canadian leader.”
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/02/my-moment-with-moammar.html

  22. Neo-AGW Humour From Yer Green Warmista Yurnalist/Activist.
    …-
    “Five hundred crashes reported as freezing rain, ice pellets create traffic chaos in much of southern Ontario.
    National Post”
    “Is New York City making Canadian winters warmer?
    Seth Borenstein”
    (googlenews)

  23. Neo-AGW PR Update: Show&Tell.
    …-
    “Second Arctic Outbreak on the Way”
    Another blast of arctic air will sweep from the northern Plains to the mid-Atlantic and New England as the week progresses.”
    (accqwehetwether)
    …-
    “Matt Ridley: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests
    Posted on January 28, 2013 by Guest Blogger
    What it would take to persuade me that current climate policy makes sense
    Guest post by Matt Ridley”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/28/matt-ridley-a-lukewarmers-ten-tests/

  24. ” ” The Canadian Union of Postal Workers honour Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat for her courageous stand in defense of the land against the moral bankruptcy of the Canadian state.”
    http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/14420/la_id/1.htm
    The president of the union wrote a stomach-churning letter to Theresa last month. This fool does not speak for all postal workers.
    This fool did appoint himself as chief negotiator and came up with the worst contract ever for his members.

  25. David Warren:
    “The fat man wins”
    “And why, I suppose, one could plausibly argue, that if you are going to be a rightwing politician — & no reasonable person can talk you down — just make damn sure that you win. You are not toddling off to “debate” with “gentlemen”; you are marching into a battle to the death, against vicious savages.”
    http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/

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