It was the best of times, it was the worst of Times… (h/t Terry)
A Liberal Leadership Vote Goes Horribly Wrong
For the first time in history, ANYONE can vote for the next #lpcldr. Just 9 days left to sign-up to vote. bit.ly/JTsupport1tw
— Justin Trudeau, MP (@JustinTrudeau) February 22, 2013
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
“Nice egg business you’ve got here. It would be terrible for something bad to happen to it.”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Some 3.7million Londoners classified themselves as white British in 2011 – down from 4.3million in 2001 – despite the city’s population increasing by nearly one million over the decade to 8.2million.
White Britons now make up 45 per cent of the population, compared with 58 per cent in 2001.
London’s population has been boosted by immigrants. Three million foreign-born people now live in the capital.
Pauline’s Pasta Police
The following is a real video clip from Quebec, not a comedy segment from The Onion. More here.
Thankfully, the backlash through social media, appears to have sufficiently embarrassed the Clouseau-like clods enough to back down for now.
Let’s hope that Alberta & Saskatchewan’s hard working citizens are content to see how their taxes are being spent. 🙁
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t John B)
Reader Tips
What happens when a girl’s inevitable future voice comes back to viciously taunt both her and her morally-bereft stage mom in the present? Let’s find out!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Sending the House of Australia Broke
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Germany’s plan to transform its energy system to one reliant on renewable power as it phases out nuclear energy could cost up to €1 trillion, German energy and environment minister Peter Altmaier has publicly admitted. Feed-in tariffs supporting renewable energy could account for over two-thirds of the cost.
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
There’s no whore like a CBC whore…
The Sound Of Settled Science
Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will not be a very serious problem.
Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?
In December 2005, the chief and council of Chemawawin First Nation had drained almost all of the $400,000 Chemawawin Resource Trust Fund to support representatives on the Cedar Lake Resource Management Board, Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) prairie director Colin Craig revealed Wednesday.
Band members sent a letter to Craig last month to inform him of the situation.
“Manitoba Hydro was very clear in the trust fund agreement — the trustees were forbidden from spending the $400,000 initial capital investment,” Craig wrote in a blog post addressed to Manitoba Hydro CEO Scott Thomson.
“The band was only to use interest from the fund.”
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
National Post, February 2013 – OCAP threatens to take over Metro Hall if city does not address shelter bed ‘crisis’
Sun News, December 2012 – The Menzoid took to the streets of Toronto to give a some free meals to the homeless, but found they were much pickier than expected.
h/t Dan T
Reader Tips
Tonight’s amusement en route to the Tips is one big yawnfest.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips
This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
A French Industry Minister With A Five Word Solution.
A Problem With A Five Word Solution
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Scratch a Leftist
Wait, don’t the the Joos already own the media?