Linden MacIntyre – and we mean this literally.
The CBC journalist Linden MacIntyre has been barred from appearing on CBC News Network this week after executives there objected to a comment he made during an interview with The Globe and Mail in which he compared the workplace behaviour of Peter Mansbridge to that of Jian Ghomeshi.
The Appalling Truth About Energy Subsidies
From the useful site Energy Matters. Bookmark it.
Oh no! Who could have seen this coming?
Solar farms will still be reliant on subsidies for up to another 14 years, the trade body for the industry has admitted – despite previously claiming the technology could be subsidy-free by 2020.
Most solar panels installed in the UK to date have been heavily subsidised and new solar farm projects are currently paid more than twice the market price of power for every unit of electricity they generate.
The subsidies, running to tens of millions of pounds each year, are paid for through levies on consumer energy bills.
By either grand design or ferocious grassroots organization, Toronto’s suburbs are shaping up to be a Mandarin-speaking powerhouse for the federal Liberal Party.
Four ridings around the GTA have Chinese-Canadians candidates, and in sharp contrast to the Conservatives’ top-down ethnic strategy of wooing voters through messaging that appeals to a specific minority, the Mandarin community is fielding its own candidates. In Don Valley North’s nomination contest, scientist Geng Tan upset presumed front-runner Rana Sarkar, a veteran party member and friend of Gerald Butts, Leader Justin Trudeau’s top adviser. Mr. Geng accomplished this by appealing almost solely to a monolithic base of Mandarin-speakers in Mandarin only.
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In the case of Mr. Geng’s campaign, his website was mostly in Mandarin and was changed to English only after a conversation with The Globe and Mail last week. His membership list, which The Globe reviewed, was composed exclusively of Chinese names.
But there’s more!
CBC: Listen as one unidentified caller gives us a blast about wind, winter and having to endure it year after year. We picked this message up on our voicemail system.
This time, it’s serious.
Har: Two men disguised in burkas rob Toronto jewellery store at gunpoint
Here’s a suggestion: Live by the burka, die by the burka
h/t cal2, Dan T.
More photos from New York state.
Another dump is forecast for tomorrow.
The Western Awakening Trilogy, Book 3.
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I remember when these experts were too unfashionable for respectable print: Wind farms causing thousands of bats to die of collapsed lungs annually in Alberta.
Organic Almonds Recalled From Whole Foods For Containing High Levels Of Cyanide h/t Glenn
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are now in complete control of the city of Derna, population of about 100,000, not far from the Egyptian border and just about 200 miles from the southern shores of the European Union.
Beauty.
Keystone fails in the Senate. So long Mary Landrieu;
It could also determine the fate of embattled Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who is pushing the legislation in an uphill battle to fend off a GOP challenger in a runoff election next month.
@DanaPerino – “Dems are in organizational free fall. NEVER should’ve taken vote. Why go through the pain & draw so much attention to issue while losing?”
More: How Kabuki Theater Explains Keystone Vote
“Just because there weren’t a lot of votes doesn’t mean you can’t do a graphic.“
h/t Joseph F
Heh.
What's @katewerk say? Riding public transit is like inviting 20 random hitchhikers into your car? http://t.co/BxmjHysScC #ttcfail #ttc #yyz
— Kevin Libin (@kevinlibin) November 18, 2014
Palestinians hardest hit.
Related.
Presented without comment: Justin Trudeau’s Whitby-Oshawa victory speech. (The clip should have started at about 1 hr, 27 minutes in. Sorry!)
The most recent mtDNA study we stumbled across, is from our perspective the final nail in the coffin of the Out-of-Africa theory. Once, twice and a third time over, separate genetic studies of Homo sapien sapiens, dingoes and now song birds, stand united in ascribing the same place of origin: Australia.
The genetic facts in these equations are incontestable, the distinctive and unique nature of the mitochondrial DNA of both the dingo and Mungo Man (WLH 3) cannot be matched to any like species on this planet.
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The insurmountable problem these genetic studies creates is obvious, if both Australian dingo and human are unique, the question that demands to be answered relates to how can it be that there is common belief that Original Australians came from Africa and the ancestor of the dingo lived in Southern India? What is puzzling is that despite the imposing evidence to the contrary, every text, university and lecturer will earnestly claim that the Out-of-Africa theory is an unquestionable fact. Equally, from the same department their books assure us that all dogs, canines and wolves share the same ancestry, but that is not true in the dingoes’ case. All of this smells like bad science and lazy thinking, but it gets worse, there are birds in the air to reconsider and reposition.