Dead Rose Country
Keystone Excavating Ltd. has announced it is closing its doors, saying it can’t continue to provide the same quality of work “within the macro business environment in Alberta.”
“The macro business environment has everything to do with gratuitous government policy, increasing cost of doing business in Alberta, and lack of consumer and investor confidence,” the company said in a statement.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Soon will come the day when I can relax in my dentist’s waiting area without enduring a dangerous rise in blood pressure.
Major layoffs just took place at @MacleansMag. At least seven senior people laid off. This is a bloodbath #cdnmedia
— Zane Schwartz (@ZaneSchwartz) February 1, 2017
The Sound Of Settled Science
Saccorhytus Michaelmooreius: The researchers were unable to find any evidence that the animal had an anus, which suggests that it consumed food and excreted from the same orifice.
h/t AK
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!
Trudeau abandons pledge on electoral reform.
Drill Dakota, Drill
The controversial Dakota Access pipeline will receive a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow construction of the $3.7 billion project to be completed, according to North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp.
After spending more than $22 million on the Dakota Access pipeline protest, North Dakota wants to make sure any paid activists remember to submit their state income taxes.
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger said his office is keeping an eye out for tax forms from environmental groups that may have hired protesters to agitate against the 1,172-mile, four-state pipeline project.
[…] It’s no secret that millions have been funneled into the six-month-old demonstration via crowdfunding websites, and that more than 30 environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, Indigenous Environmental Network, Food and Water Watch, 350.org and Greenpeace, have backed the protest.
If national environmental organizations are paying protest personnel, they’re not saying so publicly. Still, Mr. Rauschenberger said red flags will be raised if he doesn’t start seeing W2 or 1099 tax forms from those affiliated with the protest arriving at his office.
“It’s something we could possibly pursue if we don’t see 1099s coming in for the activity,” Mr. Rauschenberger said.
Send them a bill for this, too.
I Don’t Like So You Can’t Have
“Remember, this isn’t the plotting of a moody and vindictive teenager. It’s a supposedly adult member of university staff.”
This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
PETA Wants Fictional Space Vikings From the Year 40,000 to Stop Wearing Fur
PETA UK have written to Games Workshop, makers of Warhammer 40,000 and its myriad table-top gaming models, asking them to cease depicting imagery of its myriad characters wearing animal fur and make them “fur free.”
It’s part of the broader strategy – PETA’s antics are calculated to make the equally radical, but far more insidious HSUS appear reasonable.
Reader Tips
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What Makes You Think” – Lachlan Argyle. (h/t Sharon Lee)
Tips thread open.
The cast of Ghostbusters II
Walterdale Theatre is a volunteer-run community theatre that has operated in Edmonton since 1958.
Hey! I thought they hated “fake news?”
I keep hearing it called a “Muslim ban” but that would be “alternative facts” or “fake news” or put plainly, a lie.
Embrace Hollywood
“Alright Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for the asteroid“.
Trump Files Early With FEC For 2020 Candidacy
I Amuse Myself
If you're confused about media attacks on Trump for #QuebecMosqueAttack – you've forgotten the time when @SarahPalinUSA shot Gabby Giffords.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 31, 2017
I, Napoleon
Reader Tips
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Trump: Week One In Review
Best Drudge Ever
Quebec Mosque Shooting (bumped)
“Allahu Akbar” and so far nobody really knows anything. Which is why I’ve been following and not speculating. I’ll leave that to our kneejerk media. Meanwhile, beware of fake reports if you’re scanning social media. Journos are falling thick and fast for those as well.
Probable fake. Al-Taweed is the name of a Syrian rebel group. https://t.co/2F8v81U5vJ
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 30, 2017
Update: @stephen_taylor TVA reporting on vague descriptions of suspects: one of QC origin, one of Arab origin.
As of this morning, no new information has been released identifying the suspects. How completely Canadian.
Update: Mohamed Belkhadir, the man police arrested as a suspect in the mosque attack, was just trying to perform first-aid.
Things you’ll never see on the CBC.
Suspect Alex Bissonnette's FB page was just taken down. His page likes include: Parti Quebecois, NDP, Rob Ford, Jack Layton, Marine Le Pen
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) January 30, 2017
Or the Globe and Mail.




