Wynning!
I think it’s just a question of paying teachers more.
Elementary school math results continue to fall.
Half of all Grade 6 students did not meet the provincial math standard in 2016.
Grade 3: 68% (2012) - 5% (2016) = 63%
Grade 6: 58% (2012) - 8% (2016) = 50%
Bill’s Wife
It’s not illegal if a Clinton does it.
Clinton emailed classified info after leaving State.
The email, which was sent months after she left the State Department, went to people including Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, diplomat Jeffrey Feltman, policy aide Jake Sullivan, diplomat Kurt Campbell, State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills and top aide Huma Abedin.
Peak SJW – I Hope
Social Justice Warrior Annaliese Nielsen goes off on the poor driver for having it, as if it’s some terrible form of abuse.
Can anyone tell the difference between this lady and an ISIS militant who forces women into bags?
Clinton must be smiling
Change is not in the air. 39% still voted for her. Indicted last month.
Brown now joins the ranks of Reps. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) and Randy Forbes (R-Va.) as incumbents who lost primaries this year.
Five.
Oh, Shiny Pony
Welcome to the world of Realpolitik.
If you don’t know what Xinhua is, read the first paragraph.
This should be read as the Chinese gov’t saying, “Take your pictures. Smile for the camera. Sign the deals. Bugger off.”
Her Womanly Doings
There are photos at the link, showing Ms Verstappen in full flow, as it were, so readers can determine for themselves just how uplifting and empowering it is to bleed all over yourself, and the floor, while waiting to be applauded.
Why, yes, it is a feminist thing. How did you guess?
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Red Rose Country
Super-delegates come to Canada.
The PCAA is so scared of Kenny, they’re trying to stack the deck. One-third of all delegates have to be local constituency association board members.
Are you sure you want better WiFi?
Radio is radar.
Y2Kyoto: You Mean That Big Blazing Ball In The Sky ?
The effect of solar cycles on cloud formation.
The research team led by Jacob Svensmark of DTU identified the strongest 26 “Forbush Decreases” between 1987 and 2007, and looked at ground-based and satellite records of cloud cover to see what happened. In a recent press release, their conclusions were summarized as follows: “[Strong “Forbush Decreases”] cause a reduction in cloud fraction of about 2 percent corresponding to roughly a billion tonnes of liquid water disappearing from the atmosphere.”
A similar study in April was criticized by Watts Up With That? in April.
If true and put simply, solar cycle activity sweeps cosmic rays away from Earth. More cosmic rays leads to cloud formations so lots of cosmic rays hitting Earth = lots of clouds.
We are currently in a weak Solar Cycle 24 with 25 predicted to be weaker.
Foreign Actors compromise voters
Old-school cracks exploited the Arizona and Illinois State Board of Elections.
The story is weak on specifics regarding the Arizona crack, this statement is ambiguous.
While the hackers did not compromise the state network, they stole the username and password of an election official in Gila County, located in central Arizona.
That doesn’t tell us if the stolen username was the origin of the crack attempt or the result. If the origin, then it was either an infected machine the user used or s/he used the same username/password combination on other websites.
From the McLean County Clerk’s Facebook page regarding the Illinois crack:
The pathway into IVRS was NOT through our firewalls but through a vulnerability on our public web page that an applicant may use to check the status of their online voter registration application.
The method used was SQL injection. The offenders were able to inject SQL database queries into the IVRS database in order to access information. This was a highly sophisticated attack most likely from a foreign (international) entity.
As a side note, headlines aside, no story that I’ve found actually says it was the Russians.
EU comes down hard on Apple and Ireland.
EU to Ireland: You have no sovereignty in Cork.
Of Course
NEB indefinitely suspends Energy East hearings in Montreal.
Successfully punted.
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Well, there’s a fine how-do-you-do.
Joe Oliver on equalization.
An excellent article detailing the problems with equalization and asking important questions about the viability of the program or whether it’s even worth keeping.
However I’m not sure I fully appreciate the veracity of the former Canadian Minister of Finance making arguments meant to shore up Western Canadian conservatism. The same guy who had the power to change the system not 10 months ago.
Between this and Tony Clement calling for the end of the CBC, I get the feeling the Ontario Conservatives are feeling a little heat in the leadership race.
But this is my shooting hand.
Another one gone. I hate 2016.
See, Energy East?
I’m Shocked.
Proving once again what farmers have been saying since the beginning. Biofuel’s inputs are larger than their outputs.
This is my shocked face.
#NotACult Noooonoonoono.
You don’t understand.
A social license means that the enviro-whacko’s call all the shots.
Steven Guilbeault, spokesman for environmental group Equiterre, said he has similar concerns even though his organization, as well as municipal leaders, First Nations representatives and others, also met with commissioners in advance of the hearings.
Read as: We get special access, you don’t.