h/t Meatriarchy
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
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.
We Don’t Need No …
The Appalling Truth About Energy Subsidies
From the useful site Energy Matters. Bookmark it.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
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.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
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!
Sinner Repents
“I’m a white man. I’m a white middle-class man. I’m a white middle-class heterosexual man… This is my fault. I didn’t do anything directly, but this is my fault. My silence makes this my fault.”
Weather Rage
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.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips perennial welterweight contender Angry Ram prepares for his upcoming 12-round title bout with Connor McGoat.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
This time, it’s serious.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
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.
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
More photos from New York state.
Another dump is forecast for tomorrow.
In The Mail
The Western Awakening Trilogy, Book 3.
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Oh, Shiny Pony!
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
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” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Organic Almonds Recalled From Whole Foods For Containing High Levels Of Cyanide h/t Glenn
Y2Kyoto: Planetary Fever Update
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stevens Is Dead
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.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Waylon Jennings and Anita Carter (the youngest daughter of original Carter Family member Mother Maybelle) sing a very early Kris Kristofferson song called No One’s Gonna Miss Me.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Party Of No
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
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“Just because there weren’t a lot of votes doesn’t mean you can’t do a graphic.“
h/t Joseph F