Changes are coming from Canada Post:
The cost of mailing a first-class letter within Canada went up to 85 cents today — a 35 per cent jump from the 63 cents it previously cost.
At the same time, it also revealed plans to phase out door-to-door mail delivery over a five-year period to the millions of urban Canadian homes that still get it.
Again. Early reports claim three soldiers shot. Live stream of local coverage. Developing….
Via Campus Reform
College and seminary professors, pastors, and Ph.Ds: “If a serpent skin wrapped around the arm of a godly Bible character doesn’t set off any alarms… I don’t know what to say.”
That’s “practice”.
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James Taranto: “The first thing we thought of when we saw the pictures was the photos we’ve recently seen on Twitter of Venezuelans waiting in bread lines. Waiting in line to purchase necessities is a characteristic not of a prosperous free society but of command economies under repressive regimes. Closer to home, one doubts even the Transportation Security Administration would be so tone-deaf as to advertise long airport lines as an indication it’s doing a great job.” |
More: “This is why Americans are not popping the cork. Nor should the administration.”
Our first account comes from the breakout session titled ‘Stories from the front lines of education: Confessions of a white, high school English teacher’.
And Glenn Beck is the crazy one.
In a press release entitled “FACT SHEET: Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions,” the White House laid out its “all-of-the-above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut carbon pollution” as to ensure “a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations.”
One of the “key steps” formulated by the Obama Administration involves working in partnership with the dairy industry, the USDA, EPA and DOE to release a “Biogas Roadmap” outlining “voluntary strategies to accelerate adoption of methane digesters and other cost-effective technologies to reduce U.S. dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.”
Related: In this case, E&E Legal was looking for records regarding the EPA’s veto of an already-granted permit to a coal mine in Logan County, W.V. The EPA vetoed the permit to save the mayfly, an insect that the agency says is harmed by surface mining.
Hear my prayer. (h/t Dale)
Although the Soo Locks officially opened for the season March 25, no commercial ships have passed through the locks as they are still being escorted across Lake Superior by the Coast Guard Cutters Mackinaw and Katmai Bay. However, the Vessel Traffic Service operated out of Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., has issued a directive to close the upper St. Marys River to navigation because of heavy ice coverage.
Against the wind
They were runnin’ against the wind
They were desperate and scared, they were runnin’
Against the wind
Four minutes that will live in infamy – The Most Illegal Move in the History of Wrestling. (h/t Joel)
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Former BC Premier Mike Harcourt has caused enormous shock waves throughout BC’s NDP by very publicly quitting the party:
In a rare rebuke from an ex-premier to his party, Mr. Harcourt cited several grievances, but pointed to the “astonishingly stupid decision” of leader Adrian Dix in mid campaign last spring to change position on a proposed expansion of a Kinder-Morgan pipeline between Alberta and the Lower Mainland.
Mr. Dix said he would oppose the expansion after saying he would wait until an application for approval was filed to take a position.
“Coming out against Kinder Morgan just finally did it for me. I thought that was so stupid and unnecessary,” Mr. Harcourt said, estimating Mr. Dix’s reversal cost the New Democrats 20 seats and alienated blue-collar workers in resource communities across the province.
Left Coast Dippers now have a decision to make: Will they remain subservient to the whims of the environmental elitists or will they move forward with a more pragmatic approach?
Fooled them twice: BlueChip Energy–which also operated as Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) and SunHouse Solar–sold its systems at environmental festivals and home shows. Buyers thought they were getting a good deal and doing the right thing for the environment. […] A year ago, it was revealed that BlueChip Energy’s solar panels had counterfeit UL labels…
Vancouver is plagued with too much rain throughout at least 8 months of the year but when the weather’s nice, it does have its charms. This was what it looked like last night, on the last evening of March. It was captured from the edge of the former 2010 Olympics Athletes’ Village. What you’re seeing is an HDR image that was rendered from 9 original source photos.
French government resigns en masse;
France’s socialist prime minister resigned along with his entire government yesterday following a meltdown in local elections.
Jean-Marc Ayrault admitted that a huge swing to the Right, including to the extremist National Front, was down to him and his Left-wing government.
And last night socialist President Francois Hollande – whose rule has become synonymous with a 75 per cent top rate of income tax – admitted to mistakes and said his priority was now to cut taxes.
The government’s resignation is a huge blow to the president, who was elected to a five-year term in 2012 but whose first two years in power have seen him become the most unpopular head of state in recent history.
Six centuries of consensus rolls over in its grave: Everything you know about the Black Death is wrong…
(h/t north of 60)
Nahhh, not really. Happy April Fools Day!
James Delingpole reports on the never-ending PR campaign where facts don’t matter – here, here, & here.
Green ideologues working for the British government helped “sex up” the latest Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) report in order to make its conclusions sound more scary than the evidence warrants, it emerged today.
The draft version of the report’s Summary For Policymakers made the startling admission that the economic damage caused by “climate change” would be between 0.2 and 2 percent of global GDP – significantly less than the doomsday predictions made in the 2006 Stern report (which estimated the damage at between 5 and 20 percent of global GDP).
Just in time for April Fools’ Day, the MSM was doing a full court propaganda campaign yesterday. Here’s a sampling full of mistruths and outright fiction. Dr. Tim Ball is trying to fight back against the propagandists.
To me, [Britain] now seems a strange, immoral place. For example, I read articles in the Guardian and the Times this week about the abolition of inherited wealth. The Economist also recently wrote about it. It did not even occur to any of these columnists that they were talking about the property of others. They did not create it. They did not inherit it. They have no just claim to it. Yet they have no moral concerns about proposing its seizure.
Just who exactly are all these taxpayers? (h/t Adrian)
