Dead Rock Stars, Installment Three: Freddie Mercury, ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’. Dude could sing.
Your tips in the comments.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
By your husband shall ye be judged.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has barred Christine Innes from running for a Liberal nomination after receiving complaints about Innes’ husband Tony Ianno.
Full text of Innes statement, reaction to Trudeau spiking her campaign
Flashback! I organized Trudeau’s ‘Ladies Night’
The Keystone Pipeline
Currently running above ground.
Keystone’s friends and foes alike may have underestimated the North American rail system’s ability to handle the thick, gritty oil from western Canada known as tar sands. And while rail was originally a stopgap solution to the lack of a pipeline, oil producers have discovered its advantages.
Now, transportation and energy experts on both sides of the border believe that Canadian crude shipments by rail will continue to increase, whether the pipeline is ultimately approved and built or not. Concerns about the safety of rail shipments after a series of recent derailments won’t slow the growth, they say.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
An actual, real-life CTV headline.
…with a comments section gone horribly wrong.
h/t Jim
Pollspotting
Trouble for Alberta’s first NDP premier; “Is all forgiven after Alison Redford repays $45,000 for South African trip?”
h/t marc in calgary
BUMPED FOR UPDATE: @Premier_Redford leaves PC caucus meeting Gov House in a hurry. She didn’t look happy.
#skpoli @PremierBradWall 's office confirms @Premier_Redford no longer coming for NWP meeting. @christyclarkbc will be here. #abpoli
— Stefani Langenegger (@SLangeneggerCBC) March 13, 2014
Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton
Heh.
Sun News asks if Chow will do anything about the "illegal massage parlours that are involved in human trafficking."
— Jonathan Goldsbie (@goldsbie) March 13, 2014
C’est Awkward
Is Marois finding her star candidate shines a little too brightly? Video of her shoving PKP aside http://t.co/FQGwFZzS5w via @DMacpGaz
— Graeme Hamilton (@grayhamilton) March 13, 2014
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Er, no.
Go, Already
A Montreal salad bar, Mandy’s, is under fire from Quebec’s language police because its decor features vintage English signs. The Office québécois de la langue française told sisters Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe they would have to remove the purely decorative signs from their shop in traditionally anglophone Westmount…
h/t BC
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Goat War: an apology.
Reader Tips
Dead Rock Star week continues: Bang a Gong, by Marc Bolan and T. Rex. (With lyrics, which you owe it to yourself to read.)
Get it on in the comments.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The bacon/Yelp correlation (h/t Karen)
False Arguments Fuel Government Assistance to Canada’s Entertainment Industry
Or, how Canadians help rich people put on plays for their friends;
“The arts, entertainment and recreation industries combined for about 1% of the GDP produced by all service industries in 2012, so it’s a great exaggeration to say that the entertainment industry makes a major contribution to Canada’s economy.”
The original Fraser Institute report here.
Y2Kyoto: Fill Yer Boots
Not A Lot Of People Know That:
Whilst the likelihood of a major flood at any single location may be once every fifty years or so, if there are, say, ten potential locations, one of these would flood on average every five years. […] Remember this when you so often read about claims of “100 Year Events”.
Out Of The Clouds
The Canadian government was clearly concerned by dangers associated with storing potentially sensitive emails outside the country. Invoking a national security exception, one of its requirements for the single email system was that it be hosted in Canada on a secured server. As U.S. companies later noted, this effectively excluded them from bidding on the contract.
QOTD
Kimmel: "You once shot a coyote while jogging."
Gov. Perry: "True."
Kimmel: "You jog with a gun?"
Perry: "I do interviews with a gun."
— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) March 12, 2014
Strange Happenings in Quebec Politics
Licia Corbella explains:
What’s even more puzzling than [Pierre Karl Peladeau] running with the PQ is how this 52-year-old union-busting, staff-slashing controlling shareholder of Quebecor Communications hasn’t bothered to study the fiscal books of Quebec. If he had, this fierce businessman would not seek the independence of Quebec from Canada. Why? Because Quebec would be utterly bankrupt were it not for equalization sent there annually from the rest of Canada.
Last year, Quebec received about $8 billion net in equalization from the federal government and hasn’t been a net contributor to the federal coffers for decades.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
Green energy is blossoming in Europe pic.twitter.com/N0PR3qNxIP
— Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) March 9, 2014
Reader Tips
From the vast and varied Dead Rock Star Collection, we bring you Jim Morrison and The Doors performing Break On Through for KTLA-TV in Los Angeles in 1967. Or lip syncing. (I have my suspicions).