4598...No More Masks At Riots

Mark Dunn of the Kingston Whig-Standard reports that "The government will support a private member's bill that would make it a crime to wear a mask or disguise during a riot, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Sunday.  The Concealment of Identity Act would create two Criminal Code offences with maximum penalties of five years in prison and fines of up to $5,000."


No where in the article does it define when a demonstration becomes a riot.  Plus how does this affect Halloween?  I am not being funny here.  


What we need are less laws not more laws.  This is just another way the Stephen Harpers are going to clog up the courts.


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4597...Green Energy: Fuggedaboutit

A died in the wool self interested Conservative friend of mine who works in an industry dependent on fossil fuels says that this research into green energy is just a waste of money.

He points out that Niagara Falls has been falling 24/7/365 for the last billion years and will for the next billion.   Same with Churchill Falls.

How does one react to an attitude like that?  Is he right?  Or is he not?

Help me Rhonda.

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4596...Thomas Mulcair's Divisive Strategies

The new leader of the NDP was on CBC Radio's The House trying to play Alberta against the east.  More to the point he was playing a province where the NDP will win a seat or two against the provinces that are its base.

On Saturday's program he said that the high loonie was caused by Alberta's oil sands and it was hurting Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.  Yes that old argument.  A strong currency equals a weak country.  That old fallacious argument I may add.

Postmedia reports that "...Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen, who was also on the show, said Mulcair was being divisive in his treatment of the oilsands.  She called it 'old-style politics; trying to pit one part of the country against another.'"


She was gracious.  He is pitting us against them.  Except this is Canada.  We are all us.


Shame on you Thomas Mulcair, shame.


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4595...Joan Rivers Was Right

So right.

You wash your dishes and b o o m six months later you gotta wash them all over again.

What a way to spend a Sunday.

Next Sunday that is.

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4594...Sorta May be Perhaps Quebec Crisis Over

They kinda mighta reached a deal.


Sort of.



“With Mr. Charest we never know what to expect,” Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois said. “What I deplore is that he waited 82 days to reach a deal. ... I think Mr. Charest is responsible for this crisis and the students and parents paid a heavy price for it.”

Right there in the Globe and Mail it was.


Thanks to Quebec's number one Tory, Jean Charest, Quebec will have a government that wants out of Canada after the next election.


Perfect.

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4593...Ezra Levant's View Of The NDP

My non friend Ezra Levant, opines on the Dippers in Suns:

The party that once stood with forestry workers, sawmill workers, miners, rig hands — the folks who work hard, with their muscles and minds — has now been replaced with the party of downtown eco-activists, who have never done a physical day’s labour in their lives.

Sorry, we can’t all make a living selling Starbucks drinks to each other and texting to each other on our iPhones about how awful Stephen Harper is. Someone actually has to make stuff. Like iPhones. Someone has to bring that coffee to Vancouver. On a ship that is powered by heavy oil.

We can’t all live a metalife, just being intellectual and witty and great critics of things. Someone has to actually be a builder, a miner, a logger, a labourer. At least the communists valued labour — they worshipped it, actually.

Today’s NDP derides it, looks down its nose at it, demeans it, laughs at it, even though those are the real six-figure jobs in Canada — while the fancy kids, getting their degrees in urban studies and peace studies and vegetarian studies, will graduate qualified to do nothing but work at Starbucks.

The NDP is like a child who thinks electricity comes not from a hydroelectric dam or a coal-fired power plant or a nuclear reactor, but from “a plug in the wall.” They want the fruits of industry, without the industrialization. They want the wealth of work, without the work. And now they don’t even want others to do the work.

Sorry, we can’t all make a living selling Starbucks drinks to each other and texting to each other on our iPhones about how awful Stephen Harper is. Someone actually has to make stuff. Like iPhones. Someone has to bring that coffee to Vancouver. On a ship that is powered by heavy oil.
We can’t all live a metalife, just being intellectual and witty and great critics of things. Someone has to actually be a builder, a miner, a logger, a labourer. At least the communists valued labour — they worshipped it, actually.
Today’s NDP derides it, looks down its nose at it, demeans it, laughs at it, even though those are the real six-figure jobs in Canada — while the fancy kids, getting their degrees in urban studies and peace studies and vegetarian studies, will graduate qualified to do nothing but work at Starbucks.
The NDP is like a child who thinks electricity comes not from a hydroelectric dam or a coal-fired power plant or a nuclear reactor, but from “a plug in the wall.” They want the fruits of industry, without the industrialization. They want the wealth of work, without the work. And now they don’t even want others to do the work.

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4592...Catch 22 For Cancer Sufferers

The Canadian Press reports that the cancer drug Revlimid may in and of itself cause the deadly disease.

It is used to treat anemia and some blood cancers.

Talk about a Catch 22.

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