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A short time ago I wrote about the wind turbine proposal for the Lake St. Clair/Lake Erie area near Leamington and Pelee Island. If approved, that long-term project would involve the construction of some 700 wind turbines just off the shores of the two lakes — directly in the path of one of North America’s main bird [...]
Just Politics | more | posted 5 days ago
Tony Romm, via The Hill's Hillicon Valley blog: Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers:The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation.According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a mass
The Blog of Walker | more | posted February 28th
The US President is introducing a brand new proposal but Palin does not buy this one either. According to her, the debate being held today is a photo-op and nothing more
....The President can perfume this proposal however he wants, but it still doesn’t pass the smell test. Washington should listen to Americans now, or Washington will hear us in November. read the whole thing
Dodo Can Spell | more | posted February 25th
Via Aaron Wherry's fine efforts at Macleans.ca:Senator Elaine McCoy makes the case for a reformed, but still appointed, Senate. Consider what happens now when you elect someone to go to Ottawa. No sooner have they spent their first term in office than they’re emailing home to explain why they voted for something their constituents didn’t want. The reason, of course, is party discipline. They
The Blog of Walker | more | posted February 23rd
Isn’t it ironic that the Conservative proposal to drop the $1.75 per vote subsidy that supposedly sparked the original Coalition has evolved into a Pro-Coalition movement that would decrease the taxpayer funding for opposition parties?
Barbara Yaffee seems to be pushing the Resnick-Whitaker plan:
…They argue that the only way to achieve a government other than a [...]
Blue Like You | more | posted February 20th
The Financial Post is reporting that Canada plans to oppose taxing global bank transactions at the G20. This destroys any possible chance that such a tax would be implemented, though the chances were pretty slim even before. The UK Conservative Party opposes the Tobin tax and they are the most likely winners in this Spring's General Election (though they do have stupid ideas of their own).I am gl
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted February 19th
PC leader Tim Hudak is urging Premier McGuinty to lift the ban on Mixed Martial Arts in Ontario. This is the best proposal I've heard in a long time. The argument that Mr. Hudak used was that it would boost tourism dollars, which it might. But a more important argument is that it will allow people a little more freedom in their personal choices.Mr. McGuinty seems unhostile but uninterested, claim
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted February 18th
Why bother negotiating?Muslim rebels waging a 32-year war in the southern Philippines on Wednesday said a peace deal with President Gloria Arroyo's administration was unlikely, after rejecting its latest offer.The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), said the government's proposal made when talks in Malaysia resumed last month, was "unacceptable", the group's negotiator, Mohagher Iqbal, told
GayandRight | more | posted February 17th
Not long ago, it seemed all but certain that Saskatchewan’s “First Nations University” would be shutting its doors for good — following very serious and longstanding allegations of mismanagement and misspending.
The good news is that, according to this Globe and Mail column by Patrick White (h/t Jack’s Newswatch), an eleventh hour proposal for a new governance mode
Crux of the Matter | more | posted February 16th
The Supreme Court decision in Tercon Contractors Ltd. v. B.C. just got in a couple of days ago:The Province of British Columbia issued a request for expression of interest (“RFEI”) for the design and construction of a highway. Six teams responded with submissions including Tercon and Brentwood. A few months later, the Province informed the six proponents that it now intended to design the high
The Blog of Walker | more | posted February 13th
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This is a really interesting proposal from Brett Skinner of the Fraser Institute.
The extent of the potential taxpayer liability is staggering. The Canadian government is heavily exposed in the mortgage market because 43% of all residential mortgages (or roughly 90% of all insured residential mortgages) are backed by the government through the federally-owned Canada Mortgage [...]
Prairie Tory | more | posted February 10th
So I was watching something on my local channel about some proposed changes to the City bylaws regarding pets/owners. One proposal was to fine people $350 if they were out walking their dogs but did not have a 'doody bag' with them to clean up after their animal.Sorry but I find that ridiculous. I've stepped in dog poo. Just last week I went out to shovel my front walk and found a GIANT pile of
Random Musings of a Tormented Mind | more | posted February 8th
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has reopened a can of worms in promising a government ran early childcare program. He is a bit sketchy on the details but I imagine that it will be something along the lines of Paul Martin's plan. It was a scheme that was not proven overly popular four years ago, so I don't understand Dr. Ignatieff's political calculation. How is this going to win him anymore vo
Freedom is My Nationality | more | posted February 2nd
bo seems to be driving the US into the ground. His deficit proposal dwarfs anything his predecessors have proposed. The deficit will almost certainly be even bigger. Who will finance this massive debt. The Chinese seem to be getting nervous. bo is almost certainly going to let the printing presses go wild. Inflation is coming. bo is making jimmy carter look good. let's hope this happens.The defic
Dr Roy | more | posted February 1st
Even though Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff ” didn’t have many specifics of what a strategy might look like” on combating brain disease, the Globe and Mail still gave Iffy some very positive coverage today.
This proposal (?) is from a guy who until recently stood on his head believing the blood rushing to his brain would [...]
BC Blue | more | posted January 30th
James Delingpole of the Telegraph has a charmingly sly proposal for the retention of Rajendra Pachauri, in order to complete the destruction of the IPCC.
“Joshua, when fighting the battles of the Lord, prayed vermently to the Almighty, that He would continue the light of day, that he might complete the overthrow of His enemies.”
Delingpole writes:
“But [...]
Barrel Strength | more | posted January 28th
I am astonished at the bronze face the Liberals hold when proposing the anti-prorogation measure. Their leader-in-waiting Bob Rae is the prorogation guru (as brought out by many bloggers and the CBC itself), and they are the same party who, while advocating democracy and people power last year were ready to get in bed with a separatist party. What a bunch of pillocks!Prorogation should be a tool t
Free thinking unabridged | more | posted January 25th
There goes the neighborhood? I don’t think so. But since it’s my neighborhood I’m talking about, I’m going to waffle a bit.
Vancouver writer Frances Bula points out a big problem with consultations on social housing projects in Vancouver, in this case referring to a new proposal for my neighborhood of Mount Pleasant:
As is always the [...]
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New Media | more | posted January 25th
This decision will only hurt students....Berkeley High School (BHS) might drop its science labs from its curriculum.The reason? Too many white kids — or not enough non-white kids, depending on your perspective — were taking these classes. According to an article in the East Bay Express, whacking the labs is intended to address BHS’s “dismal racial achievement gap.” The decision to make t
GayandRight | more | posted January 15th
They too believe he really wants peace with the Palestinians... Israel's prime minister on Tuesday presented Egypt with ideas for restarting Mideast peace talks, impressing his hosts with proposals that go further than past Israeli positions, Egypt's top diplomat said.The sides also discussed the latest developments in efforts to broker a prisoner swap between Israel and the Hamas militant group
GayandRight | more | posted December 29th
There's just no pleasing these guys... first they hold up "tough on crime" legislation... now they're crappin' on consumer protection... -- OTTAWA -- Key Liberal senators voted Wednesday to weaken the government's consumer product safety legislation — putting at risk the proposal to give Health Canada inspectors the power to recall dangerous products quickly.Somebody remind me... why e
halls of macadamia | more | posted December 9th
This is very good news...Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to becom
GayandRight | more | posted December 2nd
Swiss voters have approved a right-wing-backed proposal to ban construction of new minarets by 57 per cent, a surprise result that could damage Switzerland's economic ties with Muslim states. “We just want to stop further Islamization in Switzerland, I mean political Islam. People may practice their religion, that is no problem.” “We want to stop the further developments – minarets, (the
halls of macadamia | more | posted November 29th
I think that the illusion of property ownership in Canada as being anything more than a transient, temporary arrangement that relies entirely upon the permissive laws of each municipality is put to bed with the latest proposal by the city of Vancouver. The city will vote on Thursday to enact a bylaw of tree protection [...]
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | more | posted November 24th
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