March 2012
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An Amateur’s Faithful Observations of a Variable Star Previously your couch was on that wall. Put the flowers away, the ginseng chicken Is delicious. What did I see today? Death eating a cheese burrito. One person Talking to another. I was watching Them put it down; they were really feeling Each other. It’s like when you’re playing trombone & thinking of a tomato. The door...
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“We certainly continue to support the concept of PEARL, but I certainly as minister of Environment Canada do not have a million and a half dollars in my back pocket.” - Peter Kent explains how he’d love to help to keep open Canada’s northernmost research facility continue to have the ability to detect changes in the ozone layer and important things of that nature, but as...
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Conservative scripts misdirected voters in 2011...
However, one employee was so concerned that something was amiss she says she reported it to her supervisor at the RMG site, to the RCMP office in Thunder Bay and to a toll-free Elections Canada number at the time. Annette Desgagné, 46, said it became clear to her — after so many people complained that the “new” voting locations made no sense or were “way the hell across town” — that the live...
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Robocalls! Misleading Robocalls! Also (more importantly), calls made by humans that resemble voter supression tactics! First, Elections Canada discovered that an Edmonton based company called Racknine with ties/previous business to Conservative candidates (including the Prime Minister) using their service, had also been used by individuals using disposable cell-phones to place fradulent ...
Conservatives suppress democracy: RoboGate,... →
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“I myself wasn’t positive I’d glimpsed the other place the chaldron...”
– Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City
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Fraudulent election calls traced to Edmonton firm... →
To no one’s tremendous surprise. Now, there’s no way to prove who, exactly dealt with this firm, and of course, the Conservative Party is shocked (shocked!) to learn of this “grave and serious matter,’ and most importantly, there will be no consequences.
“Perhaps the person most disappointed with Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews...”
– If Only Tory Caucus Walls Could Talk (and Vic Toews Couldn’t), Tabatha Southey (via nowaitninjas)
Oh, oh!
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On the environment, Canada is a rogue state |... →
“If the message is giving you trouble, shoot the messengers. That’s exactly what Harper has done and will continue to do in his March budget. Last fall, Environment Canada announced that some 700 scientists and researchers would be losing their jobs. Sixty were fired in January.” - Murray Dobbin
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“Today you’re called psychotic if you do that, but it’s all semantics.”
– Nicolas Cage, on his acting methods.
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(Tumblr doesn’t care) So, I got a pretty… let’s say “ill-thought out,” but also “arrogant” and “semi-desperate” e-mail from the campaign of Paul Dewar. They sent this e-mail to every NDP member, best I can tell. Summary: Dewar didn’t do well in the French debate, his campaign releases self-polling details from last week to insist their...
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http://who-is-bon-iver.tumblr.com/ →
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“He’s a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
– George Smiley (Gary Oldman) in Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy
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Romeo Saganash is apparently exiting the NDP leadership race, and I expect he’ll have something to say about it tomorrow, but just today he released this manifesto, which is just chalk full of the good stuff. Romeo is the first indigenous person to run for the leadership of one of the major Canadian political parties, and I hope a lot of his ideas permeate the consciousness of whoever does...
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