Friday, July 31, 2015

INSECT ROBOTS

The researchers from Seoul National University and Harvard University, studied how water striders jumped on water, to create a robot that could successfully launch itself from the surface of water.

NOT LIKING THE ON HYDRO SELL-OFF PLAN

 The most objections to the privatization are in urban areas where Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are strong –– “a damning piece of information.”

GROWING COST OF BUILDING THE PIPELINE

Energy East pipeline will cost more than $12 billion, TransCanada says

FEDS HANDING OUT THE DOUGH

Pork-a-palooza: Tories hit magic mark of $1 billion in handouts in 1 day

SHAKING THINGS UP AT THE SUPREME COURT

New Supreme Court appointee blogged on Khadr, called Trudeau 'unspeakably awful,' hoped for Harper majority

iPOLITICS ELECTION POLLING

Summer is half over, the election could be launched officially as early as Sunday and our polling shows a political landscape on ‘pause’. There are, however, some interesting developments that set the stage for the campaign proper

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

WHINING MILITANTS

It’s the curse of our times: militant group self-pity. But however vexing it may be to watch powerful figures use the blame game to justify their bad actions, the strategy is proving wildly successful.

THAT 3RD HAND YOU'VE ALWAYS NEEDED

Engineers in Germany have built a biologically inspired artificial hand with muscles made from bundles of 'smart' wires.

POWER OF THE PIPELINE

Gazprom operates more as an instrument of Putin’s political ambitions and Russian state power than as a rational profit-maximizing corporation

DIVINE RIGHT TO GOVERN

“It is not merely for the well-being of Canadians, but for the good of mankind in general, that the present Liberal government should remain in office,” Pickersgill told me

Monday, July 27, 2015

CLIMATE DEPRESSION VICTIMS

Steyn:  ..the old post-traumatic stress disorder is what you get if you're just some nancy wuss pantywaist who goes to Iraq and gets blown up by an IED. But the far more serious pre-traumatic stress disorder is what you get if you sit around on government grants all day worrying about sea levels in the Maldives in the early 22nd century.

CRIME REPORT

Overall crime rate still dropping in Canada, Statscan reports

MEDIA WHORES HAVE HDF

With a federal election looming Canada's media party has developed  Harper Derangement Frenzy - which is an upgrade to hurricane status from Harper Derangement Syndrome

DON'T BLAME TRUMP

Rex Murphy: "I agree Trump is ridiculous — but he is an illustration of a problem and not its cause. Trump is not the swamp: he is the creature emerging from it."

CRIME IN CRIMEA

President Vladimir Putin likened Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea to a family welcoming home a long-lost relative.

HER JUST DESSERTS

Conservative defector Eve Adams failed on Sunday in her bid to run as a Liberal candidate in the looming federal election.

SHE'S BAAAAAACK......MAYBE

Adam Vaughan, reacted to the news by calling Chow a serial quitter who wasted $1 million of taxpayers’ cash by triggering a federal bye-election.

Friday, July 24, 2015

CANADA USA FEUD OVER ISLANDS

“Somebody is going to get killed. We’ve had bad years in the past and got lucky, but this is the worst year I’ve ever seen,”

REPOPULATING SMALL TOWNS

Shrinking small towns across Canada are turning to that tried-and-true growth technique: cheap land

TRUDEAU FIZZLES OUT

He's dithered — which is the opposite of leadership. He's wishy-washy.

CANADA'S REFUGEE SYSTEM

The charter rights of refugee applicants are being violated by a process that marginalizes, prejudices and stereotypes them based on where they are from.

THAT'LL BE THE DAY

NDP urges parents who don’t need child care cheques to donate them to party

Thursday, July 23, 2015

POLITICS AND WHORING...IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

Around 1 in 5 of the population of Ottawa, is registered on Ashley Madison, the cheaters website that was recently hacked for the "client" list. The top postal code for new members matched that of Parliament Hill.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Sunday, July 19, 2015

AUTHORS OF THEIR OWN DEMISE

La Belle Province comes close to dead last in almost every measure of private sector investment

SUPPORTING UKRAINE

Canadian techs train Ukrainian soldiers in the art of bomb disposal

CANADA'S CHAMPION OF THE TAXPAYER

The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation  often acts as a solitary voice in the public-finance forest calling on federal, provincial and municipal governments to spend less.

CAP & TRADE DISASTER

Ontario Liberals are poised to commit every mistake the Europeans did when setting up their disaster-prone cap-and-trade system

Saturday, July 18, 2015

NOTHING TO SEE HERE....

Russia's Putin orders formation of new military reserve force

WEATHERING MARKET TURBULENCE

China must learn lessons from stock market rout: vice finance minister

MULCAIR SUCKING AND BLOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY

When Thomas Mulcair spoke recently to a Quebec-based magazine, he tried to walk a fine line in positioning his party as against – but not completely against – the Energy East pipeline

AGAINST THE WALL

Premier Wall  said the West shouldn't have to apologize for its resources and needs to stop being so diplomatic with its message.

PREMIERS' ENERGY STRATEGY

Wynne: "A strong economy and environmental protection are not mutually exclusive, she said. "In fact, they must be complementary."  She wins the "Missing the Blindlingly Obvious Award"....
 

Friday, July 17, 2015

USING VIRUSES TO FIGHT CANCER

The idea of using viruses to fight cancer started when scientists first noticed some patients improved after they got sick from an infection.

PROVINCES' WHINEFEST

No surprise that Stephen Harper keeps snubbing a standing invitation to sit down with Canada’s premiers.

HYPOCRISY ON DISPLAY

Environmental groups to premiers: no oilsands growth in Canadian energy strategy

CRYBABY AT ALBERTA HRC

The Law Society of Alberta has issued citations against Ezra Levant relating to remarks he made about the province's human rights commission.

NDP SAYS NO TO PIPELINE

After months of indecision,  Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats have finally taken a position on the Energy East Pipeline

YOU WANT IT? YOU GET IT.

Ottawa won't help Ontario establish provincial pension plan

Sunday, July 12, 2015

INCENTIVIZING COMPANIES TO LEAVE ONT.

 Professor Ian Lee, Professor of Economics at the Sprott School of Business discusses  alarming reports that are predicting massive business failures in Ontario over the next few years. 

 

Saturday, July 11, 2015

RUN THAT ONE BY WYNNE

Ontario Federation of Agriculture wants lower electricity rate for farmers

GIVING PUTIN THE SHOULDER

Big loser in any nuclear deal with Iran may be Russia

ZIPPED LIPS

Canadian trade minister stays silent on potential TPP concessions

GREEK DEBTS

Greece’s fate within the eurozone could very well be decided this weekend

GLOBAL DOWNTURN AFFECTS CANADIAN ECONOMY

Harper added that the federal government will not "spiral ourselves into deficit"

FINANCE MINISTER SAYS IT'S NO BIG DEAL

Ontario’s risk level has deteriorated substantially “due to consistently very weak budgetary performance and very high debt levels.”

DINOSAUR NEWS

Paleontologists are getting a closer look at a newly-discovered horned dinosaur believed to have lived 79 million years ago.

FALLING ON DEAF EARS

Fiat Chrysler CEO fires warning shot at Ontario

Friday, July 10, 2015

ONT. LIBERALS NOT PLEASED

The Ontario government is fuming because Ottawa had asked the province for a list of priority projects and is now ignoring that list.

CANADA'S HOLEY BORDERS

International flights are landing at Canada’s smaller airports each day without border agents on the ground

ENDING WITH A SILENT WHIMPER

Wynne lawsuit against Hudak, MacLeod over but they refuse to discuss it.

SITTING ON THE FENCE

Neither the Liberals nor the NDP will offer a clear answer to the question of whether their government would approve the Energy East pipeline project.

NOTHING TO HIDE, RIGHT?

Canadians overwhelmingly support a new union transparency bill, legislation that requires unions to disclose expenses over $5,000 and salaries over $100,000

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Monday, July 6, 2015

WYNNE'S KNOWLEDGE OF AGRICULTURE

Thirteen years is not sufficient time for the USA to create legislation regarding the latest ruling against Country of Origin Labelling.  Wynne says they need a bit of time....

CALLING BULLSH!T

Grain Farmers of Ontario has filed an application in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice to interpret the province's neonicotinoid regulations as a "legal absurdity"

BUG-ZAPPERS, BATS & DRAGONFLIES

Who knew that living beside a wetland would mean you have mosquito invasions?  Complaining Kanata residents are the same folks who petitioned to save the wetlands some years ago.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

SMUGGLING AT VANCOUVER DOCKS SERIES CONT'D

 Longshoreman by day, smuggler by night  PART 3 OF 4

 When a Hells Angel nominates another Hells Angel PART 4 OF 4

MAINTAINING FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE

Greece's left-wing government has cast itself as the victim of an elitist financial and political order