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Post by moabiter on Jun 9, 2010 9:59:52 GMT -8
It'll be nice at the lodge. Harper defends marketing value of fake lake Last updated on Wednesday, Jun. 09, 2010 11:45AM EDT The installation is in three parts, symbolizing the two summits: the G8 in Muskoka and the G20 in Toronto. A “Northern Ontario oasis,” including the fake lake with docks, a canoe sculpture and Muskoka chairs; a stylized “bridge” in the middle; and at the other end, a “cityscape” of boxy urban towers suspended in the air. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/harper-defends-marketing-value-of-fake-lake/article1597178/Yabadabadoo ...
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Post by moabiter on Jun 10, 2010 2:45:24 GMT -8
Are there no hotels in Toronto? This is a temporary 3 day structure. The marketing names are ridiculous. "Northern Oasis" - wtf. It's a mirage. "[Fake] Muskoka corridor" - "Experience Canada Alley" Alley? Whew that's hip. Or is it, kind of like Bitumen Alley. Or homeless Canadians/ garbage pick up. Or Tornado Alley. And can a person canoe on it. Kind of scary to have media in all one place, looking at a large picture of a lake. It kind of says, "You're not in Muskoka, like the G8 delegates are. Unless you're telepathic, too bad you can't ask questions. But hey! We have colorful canoes!"
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Post by moabiter on Jun 10, 2010 19:08:40 GMT -8
OK, that's it: fake loon noises. * Canadian pavilion features business themes. What are these... "business themes"? * $1.1-million is to be spent on “wallpaper backdrops” - the identifying logo that will appear behind the Prime Minister and other newsmakers during press conferences and photo-ops. * Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe asked why the summit leaders cannot discuss the environment along with the economy as the two are clearly linked. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/opposition-focuses-on-lake-wastemataxes---again/article1599707/ Cannot discuss the environment... no new GDP model, whs-? btw - why are lighthouses for sale? They generate tourist $ and more. prison farm programs, ending. sigh.
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Post by moabiter on Jun 10, 2010 20:02:36 GMT -8
About the $1.1b cost of this in general - for 3 days. 1. How much do dignitaries and entourages eat exactly? 1a. $1m for food safety, so there are no vomiting Bushisms. ($1m ) 2. Aren't there already civil police forces and an army in this country re security costs? Or did the sound cannons go over-budget? Wait, they were bought for the Vancouver Olympics, re-usable. The army's in Afghanistan fighting people that never attacked us. 3. Why was Silvio Berlusconi invited? (He may be a crook.) G8 Summit: Huntsville, Ont., at the 800 acre Deerhurst Resort in Muskoka. June 25-27, 2010. Canada, France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, and Italy. G20 Toronto Summit. June 26-27, 2010.
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Post by moabiter on Jul 23, 2010 22:22:57 GMT -8
The best thing about it is it's a temporary structure. Utterly disposable with no lasting value.
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 12:55:09 GMT -8
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper demonstrates continued ultra right wing affiliations by blocking pro social justice Toronto candidate by Dr. Debra Chin Mark Warner (left) and Prime Minister Stephen HarperMr. Harper's recent blocking of Mark Warner, a traditional Canadian Tory, to run as a Conservative candidate in Toronto-Centre further proves one thing, beyond any reasonable doubt. Mr. Harper is apparently using Canadian governmental authority to advance the ultra right wing ideological goals that Trevor Harrison outlines in his book. Mr. Harrison documents in the book entitled Of Passionate Intensity, that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right wing Northern Foundation in 1989. Mr. Harrison documents that this Foundation was comprised of Neo-Nazi social Darwinist intellectuals. www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/11/05/01929.html
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 13:49:09 GMT -8
When is a child soldier not a child soldier? Published September 2, 2009 Roméo Dallaire sees language change as shift away from international obligations. Now, following revelations the Department of Foreign Affairs, under Minister Lawrence Cannon's direction, has moved to change its policy language from "child soldier" to "children in armed conflict," critics charge the new term is specifically designed to exclude Canada's most famous child soldier from the protocols. They believe it's a move specifically designed to relieve the government of an obligation to help him. www.embassymag.ca/page/view/child_soldier-9-2-2009
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 14:02:08 GMT -8
Bernard Prigent, Pfizer’s inside man February 04, 2010 PM Harper's appointment of drug company's VP to Canadian Institutes of Health Research is also a registered lobbyist… to CIHR. Last October, the Harper government appointed Bernard Prigent to the governing council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the federal agency that distributes about a billion dollars annually for health research. That appointment was met with near-universal condemnation from medical ethicists, because Prigent is a vice-president of Pfizer Canada, a firm that stands to profit from the decisions made at CIHR. "There's a structural conflict of interest," explains Jocelyn Downie, the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at Dalhousie University. "On the one hand, it's [Prigent's] statutory duty to represent the best health interests of Canadians, and on the other hand, as an executive with Pfizer, he's legally bound to promote the profit interests of his company. Those competing interests will not always align, and will sometimes be in conflict." www.thecoast.ca/halifax/bernard-prijent-pfizers-inside-man/Content?oid=1503474
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Post by moabiter on Sept 9, 2010 14:27:15 GMT -8
What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know 15 Jul 2010 Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew. Just two weeks ago the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development abruptly cancelled a big report on the tar sands and the project's extreme water impacts. The parliamentarians even destroyed draft copies of their final report. After listening to testimony from scores of scientists, bureaucrats, lobbyists, aboriginal chiefs and environmental groups, the committee dropped the whole affair like a bucket of tar. (For the record, the Alberta government, a petro-state with Saudi visions of grandeur, refused to show up and testify.) thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/07/15/TarSandsReport/?utm_source=mondayheadlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190710
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Post by moabiter on Sept 12, 2010 10:08:04 GMT -8
F*ck. Recovery in energy sector fuels Alberta economic growth: RBC Outlook September 10, 2010 GDP to rise 4.3 per cent in 2011 " Strong sales of crown lands for oil and gas development indicate a renewed desire to develop Alberta's oil and gas resources - land acreage more than doubled during the first seven months of this year and land value climbed nearly eleven-fold," said Craig Wright, chief economist for RBC. "This rebound signals greater strength in oil and gas drilling going forward." www.calgaryherald.com/business/energy-resources/Recovery+energy+sector+fuels+Alberta+economic+growth+Outlook/3505042/story.html*** Alberta Outdoorsmen ForumJust wondering if anyone has heard anything on this topic recently. I know it kind of died off and we haven’t heard too much about it lately. By the sounds of it though it is alive and has the potential to be moving along. I have caught wind that behind closed doors, there is a group in the High Level and Fort Vermillion areas having discussions with our Honorable Minister, Mel Knight on purchasing large amounts of government owned land to increase their size of their farming operations. Included in this land there is some old Buck for Wildlife projects that would be lost through the sale of these lands. I thought that we voiced our concerns as Albertans to make sure that the sale of these lands wouldn’t happen. Looks like we better get back at it! www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=66093
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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 20:39:35 GMT -8
Ottawa’s media rules muzzling federal scientists, say observers September 12, 2010. The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age. Natural Resources Canada scientists were told this spring they need “pre-approval” from Minister Christian Paradis’ office to speak with national and international journalists. Their “media lines” also need ministerial approval, say documents obtained by Postmedia News through access-to-information legislation. The documents say the “new” rules went into force in March and reveal how they apply to not only to contentious issues including the oilsands, but benign subjects such as floods that occurred 13,000 years ago. Read more: www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Ottawa+media+rules+muzzling+federal+scientists+observers/3513960/story.html
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Post by moabiter on Sept 17, 2010 2:11:50 GMT -8
Teneycke resigns from Quebecor Last Updated: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 | 10:56 PM ET Kory Teneycke, a former spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper whose attempt to create a new television news network sparked controversy, has announced he's resigning immediately from Quebecor Media... Teneycke's resignation comes after the group behind the petition, avaaz.org, formally requested the Ottawa Police and the RCMP to begin a criminal investigation to determine who posted "fraudulent" signatures to the petition from an Ottawa internet protocol, or IP address. www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/09/15/kory-teneycke-sun-tv-quebecor.html
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Post by clone on Sept 17, 2010 15:13:40 GMT -8
Teneycke's resignation comes after the group behind the petition, avaaz.org, formally requested the Ottawa Police and the RCMP to begin a criminal investigation to determine who posted "fraudulent" signatures to the petition from an Ottawa internet protocol, or IP address. Billionaire Soros threatening to sue Sun Media Last updated on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 12:28AM EDT Mr. Vachon said Sun Media was notified of Mr. Soros’s reaction earlier this week. “It made false, defamatory and offensive statements and as a result Mr. Soros has notified the relevant parties of his intent to sue,” he said. “What is of concern in the article are the false assertions that Mr. Levant makes regarding George Soros’s conduct as a 13-year-old child in Nazi-occupied Hungary.” He accused Mr. Levant of distorting statements made by Mr. Soros in past interviews. Mr. Levant declined comment Thursday. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/billionaire-soros-threatening-to-sue-sun-media/article1711183/
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Post by moabiter on Sept 19, 2010 20:14:09 GMT -8
Ottawa loses fiscal hawk, on purpose September 19, 2010 Normally, the news that an Ottawa bureaucrat won't stay an Ottawa bureaucrat wouldn't actually be news. But it is and should be in the case of Page, who, while simply doing his job has clashed with the Conservative government for merely doing his duties: providing an unbiased, objective, non-partisan, non-political look at the numbers produced by the government... For his efforts, including his realistic assessment that deficits would continue longer without tax increases or budget cuts, the prime minister called Page's comments "dumb" -- this, as if budgets could be miraculously balanced while the government was ramping up spending and while revenues were falling. www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/Ottawa+loses+fiscal+hawk+purpose/3545997/story.html?cid=megadrop_story
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Post by clone on Dec 18, 2010 8:25:58 GMT -8
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