Climate Change -&- Queen vs Playboy, Etc.

A Must Read

Terence Corcoran: Review the science April 20, 2006

[....] In the scientists' words, "we urge you and your government to develop an effective national strategy" to deal with climate change. But eight of the signators are employees of Environment Canada, Ottawa's leading climate bureaucracy. Under what bureaucratic regime do civil servants -- members of the government -- sign letters urging the government to take action?

At least another 11 of the scientists work for other government agencies, such as Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the federal department responsible for policies and programs in support of Canada's oceans and inland waters. Another agency heavily represented is the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, along with the Pacific Fisheries Conservation Council. [. . . . ]

Still another nine signators are recipients of Canada Chairs, federal government-funded academic appointments at universities across Canada. And five of the scientists who call for action and more government funding are big recipients of government funding. Chief among this group is Gordon McBean, head of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

The Climate 90 letter, in fact, was released through Mr. McBean's government-funded foundation. [. . . . ]

Search: environmental activists, members of the United Nations climate assessment team or ........

This is worth reading in its entirety as an example of how everywhere a government turns, there are the entrails of the previous Liberal government's use of networks, the UN, other international ties, funding to universities, foundations, agencies .... etc, and taxpayer money to keep Liberal/leftist influence in place.

I believe I have mentioned before the overweaning influence of the UN in Canada. Check out UNESCO for influence and the plans, as well -- a Liberal gift that keeps on giving ....... or should that be "taking"?




Excellent

Smut's savvy peddler -- "The older wisdom disdained the playboy as just that -- one who played liked a boy instead of assuming the responsibilities of a man. Hefner's philosophy was to recast the playboy not as a dissolute cad, but a refined sophisticate." Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, April 20, 2006

When Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born to the Duke and Duchess of York on April 21, 1926, it would not have been expected that she would, by her 80th birthday tomorrow, have served as Queen Elizabeth II for nearly 55 years, presiding over the transformation of Empire to Commonwealth with skill and diplomacy, over five decades of public life with elegance and dignity, [....]

Born the same month in Chicago was Hugh Marston Hefner, an ordinary boy born into an ordinary family, who would, in time, preside over a vast pornography and commercial empire. He marked his 80th birthday (April 9) in Hefner style -- a grand pajama party in which the girls were cheap and the self-congratulation lavish. Respectable news outlets covered Hefner's birthday in, well, respectable fashion.

And why not? The stigma of pornography is much diminished. [. . . . ]

26 arrested in Quebec drug bust April 20, 2006

OTTAWA - Twenty-six people, including 14 members of an Algonquin reserve 130 kilometres north of Ottawa, have been charged in Quebec's biggest drug bust this year. Police Chief Gordon McGregor of the Kitigan Zibi reserve said yesterday that 14 Algonquins allegedly controlled an organized-crime business exporting marijuana, hashish and Ecstasy to the United States -- and they were the same people who had earlier filed complaints against local police. [. . . . ]

Search: made false allegations against police officers , 126 drug and weapons offences




B.C. port shutdown looms -- Deadline expires tonight Jason Kirby, Financial Post, apr. 20, 06

[. . . . ] "There are 400 people that aren't in the union, and they can shut down the Port of Vancouver, and our 600 members will honour their picket lines," Mr. Shields said. "So one way or the other, those ports are going to be shut down this summer."

Last summer's 47-day-long shutdown caused cargo containers to pile up at the port and led to a $500-million hit to the economy. The so-called strike, which involved gunfire at one truck yard, also damaged Vancouver's reputation as a port of call for shippers and stained the city's claim to be the gateway to the Pacific. [. . . . ]

Kinsella gets it!

Warren Kinsella: What's in a name? -- on one of the utterly petty concerns of a press -- what PM Harper's wife calls herself ... The MSM is unused to digging for really important news perhaps, having been fed their Liberal sound bites for years. NatPost, Apr. 20, 06



Barry Critchley: Big payoff for private casino owners

By definition, transactions involving a public company and a private company in which management of the public company has a stake set off some alarm bells.

Those alarm bells were ringing loudly this week as Gateway Casinos Income Fund filed a final prospectus for a $35-million offering of 5.35% convertible debentures -- the second financing the issuer has done to fund the $106-million acquisition of Cascades Langley Casino and Hotel. [. . . . ]

Barbara Schecter: CRTC quashes radio rules

Cable companies such as Rogers Communications Inc. will no longer be compelled by the CRTC to carry commercial radio stations on their services.
The regulator granted a request yesterday to take the 30-year-old requirement off the books, except in the case of campus, native and community radio stations and a single French and English CBC radio station. [. . . . ]

Now, if we could just get rid of the leftist / Liberals' Propaganda Organ ......