Feb 242013
 

I am greatly concerned about this issue.  It is happening not only in Canada. (Reference  2011-12-12  Here is the real reason behind the demise of the CWB …) = = = = = = = = = = = = =   Western Producer Are our pensions retiring the family farm?  by Matt Gehl   […]

Feb 202013
 

By Jason Warick, The StarPhoenix The University of Saskatchewan’s payroll has been trimmed by $2.4 million in  recent weeks after dozens of jobs were eliminated, but a top official is warning  of much deeper cuts in the near future. The U of S faces an annual $44.5 million operating shortfall by 2016 unless  changes are […]

Feb 132013
 

Let’s help push this AVAAZ petition over the top.   http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_frankenfish_r/?bpPHlab&v=21885  1,000,000 signatures is the goal     974,941 right now.  It’s entirely within reach. UPDATE, Feb 18:  985,374 have signed. UPDATE, Mar 03:  992,276 have signed.   The New York Times reported in December 2012 that the licensing of GM salmon is likely to go ahead (FDA). The two-month […]

Feb 112013
 

Click on the link to watch the video described in the article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence    A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s […]

Feb 072013
 

NOTE:  the “princely administrative leaves” are described in   2013-01-17  University of Saskatchewan pays former senior executives.   MacKinnon, Florizone receive total of $1.3 million   By Edward D. Tymchatyn The University of Saskatchewan’s V-P of human resources and the vice-chair of  the board of governors recently compared the princely administrative leaves  awarded to departed senior U of […]

Feb 062013
 

SOCIOPATH: lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. NOTE:  There are the robocalls from the Federal Elections (awaiting court decision). Now there is this new round of Federal robocalls related to the changing of electoral boundaries in the province of Saskatchewan. Past postings on robocalls can be found by going to the right-hand […]

Feb 052013
 

(Related:  2013-01-31  U of S appoints new secretary who is “director of legal services in governance for Cameco Corporation”)   BACKGROUND, Grant Isaac: (1)    Information regarding Grant Isaac as a defender of the status quo the difference between “hyped innovation” and “true innovation” in a time when the society is in bad need of finding […]

Feb 042013
 

From the FAIR website: (FAIR (American) is the acronymn for  Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, a 25-year-old organization for holding the press to account) http://fair.org/take-action/activism-updates/pbs-ombud-nova-disagree-on-drone-disclosure/ PBS ombud Michael Getler (1/31/13) responded to FAIR activists who wrote to him about the recent Nova special on drones (1/23/13) that was underwritten by Lockheed Martin, a major military contractor […]

Feb 022013
 

You may want to read the following email thread from the bottom up,  reading my email to DND and then the reply received. Related posting:  2008-06-19  “Canada First Defence Strategy” – serious.  The American  military-industrial-government-university complex  in Canada. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = […]