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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour… A WOMAN […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = […]