You either pay attention or pay through the nose. I would rather pay attention.
Not only was the pension fund being mismanaged but now we have the ex-Commissioner of the RCMP blowing tax dollars on expensive alcohol.
At a modest 16% income tax rate, the average person would have to earn $500 to generate $80 of taxes so that Julian “Livin’ The High Life” Zaccardelli could expense that $80/Glass Cognac.
Just something to chew on if you want to get your blood pressure up.
Talk about getting OfficiallyScrewed!!
I hope I am not boring too many of those who read this blog for the politics but I have to give some kudos to my daughter Cookie and her best friend Moogles for earning a silver medal today at the Ontario Provincial Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship held here in Ottawa at the gorgeous Ashbury College.
The two were pretty much flawless in their duo ball routine and both me, the better half and Moogles parents are very proud of these two.
Second in the province and first in our hearts.
Way to go you two.
Stepping away from the political arena for a post and entering the taekwondo sparring circle, I had to congratulate T-Bone on his bronze medal in his weight/belt class in the sparring event at the Tae E. Lee cup which was held at Algonquin College last Sunday.
I am continually amazed at his progress in this sport. He is currently a red belt and testing this Sunday for his black stripe which is one level below black belt. I am sure he will do fine. I am especially looking forward to his board breaking with a spinning side kick which is part of the test.
Way to go T-Bone.
You betcha.
I received the notice below directly from Lisa Miller. I hope anyone within a short drive of Petawawa will be in attendance. After filming the original Red Friday Rally (see links on this page) and after catching Lisa and Karen drop the puck (by fluke) while I was at a Sens hockey game this year, I sometimes feel that I am destined to promote Red Fridays!!
I am not sure if I will be able to make it, but I think that it would be great to attend the event in the town where it all started. I am sure it will be a grand Parade of red.
Lisa Miller and Karen Boire are pleased to announce:
Petawawa will be holding a Red Friday Rally and March of Military Appreciation on May 11th, 2007.
Time: 9:30am
Location: Petawawa Legion Parking Lot (Located at 3583 Petawawa Blvd.)The Rally itself will be short in time. (approx. 30 minutes total)
National Anthem – 9:30 am
Prayer for our troops – 9:40 am
Speeches
10:10 am the roads will be closed and participants will be asked to form the rows of the parade.Two Parade marshals will be there to help people form up and stay organized.
The Parade route will be as follows:
Down Petawawa Blvd, up Victoria Street and ending behind the town office.
Pictures can be taken from the bottom of the hill at this point.
Due to road closures, our timings must be strict. The OPP will be on hand to participate and to ensure safety during the Parade.
Just stop. You aren’t helping.
My thoughts and prayers are going out to every family member and friend of the VT victims, but I have to tell the press….Just stop.
Your repetitive naming of the shooter is not doing society any favours…so just stop.
You can repeat the victims names ad infinitum but when it comes to the shooter just zip your lips. There is no need to turn this monster into an icon for whack jobs everywhere, but more importantly, others like him should be seeing that they will NOT be infamous when they go on killing sprees. There names should NOT be known to the world. Let them die with no one remembering them.
Just stop.
And airing the videos and photos of this whack job?? Just stop. We don’t care.
Go ask the family and friends of the victims if they want to see this guys face over and over.
I heard someone say today that if a monster was holding hostages and told the press to give him coverage, the press would not do it.
So why do we give the coverage to the monsters who do go postal? They don’t deserve it so just stop!
Just stop making this monster a reality TV star.
I never thought this would come out of my mouth, but go back to covering the Anna Nicole Smith saga.
We all hate garbage. Some of us just want to deal with it better than others. But the hard work by some to change the views on how we handle our trash is paying off.
The corporation (Waste Management Inc.) wouldn’t budge. They worked every angle possible to move their plan of expanding the Carp Mountain (a garbage dump) forward. Then the city of Ottawa had it’s election.
And the new sheriff in town declared war on dump expansion.
A scant 6 months later, the plasma gasification pilot project is under way and the corporation feels competitors (like Plasco Energy Corp) nipping at their heals and Waste Management is now realizing that their lack of effort to be modern may end up costing them millions, if not billions, of dollars.
In a letter to council yesterday, the last holdout in the turnabout, Waste Management, has informed local politicians it’s withdrawing a proposal for the Carp dump and is coming back with something entirely new, with an emphasis on an energy-from-waste facility, more recycling and less of an emphasis on expanding the dump.
Sue Sherring’s article also points out the city councilors who deserve some credit.
Councillors, including the likes of West Carleton’s Eli El-Chantiry, Kanata’s Peggy Feltmate and Stittsville-Kanata West’s Shad Qadry have also played a role, and with their help, the taxpaying public found a way to voice discontent.
But there is one other person Sherring fails to recognize who may have played one of the most instrumental roles in all of this. Stittsville businessman Gilles Chasles, the man behind nodump.ca and one of the biggest advocates fighting the expansion of the dump.
I can just see Hannibal from the A-Team lighting up his cigar right now…
In an effort to imitate an 8 year old, new OPP commissioner Julian Fantino is looking to pack up his officers and leave Caledonia because one Caledonia city councilor feels the OPP has created a two-tiered justice system.
Well “Wahhh wahhh wahhh!” to you too Julian.
Fantino’s anger was directed at one councillor in particular, Coun. Craig Grice, over an e-mail he sent to Gary McHale, a controversial Richmond Hill resident who has staged protests in Caledonia against the OPP and Six Nations presence on Douglas Creek Estates.
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Grice said he does not support the April 22 march and does not endorse McHale’s actions.
But he does agree with McHale that the OPP has created a “two-tiered” justice system in Caledonia.
“Caledonia citizens are frustrated with the OPP,” he said.
Grow up and address the problem Julian. Running and hiding won’t help matters for you or your boss, the Yellow-Bellied McShifty.
The following was sent to me by a friend and I just felt obligated to share.
LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.
HOUSE # 1:
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern “snow belt,” either. It’s in the South.
HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every “green” feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.
HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.
HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as “the Texas White House,” it is the private residence of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.
H/T to Frank C. in Ottawa for sharing this one.
