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The Alberta government initiated its H1N1 vaccination program on Monday, October 26 with no priority given to high-risk groups. On Tuesday, it opened one clinic at the University of Calgary for high-risk groups only with students, faculty and staff of the university being able to use the clinic after the first 48 hours of service. To remind people high-risk persons fall under one or more of the following six categories: Pregnant women. Children from six months to five years of age. People who live with children under six months old. People under 65 with underlying medical conditions. Immuno-compromised … [Read more...]

Canada is #1 in the world in mining and extractive industries in foreign countries. With over a thousand mining and exploration companies in 100 countries - about 5,000 projects - Canada has well over 50% of the global exploration and mining companies. There have been noises about human rights abuses.On March 26, 2009, the Cons tabled a policy to deal with corporate social responsibility abroad : a "centre of excellence", a voluntary industry compliance strategy, and a Con-appointed corporate social responsibilty official, Marketa Evans, who will report to the minister of trade once a year. She … [Read more...]

Further to this, this and Wednesday's treeware column, which I didn't get around to blogging, this cartoon by Andy Marlette which says it all. And for good measure, a snip from Wednesday's treeware musings: Mr. and Mississauga, this weekend, when your daughter spurns the Hermione sweater vest for the prostitot getup, be ready to put up a fight. Hey, don't get me wrong. I loved to smear lipstick on my face and wear my mother's... … [Read more...]

Two weeks ago, Maria Shriver, in conjunction with the Center for American Progress, put out The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything. According to the CAP release, it is a groundbreaking examination of how "women's changing roles are affecting our major societal institutions, from government and businesses to our faith communities." For the first time in American history, women are half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in... … [Read more...]

Our fiendish Socialized Health Care Death Panel was unsuccessful in putting the National Post to sleep — though in a chronic vegetative state, it remains on life support: An Ontario judge has allowed insolvent media giant Canwest Global Communications to shuffle the money-losing National Post into a group alongside its other daily papers, which Canwest has said is the best hope of saving the daily newspaper from going under. Judge Sarah Pepall, who is presiding over hearings into Canwest’s restructuring, on Friday allowed the company to move the National Post into the Canwest Limited … [Read more...]

What with all the shenanigans surrounding the assassination of Dr. George Tiller last spring, somebody has seen fit to maintain a blog devoted to the murder. It's called RoederWatch, for the prime suspect in what amounted to an act of domestic terrorism. Among its posts, this, about how Roeder's anti-choice supporters attempted to raise fund for his defence by auctioning off some offensive material on eBay. Stuff like a prison cookbook by a woman in... … [Read more...]

Very cool. Click here. Use the slider at the bottom to get a sense of relative size. Then ask yourself: Those people who believe that personhood begins when the sperm fertilizes the egg? Obviously not too acquainted with science. … [Read more...]

Wild Kingdom, baby!  Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: even the lowly fruit bat likes a little fellatio to spice up its love life. From New Scientist and NSFW (especially if your place of employment is the Bat Cave): It’s true:  if it exists, there’s porn of it. (h/t Shoq on twitter)   … [Read more...]

Right here!  Here’s a picture!  Come and get him!!! Pantingly posting as “breaking!!” the news that Dr. Carhart was at the press conference, along with  a picture (likely taken without his permission), seems to be sending a message of some kind.  I won’t speculate on what that might be, but I think it’s worth noting that Dr. Tiller was relentlessly stalked the same way. As a sidebar, the sleazy freak who creeped up on Dr. Carhart and took his picture is Wendy Wright of “Concerned Women of America”.  Wright, a pig-ignorant Christofascist who’s … [Read more...]

So much for being the darling of the Forced Childbirth Movement. Check out Octomom’s Hallowe’en costume: A pregnant nun surrounded by her kids dressed up as little devils — I think I just heard an explosion from the direction of Bill Donohue’s office.   Whoops!  Clean-up in Aisle… 666!!! … [Read more...]

It’s been a few weeks since there was any more news about the case of the Census worker who was killed in Kentucky last month, a crime that some feared might have been driven by anti-government sentiment.   Little information has been forthcoming about the investigation, but this week investigators  indicated that they expect a resolution fairly soon: Police said on Tuesday that they have made considerable progress in the death investigation of part-time Census employee Bill Sparkman and are confident the case will be solved — and probably within weeks, not months. “There will be … [Read more...]

Maybe if they wore fewer layers? I guess they made this between jetting to their fashion shows and shoots all over the world. I prefer this one. Bet the superhotties will go viral first. It might take some people repeated views until they get the message. … [Read more...]

Via Buzzfeed, ''13 Tips for Single Dames.'' Classic and timeless. Here's a couple of them. From the February 1938 issue of Click Photo-Parade magazine. … [Read more...]

Wow. More here. … [Read more...]

How the hell did I miss this?  The teabaggers are releasing a movie! “They were ignored… they were mocked…” Bwahaa! Nope, you won’t be seeing this one in any of those lieberal movie theatres, it’s one of those extra-special film projects that goes straight to DVD.  It’s… “Teabaggers – the Documentary” (or something like that): Awesome… although I can think of a better  title for this epic profile in brain damage and body mass index.  (For that matter, I can think of better documentaries on the same topic.) … [Read more...]

Heckling is pretty much par for the parliamentary course in Canada. But many of us have noticed that women MPs -- who make up a fraction of our elected representatives -- tend to get heckled louder and longer than do the male MPs. In fact, NDP leader Jack Layton today commented on the sexist nature of parliamentary heckling. Yesterday, when Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, who happens to be a doctor, tried to press the Conservative... … [Read more...]

CBC challenges the protesters from the Bill C-311 demonstration in the House two days ago to explain "the discrepancy" between their crappy video clip in which the blood on Jeh Custer's face from his bout with House security is not visible, but then suddenly is visible an hour later when he is interviewed on CBC. Is this incompetent slagging of protesters part of your new look, CBC?Anyway, here ya go above, CBC, and again here. How about you explain that.Con House leader Jay Hill also sees a nefarious conspiracy :"Mr. Speaker, I rise today on a question of privilege in regards to the disturbance … [Read more...]

Just to reiterate my update in the “Auction for Roeder” post, Ebay has announced that it won’t allow the anti-abortion terrorists’ auction: An eBay auction planned by abortion opponents to raise money for the man accused of killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller will not be permitted, company officials said Tuesday. “Based on the details we know about the anticipated listings, we believe these would violate our policy regarding offensive material,” the company said in a statement to The Kansas City Star. “EBay will not permit the items in question to be posted … [Read more...]

Welcome to the first post of Feminists Who Totally Rock!  Today I am pleased to present two interviews, one with Rebeca Monzo and one with Terrie Chan. Read on and enjoy!  Rebeca Monzo is one of the head co-ordinators of the Beautiful One Conference as well as an ordained minister!    What was it that inspired you to become a feminist? To be honest I have never really thought of myself as a feminist.  That being said I have always had a strong desire to work with teen girls.  That desire was inspired by the obvious need to shine a light on the unrealistic standards and expectations that … [Read more...]