I GOT NO PENSION. SO PUH-LEEEZE KATHLEEN.....

...HIRE ME AND FIRE ME!

Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook for more than half a million dollars to compensate the man fired last month as head of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
and
Health Minister Deb Matthews has confirmed she personally signed off on a contract that is allowing the CEO of eHealth Ontario to leave early with a $400,000 package.
and
The president of Hydro One resigned yesterday and walked away with a $3-million severance package only four days after Ontario's Auditor-General raised concerns about the use of corporate credit cards at the company.

IF YOU LIKE PERVERTS OGLING YOUR WIFE AND DAUGHTERS, YOU MIGHT BE A LIBERAL

Ontario Government defends the right of a man who 'self-identifies' as a woman to go into a women's change-room, strip down, and stand there with an erection.

And in case you're waiting for Hopeless Hudak to crawl all over this one, it ain't going to happen.  A few years ago, he decided to keep the Ontario HRC.

shamelessly stolen from Kate at SDA

I VOLUNTEERED TO FIGHT FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY....

....AND THEN I WAS PRESS GANGED BY THE PSAC

"The veterans' rage toward Fantino was put on display for the whole country to see. What wasn't told was their trip to Ottawa was paid for by the Public Service Alliance of Canada.  The whole show was orchestrated."

WHAT THE SENATE NEEDS IS C.A.W. MEMBERSHIP

NDP asks auditor general to probe use of Liberal Senate resources

"NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus has written to the auditor general asking him to investigate "concerns around the Liberal Party of Canada using resources from the Senate of Canada to run their operations."

HOW MANY BTUs IN AN OUNCE OF CONCERN?

In Ontario, our politicians point the finger....
Ontario's energy minister Bob Chiarelli says he's concerned.
"I understand how difficult this shortage has been for many families and businesses in Eastern Ontario...My office has been in touch with the Canadian Propane Association who issued a release the other week to assure customers these disruptions are expected to be short-term issue only and we are continuing to monitor the situation."

In Kentucky, they actually do something.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Supply problems in several states where propane is a crucial heating source have prompted governors and other officials to take action against vendors, investigate claims of price gouging and increase aid to low-income customers.

ANYBODY GOT A HAIRDRYER AND AN EXTENSION CORD?

Finally! A CBC weather story without "climate change"

Stranded ships on Great Lakes create icebreaking logjam.

GIFTS THAT CBC AND BOB FIFE JUST WON'T PURSUE

You couldn't make this stupidity up. 

"..He'd (Trudeau) appoint only independent senators after employing an open, transparent process, with public input, for nominating worthy candidates — much the way recipients of the Order of Canada are chosen."

But I'll bet no one from the CBC or CTV will pick that one up and run with it.

IN CASE YER WONDERING WHY OBAMA LOOKS A BIT PINCHED...

There's a whole lot of sucking going on...

From The Progressive Farmer

American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman responded to the State of the Union speech on Tuesday by praising the president's push to pass immigration reform.
and
"Expanded trade opportunities are vital to America’s farmers and ranchers, and we support the president’s call for Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority."
and
"We appreciate President Obama’s charge to Congress to pass a waterways transportation bill this year.”
followed by
National Farmers Union President Roger Johnson praised President Obama's emphasis on renewable energy,
another smooch
"NFU is encouraged by the president’s commitment to our country’s energy future. Passage of the farm bill conference report, with an investment of $900 million in renewable energy"
Followed by a smacker...right between the buttocks
“The president’s message tonight is that we are ‘ready for a year of action,’ and passing the farm bill would be a great start. NFU will continue to work with the administration and Congress to ensure that the next farm bill is passed and effectively implemented."

Sure glad it's not like this in Canada.

MAN! GLAD WE'RE NOT IN LOCKDOWN LIKE THE PUTINITES

And you thought Sochi was a dangerous place...

WHADAYA MEAN ROOFTOP LETTUCE AIN'T A MONEY MAKER!!

From Bruce Hutchison's Naional Post story
"...Naturally, they turned to the urban farming enthusiasts at Vancouver City Hall, led by Gregor Robertson, perennial contender for World’s Greenest Mayor. Alterrus obtained necessary permits and a cheap 10-year lease agreement, allowing it to operate a 6,000- square-foot hydroponic green leaf vegetable garden and packaging facility on top of a city-owned parking garage, for $2,400 per month.

And, you'll never guess what happened...
The lease was signed in April 2012, when Alterrus was already stumbling towards insolvency. Last week, it filed for bankruptcy protection...“working capital issues” along with “productivity challenges on the leafy green side of the crop production” had let the company down."

DON'T YA JUST HATE THE BRAIN DRAIN ?

Our loss...

"A Canadian woman who admitted taking part in ecoterrorism firebombings has been sentenced to five years in prison."

...is California's gain

"Rubin is a Canadian citizen. Her sentence will not be carried out until she is naturalized in the U.S., which Aiken said she expects soon."

WILLARD TRUMPS DALTON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK

"Experimenters...determined that rats express empathy for strangers if they are familiar with the type of rat who is in distress...albino rats were raised either with other albinos or with rats with a black-and-white fur pattern. The experimenters then trapped one rat inside an uncomfortable, coffinlike restrainer...Albino rats who had been raised with other albinos would work to free trapped albino rats, even if the rats were strangers.

And then there's the kind of rat that scampers off to Harvard and leaves his buddy rats caught in a trap.

PROPANE SHORTAGE? THANK OUR NATIONAL ENERGY BOARD & THE "SCIENCE" OF AGW

NEB permitted Fall 2013 sales/export of Canadian propane reserves because...

"Expectations for a mild winter could lead to lower propane demand in Canada and the U.S."

Note: NEB will be removing bullet points three and six in 5, 4, 3, 2......
h/t to youseesee

IF YOU'RE OKAY WITH CHICKEN-LOVERS.....YOU MIGHT BE A LIBERAL

Gender Identity studies for 7-year olds?  Study explains why Liberals can't say "NO"

What would you think about ...a man who purchased a chicken at the grocery store, brought it home and then had sexual intercourse with it before cooking and eating it?....If you are a liberal, you may view the actions...as unpleasant or even disgusting, but nobody was hurt, so they are morally permissible. However, if you are a conservative, you are likely affected by Sanctity, and therefore you view the actions as morally wrong.."

BASKING IN THE AFTERGLOW OF AGW

You ain't seen nothing yet...

"The next blast of brutal cold will grip most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States early this week and could yield the lowest temperatures so far this winter in many communities."

SPIT IT OUT TONY. "M" IS FOR............MENNONITE?

The promotion of religious tolerance, both within and between countries, states Blair, will be key to fostering peaceful outcomes around the world in the 21st century.

Yes.  It's high time the Amish stop this.

I HAVE SMOKED, AND I HAVE INHALED...AND I WONT GET OFF THE POT

Obammy: decisions if necessary but not necessarily decisions

Obama withheld approval through the 2012 election. To this day he has issued no decision.The Canadians are beside themselves. After five years of manufactured delay, they need a decision one way or the other...china would buy their oil in a New York minute.
Yet Secretary of State John Kerry fumblingly says he is awaiting yet another environmental report..Where’s the environmental gain in blocking Keystone? The oil will be produced and the oil will be burned. If it goes to China, the Pacific pipeline will carry the same environmental risks as a U.S. pipeline.

h/t Charles Krauthammer and WP Opinions

SOMETIMES YA PISS YOURSELF BEFORE THE PUNCH LINE

Hey Obammy!  Got yer handkerchief ready?

President Barack Obama is expected to talk about fighting global warming in his upcoming State of the Union address next week, during what could be the coldest in State of the Union address in history.

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: DOES IT APPLY TO THE WORD "AFFORDABLE"

WASHINGTON - Nissan went too far with a TV commercial that depicts its Frontier pickup truck powering up a sandy hill to save a struggling dune buggy, according to the Federal Trade Commission...And no, the Frontier pickup can't really do that. In fact, the FTC complaint says both the truck and the buggy were dragged to the top of the hill by cables.  "Special effects in ads can be entertaining, but advertisers can't use them to misrepresent what a product can do," said Jessica Rich, head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.

If this is true, something else is in BIG TROUBLE!

THE SILENT TAX ON SAVERS

“The institutional debasing of currencies that began a couple years ago is continuing,” Adrian Miller, the director of fixed-income strategies at GMP Securities LLC, said in a phone interview from New York. “Now the flag is being carried by the Bank of Canada.”
...puppeteers and puppets...
Here's how it really works: You Call It Inflation, I Call It Theft – By Bill Flax

HEY JUDITH! WE NEED YOU UP HERE ON PARLIAMENT HILL!

"AGW is BS" address to US Senate...green arses must be puckering.

...in her testimony to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Jan. 16, 2014... (Judith) Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, gave testimony that "The stagnation in greenhouse warming observed over the past 15+ years demonstrates that CO₂ is not a control knob..."
Most recently Pembina (Institute) claimed that British Columbia's LNG developments will put that province on near par with Alberta's oil sands emissions, saying 'carbon pollution' will cause sea level rise and warming. ...Curry's testimony states that "that Antarctic sea ice is increasing, contrary to the claims of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming proponents.

And, speaking of global warming proponents....

h/t manitouwadge

I BET BOB CHIRELLI'S PRESS SECRETARY IS TYPING UP THE NEWS RELEASE NOW:

We raised electricity rates because freezing is good for Ontarians' health!

Keeping homes a little chillier as temperatures drop outside might help people burn more calories and protect their health, Dutch researchers say.

SURE GLAD THAT KINDA CRAP IS NOT HAPPENING UP HERE !

Newly disclosed emails suggest senior policy officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups are working closely to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, critics say. 

"These damning emails make it clear that the Obama administration has been actively trying to stop this important project for years," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who has long advocated for the Canada-to-Texas pipeline's construction, said in a statement to Fox News.

No special interests at the helm here in Ontario. No Sir!

DUMB YANKS. YA NEVER HEARD OF THE "CONFLICT BUT NECESSITY" DEFENCE?

From SFGate
Top San Francisco Public Utilities Commission deputy Juliet Ellis has agreed to pay an unprecedented $8,500 in fines for a conflict of interest in the awarding of a city contract to a nonprofit organization that she chaired.  Ellis has also returned $17,000 in salary to Green for All, the East Bay nonprofit that was given a $200,000, no-bid contract in 2012...

From Real Estate Monthly
The executive director of Environmental Defence, Rick Smith, is a Greenbelt director and his organization received $600,000 from the $10 million that has already been spent from the $25 million Friends of the Greenbelt fund. The executive director of Ontario Nature, Caroline Schultz, is another Greenbelt director and her group netted $235,000. Stuart Hilts, etc., etc., etc....Incredibly, the president of the Greenbelt Foundation mounted a de facto defence of the practices by acknowledging that the conflict was necessary to ensure that the “best people” were on the board.
 

RARE FIND! AN ONTARIO MAYOR WITH BRAINS AND GUTS

Congratulations Mayor April Jeffs...

(From The Niagara Falls Review)
April Jeffs is ticked off at rising electricity rates. The Wainfleet mayor asked fellow regional councillors Thursday night to support her motion  to send a letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne asking her to “take immediate action” to prevent rate hikes forecast to rise 42% over the next five years. “I’m presenting this motion … more as a resident and small business owner...With small to medium enterprises being the backbone of the province and comprising a large portion of Niagara businesses, it’s absolutely crucial that these rate increases stop.”

...you're braver than your 443 fellow mayors - who post messages of concern but take no concrete action.

THANK YOU MR. MUGABE!

“This is the best thing that could have happened to me and my family and the generality of black Zimbabweans,” ... Mr Matashu, 34, says he was allocated land by the government in 2001 after a white-owned farm was seized and its former owner emigrated to South Africa.
Good Stuff.
The story of land reform in Zimbabwe is complex and varied. But it is often not what the standard media narratives suggest. There is much potential, as yet unrealised. For other southern African countries that inherited a highly skewed land ownership structure from the colonial period, there are many lessons to be learned.
Indeed.
The Reality:
Higher corn prices already are “like a punishment,” said Appropriate Tambodzika, a 45-year-old father of two who’s a chrome miner in Zimbabwe’s Mutorashanga district, 60 miles north of Harare. Tambodzika also farms one hectare of corn and one hectare of tobacco to feed his family and supplement his income. Because that harvest won’t be ready until March or April, he and his wife Esther plan to skip meals so they can continue to pay their children’s school fees.
What did the white farmers [documentary] know about farming anyway, eh?
Here's some follow-up on a tough family who fought for their property rights against the toughest odds.

BUT THE CBC TOLD US IT WAS "TRANSPORTATION ISSUES"

From NBC News: Propane shortage adds to winter woes

However, the energy shortage is not just a result of families and business owners trying to keep buildings comfortable during the persistent cold spells. The Midwest started the winter with a propane deficit since a greater than usual amount of propane was used in November to dry corn crops during a rain-soaked harvest, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

MALTHUS LIVES!!

Once upon a time, there was a lad named Tommy Bobby Malthus who wrote:
That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence,
That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,
That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice.
Fast forward from 1798 to 2014:
“We know that we are facing immense challenges,” the ministers wrote. “We regard the eradication of hunger and malnutrition, and the realization of the human right to food, as one of the greatest goals in the world.”
It seems, at least, these Illinois farmers haven't missed too many meals...

CHOW'S NEW BOOK SCOOPED UP BY POISON CONTROL CENTERS

From Jack to Olivia:

“Dear Olivia: So many images have captured my mind that I wish I were a poet. I would weave the music of our love through the images that have made it real. I would speak of the great loves of history — for we are one of those. The world will know this in years to come.

From the indomitable Christie Blatchford at the National Post:

I am quite prepared to acknowledge that this may be one of my many failings... but if a man had ever written that to me, I would have thrown up on my shoes.

h/t tj230

IF YOU LOVE THE SIGHT OF CLOSED FACTORIES, YOU MIGHT BE A LIBERAL

Ontario: old Mohawk word for "Land with no bow and arrow makers"

High hydro rates make it unlikely Brockville's former Black and Decker site will attract a new manufacturer, its owner says.  Steve Berezan, owner of Langley, British Columbia-based Stonewater Properties, said recent  troubles with the Hydro One bill of his only manufacturing tenant, Camalor, along with coming hydro rate increases have made chasing further industry a non-starter.“You're never going to get a manufacturer in Ontario with that kind of power bill,” said Berezan.

TIDESFOUNDATION: OLD CHIPEWYAN WORD FOR "MORE WHITE DUMMIES SENDING ME WAMPUM'

I'm sure that Harper will be deducting that amount from the largesse we send to the chief.

A left-wing lobby group in San Francisco wired $55,000 to the bank account of an Indian chief in Northern Alberta, paying him to oppose the oilsands.

h/t manitouwadge

OH MR. MANN!

Michael Mann:
"If scientists choose not to engage in the public debate, we leave a vacuum that will be filled by those whose agenda is one of short-term self-interest."
Rrriiiiggghhhtttt. There's none of that "self interest" stuff going in the science community, eh? There's no evidence that research funding is tied to projects that study climate change... oops. I'm sorry. That's sarcastic.
It's common freakin' knowledge that if you want funding, you'd better have climate change worked into your prospectus or thesis.
Self-interest: Acting in a way that is most personally beneficial.
Self-righteous: Having or characterized by a certainty, esp. an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior.
Hmmm... eeny, meeny, miney, MOE!

WE HAVE 'CATHOLIC' PRINCIPLES! (But if you don't like 'em, we'll change 'em)

The continuing battle for little heart$ and mind$

The YouTube video released this week features educators, students and graduates of the province’s Catholic system praising the values learned in their schools.

And, just in case you thought that truth might be one of those values...

“I really have to stress this is about our own distinctiveness. This is not meant as any competition,” said Brian O’Sullivan, director of Catholic education.

All this brave combativeness started when...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is hoping a move to ban Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs at publicly funded Catholic schools in Toronto will fail.

And, setting aside some other "Catholic" values for....

TCDSB trustees squash motion to ban gay-straight alliance clubs


....other, more practical considerations

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has waded into the debate over the separate school system, reassuring Catholics that government-funded religious education is here to stay.

WHEN YOU'RE SICK, COLD AND UNEMPLOYED.....WILL YOU STILL VOTE LIBERAL?

Ontario: old Petun word meaning "where white balls get black-balled"

Premier Kathleen Wynne says she’s “100%” supportive of an Ontario Public Service internship program available only to self-identified black females.
In Niagara Falls Friday, Wynne said people can be hired and promoted based both on merit and diversity goals.

Both?  Waiting for our ever-curious media to take her up on that!

DON"T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN...THE NDP GETS SOMETHING RIGHT?

Imagine, Tom Mulcair can see what our Press can't: taking public money is just as bad as taking money from charities.

"He (Trudeau) was going in front of school boards that are publicly funded, going to charities that receive tax breaks, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from them to deliver what were essentially political speeches."

For the full story on Turdo la Doo's most recent transgressions...

THE COMMENTS ARE EVEN BETTER THAN THE STORY!

From the story:
"Reynolds has heard a number of possible reasons from the institute why the turbine isn't performing as well as expected, including poor placement, cold weather, and less wind."
From the comments:
"For wind turbines to be effective you need to build more than a few......maybe like 100 turbines.....that would work."
HA HA HA HA HA. Wheeeeze. OK, stop. You're making me cry and I think I might pee my pants!

HEEEYYY MAAANNN!!! LOOK AT THE PRETTY SPARKS!!!

...is anyone else hungry for cheesies?
So let me get this straight, young fella. You got stoned, then cold, then you lit the bush on fire. Nice. You've done so much to renew my faith in the next generation.

THUNDERSNOW: OLD CREE WORD FOR "GOOD TRACKING WEATHER"

New alarmist term for ordinary weather.

As Winnipeg braced for a phenomenon known as "thundersnow," plows hit the streets to cope with potentially wild weather on Wednesday.

TELL US SOMETHING WE DIDN'T KNOW

If you don't like the heat...move!

"The changes that have occurred due to global warning are too small to account for,” he told WBZ-TV. “It has nothing to do with global warming, it has to do with where we live."

MARTYRS WANTED: Give me the wretched refuse of your teeming shore...

With apologies to poor old Solomon...

Canadian Dummy,

Born on a Monday,

Went to school on Tuesday,

Dropped out on Wednesday,

Got Jihad on Thursday,

To Syria on Friday,

Caught on Saturday,

Shot on Sunday,

That was the end,

Of Canadian Dummy

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

...or not. Our financial gurus will never approve of any change in the current impetus of borrow/spend/print to expand the money supply. They must inflate forever to keep the Ponzi scheme "working", at the expense of old-fashioned debt-averse savers:
"If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively" said Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund.

EU RETREATS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS - A SIGN OF COLD FEET ? ;)

Given enough time and pain, some countries get smarter.

EU member states are no longer to receive specific guidelines for the development of renewable energy. The stated aim of increasing the share of green energy across the EU to up to 27 percent will hold. But how seriously countries tackle this project will no longer be regulated within the plan. As of 2020 at the latest -- when the current commitment to further increase the share of green energy expires -- climate protection in the EU will apparently be pursued on a voluntary basis....With such a policy, the European Union is seriously jeopardizing its global climate leadership role.

And then, there's Canada...

WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG - TURBINES CAUSE FITS

If the migration routes of the blanding's turtles won't stop ya...

Well, I'd normally have no objection to your plans to erect a windmill, but me and my dog both suffer from this peculiar ailment.

SING! (IN A TREMBLING FALSETTO) "I COME FROM THE DESERT, HORSE'S ARSE IS MY NAME"

Ezra Levant shows us that there's more than one way to skin an old Hippycrite!

h/t to Manitouwadge

AND YOU THOUGHT THAT ONLY THE IPCC SOLE-SOURCED ITS "DATA" FROM WIKIPEDIA

A knee-slapping, nose-stretching, excerpt from the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom's report on Canada

"Private property is well protected. Enforcement of contracts is very reliable, and expropriation is highly unusual."

INDIGNANT BLUSTER AND BOMBAST...

... same ol' same old.
Tim Hudak has a new plan.
And the Ontario mega-bureaucracy is cowering in fear, no doubt (sarc).
Will he repeal the Endangered Species Act? The Greenbelt Act? The Provincial Policy Statement on Land Use? The Clean Water Act? The Green Energy Act? Will he abolish Conservation Authorities, carve up Ontario Hydro or scale back the MNR and MOE? Nope. Nothing consequential. Nothing but claptrap.
Call back, Ontario PCs, when you've got someone or something of merit.

HYDRO ONE: OLD ATHAPASKAN WORD MEANING 'TAKE DUMP IN OTHER GUY'S TEEPEE'

Jackie Crocker is fighting Hydro One’s plans to cut down trees and move a high voltage power line to her property from the other side of the street.
She’s angry because the existing power line is on her neighbour’s property — and he’s a Hydro One manager.

BBC EXECS GIVEN GREEN SPANKING

Only one question remains: when did CBC executives get their arses reddened?

The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming...
At the event, in 2006, green activists and scientists lectured 28 of the Corporation’s most senior executives.
A lobby group with close links to green campaigners, the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), helped to arrange government funding for both the climate seminar  and other BBC seminars run by  Mr Harrabin – one of which was attended by then Labour Cabinet Minister Hilary Benn.
Applying for money from Mr Benn’s Department for International Development (DFID), the IBT promised Ministers the seminars would influence programme content for years to come.

GOING GREEN? IT'LL GIVE YOU THE CHILLS!

You can have your ethanol, or you can have your propane, but you can't have both!

From Reuters, 13th December 2013:

Because propane is used for crop drying, a wet growing season in the Midwest combined with the largest corn yield in U.S. history has greatly increased the demand for propane...Stocks of propane and propylene held in commercial storage across the region have fallen to less than 17 million barrels, well below the range of 21-28 million barrels which is normal at this time of year

And, less than one month later, from the CBC:

A shortage of propane in Ontario and Quebec continues to create hardship for thousands of people who depend on the gas for heat.

ONTARIO: OLD HURON WORD FOR "SINKHOLE"

Ontario's economic action plan is absolutely brilliant.  If you lose 39,000 jobs, you just create 13,000 new government jobs to balance things up! 

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF CANADA - A COAT OF MANY COLOURS

First it was their support for Stinking Twisty Bulbs (strike one)

Now it's "weather and climate change linked" (strike two)

Time to let them know what the consequences are going to be. 

peter.braid@parl.gc.ca

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/contactpm

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THE DAMAGE IS DONE AND THE OTTAWA CITIZEN CLUES IN AT LAST

Timeline:
2003: Lanark Landowners Association is founded to defend embattled rural businesses in Eastern Ontario
2004: Rural Ontario Landowners demonstrate on Parliament Hill to decry debilitating bureaucracies
2005: Rural Ontario Landowners demonstrate at Queens Park to protest big government policies that kill rural economic viability
2009: The Green Energy Act (and its FIT program) is introduced to the Ontario Legislature, and is quickly rammed through by a majority Liberal government
2014: Kelly Egan writes a story about the collapse of rural Ontario businesses, curling rinks and churches.
Hmmm. That Ottawa Citizen...if you cup your ear, you can hear the baying of the news hounds on the scent!




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LIBERAL ECONOMICS vs VENESECTION THERAPY

From "The History of Bloodletting", we learn how people were killed by learned physicians:
"Being ill meant having an imbalance of the four humors. Therefore treatment consisted of removing an amount of the excessive humor by various means such as bloodletting, purging, catharsis, diuresis, and so on. By the 1st century bloodletting was already a common treatment, but when Galen of Pergamum (129–200 AD) declared blood as the most dominant humor, the practice of venesection gained even greater importance."
...
And from "Economics according to Premier Kathleen Wynne", we learn how to cure an ailing Province by increasing taxation to build a bigger government:
Ms. Wynne repeated the theme of the Fall Economic Statement, telling the National Post that while she expects to remain on target to balance the budget by 2017-18, if economic conditions are such that “those interim targets are going to be difficult for us to hit as we make investments that are going to make the economy grow, we are not going to stay on course.”


"Run Forest, Run!!!"

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