{"id":170,"date":"2016-05-11T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/?p=170"},"modified":"2016-05-12T05:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T08:51:21","slug":"yesterday-was-rasputins-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/jdaerendel\/yesterday-was-rasputins-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday Was Rasputin’s Birthday –"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo of deer munching on oats in Atlantic Canada at 7:07 am this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tuesday, May 11th, 2016 — 6\u02daC \/ 42\u02daF & very bright and sunny @ 7:56 am in Atlantic Canada & Yesterday was Rasputin’s Birthday { & by the way, he was neither ‘mad’ nor a monk. } — {{ P.S. My friend Jim W. told me May 10th was also Swami Yukteswar’s Birthday and his (Jim’s) late Uncle Bruce’s – and three young women who were like 7 years old when Jim was helping his Cousin Glenn get Glenn’s daughter, Sarah, to school in the mornings – and meeting her at the bus when she came home after school, when Glenn’s job dictated that he had to be in work at 6 am and the school bus picked the grammar school kids up at something like 8:30 am – 3 young girls in Sarah’s circle of friends plus the mother of another one of Sarah’s friends — all celebrated the same birthday. May 10th. }}
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“Heat & Light” by Jennifer Haigh<\/a><\/p>\n

Heat & Light is a novel about the lives of Pennsylvanians – Farmers and Rural land owners – struggling to make ends meet and being seduced by oil and gas companies’ fast talking salesmen, convinced to opt-in to contracts with Frackers whose promises of lots of ‘free money’ for allowing the Gas Companies to Frack their property – poisons their water, ruins their property values, ruins the landscape around them and leaves them in much worse economic condition than they were when they were merely desperate.<\/p>\n

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CBC News Links:<\/h2>\n

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Liberals hope to move forward with electoral reform committee —<\/a><\/h3>\n
Proposed motion suggests committee to report on alternatives to first-past-the-post system by Dec. 1<\/h6>\n

— While it looks to a lot of us that political slight-of-hand is alive and well in Canadian politics – Justin Trudeau – who’s been the Prime Minister up here for a little more than 6 months – appears to be keeping a campaign promise to come up with an alternative to the current ‘First Past The Post’ electorial system — by having a committee investigate the feasibility of weighted voting and other possibilities to make Canadian elections a bit more democratic and have the elected officials in the Federal Parliament reflect the over all vote and not just the winners from each ‘riding’.<\/p>\n

— For instance: If –<\/strong> in a hypothetical Federal Election: the Liberal party received 35% of the vote, the New Democrats received 25%, the Conservatives received 22%, The Parti Quebecois received 10%, the Green party received 6%, and several smaller parties received the remaining 2% – Then<\/strong> – Sitting members of Parliament should more closely resemble those percentages. — Where the current ‘first past the post’ system might have populated the Parliament with something more like 52% Liberal, 20% Conservative, 18% NDP, 9% PQ, & 1% Green (depending on where the votes were cast and what the local races looked like). { I intentionally had one party get fewer votes than another while winning more seats than that party did in the above fictional results from a fictional election. }<\/p>\n

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Maple Match links Canadians looking for love with single Americans fleeing Trump<\/a> —<\/h3>\n
Fear of a Trump presidency has spawned a dating site that hooks up Yankees and Canucks<\/h6>\n
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“Maple Match” is a dating service advertizing that they can find Canadian mates for people who might want to escape from a nightmarish Trump Presidency.<\/p>\n

— Earlier news items up here – reports from a couple months back – indicated that officials ( or residents? or somebody — ) in several provinces announced that they would be happy to welcome refugees from the U.S. into their communittees if they wanted to escape from the USA if and when DJ Trump became their President.<\/p>\n

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Gallant says government can’t afford more money for student aid<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
New $25M package only half of what’s been cut from student programs<\/h6>\n

\"university-classroom-students\"— New Brunswick’s (Liberal) Premier Brian Gallant announced a new programme to give low income New Brunswick students free tuition at New Brunswick Universities. It was later revealed that this program would benefit about 7,100 students while it took away current tax rebates from between 35,000 to 40,000 students. The new program would reportedly cost $25 Million while cutting the earlier program would save more than $50 Million. -I’m not sure those dollar figures would reflect yearly costs – but that’s my best guess here.<\/p>\n

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