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July 25th, 2012:

The invitation must have been lost in the mail

Jul 25th, 2012
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The North Korean Dear Leader got hitched!
I wonder if they had to get married?
Ew.

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So the Ontario provincial government…

Jul 25th, 2012
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… is threatening to take away the power of locally-elected school boards if they do not come to the same contract agreements as did the province with the Catholic Board?

In a memo obtained by The Globe and Mail, assistant deputy minister of education Gabriel Sékaly directs the boards to reach a deal with the unions before the start of the 2012-2013 school year and requires them to work within a contract framework established by the Ministry of Education and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association.

 

 

The memo suggests that school boards could be facing a provincial takeover if they do not sign teacher contracts within the next six weeks, consequences a government spokesman would neither confirm nor deny.

Tell ya what, Mr. Premier, how about you start moving toward the abolition of separate school funding before you remove local control over local education. OK?

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Satellites show melting over much of Greenland

Jul 25th, 2012
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More weird climatic stuff going on… though I have two questions:

  1. Did they really have satellites in 1889?
  2. How can something that happened before be “unprecedented”?

Interesting topic – but poorly written.

Three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 per cent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface and by July 12 an estimated 97 per cent of the ice sheet had begun melting.

Nearly all of Greenland’s massive ice sheet suddenly started melting a bit this month, a freak event that surprised scientists.

Even Greenland’s coldest and highest place, Summit station, showed melting. Ice core records show that last happened in 1889 and occurs about once every 150 years.

Three satellites show what NASA calls unprecedented melting of the ice sheet that blankets the island, starting on July 8 and lasting four days. Most of the thick ice remains. While some ice usually melts during the summer, what was unusual was that the melting happened in a flash and over a widespread area.

 

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OMFG!

Jul 25th, 2012
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Beer in Ontario corner stores???? Say it ain’t so!!!!

This will, without doubt, lead to mass orgies in the streets of staid Ontario towns!

Cats will mate with dogs!

Good Samaritans will turn into vindictive layabouts!

THE WHOLE PROVINCE AS WE KNOW IT WILL BECOME ONE BIG FRIGGIN’ SATAN-WORSHIPPING, DRUNKEN, VANDALIZING HOTBED OF NON-PURITAN ORGY-LOVING CAT MATERS!

ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem.

This ain’t gonna happen. The idea is way too 20th 21st century for Ontar-i-ar-i-ar-i-o.

But at least we’re more civilised than, say, Saudi Arabia. Or maybe Nova Scotia.

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