This time I won’t get side tracked from my actual canadian content. I’ve decided to make all my Women On Air shows fully Canadian from here on out too. Last week I played all Verve Remixed songs - so there was zero Canadian content…

Also - a little girl, like 6 years old, just came into the station and asked me how I got my boobs to be so big. I told her I only ever drank chocolate milk, and now she seems very set on only drinking chocolate milk. heh.

The Harper government is celebrating its one year anniversary. Suffice to say Harper is damn proud of all the stuff he’s achieved in the past year - while I still sit here and say he has done absolutely nothing commendable. Once he start recognizing the environment and our aboriginals THEN I’ll be happy to acknowledge that he’s actually doing something for our Country.

"I do still admit that I occasionally pinch myself to make sure I am
not dreaming," he told the crowd of people seated in front of him, many
wearing Conservative party T-shirts.

Me too Harper… me too. Sometimes I punch myself in the face really really hard trying to wake myself up.

He listed the initiatives his government has delivered over the year,
including cutting the GST and creating a universal childcare benefit.

He lauded his government’s tough stance on street racing, its
decision to beef up the Canadian military and its ability to resolve
the softwood lumber dispute with the United States.

Most importantly, he said, his government delivered what he called
"the most comprehensive anti-corruption law in Canadian history, the
Accountability Act."

The Accountability Act, a key element of Harper’s election campaign,
was created in the wake of the sponsorship scandal, with the aim of
cleaning up the way government does business.

The GST cut is horrible. I am a big fan of taxes. I don’t mind paying them one bit. People always tell me about the high taxes in Sweden as a way to attempt to convince me not to move there - but honestly, there are a reason there are taxes. They benefit those that need it. And the universal childcare was a complete joke. Single mothers are no better off.

And those street races, we really did need to cut back on those… *eye roll* … Oh and our military, yeah, because Canada clearly needs a military… This is probably the one thing that pissed me off the most. Putting more guards at the boarder and "beefing up" the military. Honestly - we’re canada… since when has Canada ever really run into a problem that involved "lack of military". As for the soft wood lumber dispute, we’re selling our trees to the states, and then buying the products back for more than we sold them - how is that a resolution?

The Accountability Act was as much of a scam as the "war on terror" was. It was a way to make the country gain false trust in a government. I hate Harper. And all his attempts to cover up the real issues.

A
television ad urging Stephen Harper to make good on an election
commitment to boost the use of renewable fuels was rejected for
broadcast because the Prime Minister had not given his permission.

The ad features a short clip of Harper making the pledge in 2005 and
the Television Bureau of Canada, which vets TV ads on behalf of private
broadcasters, said his approval was needed before it could air – even
though the statement was made at a public campaign event.

This is my angry face… >:-(

In Toronto they’re trying to enforce helmets for sledding.

Snow’s arrival means kids are enjoying the winter pastime of
tobogganing, but some might be soured by a new mandatory helmet law
being proposed by two Toronto-area councilors.

The initiative comes on the heels of two Canadian children who were
killed earlier this month from injuries suffered while sledding.

Tobogganing accidents have killed at least seven people in Canada since 2003. All were children, except for one 18-year-old.

Well now that just takes the fun out of. Being safe isn’t fun at all. I say let the kids dent their heads.

I wasted too much time ranting about Harper… I wanted to do a larger section on Pickton, but whatever. His trial is progressing… well, I don’t even know how to describe a trial like this one.

The evidence was graphic and horrendous to say the least; talk of
severed heads in freezers and other body parts strewn about the Port
Coquitlam property.

And while hearing this is difficult and
unpleasant for anyone, it’s particularly hard for family members of the
missing women, like Ernie Crey, "Well, it’s difficult. I’m at home
alone and, you know it’s, it’s, it’s very hard and it’s all caught up
to me as you can probably tell."

Today they heard Pickton’s own words.

Robert
Pickton’s face and voice were put before jurors today as the Crown
played taped conversations with police about the remains of women found
on his pig farm.

First up after an initial police witness was
about 11 hours worth of videotape evidence. The tape was taken at the
RCMP detachment in Surrey, B.C., in February 2002.

That article also makes a really good point that I think I over looked a little too much in my last brief outline of the Pickton case:

Davies said there’s urgency to the desperate situation on the Downtown
Eastside, where most of the women were sex-trade workers.

"If
this had happened to any other group of women it would have been a
national emergency," she said. "Politicians don’t like to pay attention
to it."

Had this of been a group of university women, or say 12 year old girls, or stewardesses the entire country would know about this trial, and people would be going absolutely insane. But because these women were in a profession that others feel as though they can look down on hardly anyone has heard about the cases. I’m trying to see why that’s fair.

…Or what makes a university student any more worthy of our concern, support and emotions than someone who chooses a life of sexual endeavors. Their occupation makes them no less a woman than me or any other woman on the planet - I think they should get getting the same sort of recognition than any other group of 31 missing women would get.

This isn’t canadian news, but it’s about dinosaurs. …and i really like dinosaurs.

A new study of one of the earliest
feathered dinosaurs suggests it may have had upper and lower sets of
wings, much like the biplanes of early aviation.

Jurassic park taught me that years ago. Heh. Dinosaurs are so cool.