Sixty Years Queen of Canada

Most of us have no memory of anyone other than Elizabeth being Queen. And in truth she has been a dedicated and model Monarch:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/06/queen-elizabeth-ii-marks-60-years-on-the-throne/

KING’S LYNN, United Kingdom — Queen Elizabeth II renewed her vow to serve on Monday as she made a low-key start to five months of diamond jubilee celebrations marking her 60 years on the throne.

Six decades after the death of her father King George VI on February 6, 1952 made the young princess a queen overnight, the monarch said in a message to her subjects she wanted to, “Dedicate myself anew to your service.”

The 85-year-old also thanked the nation for “the wonderful support and encouragement that you have given to me and Prince Philip over these years,” a reference to her husband of 64 years, who recently underwent heart surgery.

Monday - grumpy!!!

"PM announces by-election for March 12, 2012" in Toronto-Danforth

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Toronto Zoo's new polar bear cub

Bill C-10 will hit Nunavut hard, Shewchuk tells senators

This is a comment from a prison guard:

"We all want safe streets and safe communities.

But in the short term, the only way to implement bill C-10 in Nunavut is to declare Nunavut to be a prison. Then take away the travel documents of those who are convicted so they can’t leave the prison until their sentence has been served."

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674bill_c-10_will_hit_nunavut_hard_shewchuk_tells_senators/

Dan Shewchuk, the Nunavut justice minister, told the Senate legal affairs committee Feb. 2 that Bill C-10, the Conservative government’s omnibus crime bill, will create big costs and other problems for Nunavut’s justice and correctional systems.

Bill C-10, known as the Safe Streets and Communities Act, would amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other federal laws to limit the use of conditional sentencing, create more mandatory minimum sentences and make the youth justice law more tough.

Why did Caterpillar buy a plant only to destroy it?

http://bit.ly/wNcPwC

"So the first lesson of the London massacre: Ottawa must be vigilant about vetting foreign investment and retaining jobs, but also mindful of valuing — and anchoring — our homegrown intellectual property. Why underwrite our companies if we willingly sell off our embedded brainpower to foreign bidders who leave Canada cash-rich, patent poor and jobless?"