1. OPPOSITION CALLS FOR MORE PROTESTS IN IRAN: Despite crackdowns on dissenters, foreign journalists and the internet, Iran's opposition party leader, Hossein Mousavi, calls for more protest. In a show of solidarity, Iranian soccer players take to the field wearing green (the opposition party's campaign colour). The Guardian is liveblogging developments. (Guardian)
2. WHITE HOUSE KEEPS IRANIAN OPPOSITION TWITTERING: According to the Guardian, the Obama administration asked the Twitter website to hold off on a planned maintenance shutdown so that Iranian protesters could continue to use the social networking service to organize their protests. (Guardian)
3. LIBERALS COWED BY CORPORATE BACKERS SAYS RAITT: Obsessed like teenage boys by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt's use of the word "sexy," journalists apparently failed to notice other comments by her on the same tape about how the Liberals supported the Conservative budget because corporate backers threatened to cut off support to the indebted party if they didn't. Linda McQuaig has the skinny over on rabble where she wonders aloud about who's calling the shots in the Liberal party. Speaking of which....
4. STEVE AND IGGY MAKE NICE: Hopes for a summer election have dimmed considerably after meetings between the PM and Leader of the Opposition. Liberal leader Ignatieff didn't get Harper to commit to EI reform, though. The two have only agreed to study the possibility of maybe having some kind of such reform sorta. So.... they've delayed an election by delaying EI reform? Way to make this corpse of a parliament lurch about like a zombie. Thanks for that. (Globe and Mail)
5. CONWAY QUITS SCHOOL BOARD: We ran his press release last night -- which is a long but important read -- but the Leader Post is also reporting on popular school trustee (and prairie dog columnist) John Conway's decision to not run for another term on the school board. (Leader Post)
6. PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON WASTE TO BEGIN SOON: The consultant's final report on Waste Plan Regina went before the Public Works committee Tuesday. Once it gets past council Monday (which it likely will), that'll lay the ground work for a public consultation on the plan late this fall. Councillor Clipsham hopes to see the city's waste plan become an election issue. (Leader Post)
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4 comments:
re: #6, what is Cr Clipsham's views on the subject?
Good question, Observer. I don't want to speak for the man. But from what he's told me, he worked to make sure that the public would have different options to choose from as opposed to just getting a new Waste Plan and a chance to say yay or nay. Also, I know he's concerned that there continues to be backalley garbage pickup for residences in and around downtown.
I suspect we'll get more of an insight into all the councillor's views on garbage during Monday's meeting.
Hopefully it involves curb side pickup of recyclables and compostables so we join other Canadian cities who have had this for years.
Yes and no on that curbside recycling. The city will be offered three options. Two of them have it. The most basic/cheapest doesn't. The consultants and the city's waste management people seem confident people are going to go for it even though it essentially doubles the per household cost of waste disposal. I hope they're right otherwise all this "offering the public a variety of choices" exercise will have been a big waste of time.
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