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READ MORE An NDP MP has lost her historic bid to have members of Parliament overturn a committee decision that has stalled her bill on derelict vessels. MPs voted by secret ballot during the past two days. Until now, only the Speaker has been chosen by secret ballot. Votes are normally decided either by voice or by MPs standing one at a time as their names are called by the clerk. On Thursday morning the House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan reported the result of the vote was negative and, “accordingly, Bill C-352 is declared non-votable.” NDP’s Malcolmson seeks secret ballot vote of MPs to save bill on abandoned boats Feds to ban ‘blight’ of abandoned boats, bring in penalties for owners Sheila Malcolmson walked out of the chamber and addressed reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons. “This is unprecedented that the Liberals used their majority to prevent my bill from even being heard or voted on,” she said. “It is not su...

READ MORE  A new House of Commons report is asking the Liberal government to extend pregnancy and parental leave to sitting Members of Parliament.  The report from the procedures and House affairs committee said MPs should no longer be penalized for being absent from Parliament due to parental leave or pregnancy.  MPs currently do not receive federal parental leave benefits because they do not pay into Employment Insurance, requiring them to  use sick leave to take time away from the House after having a child. ​”Maternity or paternity leave is really not the same as sick leave,” said Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould,  who is pregnant.  Gould said it is time Parliament adopts a parental leave policy. “Now we actually have this little critical mass of four women MPs who have either recently had babies or are expecting,” said Gould. “And so it’s just become more of a reality.” Expanded...

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READ MORE “Senator Corker has been pretty clear he doesn’t want any deficit spending,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican. The last-minute attempt to find revenue slowed, at least temporarily, what had appeared to be a cascade of momentum for the bill. Republicans picked up a key swing vote, Senator John McCain of Arizona, earlier in the day, and had appeared to be on track to pass the bill along party lines. Now, they are under pressure to cut the cost of their bill by as much as one-third, a situation that could require Republicans to insert future tax increases into what was posited as a giant tax cut. That could complicate the final approval of the tax rewrite, particularly with House Republicans, who will be loath to approve a bill that would effectively raise taxes on companies and individuals after a period of lower taxes. Several senators remain on the fence over the bill, and Republicans can lose no more than two of their members to...

READ MORE LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) – Lindsey Vonn signaled her intentions to chase the all-time mark for World Cup race wins by posting the second fastest time in the final women’s downhill training session in Lake Louise on Thursday. American Vonn, whose 77 career World Cup race triumphs are a women’s all-time record and trail only Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark’s mark of 86 wins, clocked one minute 48.29 seconds. That left her 0.15 seconds behind Czech Ester Ledecka and 0.54 seconds ahead of Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather, who had the fastest time in the first training run. The Canadian resort west of Calgary will host the start of the women’s speed season with downhill races on Friday and Saturday and a Super-G on Sunday. “It was a solid training run but I can definitely clean up a few sections for tomorrow,” Vonn told reporters. “But I‘m confident I feel good. Today was solid and a good sign for the weekend.” Vo...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Romania’s anti-doping laboratory in Bucharest has had its accreditation provisionally suspended due to non-compliance, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Thursday. The suspension, which took effect on Wednesday, prohibits the Bucharest lab from carrying out any anti-doping activities, including all analyses of urine and blood samples, WADA said in a statement. The suspension will remain in place pending disciplinary proceedings being carried out by an independent committee, which will make a recommendation to the Chair of the WADA Executive Committee regarding the status of the lab’s WADA accreditation. During the ban, samples that have not yet been analyzed by the facility must be sent to another WADA-accredited laboratory to “ensure continued high quality sample analysis, which also helps preserve athletes’ confidence in this process and of the wider anti-doping system”. Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by...

READ MORE On the Mars project, he focused on using electricity to fuel chemical reactions among elements found on the Red Planet, even creating dirt capable of germinating a seed. Figuring that he should be able to reverse the process, he founded Bloom and worked on converting chemical energy to electricity using readily available fuels and conductors. Eventually, he and his team hit upon a version of the current design of roughly 5-inch-square fuel cells fused together in stacks — each about the size of a half-loaf of bread and capable of powering an average home. The stacks are loaded into tubular metal casings before being enclosed in banks about the size of a refrigerator that can then be arrayed on the ground or a roof to run large facilities. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The equipment, produced at the company headquarters here with final assembly at a factory in Delaware, is simultaneously high- and low-tech. Each cell is made from a thin ceramic wafer that ...

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The three top Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Democratic congressman John Conyers on Thursday to resign in light of the sexual harassment allegations he faces, but Conyers’ attorney said he was not thinking of stepping down. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said the allegations were “serious, disappointing and very credible” as she shifted away from comments four days ago in which she said Conyers, the longest-serving House member, was an “icon” who deserved due process. “Zero tolerance means consequences for everyone,” she told reporters on Thursday. “The brave women who came forward are owed justice … Congressman Conyers should resign.” Pelosi’s call was echoed by her second-in-command, Representative Steny Hoyer, and the No. 3 Democrat in the House, Representative James Clyburn. Like Conyers, Clyburn is known for his activism during the civil rights mo...

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s expected exit from the Trump administration is one of many staff changes likely as President Donald Trump nears the end of his first year in office, with sources saying top economic adviser Gary Cohn and son-in-law Jared Kushner could be among those who depart. Cohn, whose relationship with Trump became tense earlier this year, has considered leaving once the Republican effort to overhaul the U.S. tax system is completed in Congress, according to the sources with ties to the White House who spoke on condition of anonymity. Kushner, who has seen his influence in the White House shrink, may receive a “face-saving” exit as he deals with legal challenges related to a special counsel’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign’s potential ties to Russia, one of the sources said. “This is pure speculation,” said White House spokesman Raj Shah in an emailed s...

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READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday delayed voting on a Republican tax overhaul as the bill was tripped up by problems with an amendment sought by fiscal hawks to address a large expansion of the federal budget deficit projected to result from the measure. The Senate debated the legislation late into Thursday and adjourned, putting off any votes until Friday morning. It was unclear if a decisive vote on the bill would occur then. The delay underscored nagging concerns among Republican fiscal conservatives about the deficit impact of the bill. That set up the possibility that its deep tax cuts might have to be moderated, that future tax increases might be built in, and that some conservatives might seek to attach spending cuts, all approaches that could throw up new political problems. White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters in the Capitol: “I don’t think tax cuts are going to be scaled back. I think it would still be ...

READ MORE Nothing in television news approaches the morning shows for (manufactured) intimacy. Viewers watch the hosts in their bedclothes, listen along as they get dressed. It’s so much a part of typical morning routines that the shows have actively sought to portray themselves as reflections of the American family: Dad and Mom on the couch together, discussing the events of the day, sharing moments with the funny kids, and the rest of us. It was always a fantasy, of course, though the shows have often shared unsettling traits with real families — like dissension and dysfunction. But sexual misconduct invading the happy family is far beyond discomforting. It is a convulsive, cataclysmic event. The news Wednesday that Matt Lauer, probably the biggest star morning television has ever produced, had been summarily fired after serious allegations of sexual misconduct, is a ground-shaking event for morning TV — not only because he has been so prominent a part of that l...

READ MORE Jimmy Kimmel has set his sights on U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore. The late-night host fired off a tweet on Thursday afternoon in response to a Breitbart article that Moore shared moments earlier with his nearly 68,000 Twitter followers. The Republican candidate called out Kimmel in his tweet saying, “@jimmykimmel If you want to mock our Christian values, come down here to Alabama and do it man to man. #ALSen.” Without missing a beat, Kimmel tweeted back, “Sounds great Roy – let me know when you get some Christian values and I’ll be there!” The Twitter spat started after Kimmel dispatched “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” writer Tony Barbieri to an Alabama church, where Moore was giving a speech on Wednesday night. Playing the fictional character Jake Byrd, Barbieri appeared in the crowd shouting his support for Moore while others heckled and interrupted the candidate’s speech. Sounds great Roy – let me know when you get so...

READ MORE The U.S. Navy (and to be frank, the whole U.S. military) is living in a state of total denial. In the next great powers war, or perhaps even in a conflict with a mid-tier power like Iran, at least one of our aircraft carriers will sink to the bottom of the sea. That means thousands of lives could be lost—and there would be very little we could do to stop it. We need to get used to a very simple reality: the decades-old age of the aircraft carrier, that great symbol of U.S. power projection, has now passed. We can deny the evidence that is right before our eyes, but innovations in anti-ship missiles over many decades—combined with advanced but short-range carrier-based U.S. fighter aircraft and missile defenses that can be easily defeated—have conspired to doom one of the most powerful weapons ever devised. If the aircraft carrier is a symbol, an expression of U.S. military dominance stretching from World War II to today, then there’s another symbol tha...

READ MORE Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area. He is one of the better-known thinkers  The New Yorker  has dubbed ‘The Dystopians’ in  an excellent 2009 profile , along with James Howard Kunstler, another  regular contributor to RI (archive) . These theorists believe that modern society is headed for a jarring and painful crack-up. He is best known for his  2011 book comparing Soviet and American collapse  (he thinks America’s will be worse). He is a prolific author on a wide array of subjects, and you can see his work by searching him on Amazon. He has a large following on the web,  and on Patreon, and we urge you to support him there , as  Russia Insider  does. His current project is organizing the  production of affordable house boats  for living on. He lives on a boat himself. If you hav...