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Weekly Archive: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005



September 24, 2005

Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore and Veterans for Peace: Incompetence in responding to Katrina
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While Cindy Sheehan parties with the moonbats in Washington, the volunteers she left behind in Lousiana are struggling without money. $350,000 that is inaccessible, $100,000 which has gone missing altogether. But remember, according to Sheehan, Bush is criminally incompetent.



September 23, 2005

Technology Partnerships Canada investigation nabs David Dingwall
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Simon Tuck and Jeff Sallot at the Globe and Mail are continuing to find all sorts of interesting information on the problems within Technology Partnerships Canada. Now former public works minister and health minister under Jean Chrétien, David Dingwall, currently...


Ralph Goodale: Moving the money
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From Conservative MP and blogger Jeff Watson of Essex, Ontario:The federal budget figures for last year are finally out. Maybe I’m seeing things but I swear Ralph Goodale made his announcement with two sets of victory fingers wagging in the...


The Western Standard is about to get some free publicity
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The Western Stardard is getting some free publicity from the Ottawa Citizen, courtesy of a very nervous Bruno Labonte:The chauffeur who accompanied Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew on government-funded trips abroad is considering legal action after an item on a...



September 22, 2005

Put Chuck Guite in charge of military procurement for Canada
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A shocking study from Queen's University talks about the death of Canada's military in five years:[Chair of defence management studies at Queens Doug] Bland says the problem runs through the army, navy and air force, as key systems age. If...


Science Fiction: A window into the future? Or just now? No then, but now
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The passengers of Flight 292 watched their own emergency landing on satellite TV. That odd situation was predicted in the science fiction class: Spaceballs!


Air America: Become a Franken Buddy
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Taking a page from The Simpsons, Air America will mention your name on air for $250. So cough up the cash and become a "Franken Buddy"! Hurry, before more people bail from this failing radio station.



September 21, 2005

Carol Jamieson makes her move against Stephen Harper [updated]
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Tory organizer Carol Jamieson has made her move, calling for the ouster of Stephen Harper.


The Pettigrew Affair: Is someone worried?
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The Privy Council Office:In Canada the Privy Council Office is the secretariat of the federal cabinet and the department of the Prime Minister. It provides non-partisan advice and support to the Prime Minister and leadership, coordination and support to the...


Pierre Pettigrew: Asking questions (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
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Questions about Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew's decision to bring his chauffeur along on official trips with the flimsiest justification are now touching on Pettigrew's personal life. Not that there's anything wrong with that!


The Volpe mystery...solved!
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Yes, you heard it here first, on Angry in the Great White North. Joe Volpe, Judy Sgro, cloning...



September 20, 2005

Wonkitties at the Publisher's Circle
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Rondi Adamson at Wonkitties has posted a series of entries about the Western Standard Publisher's Circle held this past Sunday. And she's got pictures! Taken, I might add, by Mrs. Angry herself, who is a wiz with any digital camera....


Joe Volpe: "Two breakfasts please. I'm feeling hungry today!"
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A random sampling of ministers, picked from every part of the country, looking at their hospitality expenses for 2005: Joe Volpe (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) - $9,507.23 Jean Lapierre (Minister of Transport) - $7,629.79 John Efford (Minister of Natural...


Pure unadulterated rumour-mongering: Is Air America about to fold?
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What the heck. I'm going to indulge in some third-hand rumour-mongering, because it amuses me. From a post on the Democratic Underground:O'Reilly: Air America about to Fold Heard him [Bill O'Reilly of Fox News Channel] say this on the radio...


Technology Partnerships Canada being phased out -- before the scandal happens
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There's been an announcement that the controversial Technology Partnerships Canada program is being phased out, to be replaced with a new program. But we haven't even heard what exactly was wrong with the old program, so how can the Opposition...


Cindy Sheehan: "I don't even know the woman."
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Paul Zulkowitz got arrested no once, but twice, in the last three weeks by the "Stalinist" NYPD for hitching his wagon to the Cindy Sheehan train. I bet he is very pleased with himself. Ding! That's the end of your 15 minutes, buddy.


Architects: Shut up and draw!
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With the controversy over the monument to Islamic terrorists to be erected on the site of the crach of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, it is interesting to note that, as a general rule, architects seem to be cut from the same liberal cloth.


Dan Rather: Public service minus the public
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Dan Rather comments on the new journalism.Dan Rather, CBS, journalism, blogging...



September 19, 2005

Cindy Sheehan: Who has she actually met?
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Cindy Sheehan's bus tours are visiting congressional office after congressional office, and so far, just about no one seems to be home.Cindy Sheehan...


Gomery report publication ban unrealistic
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From the Globe and Mail:The judge in charge of the upcoming fraud trial of two key figures in the sponsorship program may have to go to extreme lengths to keep the jury from hearing details from the Gomery report. Chuck...


Hans Island: A mature resolution?
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From the Toronto Star:Canada and Denmark will call a truce today in the war of words over disputed Hans Island, a patch of Arctic rock each country claims as its own. Insiders say Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew and his...


Western Standard Publisher's Circle
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Last night my wife and I were fortunate to be invited by Ezra Levant to come to the Western Standard Publisher's Circle, an informal get-together of backers of the magazines and luminaries from the conservative media and political world. It...


Separation of Church and State: Apologies not required
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The Church of England is taking it upon itself to apologize for the role the United Kingdom played in the Iraq War. We often see examples of the State interfering in sphere's rightly controlled by the Church. Here is a much rarer example of the Church getting mixed up in purely State matters.