Taking sloppy liberal thinking and tearing it a new one -- but always with a touch of class.
Weekly Archive: November 06, 2005 - November 12, 2005
November 12, 2005
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A car burns in Paris, November 8 From the Ottawa Citizen: Some 3,000 police fanned out around Paris on Saturday to counter feared weekend attacks on high-profile targets such as the Eiffel Tower as the number of vehicles torched...
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Scott Brison, Liberal Public Works Minister Here is a listing of the staff in the office of Project Management Services at Public Works and Government Services Canada: Brar, Kalvinder; Senior Consultant; (613) 992-6809 Brazeau, Frank; Consultant, CAC; (613) 947-2897...
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Minor things really. The original template I used from eris designs used unordered lists as a way of making some of the sidebar boxes. I've removed that, rationalized and unified the way the boxes are made, and allowed unordered lists...
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News that the Prime Minister is not going to attend the upcoming Commonwealth conference. This is the first time ever that a Canadian prime minister has skipped the conference. People are shocked. They shouldn't be. It seems pretty clear to...
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Let's make this a contest. First, read this news article from CFRA News Talk Radio in Ottawa: Some members of the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party want to revive the federal sponsorship program. A motion to be debated this...
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Jean Lapierre, Liberal Minister of Transport From CP: Quebec will get upward of $500 million more in federal transfer payments next year, Transport Minister Jean Lapierre said Friday. [Quebec Premier Jean Charest] has long complained about a so-called fiscal...
November 11, 2005
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I've dug up some new information on the corporate history of Abotech. A small thing, at first glance, but when you think about it, it suggests all sorts of interesting possibilities.Technorati Tags: David Smith, Frank Brazeau, Abotech...
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Hans von Sponeck might not be a household name in Canada. A friend of this German peace activist might be more readily recognized: Saddam Hussein.
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A scandal over how our veterans have been shamefully treated! And yet, I think someone is not telling the whole truth.Technorati Tags: Canada, Remembrance Day, veterans, Connaught Range, Albina Guarnieri...
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Ralph Goodale, Liberal Minister of Finance Monte Solberg, Conservative finance critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis, NDP finance critic True to form, on the eve of an election, the Liberals are preparing to buy the votes of Canadians using the money the...
November 10, 2005
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Canadians don't trust the government. Finally!!Technorati Tags: Canada...
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Sorry for the lack of blogging, but I've been working on a nagging problem that has been plaguing some readers, in which when the blog was accessed via the main URL, text was overlaying other text. When individual entries were...
November 09, 2005
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Two examples of the main stream media and their aversion to the T-word, that is, "truth". Not just in their professional standards, but they don't even like to use the word. "Truth" is the media's own four-letter word.
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Someone I linked to yesterday noted a major spike in his traffic, and was pleased that he had been subjected to an "Angrylanche". Angrylanche? Heh. No wait, that's what the other guy says. Technorati Tags: Blogging...
November 08, 2005
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From CP: Jack Layton sent the Conservatives the clarion signal they have been demanding, stating unequivocally Tuesday that he is committed to helping them bring down the government at the next available opportunity. The NDP leader moved to assuage Tory...
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Gwynne Dyer corrects everyone's misconception. The rioters in France are not disaffected Muslims. They represent all races and creeds, in a textbook example of cultural and racial integration in action.
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That's the problem with being a linchpin. A linchpin keeps a wheel from coming off an axle. A good thing in general, but when that wheel is spinning out of control, the linchpin runs the risk of getting snapped in...
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Looking at the polls, the questions behind the polls, and analysis from numerous angles.
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Canada sits somewhere between the United States and France, but I worry we're trending towards the French model. Will it lead to the unrest that France is experiencing? Why even take the risk to find out?
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It looks like Liberal government is trying hard to lose Hans Island to the Danes....
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As we lurch towards an election in Canada, small shifts in our polarized electorate are given great significance, perhaps undeservedly so....
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The Catholic Carnival LIII is up at DeoOmnisGloria.com....
November 07, 2005
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Riots. Economic collapse. A flu pandemic. The makings of a perfect storm to consume France.
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A revealing look at party finances. Not only are the Conservatives comfortably in the lead when it comes to raising money to fight an election against the Liberals, the fact is that they are raising money not from corporate lenders,...
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The Bloc Quebecois is demanding to know the 18 ridings in eastern Quebec that received dirty money during the 1997 election. That they received the money is a conclusion reached by Justice Gomery, and Prime Minister Paul Martin has said...
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Checking out rabble.ca, the "news for the rest of us", Canada's site for progressive and socialist thinking and opinion. Just to see what they think Jack Layton should do. Kill the current sitting of Parliament and go into an election,...
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Auto union boss Buzz Hargrove has some advice for NDP leader Jack Layton: "No election!" He says an election would be a waste of time, that we'd end up with just another minority government. But clearly not all minority governments...
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What a strange argument from Prime Minister Paul Martin:Mr. Martin charged this weekend that any party itching for an election before Christmas is putting at risk the important international and domestic business Mr. Martin has on his agenda for the...
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Gene Robinson, Espicol bishop and openly gay man, has some words of harsh criticism for the Roman Catholic Church and it is because the Church is cracking down on having homosexuals in the ranks of the priesthood. Ostensibly, this is in response to the sex scandals in the past, but I think the Church is rooting out a fifth column looking to rewrite Church doctrine. I think Gene Robinson's elevation in the Episcopal Church has precipitated this move, and I think Gene Robinson knows it.
Technorati tags: Episcopal Church, Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Gene Robinson, Benedict XVI
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Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC, reports on the riots in France. Amazingly, you have to get to the very last words of the very last sentence of the very last paragraph before a link to Muslims is mentioned.
November 06, 2005
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Anyone have any news on this? Posted by reader "gers":BREAKING NEWS: ATTEMPT ON CHOMSKY'S LIFE A journalist Emma Brockes working for the newspaper Guardian was arrested following her assasination attempt on well-known author and media-critic Noam Chomsky last Tuesday. The...
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The ACLU is preparing to sue some small town over the appearance of a cross in the town seal. Cowards! Why not take on the states of Alabama, Hawaii, and Florida! Now that's big game!