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The Greens want in
Submitted by Daimnation! on 09.6.08 at 7:17am.
They may go to court to get Elizabeth May included in the leaders' debate:
The Green Party of Canada will go to court if necessary to persuade Canada's broadcast consortium to include leader Elizabeth May in the televised leaders' debates for the federal election due to be called on Sunday.
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How hard is it to read a teleprompter?
Submitted by Blevkog on 09.5.08 at 9:16am.
Pretty fucking hard, if John McCain’s “speech” last night was any indication. His speech was about as motivating as a Grade 10 French dialog (”Bonjour, Jacques, est-ce que to vas au centre d’achats?”). I still think McCain is going to win this thing, but he’s not doing himself any favours whats...
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Ohohohh, say can you seeeee, by the dawn’s ear-lee light…
Submitted by Gufted Typist on 09.4.08 at 7:15am.
Oh! You caught me practising our new national anthem.
I’m not actually American, but I quite like the American national anthem. And with our minority government about the pull the plug and call an election to try for their majority, all Canadians could soon be singing this anthem.
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Holy White People
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 09.3.08 at 9:12am.
Well, Its been a while, but I am back.
I just clicked on a link to the Conservative Party of Canada web page from CTV.ca this morning and I was stuck by the level of diversity reflected in the pictures.
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Debate you can trust
Submitted by Maritime Morning on 09.3.08 at 9:09am.
Last week, Nova Scotia Premier, Rodney McDonald, came on air to disparage the Federal Liberal Party’s “Green Shift” carbon tax initiative. Immediately after the Premier hung up, the Liberal carbon tax point man, Scott Brison, came on to counter the Premier’s attacks.
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Palin's church
Submitted by Daimnation on 09.3.08 at 7:11am.
If Barack Obama's pastor was a legitimate campaign issue, so is this:
A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin's longtime spiritual home.
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It just keeps getting better…
Submitted by Blevkog on 09.1.08 at 7:31am.
It appears that the Sarah Palin story is a bottomless mine of wonderful nuggets.
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Sarah Palin gets the nod
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 09.1.08 at 7:20am.
WOOT! We liked her ever since she put Alaska’s cheque register online [see our post -Another First For Wolfville]
Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has announced the state has put its check register online. The department of administration’s Web site now hosts datasheets in PDF and Excel formats that allow t...
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It's a trap!
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.31.08 at 8:30am.
Attacks on Sarah Palin's "inexperience" are exactly what the McCain campaign wants, according to Tyler Cowen:
...The more the word "experience" is repeated, no matter what the context, the more it will hurt Obama. Palin needs to appear confident and capable on TV and in the debates, but her tick...
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Obamatism
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.30.08 at 8:45am.
He forgot the good 5 cent cigar and a chicken in every pot. "I", "I", "I", "I"...No he can't. All those things The Himself said he, as an individual, will do,:
...I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jo...
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all fired up
Submitted by Days Go By on 08.29.08 at 11:46am.
I've a stuffed head and an aching throat and I'm waving at the screen, clutching wadded up kleenex and wishing I was in Denver right now.....
yes.we.can
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McCain-Palin?
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.29.08 at 9:26am.
Hot Air links to several sources saying the Alaskan governor will be McCain's running-mate.
If this is true, that means each party's ticket will have a nominee from one of the "freak states". (Obama, of course, was born in Hawaii.) Could Palin pick up some of Hillary's supporters? Maybe just eno...
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Election Fever v.235
Submitted by RGM Unlimited on 08.27.08 at 8:03am.
The Canadian media has long been obsessed with an election; this is not news to anybody that has turned on the TV at any time since about March 2006 (they gave the Conservatives something of a honeymoon after their January win).
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Could the outbreak have been stopped?
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.27.08 at 8:02am.
With some commentators raising the spectre of Walkerton, this could become a very big story indeed:
A leaked cabinet document that outlined plans for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to give the food industry a greater role in the inspection process raised the ire of opposition politicians la...
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A question for the crowd
Submitted by Blevkog on 08.27.08 at 7:11am.
I’m passively paying attention to the Democratic convention this week and couldn’t help but notice the media crush is on for Clinton Day, which is today.
All day.
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What stinkin' fixed election date?
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.25.08 at 7:26am.
I'm afraid I must agree with Rex Murphy about prime minister Harper's shameless switcheroo. How can Parliament be dysfunctional if M. Dion rolls over and shows his belly on every confidence vote?
And here's a lovely paragraph from the Ottawa Citizen's Randall Denley:
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Bow to your new masters, Canada
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.20.08 at 7:25am.
The Liberals are firm about not sucking up to the Americans. But sucking up to the Chinese, now, that's another story:
Jean Chrétien says Prime Minister Stephen Harper was wrong not to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
And the former prime minister believes Canada may pay a...
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Anti-semites for human rights (but only for anti-Semites)
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.13.08 at 6:50am.
Greg Felton, who makes Mohamed Elmasry look like Theodor Herzl, comes to the defence of human rights commissions...on the condition that they're only used against opinions he doesn't like, of course:
Belief in the value of public goods, a founding principle of Canadian democracy, is being beaten...
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Peter Crofton Davies and Valerie Davies
Submitted by Rod McKay's Artblog on 08.11.08 at 7:41am.
COUNCIL RESOLUTION
RE-APPOINTMENT OF TOWN CRIER
Whereas the Office of Town Crier is an old and honourable one, steeped in tradition, ritual and purpose, and
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A challenge. Run for public office!
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.11.08 at 6:33am.
David Bentley, ex Frank, ex Daily News, issued a challenge in the CH a few days ago, one we hope some Wolfvillians will heed.
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Trash kept out
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.8.08 at 8:22am.
No, "Baptists," you can't have entry into Canada. Not yours:
Canadian border guards have been told to bar a fanatic church group that was planning to protest the funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus, reports say.
NDP MP Pat Martin told the Winnipeg Free Press that Public Safety Minister...
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Dudley Do-Right didn’t dig da Dudettes
Submitted by Gifted Typist on 08.6.08 at 7:39am.
It’s not surprising that the RCMP spied on women’s groups in the 60s and 70s.
I mean, you wouldn’t expect the “boyz in bluez” of that era to be happy about women’s fight for equality. Women’s equality wasn’t exactly in the best interests of your average Dudley Do-Right. If anything it was just g...
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What stinkin' CBC bias?
Submitted by Daimnation! on 08.3.08 at 7:11am.
Anne Lagacé Dowson of CBC radio ("host of CBC’s Home Run, Radio Noon, and guest host of As It Happens and Cross Country Check Up") is running for the NDP in the federal bye-election in Westmount, Montreal. She's on a leave of absence from Mother Corpse (via milnewstbay).
Those are public affairs...
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Sound familiar?
Submitted by Daimnation on 08.1.08 at 8:24am.
A hopeless case. Surely it's time to abandon the people to their fate:
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If intervention was supposed to bring about development, which optimists see as a prelude to civility, it has not been a success...Despite the creation of a small millionaire class, 45 per cent of its inhabitants are b...
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"Impotent"
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.30.08 at 7:52am.
Both Stephen Lewis and the UN:
He's a hero. No he isn't
DOUGLAS BLAND
Chair, Defence Management Studies Program, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, July 29, 2008
Stephen Lewis unintentionally exposes both the weakness of his long, well-meaning efforts in Africa and the fatal contra...
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Hunting "liberals"
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.29.08 at 8:47am.
Absolutely sickening. Simple as that:
Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals "who are ruining the country," court records show.
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"These now are the walls we must tear down"
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 07.26.08 at 8:01am.
"We cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats or escape responsibility in meeting them,"
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They love him now
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.26.08 at 7:54am.
...but German writer Josef Joffe thinks President Obama will have a short honeymoon in Europe:
The Washington correspondent of another major left-of-center publication puts it in more practical terms: "Obama recognizes the limits of American power and influence. ... The weight of the White House...
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Obamalot
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.25.08 at 7:08am.
Haroon the Magnificent of the Toronto Star swoons--and then takes Mr Obama's Afghan policy to pieces. So what's to swoon about?
Unless he blows it today in Berlin, Barack Obama has made a successful debut on the world stage. Rarely has an American presidential candidate walked taller abroad than...
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A junket is a junket is a junket
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.24.08 at 7:44am.
The Herald is running an interesting exposition on the globetrotting MLAs in Nova Scotia.
Here at the Confederacy, we understand the importance of business development. What we don’t understand is why the government has to be involved.
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Meanwhlie, in whine country...
Submitted by Nottawa on 07.24.08 at 7:08am.
From today's Toronto Star:
"Meanwhile, other provinces seem to be doing better in their negotiations with Ottawa. Nova Scotia, for instance, recently bagged $870 million from the federal government in a deal over the sharing of offshore oil-and-gas revenues."
Dead wrong. There is no deal on "sh...
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Town Hall via list serve
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.23.08 at 8:13am.
We hope some of you have been following the discussion on the Wolfville ratepayers list serve [Wolfville@live.ca] It’s almost as much fun as reading Frank, which is more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The discussion is certainly heating up as the municipal election approaches.
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The fate of Afghanistan and our strategic interests
Submitted by Rogers Radio on 07.23.08 at 6:13am.
The government of Canada refuses to come clean on the real costs of the counter insurgency in Afghanistan. We just don’t know. Officials now admit that we are not doing as well as we’d hoped – that’s called losing.
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What to do with $867 windfall? Pay down the debt
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.22.08 at 2:10pm.
Do you put it on the $12.4B debt?
Do you invest in health and education?
Do you split the difference.
The government has decided to put most of it on the debt, keeping a small amount aside to build trusts for post-secondary infrastructure and offshore research and development.
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We didn't know nuthin': Liberals
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.22.08 at 6:14am.
A video of Omar Khadr's interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, by a Canadian security official, was made in 2003. A Canadian government report on Khadr's treatment while imprisoned was made in 2004. Evidently, all of this was lost in the back of a closet or something until 2005, when the Natural Govern...
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The next thing to get pulled off of you at the airport
Submitted by Blevkog on 07.20.08 at 7:37am.
In case you need your right-wing silliness levels topped up, here’s a good one from Glenn Beck, CNN’s in-house blowhard: if you wear a Che Guevara t-shirt, you’re probably a terrorist. Yep, always good at turning anything into a screed, Beck has determined that because some of the army officials ...
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Uranium Mining Issues
Submitted by news.ckdu blog on 07.18.08 at 11:51am.
The Native Women’s Association of Canada met last week in Halifax to discuss issues surrounding nuclear wast e management and stewardship of the environment. Priscilla Settee took the time to talk about the discussions that took place and her opposition to developing nuclear power.
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Where are the tourists?
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.18.08 at 8:42am.
Some of us Dunces have been hitting the road to enjoy the fruits of this lovely province in summer.
There’s the sea, the sun, the sand - all of it stunning.
But something is missing on the highways this summer.
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The right approach to Arctic "sovereignty"
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.18.08 at 7:26am.
It's mainly a civilian issue with the Canadian Coast Guard having a major role; the military role is distinctly subsidiary:
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Nobody disputes Canada's control over land [emphasis added] in the Arctic, where Inuit have lived for countless generations, or over our 200-mile Exclusive Economic ...
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Scott Brison Annual BBQ
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.18.08 at 6:37am.
How could we not mention Scott’s BBQ at Kip’s Beach, Cheverie, Hants Co. - Sunday, July 20, 3-6 pm If the heavens should open, the rain location is Summerville Fire Hall. “All welcome” it says in the ad. Go! Great opportunity to ask him embarrassing questions like:
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Kanye to Rock Democratic Convention
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 07.17.08 at 12:37pm.
It was announced today that Kanye West will perform at Democratic Convention at the end of August in Denver, in support of his home town man Barack Obama. So will Pharrell picture above with Kanye.
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The Khadr options
Submitted by Daimnation! on 07.17.08 at 8:48am.
What to do with him, if he's returned to Canada? Legal experts interviewed by the National Post aren't completely sure:
"The idea of bringing charges against him would be technically feasible, but practically not a good option," said Wesley Wark, a University of Toronto professor and expert on s...
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It’s in your blood
Submitted by Rogers Radio on 07.16.08 at 11:36am.
The late, great, comedian George Carlin, famously challenged his audience with the notion that “politicians don’t suck,” as politicians are not born or otherwise resurrected from above or below, they are us – the public. It is “not the politicians who suck,” corrected Carlin, “it is the public”.
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Kay: Bring Khadr home
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.16.08 at 8:34am.
The movement to bring Omar Khadr back to Canada picks up an unlikely supporter.
What makes the case for Khadr especially strong is that he was essentially recruited into combat from birth — by his own flesh-and-blood no less. The true monster in the Khadr narrative is not Omar, but his father, A...
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Peter Sis on Patriotic Lapels and The New Yorker's Controversial Obama Cover
Submitted by Crooked House on 07.16.08 at 8:30am.
Apparently early on in his campaign Senator Obama refused to wear an American flag lapel pin, saying that since 9/11 such pins had become substitutes for true patriotism.* Children's author and illustrator Peter Sis suggests that politicians could wear something like this American Eagle lapel ins...
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Crown share fair, but Handout Kid needs to prove Ontario wrong
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.15.08 at 12:29pm.
Nova Scotia is quite rightly pleased with itself for bagging its crown share jackpot win this week.
A tidy $850M will be coming this way in the next few years. The crown share is compensation for giving up potential ownership of offshore oil and gas resources. That will go a long way to reducing...
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With Friends Like These
Submitted by Blevkog on 07.15.08 at 7:33am.
Poor John McCain - as if being behind in the polls wasn’t bad enough, he’s got his top economic advisor calling Americans a bunch of whiners and he’s got his potential vice-presidential candidates giving him this kind of support:
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Truth time
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.12.08 at 7:56am.
The man likely to be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom sees the light. John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen reacts:
In politics you're never sure who to despise. David Cameron seemed a thoroughly safe bet and now look what he's done.
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How Jackson helped Obama
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.11.08 at 7:09am.
Howard Fineman compares Jesse Jackson's latest stupid comments to the "Sister Souljah" incident of 1992, which established Bill Clinton's centrist credentials. (The difference is, that one involved Clinton gambling that Jackson would overreact to his comments about rap music, whereas the "nuts" c...
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Nova Scotia’s Orwellian math: 51% = encouraging
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.10.08 at 12:22pm.
Fifty one percent was the provincial average for math scores in Nova Scotia this year, and the provincial education minister calls this “encouraging.”
That’s not 71 or 81 or 91 percent. But 51 percent. That is encouraging in the little Tartan Republic.
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Teddy Kennedy is a Lion
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 07.10.08 at 7:26am.
Kennedy makes vote.
Taking a break from Chemo, Kennedy today was an example to the ideal that as bad as things might be in one's live, someone else is always worse off.
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They might not be moderate Muslims...
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.10.08 at 6:38am.
...because, according to some, they're not Muslims at all!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave an enthusiastic—and controversial—endorsement of peaceful, moderate Islam at the weekend opening in Calgary of Canada's largest mosque.
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From the Department of Utterly Useless Information...
Submitted by nottawa on 07.10.08 at 6:36am.
...comes the latest report on our "Economic Freedom" from the Fraser Institute:
"The report found that between 2000 and 2005, five provinces improved their levels of economic freedom led by Newfoundland and Labrador. Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC, and Nova Scotia also improved while Ontario, Quebec,...
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Democracy 250? Democracy, my eye…
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.9.08 at 7:26am.
Once again the Democracy 250 celebration has failed on optics, and for that matter, democracy.
This is supposed to be a celebration of democracy. So what do they do? They send two former premiers - one of whom issued $155 cheques to tax-paying Nova Scotians on the eve of an election - to London ...
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Pooing on things for Christ
Submitted by Procrastinatrix on 07.9.08 at 7:17am.
This is yesterday's news, but I couldn't pass up a scatalogical story given my own obsession with all things poo.
Bill Whatcott, the notorious Christian Crusader for the anti-abortion movement (and connoisseur of all things anal), protested against Morgantaler's appointment into the Order of Can...
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The world needs more Canada
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.9.08 at 7:02am.
The Daily Telegraph editors like our Prime Minister:
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown are disliked at home; George Bush is a lame duck; Silvio Berlusconi is changing the law to indemnify himself; Dmitri Medvedev is regarded as Vladimir Putin's creature and, in any case, Russia doe...
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Mayor Stead re-run
Submitted by Wolfville watch on 07.9.08 at 6:34am.
Mayor Stead has changed his mind, or someone - we won’t name any names- has changed it for him because this persuader (who will remain nameless but we all know who he is don’t we?) knows if HE runs he will lose and if HE loses he can’t get on Council to control it.
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John McCain, economic wunderkind
Submitted by Blevkog on 07.9.08 at 6:44am.
In the most recent of a series of WTF? moments, John McCain has released his long-awaited (snicker) economic plans. He will balance the budget by the end of his first term (at which time he will be 132 years of age) by, dig this, maintaining the gazillion-dollar tax cut to the rich and ending the...
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How do you spell embarrassment? Commonwealth bid
Submitted by Confederacy of Dunces on 07.8.08 at 12:09pm.
It was a text book case of big fish in a small pond.
And if the political leaders and government apparatchiks who made a mess of things are smart, they will hold up the Public Policy Forum Report on the Commonwealth bid and they will learn from it.
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Obama to go big in Mile High City
Submitted by Keith Torrie Today on 07.8.08 at 7:27am.
The Democratic Convention Committee announced today that Barak Obama will accept his party's nomination in a 75,000 seat NFL stadium. The Mile High stadium is home to the Denver Broncos and has almost triple the capacity of the Pepsi Centre where the rest of the convention will take place.
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Where to draw the line?
Submitted by Daimnation on 07.8.08 at 6:39am.
The controversy over a young Winnipeg child being taken from her Nazi (or "white nationalist") mother continues to rage online. A creepy photo posted by Ezra Levant raises some particularly interesting questions:
Is a T-shirt claiming that "9/11 was an inside job" any less offensive than a 7-yea...
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Allan J's Ancient Error
Submitted by Silver Donald on Sunday on 07.7.08 at 2:04pm.
I have a bone to pick with Allan J. MacEachen.
It grieves me to say this, since “Allan J” – as he is universally known in his native Cape Breton – is a towering figure, and a much-loved one, with a record of public service stretching back into the mists of history.
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Fage To Remain As MLA
Submitted by Bryan H on 12.19.07 at 7:09pm.
Ernie Fage was found guilty of leaving the scene of an accident during an event last year. For those unfamiliar with the story behind the accident, you can check out a previous post titled "The Ernie Fage Saga".
A judge has fined him $920 for leaving the scene and he has been expelled from the...
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Sheila Fougere For Mayor Of Halifax
Submitted by Bryan H on 11.7.07 at 9:45pm.
I recently had the opportunity to have a meeting with the latest person to announce a run at Peter Kelly's position as Mayor of Halifax. Sheila Fougere has been on the City Council for the last 7 years and has decided that she will run for the position in 2008.
I asked her what some of the big...
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The only big HRM event this summer - political infighting
Submitted by Waye Mason on 07.4.07 at 6:48am.
It is a cruel word where your loyal scribe goes on vacation, and then all hell deliciously breaks loose in the world of massive expensive concert promotion in Halifax. Few things could compel me to put down the Corona and get off the beach in Pugwash to write a few words, but the situation betwee...
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The Premier hits the barricades, better late than never
Submitted by Waye Mason on 06.12.07 at 5:12am.
It is hard to say just what the damage to government of Canada will be since the rhetoric over the Atlantic Accord hit the boiling point this week. Bill Casey’s lonely stand against his government has quickly became a heroic and principled stand, at least out east.
Just what is at stake regard...
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Casey offers a drop of water in Nova Scotia’s political desert.
Submitted by Waye Mason on 06.6.07 at 6:39am.
Yesterday Bill Casey, Nova Scotia’s most senior Tory MP, demonstrated a remarkable amount of guts by voting against his government’s own budget. As a result he is likely to be ejected from the government caucus today.
The government has been spinning madly the last few days leading up to the v...
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Reality Television, War on the Homefront
Submitted by diezel on 08.10.06 at 2:18pm.
As I sat beneath the brick arches that make up the elementary school, I looked up from my cell phone on which I was typing a text message to a friend in Halifax about the logistics of an inefficient landlord from whom we have rented a house for the upcoming school year. Beside me, my best friend ...
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What's wrong with tv debates? Everything
Submitted by Paul McLeod on 06.2.06 at 9:22pm.
Ah, election debates. There’s really nothing like them. They’re almost always the same, not very satisfying, and yet to political junkies they’re pure heroin (minus the actual enjoyment that comes from heroin).
Every debate is like a rerun: a few guys standing around throwing out tag lines wh...
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