"COSTIN, the owner and director of operations for DataUSA, was charged with conspiracy to engage and engaging in a wire fraud scheme to defraud clients of DataUSA by falsifying and fabricating survey results."
The NDP convention gets off on a rocky start. So, they've decided to close the doors to the public.
The Ruxted Group on the Afghanistan debate: What Harper should say.
It has been suggested that our soldiers are winning on the battlefield while the government is losing the war in the nation’s cable television system. We will try, today, to explain to Members of Parliament and to the people of Canada why we are in Afghanistan and why we need to stay the course.
Adrienne Clarkson has a few stories to share;
It was July 20, 2004, the day the Liberal minority government was being sworn in at Rideau Hall. Such an occasion, by tradition, was a most formal event. But there were some of the prime minister's chief aides dressed in T-shirts and running shoes.
Any guesses as to which ones?
Add yours in the comments.
That would be Scott Reid....who is still in college drinking beer, smoking weed and tossing around ideas in dorm room "bull sessions" while the Tragically Hip play in the background and they throw a little nerf football around the room.
Yup the adults were in charge.
I am no Clarkson fan, but good on her to comment on the lack of respect. Mind you one wonders if she took it as an affront to "herself".
The comment that belies her elitism is that was please to hear Bach or Mozart playing in the background when Chretien called. Shows her inability to move beyond symbols of "civilization" to understand she was dealing with a street thug in a nice suit.
But yes that would be Scotty Reid.....
I'm outraged and I demand that the NDP reveal its hidden agenda to the Canadian people!
Outraged I say.
What is the NDP hiding? How can they claim to represent the people if the people are shut out? This is an outrage!!!
T-Shirts, Mozart, Russian anthems, anti-Americanism, up-staging, down-staging, on and on …
All symbolism, all the time. No facts. Nothing about hard choices.
The very model of a modern Governor General.
Saudi religious cops ban dog, cat sales
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women to cover themselves and ensuring men attend mosque prayers, are turning to a new target: cats and dogs.
The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence.
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"One bad habit spreading among our youths is the acquisition of dogs and showing them off in the streets and malls," wrote Aleetha al-Jihani in a letter to Al-Madina newspaper. "There's no doubt that such a matter makes one shudder."
"Then what's the point of dragging a dog behind you?" he added. "This is blind emulation of the infidels."
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060908/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_cat_and_dog_ban
Marriage 'keeps families united'
Couples with young children are five times more likely to split up if they are unmarried compared to those who have had weddings, the Tories claim.
Some 32% of unmarried parents split up before their child is three, a study of 15,000 people recited by the party's Social Justice Policy Group suggests.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5323798.stm
BMO rising in China's bank sector
SINCLAIR STEWART
Globe and Mail Update
Bank of Montreal's slow but steady march into the Chinese financial sector has earned it another high-profile investment banking assignment, this time as a co-manager on China Merchants Bank's impending $2.7-billion (U.S.) initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
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It was one of several global advisers that helped lead Bank of China's $11.2-billion IPO in June, and is expected to be angling for an even bigger prize next month: a chance to be part of the highly anticipated IPO for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which some industry observers expect could fetch as much as $19-billion, making it the largest stock offering in history.
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060908.wrbmo08/BNStory/Business/home
Hidden agenda eh?
To bad their hypocrisy is showing.
Does the NDP not want anyone to hear the party singing the Internationale?
All I need to know about Adrienne Clarkson is
* that she walked out on her husband and two daughters for a more adventurous life, when her daughters were still at home and needed their mother. Her daughters chose not to attend her induction as GG. I wonder why? They didn't invite her to their weddings, either.
* then, that she married John Ralston Saul only because she had been made GG and I guess she felt, rightly, that most Canadians wouldn't be very accepting of a GG shacked up with her boyfriend. If that sounds shoddy on my part, it's because the arrangement was shoddy on her part. I'm getting really tired of so-called role models eschewing marriage for alternate conjugal arrangements: It's definitely not what our own children need to see or emulate.
The feminists, like Clarkson, who decry women and children living in poverty actually contribute to the problem by completely disregarding the fact that one of the main indicators of women and children living in poverty is marriage breakdowns--or marriages never having taken place. Fatherless single mom homes--or, as in her case, motherless single father homes--are too often a disaster for kids .
Yup, must be Scott Reid in the T-shirt and sneakers. I couldn't open page 2 of the article where, I suspect, Clarkson tells all? It sounds like Scott Reid's typical childishness.
Re NDP off to a rocky start: I could barely believe my ears when Don Newman gave Jack Layton a really tough question on Politics last night. He challenged him on his stand on Afghanistan, very directly, and wasn't going to let him off the hook when JL neatly sidestepped the question.
On the other hand, I suppose that Newman would rather not see the NDP syphoning votes from the Liberals.
"What is the NDP hiding?"
Nothing.
And that's prcisely the point: they have nothing to offer and they represent nothing Canadians want.
Two cheers for the Enemy Party!
But,But JJ they are always saying This is what Canadians Want, Is it not so. When they say it enough times they actually believe what they are saying.
On the flip side:
I think that they might be minus 1 seat in a few months (stoffer)
Adrienne Clarkson was a good GG, her personal life aside, and a more fitting choice than Manic Martin made.
Sort of remember her saying at the time of her divorce her daughters would live with their father and something to the effect he was a better parent, but that's very personal and who would know?
As to marrying J.R.Saul, the optics of shacking up in Rideau Hall would not look good, the Queen would not be amused.
No doubt she suffered and has a lot of regrets in these later years. It's beyond most mothers' sensibilities to walk out on their children for any reason.
'beenaround the block: Don Newman is as Liberal as one can get. His demeanor changes when talking to Conservatives, he goes a tad beady-eyed, if you notice. He especially dislikes Harper because Harper won't take any crap and doesn't suffer fools.
Love the new CBC ad for the Newman show it states, "The Spin Stops Here", now that's a simple lie to start off the new season.
As to "marriage for alternate conjugal arrangements", Yuck! It appears people do not understand the anatomy of the variables.
Liz J, I appreciate your comments on Adrienne Clarkson.
I have a problem, however, divorcing someone's "personal life" from their public persona, especially if they are the Governor General of Canada. They are, whether they like it or not, a role model for others. (I don't mean, here, that a public person isn't entitled to their privacy: They shouldn't be followed around by paparazzi or be expected to expose their personal lives to the public.)
Someone is either a person of integrity or they are not. We all make mistakes, but some "mistakes," such as choosing one's own fulfillment at the expense of others' needs and sensibilities, especially one's children, are major moral problems that are difficult to overlook.
I'd also question some of Adrienne Clarkson's initiatives, like the state visit to Nordic countries of Clarkson and 59 Canadian artists and writers who visited Russia, Iceland, and Finland "to promote Canadian culture." Adrienne Clarkson, a former journalist and CBC employee, had interviewed many of these artists, many of them her friends, on her program "Adrienne Clarkson Presents" on the CBC. Conflict of interest? The trip cost the Canadian taxpayers $5.3 million, $4.3 million more than had been projected.
'been around the block:
As I wrote, her personal life aside, she did a good job as GG. Being a role model would be a factor if we purposely made an example of her and doubtless that would happen in the social fabric of present day Canada. Agreed, she is not a good example to follow in her role as a parent, she was a total failure.
Whatever her initiatives, she had to have the permission of Government to do any travelling.
The Nordic trek was outrageous in itself not to mention the artsy-fartsy hangers-on she took with her who were poor examples of Canadian Culture.
We can lay the blame on Chretien, he didn't give a tinker's damn about the office. Any controversy he could stir up for that position would be a bonus in his books.
Rex Murphy had a superb commentary about Afghanistan on
The National.
He criticized Harper (justly, I thought) for not explaining well enough why we are in Afghanistan, but he really tore a strip off of the NDP.
Nothing to say about the Liberals, though. Perhaps that's fair given that they are in the middle of a leadership race, and can not be expected to speak with a single coherent voice.
As someone that had the good fortune to know Adrienne Clarkson personally for a short time (put the bias out first), it frustrates the hell out of me when people attack her for that particular state visit.
1. The Governor General does not undertake a state visit unless the Government of Canada tells her to. Listening to Pat Martin santimoniously bleat on to any tv camera that would care to focus on him about how improper her visit was - despite he himself partaking in a past state visit - is the height of hypocrisy.
2. Culture is one of our three pillars of diplomacy - and while it is less attention-grabbing than Team Canada economic visits, there are significant benefits to be reaped by these sorts of exchanges.
3. The budget - as extravagant as it was billed to be - was decided on not by Mme Clarkson, but rather the government and DFAIT. She was hung out to dry and has a legitimate beef there.
Paul Wells had what I consider one of the better posts on this subject at the time - certainly converted me (someone who far prefers the artistry of soccer and hockey to that of La La La Human steps...). Apologies for the length, but without further ado....
Paul Wells.
You know what? The pundits are right. Let's bring a stop to the Governor General's trip to Russia, Finland and Iceland. Bring her home. Cancel the events. Save $1 million. Your caviar days are over, Adrienne! Flouncy Rosedale snob. Stop wasting my tax dollars!
It may be too late to cancel today's panel discussion on official languages at Moscow State Linguistic University, but maybe if we hurry... After all, Canada and Russia are the two largest countries in the world, both with bewildering mixes of indigenous and immigrant languages. Surely neither country has anything to tell the other about its experience. Surely neither has anything to learn. Let's bring Adrienne home instead! Save a buck!
We'll have to cancel tonight's televised panel discussions on literature and cinema. God forbid Russians should learn about Wayne Johnston, the Newfoundlander who most closely resembles the great Russian novelists in his evocation of landscape. God forbid our filmmakers trade ideas with the modern inheritors of Sergei Eisenstein. Yann Martel just signed a contract to sell a Russian-language edition of his Booker-winning novel The Life of Pi. If he stays in Russia, he might make more friends. He might learn something. Can't have that. Bring him home! Save a buck!
We'll have to cancel the opening show at an international dance festival, which would have featured Montreal's La La La Human Steps; the display of Edward Burtynsky's stunning photography in Iceland; the Russian premiere of Les Invasions Barbares, which was the toast of Cannes this year; and a few concerts by Measha Brueggergosman, the astonishing 26-year-old operatic soprano from New Brunswick.
Good riddance. Russians and Icelanders and Finns, after all, are simple folk like us. They have no interest in dance or film or books or languages. Hewers of wood, drawers of water, the lot of us! If we encourage the artists they'll only make more art. Can't have that! Bring 'em home! Save a buck!
But you know, it's a funny thing. I looked at the schedule for Clarkson's trip--something few commentators have actually done, judging from their commentaries--and I was surprised to learn it won't all be caviar and fancy gowns.
In Salekhard, a hardscrabble Russian industrial village north of Siberia, a local official will show Clarkson around Construction Camp 501, the gulag where he spent his childhood. The gulag was the mindless brutal fist of Stalinism, one of the cruellest dictatorships in the history of humankind. Millions of people died in those camps. Tens of millions more had hope ground out of them. Russia is Canada's second-closest neighbour in the world, but of course its past can hold no interest for us.
In Helsinki, Clarkson is to visit the Hietaniemi Cemetery, which commemorates the 87,000 Finns who died saving their country from Soviet domination. But really, who cares about a bunch of dead Finns? Bring her home!
But surely, you say, the problem is not that the GG is going to interesting places or doing interesting things. Surely it's that she's bringing an army of snooty pals with her. Surely it's her insistence on airlifting the effete Rosedale salon set half-way around the world. This trip is really just pork with wings, isn't it? Isn't it?
Uh, no. Allow me to go on at some length about Clarkson's guest list. She's going to the Arctic Circle to talk to Arctic countries about the possibilities and challenges of sharing the Arctic Circle, which Canada, inconveniently, does. And here's who she's bringing. Piotr Ditkiewicz, the director of Russian Studies at Carleton University. Steve Ivison, a specialist on aboriginal self-government in the government of the Northwest Territories. Peter Irniq, the Commissioner of Nunavut and a lifelong Inuit cultural teacher.
Gérard Duhaime, who holds a Canada Research Chair in comparative aboriginal conditions at Laval University. Dyane Adam, the federal commissioner of official languages, and her equivalent in the Northwest Territories, Fibbi Tatti. Arthur Collin, the president of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Shelagh Grant from Trent University, probably Canada's leading expert on the history of federal public policy with regard to the Far North.
I could go on. Given the amount of arrogantly ill-informed tripe that's been written about this trip, I probably should. One nice lady wrote to the Globe complaining that if we're throwing around $1 million a pop for trips like this, "no wonder there's no money for health care or farmers." Uh, no. This is Clarkson's first state visit in two years. In that time, Canada's federal and provincial governments have spent $230 billion on health care and , at a conservative guess, $20 billion subsidizing our farmers. So we actually had 250,000 times as much money for health and farmers as we did for Clarkson's vanity trips.
It is true she has the effrontery to take poets and dancers into fishing villages, as though the local yobs might have a brain and a heart. It is true she is arrogant enough to think a big country like Canada can learn from a small one like Iceland. It is true she thinks that, after two centuries with our noses pressed up against the window of the continent-wide American department store, we could maybe stand to turn around and notice our own astonishing back yard. And maybe, just this once, get to know our other neighbours.
How silly of her.
Homercles:
Suffice to say Adrienne Clarkson was among the best GG's we have had. She was outstanding and deserved more accolades than criticism. She was well spoken and a class act with the criticisms swirling around her.
One name on the "guest list",Dyane Adam, Federal commissioner of Official Languages, is either in over her head, or the position is useless and redundant.
Homercles:
Sounds very much like you were rather closely involved with Adrienne's term as GG.
Homercles: "there are significant benefits to be reaped by these sorts of exchanges"
two years later could you name one the benefits that has been reaped?
Liz J - yes, I was involved in her term and was lucky in some cases to see the amazing good that someone in that position can do.
For Down on the Farm.....
How do you want me to quantify "benefit" - if you are talking about contacts and $$$s, there is precious little of that in cultural and academic exchanges. But you asked, so here is one:
Following a bilateral meeting between the two national librarians on one of these wasteful visits, Canada located and returned hundreds of manuscripts and books that were spirited out of Chile during the Pinochet years.
What the hell - here's another. Joe Gosnell, who is the leader of the Nisgaa (spelt wrong I am certain) tribe in northern British Columbia inspired (and I mean truly inspired) aboriginal leaders in Argentina with his frank words on assuming responsibility for your own destiny and his experiences in negotiating a self-government agreement with the federal government.
Clarkson, for all her "snobbery" and "waste", made these things happen.
I live and work in Ottawa and can certainly assure you that there is unneccessary waste in the Federal government (surprisingly less in the last year or so - thank you Mr. Harper). So let's focus on the gun registry, INAC, Immigration, and stop harping on a $2 million state visit.
Clarkson has her faults - no doubt about that - but in my view she completely reinvented the instituation and made it relevant again.
Whether or not we need it is another thing, but for her five or six years of effort, more Canadians now know we have a Governor General and some of them may actually know what it is that one does.
Homercles, the value of the "significant benefits" is debatable but I appreciate the examples...thank-you.
I agree with BATB on the usefulness of GG Adrianne. She was a wealthy Hong Kong immigrant (not a refugee) and she was a left wing elitiest ceebeecee journalist (I use the term loosly!) before she was rewarded for her commie views by the big commie himself, the Cretian.
In her 'tell all' she says President Bush 'upstaged' the Queen when in reality it was Adrianne who attempted to 'upstage' the Queen of England. Queen Elizabeth II was 'not amused' and the Canadian Vets at the Normandy beaches were 'not amused either!! The latter were disgusted and ashamed - I was furious that Clarkson would put those WWII soldiers in the position of shame when they had every right to be PROUD of Canada!!
All Canadian msm, with the VERY notable exception of Mr. Granatstein, were disgracefully ill informed, condesending to our soldiers; 'they' downplayed Canada's heroic soldiers substantial influence , bravery and abilities as soldiers who helped rid the world of Hitler and his Nazi thugs, at every oppertunity. I actually hated her for that; I will never forgive her and P. Pansbridge for that foul taste in my mouth and heart. I felt huge compassion for the fine soldiers grown old and frail who DESERVED honor and respect and got patronizing condensation from the snippy GG and made on the fly comments from peeter. Thank Heavens Mr. Granatstein was correcting Pansbridge whenever he could get thunder yap to pause for breath. Mr. Granatstein saved what he could for the dignity of Canada's WWII soldiers who had lost so much that day and who were overwhelmed with memories.
As for her (Clarkson's)Junket to Russia - it cost us way too much money for nothing. We just flushed it down the toilet, but we let the Liberano's get away with Adscam too....some people still say they would vote Liberano ..go figure. We should have a proper GG or eliminate the position.
I'm still wondering who was wearing the T-shirts and sneakers at Rideau Hall.
Homercles, your spirited defence of Adrienne Clarkson may be admirable; you say you know her well and were closely connected to her Governor Generalship.
It's a pretty tight circle, however, and most Canadians would have found nothing whatever in common with "the 59 artists and writers" who accompanied her and her husband on this Nordic junket.
You can't blame the whole thing on the government. Surely the GG would have SOME say in whether or not she was going to head up such a vast delegation.
From my vantage point on "the outside" looking in, Clarkson and her husband, being themselves "artists/writers," seemed to be part of an elite and privileged coterie travelling on our dime with very little to show the Canadian public for our largesse, forced as it was.
I don't happen to think that "the benefit" of a Canadian promoting the idea of Native self-government in Argentina is such a great idea. You can't have two parallel governments in one country: It just doesn't work. Look dispassionately at Canada and the situation of most of our Native peoples and then remind yourself about what's so great about Native self-government. It's pretty well been a disaster for Canada's indigenous people. And it's costing the rest of the Canadian people millions and millions of dollars every year, with no visible benefit to any of us. Have you checked Caledonia out lately?
whoa...slow down on the single parent comments..my ex is a falling down drunk...i raised 3 daughters on my own...oldest in college, the other 2 doing quite well in school....no crime, no crack, no satan worship....it was tough, i had no support from society at all, especially the system...but we did it as well as any "normal" family...
kingstonlad, your situation doesn't parallel Adrienne Clarkson's in any way. She chose to leave her family for greener pastures, whereas you obviously had no choice but to single parent your children--as did my own mother. I know how difficult it is to grow up in a single-parent family, so I wasn't criticizing single moms or dads across the board. Under very difficult circumstances, most single parents do a heroic job. 'Sounds like you do.
My intent was not to denigrate any single parents (and for some reason whenever I bring up fatherless (or motherless) single mom (or dad) famlies, people jump to the conclusion that I'm "against" them and the people involved. I am not.)
What I have a deep concern about is a society--and especially so-called role models--that treat the family as just as disposable as a Tim Horton's coffee cup. The advent of a new and radical wave of feminism in the '60s (the early feminists, remember, considered husbands and children as extremely important) was accompanied by the notion that husbands and children were expendible, especially if a woman was going to fulfill herself and her own aspirations. Children were born without their parents ever forming--or ever planning to form--a family, and children in intact families were often abandoned at a shocking rate--by either father or mother.
We now have a situation in North America where marrying, having children, and intending to live as a family for the foreseeable future are not top priorities of young people. Children are being neglected (not yours, obviously; nor were my siblings and I) at an unprecedented rate, and I know the havoc this is wreaking on the kids and on our civil society because I deal with these children and their anti-social, sometimes deeply pathological behaviours, every day in the classroom.
That's what I was getting at, kingstonlad. Sorry if you felt I was being critical of your individual situation.
I don't need to know the intimate details of the Clarkson family to know that this:
"I look back on that period of estrangement and do not know where I got the strength to deal with it. I knew I had the right to see them, but they wouldn't see me. I was rejected, I was a victim and I suffered."
...is a total Liberal move and seriously puts Clarkson's character in doubt. The onus is on the parent, not the child, to exhibit leadership in a family. Only a Liberal like Clarkson would blame the breakup of her family on her children and claim to be a victim.
Homercles:
Adrienne Clarkson's term as GG improved the profile of the office and she should have been given much more credit and a more dignified send-off. Given all the criticism thrown at her and her husband, a lesser person would have told them to shove it. She gave far more than she gained, having her personal life nit-picked to death for all to see. Hope she has a happy retirement from Public scrutiny.
For the post of Governor General to be filled with the perfect individual it would have to remain vacant, no such person exists. However, some are much less deserving of the honour, our present one would fit that category. We have a long list of exemplary candidates from which the fool, Martin could have chosen, he was too busy worrying about his own butt to give any thought to the matter and cared less. He is where he belongs now, his political career a shambles and a legacy to go with it. He treated Adrienne shabbily, probably because of his morbid hatred for Chretien.
People forget, this posting has been taken into the partisan realm of politics and the blame has to be put right there. Next time we hope for change.
Why aren't we discussing the present GG? she and her husband flirted with Separatistes, he carries a French passport and so did she until she pulled it, doubtless temporarily to stop the hollering and did nothing to deserve the posting.
Strange, everyone is silent on the matter now.
It's still beat up on the former GG. We all agree she failed as a mother, she bailed out on her kids and they naturally rejected her, that would be a normal reaction and they all suffered, she is smart enough to know that. She got what she deserved on that front, no point drumming on it, she is in private life, let's wish her well.
In The No Spin Dept: Story with CP today about "Canada's first war resistor".
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/09/09/1818892-cp.html
Seems that some second leutenant wannabe washed out of Gagtown after refusing to go on the obstacle course. He thought the money and education was dandy but never figure he'd have to carry a rifle and maybe serve his country. Dippers are already all over him wanting a new guest speaker at this weekend's love-in.
Thing that gets my goat is the media spin on this "war resistor". That's right, he is somehow a news item because he quit. It is just as well he did quit otherwise I'd be worried about the men he would have tried to lead into combat. It never fails to amaze me how everyone loves the military to give them an education and pay the bills but when told to earn their money and do the job they are being paid for then it is a cry-me-a-river tune time. Disgusting.
Of course I agree with Liz J when she says "For the post of Governor General to be filled with the perfect individual it would have to remain vacant, no such person exists."
But I was thinking of GGs like Roland Mitchener and, especially, Georges P. Vanier, both of whom were absolutely exemplary Governors General, with amazingly competent and gracious wives: Norah Mitchener and Pauline Vanier.
In the '60s, the Vanier's son, Jean, founded L'Arche (The Ark), a community for handicapped adults, which now has houses all over the world for individuals whose families can no longer care for them. "Assistants" live with the adults who require help with their day to day needs, the understanding being that every one of us is handicapped in some way. L'Arche homes are oases of imperfect human beings who love and help one another extraordinarily well.
Of course no one's perfect, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have very high standards for this office.
I'd also agree with Liz J about real concerns about our present GG and her French spouse with Separatist sympathies, but Kate included Adrienne Clarkson in this thread, not Michaelle Jean.
Motorvation or Wake up time GM
The number of over 10 year old cars on the road ,[my trusty *87 Jeep included], now stands at about 6.8 million cars [2005 figure. Canada]
===== Toronto Star ==
Automobiles are now living longer; 6.8 million decade-old cars on the road Manufacturers building better vehicles; [ONT Edition]
Tony Van Alphen. Toronto Star. Toronto, Ont.: Sep 5, 2006. pg. D.1
People: DesRosiers, Dennis
Section: Business
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Abstract (Document Summary)
[Dennis DesRosiers] said that over the years, auto manufacturers have been building vehicles better so they last longer. For example, galvanized steel started replacing carbon steel in the late 1980s and reduced body corrosion dramatically.
At the same time, DesRosiers said governments aren't doing much to put the brakes on the trend and force older vehicles off the road through requirements for better fuel economy ...
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Ok, I can save you $3.95 here.
That is Dennis of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants who adds that a consumer shift to more truck purchases has also added to vehicle longevity.
At the same time governments are not doing much to stop the older vehicle trend through emissions or mileage standards, he said.
Dennis rejects the argument that many can not afford new models because statistics indicate real prices have dropped in recent years.
== I say, give me an incentive to buy a new car! My *87 Jeep Wagoneer looks as good as the new Jeeps. I admit one of the electric windows is sticky and it*s starting to use oil, but it is still respectable transportation.
Give me the chance to by an Electric car for about 16G [overpriced for electric simplicity], and I am your new car customer. Motorvation by controlled gas explosions is old fashioned , stinky and needlessly dangerous. Not to mention poison anti-freeze. = TG
uhhh TG, I think you're posting on the wrong thread unless you're comparing the Motorvation with Clarkson, kinda makes sense I suppose.
'been around the block: Right, this thread is on Adrienne, now retired.We have time to judge Madam Jean, there is not a peep on her after all the furor after that fool, Martin had someone find a GG for him, he didn't care a damn who it was, he was worrying about his own sorry ass.
Sure agree with your list of exemplary GG's we have had. The worst was Sauve, she made a mockery of the Office any way she could, closing the grounds to the public is one example.
Romeo Leblanc even interfered with the Coat of Arms, he was not a good fit for the privilege to serve as GG in my opinion.
Hopefully Harper will remain in office long enough to select the next privileged person or change the selection method. Politics should not enter into it, the Queen is apolitical and her representative should be also.
United Democratic Nations discussion.
Speakers include Ambassador John Bolton, Natan Sharansky, Senators Norm Coleman and Tom Coburn, Bill Bennett, Jed Babbin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Claudia Rosett, Anne Bayefksy. (It also says President Bush, but we'll see.)
Monday September 11/06
w w.keshertalk.com/archives/2006/09/unconference911.php
I am rivited on this one. Switching from UN to UDN can not happen soon enough for me.
See why.. ht tp /BendGovernment.blogspot.com
=TG
Clarkson? She was an absolute disgrace to Canada.
Ethics: Failed to dissolve parliament when her mandate demanded it.
Economics and waste: She squandered millions of our dollars on artsy fartsy travels to places like Iceland for her selected clique of friends.
Better forgotten. = TG
"Steven MacKinnon,
national director of the Liberal Party of Canada,
said Sunday that the party has been working on a code of ethics since last year,
although it won't apply to MPs or senators." cnews ...-
Theme Song of Da Canadienne Librano$*
We've been workin' on da ethic$ (da Canadian value$)
All the live long year,
We've been workin' on the da ethics,
Just to pa$$ the time away...
*Doe$n't apply to Lib MP$, Senator$ ...-
Mafia and Hells Angels turn over new leaf.
Let*s go legit, boys. = TG
I've seen the Gazette article that talks about Clarkson's comments on not dissolving the house in the first 6 months, but what does she have to say about last May's constitutional crisis when PM was ignoring several confidence defeats and she should have forced dissolution?
Observer, Exactly. = TG
Georgie's "call to arms"! "In a fiery speech"; to "defenders"... blah, blah, blah... Rhetoric of a desperate, failed, socialist politician.
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TORONTO (CP) - Doctors have exposed the country's treasured medicare system to a serious threat by electing an advocate for private care to lead the Canadian Medical Association, Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman said Monday.
In a fiery speech billed as a "call to arms" for the defenders of public health care, Smitherman had harsh words for those who elected Dr. Brian Day, the owner of a Vancouver private-care clinic, as president of the association three weeks ago.
Day "is one of those who believes in a system where well-off Canadians can pay to get faster treatment" than those using medicare, Smitherman told a business audience at the Economic Club of Toronto.
"Everything in his long track record makes it appropriate to raise the concerns and risks associated with him in that role. I believe that public health care system that most people in this country cherish is under threat."
Smitherman also lashed out at the federal Conservative government and Health Minister Tony Clement. ...-
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Did you miss Nic Robertson*s Taliban in Pakistan Video from CNN?
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/12/syria.embassy/index.html
Essential viewing.
This link takes you to the Embassy video. Click the Roberton / Taliban video in the window on the right. = TG
Did you miss Nic Robertson*s Taliban in Pakistan Video from CNN?
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/12/syria.embassy/index.html
Essential viewing.
This link takes you to the Embassy video. Click the Roberton / Taliban video in the window on the right. = TG