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  3. Canada’s template from page 144 of 2013 budget:
    “The Government proposes to implement a “bail-in” regime for systemically important banks. This regime will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital. This will reduce risks for taxpayers. The Government will consult stakeholders on how best to implement a bail-in regime in Canada. Implementation timelines will allow for a smooth transition for affected institutions, investors and other market participants.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/21/federal-budget-2013-full-text/

  4. In the “can hardly make this crap up” file…
    Cyprus: … (still,!)
    There is this possibility, that via the 2 major banks the Cyprus, er, EU bailout committee is chasing for funds, has already allowed the billions they’re chasing to flee the country.
    The 2 banks, “Laika & Bank of Cyprus” …
    Zerohedge & Reuters:
    “As it turns out, these same oligrachs may have used the one week hiatus period of total chaos in the banking system to transfer the bulk of the cash they had deposited with one of the two main Cypriot banks, in the process making the whole punitive point of collapsing the Cyprus financial system entirely moot.
    From Reuters:
    While ordinary Cypriots queued at ATM machines to withdraw a few hundred euros as credit card transactions stopped, other depositors used an array of techniques to access their money.
    No one knows exactly how much money has left Cyprus’ banks, or where it has gone. The two banks at the centre of the crisis – Cyprus Popular Bank, also known as Laiki, and Bank of Cyprus – have units in London which remained open throughout the week and placed no limits on withdrawals. Bank of Cyprus also owns 80 percent of Russia’s Uniastrum Bank, which put no restrictions on withdrawals in Russia. Russians were among Cypriot banks’ largest depositors.
    So while one could not withdraw from Bank of Cyprus or Laiki, one could withdraw without limitations from subsidiary and OpCo banks, and other affiliates?
    Just brilliant.”
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-25/have-russians-already-quietly-withdrawn-all-their-cash-cyprus

  5. I like this reporters persistence. Too bad we don’t have very many, if any, this side of the pond who aren’t afraid to annoy or anger the politician or bureaucrat they are questioning;

  7. Think were getting out moneys worth with Pamela Wallin the $1000/day Senator? What’s with her and the expenses? This is taxpayers money.
    Despicable.

  8. Re: Down South.
    My regards to the person who takes an old 78, 33 or 45 and takes the pops and scratches out of it. I had a friend, God bless his soul, who was legally blind. (Diabetes.) We`d bring him old records, and he`d run them through a computer program, then copy them on a CD. They were as good as new. Thanks EBD.

  11. The best point gutfield makes is that Carrey attacks/parodies rural Americans yet makes no note of the gangbangers and other urban thugs who are the perpetrators of the vast majority of gun violence.

  13. Great find.
    From the article ‘A.K. Haart of the Orphans of Liberty offers some thoughts about what the findings mean: “One by one, Mother Nature hoists the liars by their own petard, but she isn’t rushing at it like an amateur. Oh no – this is a finely honed professional job. Her knives are sharp and the day is long.”
    This is so beautiful!
    The collectivist minded will not however give up easily.

  17. Thanks for that Bernie. Strange that I’ve been unable to download the entire doc from any G of C. website.

  19. In the National Post:
    Terry Glavin: The bold, daring, visionary re-making of Canada’s history on Iraq
    http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/25/terry-glavin-the-bold-daring-visionary-re-making-of-canadas-history-on-iraq/
    Great article on Chretien’s preening about keeping Canada out of Iraq — but not a word about his in-laws’, Power Corporation’s Desemarais family’s, gas and oil deals with Saddam Hussein and how Canada’s entering into a war with Iraq would have put these deals in jeopardy.
    The Desmarais, who are also big contributors to the David Suzuki Foundation, wear an invisibility cloak in the Canadian media — which is why so few Canadians even know who they are. They’re not called Power Corporation for nothing.

  21. “Do you av a li-saunse for your doug.”
    Anti second amendment, baby seal murderer Mrs Gabrial Gifford (Mark Kelly), flaunts leashed dog regulations, beats his dog, kills a baby seal, allows game meat to spoil, pollutes the beach and ocean, and runs for it.
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ced_1364272549
    One can only imagine the horror this man could do if we gave him an assault weapon with a big clip.
    “No gat pour vous.”
    http://washingtonexaminer.com/tucson-gun-shop-denies-mark-kellys-rifle-purchase/article/2525406?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral

  27. Thanks, Terry Anderson, for the video of Joni Mitchell. I’ve always liked her. She’s a really fine singer/songwriter and one smart cookie. On modern morals:
    … Making vice chic was a tremendous error. The entire global village is suffering … and the generation coming up is malformed because of it. They [youth] never had a shot at innocence which is one of the privileges of childhood [are you listening Premier Wynne, you and your beloved LGBTQ crowd?] … When a culture has peace for too long it perverts. … We’re preparing a generation in a very shallow and frivolous way … the boys are weakened and the girls are grotesquely aggressive …
    It’s not just redneck, Christian yahoos who can see the writing on the wall …

  28. Yeah, I agree batb. I thought she summed that up pretty well. I doubt we’ll know peace much longer though. Things can’t keep on the way they are without some global house cleaning, so to speak.

  29. More of lamb-killing AGW. Now, AGW’s killing the economy.
    Nothing from Moonbat George, et al, ’bout the “Cold snap”, aka “dangerous weather”.
    “This March is looking to be one of the coldest on record. Transport routes across the UK remained impassable as deep snow drifts buried roads and the dangerous weather showed no immediate signs of abating.”
    …-
    “Cold snap ‘could cost economy £629m a day'”
    “Economists have raised concerns that Britain’s current cold snap could drag the country into a triple-dip recession, while one insurer claimed the snow could cost the economy £629m a day.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9954277/Cold-snap-could-cost-economy-629m-a-day.html

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