[Seventeen years ago, post-Soviet Russia was a geopolitical doormat, too poor and weak to exert much influence beyond its borders. This month, at an international summit in Romania, Russia intimidated Western Europe into scuttling a proposal for NATO expansion. Historically, only war has caused rapid, profound shifts in the European balance of power. Russia’s rise, however, has a less malignant, if more bizarre, origin: German environmentalism.] Icecap

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/co2_constraints_have_major_global_security_impacts/

Canada makes it big on Drudge. Twice !

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2008/04/21/5343616-sun.html

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=be4b2831-e1ca-4d91-a8d0-426ce36fe059

Bolivia's Left Wing Prez, Evo Morales:

"If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system." (Tuesday, 22 April 2008 at the UN)

Canada's Maurice Strong:

"Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse." (September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7359880.stm

http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html

At least our very own Canadian beat him by more than a decade !!

Charlotte Church sings my native anthem:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hz9_ELpil9w

Correction; my ancestral anthem.

Bolivia's Left Wing Prez, Evo Morales:

"If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system." (Tuesday, 22 April 2008 at the UN)

Saw that on BBC, and the woman reporting continues on "and now to the weather" like this was just a natural statement like "comunism rules" or something else dear to her heart

Problems in the US with electronic voting machines:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LBrDzZCOQtI

ALGore...LIVE...and he charges 100k plus for this?
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/243

Thanks, Kate for a great blog. You are a breath of "fresh air". Pardon the pun!

Happy birthday, ulianov (iberia?)! You do know that some of those machines are made in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and that no one in Canada is considering their use, right?

Here's the seat breakdown of the CPC in/out election money transfers. Just curious as to how many of these were won by the CPC and if enough of these were won so that it actually made a difference, as Ralph Goodale claims, in whether or not the Liberals could have won a minority.

None of the NL seats involved were won by the CPC. Can SDA readers help out here?

British Columbia
Burnaby-Douglas, George Drazenovic
Burnaby-New Westminster, Marc Dalton
Cariboo-Prince George, Dick Harris
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Troy DeSouza
Kelowna-Lake Country, Ron Cannan
Kootenay-Columbia, Jim Abbott
Nanaimo-Cowichan, Norm Sowden
Okanagan-Coquihalla, Stockwell Day
Okanagan-Shuswap, Colin Mayes
Prince George-Peace River, Jay Hill
Vancouver East, Elizabeth M. Pagtakhan
Vancouver Kingsway, Kanman Wong

Saskatchewan
Cypress Hills-Grasslands, David Anderson
Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River, Jeremy Harrison

Manitoba
Winnipeg Centre, Helen Sterzer

Ontario
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Ian West
Davenport, Theresa Rodrigues
Kitchener Centre, Steven Cage
London-Fanshawe, Dan Mailer
Parkdale-High Park, Jurij Klufas
Sarnia-Lambton, Patricia Davidson
Scarborough Centre, Roxanne James
Thunder Bay-Rainy River, David Leskowski
Timmins-James Bay, Ken Graham
Toronto Danforth, Kren Clausen
Trinity-Spadina, Sam Goldstein
Vaughan, Richard Majkot
Windsor West, Al Teshuba
York-South Weston, Steve Halicki

Quebec
Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel, Suzanne Courville
Beauce, Maxime Bernier
Beauport-Limoilou, Sylvie Boucher
Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Becancour, Marie-Eve Helie-Lambert
Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles, Daniel Petit
Compton-Stanstead, Gary Caldwell
Drummond, Jean-Marie Pineault
Hull-Aylmer, Gilles Poirier
Lac-Saint-Louis, Andrea Paine
Laurentides-Labelle, Jean-Sarge Beauregard
Levis-Bellechasse, Steven Blaney
Lotbiniere-Chutes-de-la-Chaudiere, Jacques Gourde
Louis-Hebert, Luc Harvey
Louis-Saint-Laurent, Josee Verner
Megantic-L'Erable, Christian Paradis
Montmorency-Charlevoix, Yves Laberge
Mount Royal, Neil Martin Drabkin
Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine, Allen F. Mackenzie
Pierrefonds-Dollard, Don Rae
Pontiac, Lawrence Cannon
Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier, Howard M. Bruce
Quebec, Frederik Boisvert
Richmond-Arthabaska, Jean Landry
Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Ishrat Alam
Shefford, Jean Lambert
Sherbrooke, Marc Nadeau

New Brunswick
Beausejour, Omer Leger
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, Charles Doucet

Nova Scotia
Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Robert A. Campbell
Halifax, Andrew House
Halifax West, Rakesh Khosla

Prince Edward Island
Malpeque, George Noble

Newfoundland and Labrador(NONE OF THESE SEATS WERE WON BY THE CPC, ALL LIBERAL)
Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Aaron Hynes
Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte, Cyril Pelley Jr.
Labrador, Joe Goudie
Random-Burin-St. George's, Cynthia Downey

*
"I want to eat better, feel better, and help offset the damage
that Al Gore is doing to the environment by eating meat."

*

Glen good post, like stealing 40 million or whatever these stinking liberals stole is so forgotten, but the best these snakes can come up with is Cadman, Elections Canada yada yada yada, all these stinking liberals represent is failure, yes failure. Waste all the valuable time in the house of commons with trivial crap because here in opposition there is no money to steal, yes NO MONEY TO STEAL, Oh my god we have to get back into power, qquick dig up a scandal of the week call the CBC and fart bottler Fife.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7359258.stm

[BBC] Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth....

Okey dokey, fine by me. ;-)

Glenn does this help. Some of the names dont match yours. Although the first two are NDP.

http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

Also as we all know our EX PMPM doesnt turn up and according to Steve Janke at AGWN neither does the liberal from Guelph. So we need to ask, if Ralphie is right what difference would it make if libs are only taking the money and running anyway?

Muslim Call for Mecca Time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7359258.stm

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

Glenn:

Harrison lost by .5% and gained 3% of the vote over 2004. His Liberal opponent gained 11%.

Anderson gained 6% of the vote over the 2004 election, and his seat would not have been in doubt. He had 60% of the vote in 2004.

It would be interesting to hear how the Liberal and NDP advertising was handled, considering they are saying that the Conservatives were offside.

'iowahawk' posts an AD for the YALE ART SCHOOL

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/04/close-cover-bef.html

Ottawa citizen commenting on Kate's case with Mr Alzheimer's.

Thunder Bay- Rainy River - LIBERAL
Toronto Danforth - LIBERAL
Trinity-Spadina - NDP

you can find the list of MP's here
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E

Kates case with Mr Alzheimer's mentioned in outdated MSM, :)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=60849e8f-98d9-43c5-9a8c-775a48a3a72b&k=13709

h/t steynian

John Podhoretz, The News Mausoleum

For newspapers, these are the end times, or something very much like them. Every week provides a new marker on the road to apocalypse: hundreds of layoffs in Los Angeles, circulation scandals in Dallas and Long Island, buyout packages in New York and Washington. Newspaper-circulation numbers are released twice a year, and for the past decade those numbers have charted an uninterrupted downward curve, accelerating at speeds now approaching an avalanche.

Designed as a monument to the daily, the Newseum may in fact be its mausoleum, with the marble First Amendment slab serving as its tombstone.

Kates case with Mr Alzheimer's mentioned in outdated MSM, :)

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=60849e8f-98d9-43c5-9a8c-775a48a3a72b&k=13709

h/t steynian

Monitored comment is HERE.

warman chrc, et al - 1
freespeechers - 0

Bret Stephens, Afghans Build an Army, and a Nation

"The Afghan soldiers are a lot tougher than the Iraqis," says Lt. James Harryman, one of the British trainers on site. "This is a warrior culture." Between March 1, 2007, and March 30, 2008, some 370 Afghan soldiers were killed in Afghanistan – by comparison, U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan numbered 117; British fatalities, 43; Canadian fatalities, 36. Still, Afghan soldiers routinely express shame that foreigners are doing the work of dying for their country. That job, they insist, is one they want for themselves...

Cosmetic pesticides to be banned in Ontario – happy dirt day, children.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080422.PESTICIDES22/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

Now, if they would only ban cats...

Spengler, Rice, death and the dollar

The global food crisis is a monetary phenomenon, an unintended consequence of America's attempt to inflate its way out of a market failure. There are long-term reasons for food prices to rise, but the unprecedented spike in grain prices during the past year stems from the weakness of the American dollar. Washington's economic misery now threatens to become a geopolitical catastrophe.

(Via Connecting... the Dots) Corals Flourish at "Nuked" Atoll

Huge colonies of Porites coral growing up to 26 feet (8 meters) high flourish in the Bravo Crater in the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll in this undated photograph.

A recent international survey of the 1.2-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) crater, created in 1954 by the impact of the most powerful atom bomb ever detonated by the U.S., shows that some coral species have bounced back.

(Via The Times Comment Central) An ubercreepy Ron Paul campaign ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3MLTvYBQy0

My skin is still crawling.

From Powerline:
Paris never disappoints but Parisians sometimes do

"In an earlier post, I explained why Paris never disappoints me. The same cannot be said of Parisians.

"At times, Americans have been disappointed by displays of French anti-Americanism. I witnessed no such open displays and there appears to be little hostility towards American visitors. However, I saw several incidents that suggested the Parisian attitude towards America itself is, to put it kindly, unfortunate.

"In the most jarring case, I overheard a Parisian tour guide explaining to French tourists how revisionist French historians have shown that America inflicted more damage than necessary on the towns and villages of Normandy during the invasion.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080422.PESTICIDES22/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

After reading this I immediately went to my local Home Depot and purchased enough for a few years.
Matter of fact, I just completed putting Weed & Feed on my lawn for the first time this spring.
Luckily we live just a stone's throw from the US, so we will be able to get replenished there.

Night of violence

Once again, a victory by the Montreal Canadiens has ended in violence.
And once again, downtown merchants and police cars were the target.
The Canadiens series-clinching Game 7 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night was overshadowed by riots downtown.
Celebrations began calmly but around midnight, things turned ugly.
People began torching police cruisers then turned their fury on local businesses, smashing windows and looting several stores.
Five or six cruisers were torched and another 10 were so badly vandalized, that they had to be towed.
Riot police were called in, 16 people were arrested -- three of them were minors.
They'll face a range of charges including mischief and assaulting a police officer.

... ... ...

from CFCF 12 Montreal

Thank gawd Montreal WON, eh?

Any questions for the head of CBC's English Television?:

Here's yer chance

I'll start:
Where does all that money go?
Why do you hire so many activists?
What does David Suzuki get paid to coerce Canadians to extremist environmental positions?
What is your position on workplace relationships?

Hey - our team won! Let's riot!!!

These morons are the same ilk as the anti-globalization mobs. Get a crowd together, have some sort of event or trigger, and run around torching stuff to make up for the complete impotence they have.

Not in their lives will they be able to command attention as a person, nor contribute anything substantive to Canada.

I'd hope that severe jail time and full financial restitution lays before those charged and found guilty. But, this is Canada.

We're tolerant, eh?

This is interesting:

"Not guilty verdict in Baltovich murder trial"

"After fighting nearly 18 years to clear his name, Robert Baltovich has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the killing his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain."

"The verdict came Tuesday, moments after the Crown stunned a Toronto courtroom with the announcement that it would not bring any evidence or witnesses forward in the trial. Prosecutors also said they wouldn't make any submissions."

"Ontario Superior Court Judge David McCombs, in response, told the jury the only possible verdict would be not guilty. After a few moments of private deliberations, the jury of six men and six women returned with the verdict."

"His lawyer, James Lockyer, a prominent advocate for the wrongfully accused, has repeatedly said he suspects convicted sex killer Paul Bernardo was involved in Bain's disappearance. Bernardo confessed in 2005 to a series of rapes in Scarborough about the same time as Bain's disappearance."
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/22/baltovich-trial.html

Britain Cancels St. George's Parade Over Fear of Muslim Riots

In 2006 Church of England officials contemplated giving Saint George the boot from his perch as Patron Saint of England because he was too offensive for modern day Muslims.

Now, British officials have cancelled an annual St. George's Day Parade in Bradford in fear that Muslims will riot. Many of the youngsters had already made flags of St George to carry in the parade on April 23, which was designed to boost community cohesion.
Oh well...

---From GatewayPundit April 21 2008,

"Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth."

??? I thought the centre of the earth was Toronto???

Goodale suggests Election was "Tainted", high ranking liberal questions government's legitimacy as he makes vist to the city.
www.owensoundsuntimes.com

Was the result legitimate? Is this in fact a tainted government because it's election was tainted?
Ralph Goodale

Ok Ralph And why is it that Elections Canada Have still not investigated the Liberals during the biggest Scam or Scandal in Canada's History, So Ralph you say the election was tainted, Which Ones? Chretians 1rst majority, 2nd or Martins Minority? Did the Tainted Monies That were funneled in the Pyramid Scheme known as Adscam Help Sway those Election results, Canadians want to know?.

Ralph visited our city last nite to speak to the local liberal riding association, Nothing in the article as too how many paid $100 a plate to listen to the Doctor of Spin.

"Liberal Appointed Judge signed Warrant to Search tory HQ"
Elizabeth Thompson-The Gazette via National Newswatch

Something Smells Bigtime, Whats Next on the Liberal tactical list are we going to see them bring down the Government with their Scandal Tactics in order to Sway the Public opinion of their Failed Leader.
I think this is the next move

Invitation to a swindle?:

Happy Earth Day Cal!

I’m Rupert Duchesne, President and CEO of Aeroplan.

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Obviously, no one would want to take air travel out of our program, or ask you not to fly. But we are taking steps to mitigate the effects of air travel on the atmosphere and we want to help our members also take action against climate change.

As a company, we offset 100% of our business travel and, since December, members have been able to use their Aeroplan Miles to buy carbon offsets to offset the emissions generated by their reward travel and everyday activities. A year ago, we also introduced a new category of eco-friendly rewards that will continue to expand over the coming months.

To celebrate Earth Day and encourage more members to participate, starting today and for the rest of the month of April, Aeroplan will match all miles redeemed for carbon offset credits by 25% instead of the usual 20%. The credits will then be transferred to the Carbon Reduction Fund, an independent, non-profit organization with the mission of funding only the highest-quality offset projects.

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We’ve made offsetting exceptionally easy for members—please visit Aeroplan.com for more details.

Aeroplan is committed to reducing our environmental footprint. We will continue to add more eco-friendly programs and initiatives, for our employees and members, in the months and years to come. Stay tuned.

Remember, every time you redeem online you can offset your carbon emissions with extra miles as part of the transaction—it's very easy indeed.

Thank you for helping us green up our world!

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[BBC] Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth....

philM -- you'd have to call it "mo-time!" Wait a minute, I live on ET! They can't do it, I'd be too confused~~~

When I signed out of hotmail this morning the msn site had a feature article entitled "Global Warming Are We Toast". The article was an expose' on the Goracle and gave evidence against the hysteria of global warming. I later tried to go back and share the article with others, but I found that it disappeared. I was incredulous that this aticle was on a site like this. Readers gave it a four out of five star rating. I am a net surfing novice. Can anyone help me get it back?

McGuinty like all LIEberals, buying support one terrorist group at a time... This one cost taxpayers $250,000
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Yesterday, I blogged the news that Ontario Khalsa Darbar -- a massive Sikh temple in Mississaugua, Ont. that received a quarter of a million dollars from the McGuinty government as part of its infamous $32-million ethnic slush fund -- had lost its Canadian government charity registration.

http://tinyurl.com/5al6h5

Global warming-climate change is dead.
The socialist* doomsayers/fearmongers have another apocalypse for you.
...-

"Rising Food Prices 'A Silent Tsunami'
The Telegraph (UK)"
...-

*Socialist Death. Here is Uncle Joe Stalin's Menu.

Ukraine Famine"
An estimated 14 million people died of starvation, mostly in Ukraine but also in the North Caucasus, Kazakhstan and Russia. In a three-part series, ...
www.faminegenocide.com/resources/ukraine_famine.html"

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2008 1:38 PM

Robert - here is the link. Honest dude, spend some time and work the whole internet thing out. It ain't hard, and being dependant upon others when you don't have to be is really, really, liberal.

http://green.sympatico.msn.ca/article.aspx?cp-documentid=473924

That moron Goodale hasn't mentioned where the $60 million the Libranos stole in Adscam was spent on during the previous 2 elections.

Brown envelopes handed out in Quebec maybe? Or was is simply Libranos being incestuous - keeping the money in the family?

Michael J. Totten, The Case of Bilal Hussein

Last week, Associated Press photographer (and alleged insurgent collaborator) Bilal Hussein was released from custody after an Iraqi tribunal decided his case fell under an amnesty law passed earlier in 2008. The United States military had accused Hussein of working with insurgent groups in Anbar Province, in part because of his uncanny ability repeatedly to photograph insurgents in action.

I don’t know if he’s guilty or not, and he deserves the presumption of innocence. Either way, his case brings attention to an issue most consumers of news from Iraq rarely consider: the fact that large media companies--the Associated Press and other news wire agencies and newspapers--work with some sketchy characters in Iraq...

UPDATED

British Columbia
Burnaby-Douglas, George Drazenovic DEFEATED
Burnaby-New Westminster, Marc Dalton DEFEATED Cariboo-Prince George, Dick Harris WON (incumbent)
Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Troy DeSouza DEFEATED
Kelowna-Lake Country, Ron Cannan WON (previously held by CPC)
Kootenay-Columbia, Jim Abbott WON (incumbent)
Nanaimo-Cowichan, Norm Sowden DEFEATED
Okanagan-Coquihalla, Stockwell Day WON (incumbent)
Okanagan-Shuswap, Colin Mayes WON (previously held by CPC)
Prince George-Peace River, Jay Hill WON (incumbent)
Vancouver East, Elizabeth M. Pagtakhan DEFEATED
Vancouver Kingsway, Kanman Wong DEFEATED
Saskatchewan
Cypress Hills-Grasslands, David Anderson WON (incumbent)
Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River, Jeremy Harrison DEFEATED
Manitoba
Winnipeg Centre, Helen Sterzer DEFEATED
Ontario
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Ian West DEFEATED
Davenport, Theresa Rodrigues DEFEATED
Kitchener Centre, Steven Cage DEFEATED
London-Fanshawe, Dan Mailer DEFEATED
Parkdale-High Park, Jurij Klufas DEFEATED
Sarnia-Lambton, Patricia Davidson WON, (seat previously held by Liberal Roger Gallaway)
Scarborough Centre, Roxanne James DEFEATED
Thunder Bay-Rainy River, David Leskowski DEFEATED
Timmins-James Bay, Ken Graham DEFEATED
Toronto Danforth, Kren Clausen DEFEATED
Trinity-Spadina, Sam Goldstein DEFEATED
Vaughan, Richard Majkot DEFEATED
Windsor West, Al Teshuba DEFEATED
York-South Weston, Steve Halicki DEFEATED
Quebec
Argenteuil-Papineau-Mirabel, Suzanne Courville DEFEATED
Beauce, Maxime Bernier WON, (seat previously held by Liberal Claude Drouin)
Beauport-Limoilou, Sylvie Boucher WON, (seat previously held by Bloc Christian Simard)
Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Becancour, Marie-Eve Helie-Lambert DEFEATED
Charlesbourg-Haute-Saint-Charles, Daniel Petit WON, (seat previously held by Bloc Richard Marceau)
Compton-Stanstead, Gary Caldwell DEFEATED
Drummond, Jean-Marie Pineault DEFEATED
Hull-Aylmer, Gilles Poirier DEFEATED
Lac-Saint-Louis, Andrea Paine DEFEATED
Laurentides-Labelle, Jean-Sarge Beauregard DEFEATED
Levis-Bellechasse, Steven Blaney WON, previously held by Bloc Real Lapierre
Lotbiniere-Chutes-de-la-Chaudiere, Jacques Gourde WON previously held by Bloc Odina Desrochers
Louis-Hebert, Luc Harvey WON previously held by BLOC Roger Clavet
Louis-Saint-Laurent, Josee Verner WON previously held by BLOC Bernard Cleary
Megantic-L'Erable, Christian Paradis WON previously held by BLOC Marc Boulianne
Montmorency-Charlevoix, Yves Laberge DEFEATED
Mount Royal, Neil Martin Drabkin DEFEATED
Notre-Dame-de-Grace-Lachine, Allen F. Mackenzie DEFEATED Pierrefonds-Dollard, Don Rae DEFEATED
Pontiac, Lawrence Cannon WON previously held by liberal David Smith
Portneuf-Jacques-Cartier, Howard M. Bruce DEFEATED
Quebec, Frederik Boisvert DEFEATED Richmond-Arthabaska, Jean Landry DEFEATED
Saint-Laurent-Cartierville, Ishrat Alam DEFEATED
Shefford, Jean Lambert DEFEATED
Sherbrooke, Marc Nadeau WON previously held by liberal Francoise Boivin
New Brunswick
Beausejour, Omer Leger DEFEATED
Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, Charles Doucet DEFEATED
Nova Scotia
Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, Robert A. Campbell DEFEATED
Halifax, Andrew House DEFEATED
Halifax West, Rakesh Khosla DEFEATED
Prince Edward Island
Malpeque, George Noble DEFEATED
Newfoundland and Labrador Bonavista-Gander-Grand Falls-Windsor, Aaron Hynes DEFEATED
Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte, Cyril Pelley Jr. DEFEATED
Labrador, Joe Goudie DEFEATED
Random-Burin-St. George's, Cynthia Downey DEFEATED

Out of a total of 65 in/out ridings involved, 47 were defeated while 18 ridings were won by the CPC. Of the 18 winners, 7 were by CPC incumbents or were seats previously held by CPC members. Of the 11 remaining winners, 7 were previously Bloc held seats and only 4 were Liberal held. Of the 127 seats held by the CPC, if we take away the 11 won seats from the Libs and Bloc and re-assign them to those parties the seat breakdowns are as follows CPC 116, Libs 100, Bloc 55 others are irrelevant, sorry Jack, but not too sorry.
So, in looking at Ralph Goodale’s assumption that not spending the extra million over these ridings would have probably led to a Liberal minority, the facts prove that Ralph’s assertion is false. As was overheard on Parliament Hill in the not so distant past "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is
a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
So there, we’ve proven that Ralph is just another @sshat, gratuitous Liberal politician.

Cheers Y'all!

Another G&M Poll goes sideways.
"Are you doing anything to recognize Earth Day?"

Currently 3726 votes (61%) say "No"...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/

Maybe somebody should ask Goodale how many seats Liberals would have lost in 3 prior election, if they hadn't misappropriated $millions for their campaigns.

Anyway, Goodale's assumptions and remarks are so silly as to not merit any response.

Thanks for that info Glenn, verrry interesting indeed. Poor Ralphy, can't catch a break in his quest to GET something on the CPC. Expecting him to jerk off his stool on one of his appearances on Duffy Live.
He was admonished in the HOC by the Speaker on one occasion for shooting off his mouth , off camera/microphone, must have been pretty bad for that to happen. Apparently he just can't contain his frustration at having to sit in Opposition.

Brenda Martin, Mexico,found guilty get 5 years.

"The tree has rewritten the history of the climate in the region, revealing that it was much warmer at that time and the ice had disappeared earlier than thought."

"World's Oldest Tree Rewrites Climate History, Challenges Global Warming

Scientists used to believe the oldest trees on the planet were in North America with ages in the 5,000-year range.

Hooey, for a new discovery in Sweden has completely debunked this consensus, resulting in a total rewrite of climate history while bringing into serious question global warming theories espoused by Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his sycophant devotees.

Think green media members will be falling over themselves to report this new finding?

While you ponder, consider the evidence supplied by the British Telegraph Thursday (emphasis added):" http://tinyurl.com/4yne8e (newsbusters)

Good work Glenn you should forward that one to the Toronto Sun.

And we do KNOW FOR A FACT that the Librano Adscam munney DID BUY elections seats in Quebec, because they lost their a$$ there in the last election when the Crooked Liberals did not have the MUNNEY TO DOLE OUT.

At the very least, Elections Canada should have banned the Liberal party from contesting those 10 to 15 Quebec ridings where they admitted Adscam munney was brown-bagged.

There are Banana Republics that have better election officials than this slimey crowd in Ottawa.

Martin done like dinner:

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=8662f761-1065-4aef-a26d-d1e2b5a9e4b5

MaryM you beat me to it..
A judge in Mexico has found Canadian Brenda Martin guilty and sentenced her to 5 years in jail in connection with an Internet scam run by her former boss.

Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
By Magdi Abdelhadi
BBC Arab affairs analyst

Didn't know Mecca was the center of the Earth.
Lets just dump our calander for Islams, including the dating system. It is now the year 1429 AH.

Time to rid ourselves of the Christian or Jewish Calanders. Islam trumps all according to the Barbra Halls of the world. Not to adopt it would be Islamaphobic. They would be offended. Next we will be waring star of davids for Jews & a yellow patch for christians, so radical Muslims would not be unclean or offended by non Muslims. This way they could tell. Why not as well have all non Muslims pay a special Islamaphobic tax to off set their hurt & pain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7359258.stm

When it comes to our media and the Liberal Party, intelligent people realize there is ALWAYS more to the story.

Liberals drive all the way from Ottawa to Toronto to get judge to sign "in and out" warrant. Judge just happened to be big Allan Rock supporter, financial donator to Liberal Party, and appointed by, of course, the Liberal Party. But then, they all are, aren't they?

As Tony Montana should have said: I bury those Liberals.

Yeah, I just read it too, poor innocent (according to CTV's commentors) finally got the justice she deserves. The pitiful thing is she can be extradited to Canada to serve her sentence and get double time credit for time served in Mexico and according to Canada's tough parole system, will be out on parole ASAP. Pity as Corrections Canada could really use an in-house belly dance instructor. One can only wonder if she gets double Airmiles too.

The reason I don't own credit cards & only use cash is simple.
It has nothing to do with my religious or moral convictions. It all comes down to two horrid words that will shrink you into poverty if not bankrupts. Compound Interest. Every month.

I wonder if Brenda Martin even holds a valid passport??? I also wonder if she has filed her taxes for the last ten years......

CTV(tass) reports her as innocent,but consider what the judge sees. she gets severed by a guilty party and reinvests right back in with the same guy.

She is obviously looney . everytime we see her she is either prancing around all dolled up like a payday hooker or howling like a dog tied to a hayrack.

If CBCpravda had the dibs on this story like CTV(tass) seems to. we would have Omar Khadr in on the same page.

No bias here folks !!. Stephen LeDrew,former liberal everything is now labelled on Newman's show as Stephen LeDrew 'lawyer'. Totally objective,that fella,you gotta believe what he says. Yeah right. On the assertion that the manufactured 'in and out'scandal helped Harper,of course the ads helped....But how much were the liberals helped by the burying of the enormous(about $350,000) secret payout to Mr. Entitlement(dingwall) on the Friday afternoon before Monday's election? I believe that Dingus was going to spill some inside info on the sponsorship thefts and was paid to keep his mouth shut. How much were the libs helped by the silence over Mr. Fancy-pants from King-Hants being questioned by the RCMP about his bullshit story over the income trust fiasco on the 18th of January,5 days before the election? Scotty originally said he passed on the info to a man he met at a Stones concert,who just happened to be an investment banker? In the words of the great Etta James,"LIES,LIES,LIES,that is all you give me"

Idiom Dictionary: "Different strokes for different folks."
"her Senate seat" is safe. "But she added she's expected to make a full recovery."
It's a cover story for her. She was turfed out.
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"Liberal party president Marie Poulin resigns after suffering mild stroke"

"Poulin, who was elected in December 2006, says she intends to keep her Senate seat representing Ontario." (canpress)

The situation for the Liberal Party is enough to cause apoplexy for any of their apologists.
The desperation is evident everywhere a Liberal appears even among their friends in the Media, they can't contain it, it jumps out.

Anyone have the pleasure of watching Giggles Taber filling in for Duffy today? Sad excuse for journalism.

When will they all get it? When will they twig we are onto them? When will they realize it's the end time for their Liberals for at least a decade?
They don't even have the sense to realize they're not in any position to govern. They can't even accept the peoples' choice and graciously fill the role of Official Opposition.

Someone asked ......
ARE WE TOAST ?

LInked to Green dot Sympatico dot MSN dot ca

"with suspects continuing to emerge from unexpected quarters,"
These "unexpected quarters" include Royal Ornithilogaical Socierty (Prince Charles Honorary Matron), Epping Downs and Tophma Hat Riding-to-Hounds Club, Leeds Tudor Rose-Growing Sect, Lord Buffin's Beekeepers, Old Bailiey, Bernard Shaw Labour Society, and etc."
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"Police have foiled 15 terror plots in Britain since the 2000, Ian Blair reveals

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 22nd April 2008
Police have foiled 15 terror plots since the turn of the century, with suspects continuing to emerge from unexpected quarters, senior officers said yesterday."

While some alternate energy sources may indeed be feasible some day, the glamour ones (biofuels, wind, ect) seem to be falling out of favour.

Remember when BP came out with their flower ad, Beyond Petrolium ? Well, seems they have had a change of heart.

["To say that 'BP' stands for Beyond Petroleum is such an utter joke. It should stand for Being Phony," says Gregg Steiner, whose Los Angeles business, Green Life Guru, helps homeowners and businesses become more eco-friendly. "It makes me want to throw up every time I see BP lying to us on Sunday morning while watching 'Meet the Press.' It is all smoke and mirrors."

Back to petroleum?
In its most recent annual report, BP maintains that it still has "aspirations of no or minimal damage to the environment" when developing energy sources. Environmentalists aren't convinced.

Their chief gripe: BP has jumped on the Canadian oil-sands bandwagon. Green activists say developing that oil will cause vast damage stretching from Canada to the U.S. refineries where the gooey source of hydrocarbons will be converted into oil.] MSN Finance

I guess it is just that the other majors are providing what the people want. Dependable, cheaper energy.

[But given that competitor ExxonMobil (XOM.N) has a return on equity nearly 50% higher than BP's, green advocates worry what it does mean. (BP's stock, by the way, is down about 5% over the last year -- better than the S&P 500 ($US:INX), but not Exxon, which is up 13%.)] MSN-F

http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/Investing/MichaelBrush/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=6605938

the G&M reports on AB budget;
"Forecasted spending is up in every government department except one: sustainable resource development. That ministry is planning to spend less this year because it expects fewer natural disasters."

less=sustainable

"Canadian pilots flew missions in Iraq

Flights were part of C-17 training"

David Akin, reporter/MSM chokes on his/its bile: "That decision was taken without informing Parliament."

http://tinyurl.com/3sfn47

Kate, isn't the following point worth making:

Overwhelming evidence top liberal party members stole taxpayer funds and distributed to various ridings(adscam)-

Elections Canada Response: no investigation whatsoever to determine which ridings got the stolen money, how it was used. Nothing.

The CPC engages in internal funds transfers in a manner apparently done by all of the other parties in previous elections -

Elections Canada Response: engages in the largest most invasive investigation in its history.

Adscam.

Sworn evidence accepted by a tribunal that millions of stolen funds was distributed to Liberal ridings. It was beyond the scope of the tribunal to investigate the use of funds in the subsequent election.

What do you think Elections Canada's response to this flashing neon sign pointing to impropriety was?

It's like a beat cop walking past the guy holding a smoking gun over the bloody corpse, to give the "unwanted type" across the street a frisking for littering.