Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. As listener Sammy wrote in after last night's show, unforunately Mr. Bo Diddly has passed away. Now I'll freely admit that his shtick is not of a genre that I personally find most aesthetically pleasing, de gustibus non disputandum est and all that, and so maybe I'm not the best one to select an Interwebothique item to honour his career. Still, the show must go on, so here for your delectation, I hope appropriately, is Bo Diddly performing You Can't Judge a Book by The Cover in 1962:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdDomMm0o4

(Plus, I think the lyrics are great ;-)

Bo Diddley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley

Just thought I would throw in something a little off the wall...

A Finnish pop group called the 'Leningrad Cowboys', along with the 'Red Army Choir', which still exists, singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' in english, with a little bit of the 'Song of the Volga Boatmen' tossed in at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014

I cast an Aye for Vit.

Kate, I don't comment very often, but I do check in almost every day. I think Vitruvius and his stuff is a good backup system, so I say let him "have his his head" as it were. You could do worse. There is an extra entertainment factor in trying to figure out the Latin parts. It has been something like 55 years since I studied the stuff so it is a challenge.

May Bo Diddly rest in peace.

Yea for Vit

++Vit.

Vit's hair is to long.

Vit's hair is to short.

A customer of mine just returned from touring four of the Muslim 'Stan" Countries around Afghanistan and told me the following, gasoline was .02 cents a liter and wearing the burka or religious clothing in public was against the law. The reason it was against the law was they did not want to promote radical Islam.

I don't have the time to check this out, can anyone confirm?

Best I can do in five minutes of looking around.
Prices are for May 30, 2008
Top Ten
1. Venezuela - $0.19/gallon or 0.05$/litre
2. Turkmenistan - $0.30/gallon or $0.08/liter
3. Nigeria - $0.38/gallon or $0.10/litre
4. Iran - $0.42/gallon or $0.11/liter
5. Saudi Arabia - $0.45/gallon or $0.12/litre
6. Kuwait - $0.79/gallon or 0.21$/liter
7. Qatar - $0.83/gallon or $0.22/litre
8. Bahrain - $1.02/gallon or 0.27/liter
9. Egypt - $1.21/gallon or $0.32/litre
10. United Arab Emirates - $1.40/gallon or $0.37/liter

This is an excellent Blogsite for several good reasons.

Various interesting music choices adds value.

After all, music is a basic human essential. = TG

When I struggle to be a 21st century version of an 18th century gentleman, I am a Vitruvian...

Keep hope alive.

Hey everyone, want to deeply inhale an absolute distillate of pure BS? Want to read an academic's attempt to appear to pay lip-service to the idea that he will look ethically, for the benefit of others, at the current HRC fiasco in Vancouver? I know that might sound uninviting, but I assure you that when you get there, you'll find that there's absolutely nothing to even think about, so... The high priest, he's a good man -- there's no stance, no ethics, no nothing.

Click on the link here:

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1329/128/

It's by Ron Friedman of the UBC School of Journalism. The oxymoron-up-a-sleeve name of the site the Feature Article is on is "Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen", which is a sure tip off that someone is about to comprehensively hedge his every ethical bet while noisily congratulating himself for doing so.

And oh, oh, he does, protected by thick walls of cliche and inanity.

The group of people who are hot and bothered by the HRCs are the "free speech advocates," like Ezra Levant who, with his "absolutist stance" provides "blustering support" for the cause. But, if you read the large print between the lines, it's the "flame-fanning" Steyn, with his "callous style of writing" who *really* crosses the line: "aside from writing" the article in question, he "continues to comment on it."

Shocking. Friedman acknowledges what free speech proponents are sort of getting at: "The fear is that people will use complaints to human rights commissions and other agencies as a means of stifling that freedom." Apparently it's not happening now, and it's not like it's about to happen, but still, there IS that fear...

Jesus. Warman is "viewed by some as a hero." -- That one's a typo, I think; I think there's a missing pejorative after "some".

Do check out the piece at journalismethics. At the very end Friedman, after managing to float a hundred airless miles above the fracas below without seeing the larger picture, concludes with this memorable triumph of pointless, didactic inanity: "It remains to be seen whether the Canadian justice system has the power to stymie the prolific verbiage of Canada's news professionals."

Aye. Thanks, Ron Friedman, for decoupling yourself from ethics, context, the point, your balls, the enlightenment, the country, etc etc.

http://englishrussia.com/

Russian photo blog I stumbled across while looking for cheap gas. Military, day to day life etc., comments sections are mostly English with a smattering of Russian and German. Very nice time waster.

Another AYE for Vit, even though he can't keep his times right! :):):)
Harvey Gorman,now Bo Diddly.RIP. Keep them classics coming.

Whooops...Korman. Who put that G where my K was? Darn midnight shifts.

Late night radio category, please.

And my thanks, too, to your guest bloggers, Kate. 'Wouldn't be a good idea to shut down SDA when you're not around:

Blogging babysitting's a great idea.

CFRA Polls
On Sunday, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion told the Federation of Cdn Municipalities the Liberals would vote against Bill C-50. On Monday the Liberal benches were empty as the House of Commons approved the immigration reforms in Bill C-50 by a vote of 114-83. Liberal MPs explained they will overturn the reforms if they win the next election.

This guy wants to be PM?! What a joke! 94.9%

Dion is doing just fine. He cannot allow the Conservatives to bait him into forcing an election before he is ready. 4.56%
Other 0.50%
Total Votes: 197
http://www.cfra.com/polls/default.asp

As far as my opinion goes, I appreciate Vitruvius' thoughtful contributions (musically and otherwise) here at SDA and encourage his continued contributions.

However, Kate, as Bertrand Russell said:

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."

It's your blog and your rules...if YOU like it, keep it. If not, don't.

General Hillier called Taliban Jack Layton-NDP a "scumbags".
Taliban Jack's head has exploded & he has complained to the Director of Special Grievances, Department of National Defence, Ottawa.
Taliban is asking for an apology and an undisclosed sum of danegeld (in US funds). In addition, Taliban is seeking legal advice from the CJC.
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"Hillier enjoys massive public approval

OTTAWA — As he steps down as Canada’s top soldier, Gen. Rick Hillier enjoys a massive public approval rating, according to a new poll that shows more than nine of 10 Canadians think the general did a good job.

The Ipsos Reid survey conducted for Canwest News Service and Global National suggests that Canadians didn’t mind his plain talk — he once called the Taliban “scumbags” — and also shows support for his military leadership is solid even in Quebec where support for the Afghanistan war was tepid."
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/06/02/hillier-enjoys-massive-public-approval/

Libs present in the House for the vote last eve-11!! Best line of the night went to someone off camera as the wee group of Libs filed in to the House..someone yelled "bring out your dead!" Also,the Garth got an honoroble mention,by name,from Godin of the NDP.He stood on point of order to point out,"Mr.Speaker,Garth Turner has left.It was more important for him to leave Chamber to take a phone call!"

Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Mounted

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/06/canadian-radio.html

casting one Yes vote for Vit

The guest bloggers are obviously a great help for Kate and are appreciated for their varied posts.

But let me be upfront, Kate is SDA.

Her one-line "zingers" alone are priceless and
and concise summation of any subject are second to NONE - - ANYWHERE!

No disrespect to Kate's well intentioned guest blog contributers.

Treason of the Intellectuals is real. The murderous Tamil Tigers* and ex-PM Liberal Paul Martin, Jr., know it's real.
Treason of the tenured Intellectuals and ex-PM Liberal Paul Martin, Jr.? The evidence is here.
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"Terror suspect wins Wilfrid Laurier University award

A man accused of using his university studies as a cover for terrorist activities has been awarded a $5,000 entrepreneurial prize from Wilfrid Laurier University.

In 2006, Suresh Sriskandarajah was arrested in Kitchener, Ont., after U.S. prosecutors accused him of working to help Tamil Tiger fighters in Sri Lanka.

Sriskandarajah is accused of money laundering, helping to buy military software and communications equipment, and using students in Canada to smuggle goods into Sri Lanka.

He is still wanted in the U.S. but he has been freed on bail until his extradition hearings, reports The Globe and Mail."

At the time of his arrest, Sriskandarajah was a student at the University of Waterloo.

He joined Laurier's MBA program last year and recently became the first and only winner of the "CIBC leaders of entrepreneurship award.""
http://tinyurl.com/6nv8kc
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*Tamil Tigers and ex-PM Liberal Paul Martin, Jr.

"(an composite image constructed to dramatise Paul Martin's association with the Tamil Tigers)"

"Paul Martin and the Tamil Eelam Society"
http://tinyurl.com/5tyanw

More cheers for Vitruvius! But would I compare him to an 18th century gentleman? Hmm. Yes. But..more of a 16th-17th century extremely erudite scholar gentleman, at home in the various courts and the various universities and also the various ports of Europe and the Levant.

"There is no land uninhabitable or sea unnavigable.
They made the whole world to hang in the air."

We must stop this now. Where is John Galt when we need him?

The picture of David McGuinty and Jean Charest (after their meeting to establish a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system by 2010) looks like two Sopranos dividing up the protection money.

This is a pre-emptive strike by Ontario to set the rules (and exemptions of specific industries such as the auto industry and perhaps Ontario Power) before a national scheme with Alberta is ever brought in.

Remember that the G.S.T. was supposed to replace the hidden Manufacturers' Sale Tax (MST). With this new scheme, consumers won't see this hidden environmental tax. Conservatives must expose this scheme for what it is - hidden taxation! Remember the Alamo and the MST!

"GM to slash 1,000 jobs at Oshawa [TO] plant"

Peruse the comments; diesel is a winner? The Buzzards are cawling, cawling, caw ...
http://tinyurl.com/5esby9 (g-m)

Alamati Thanks, I guess .02 cents a liter gasoline was correct.

Any facts about the banning of the burka and other religious wear in some of the muslim "stan" Countries.

Melanie Phillips, Britain's medical poker game

Time and again, Labour brandishes its undying commitment to the NHS as the embodiment of its social conscience, and vilifies anyone who suggests that a different system of health care might be better as a heartless brute who would force the sick to choose between death and bankruptcy.

Well, now we can see quite what odious hypocrisy that is. For in the cause of supporting the NHS principle of equal treatment for all, the Government is actually ordering the withdrawal of treatment from desperately sick and dying people as an act of ideological spite...

A YEP! for V

Another yes for Vitruvius.

maz2,

Taliban Jack, or Jack bin Layton are somewhat more descriptive. However, it appears he's most upset about being called "scumbag."

So, in the interest of fairness, let him have his way. Scumbag Jack, Scumbag bin Layton, or Jack bin Scumbag.

(PDF warning; 22 pages) George J. Gilboy and Benjamin L. Read, Political and Social Reform in China: Alive and Walking

To preserve its power, the CCP has chosen to revitalize itself and to adjust to new social realities, efforts that have intensified since the leadership team of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao came to power in 2002–2003. The evolution of the party-state has included reforms to CCP ideology and institutions, the legal system, and government administration. In addition to constituting an effort to revitalize its own capabilities, these reforms represent the CCP’s gradual acceptance of the need to cede space to public expression and societal action.

These pressures and reforms remain uneven and fragile. They have their roots in intense conflict, not just leadership policy conclaves. The processes described here are unlikely to lead to a transition to democracy at the regime level in the near term, if ever. They exist side by side with darker aspects of China’s reality: deplorable corruption, abuse by local officials, strictures on religious practice, and a penal system used against political as well as criminal offenders...

Another "Aye" for Vitruvius' ongoing contributions.

And Kate...Thanks for asking.

Vitruvius, thanks again for injecting a bit of genuine intellectual curiosity into SDA. I think it's safe to say that, under normal management, 'An Alternative Look at Africa' would never have been contemplated, let alone uploaded onto the blog.

Keep the late night radio feature going. It could double as a reader tips thread with the musical selections used to set the theme.

Yes to Vit

I think the Ayes (or would that be ears?) have it for Vit. Here's another one just in case.

Jobs In David Miller's Toronto:

Family Home Visitor
....suggests practical parenting ideas e.g. toilet training, feeding young children....helps parents recognize what children need and want....

Salary: $23.89 - $26.19 per hour

At the sound of the muzzein, beginning with the long allahakbar, it will be eckzakery 1:00 pm, Mecca time; 1:30 pm in Medina.
Over to you, Peter.
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" Yet another former CBCer at Al-Jazeera

Former CBC producer and journalist Sue Phillips is now the network director of the international broadcaster Al Jazeera."
http://www.insidethecbc.com/aljacorpa

Yes to Vit and bravo to guest bloggers.
I'd miss my daily dose of SDA without them.

Thanks Kate!

QE - don't be so juvenile, i.e., smug and self proclaiming your own intellectual (and other) superiority. I'm presuming that you are a very young undergrad. You repeat jargon and buzz themes.

Kate's blog, with its diversity of topics, is all about 'genuine intellectual curiosity' - as well as something absolutely vital as a means of dealing with curiosity. This is logical intellectual analysis based on a thorough data-based exploration of a topic. I think you should remember that - curiosity is vital. But so is reason and data.

As for the Africa post, I didn't have time to post on that thread, but, as vitruvius mentioned in his intro, I've commented before on the nature of and reasons for the current African (and other global areas) socioeconomic and political structure. In other words, the theme has been explored before on this blog.

In case you have any doubts about Toronto being a bastion of Islamic fascism, this from LGF:

This morning someone used a computer in the Toronto Public Library network to send the following email through our contact form, with a Pakistani-ish return address that’s probably fake (so I won’t publish it) and the subject line, “america’s monsters.” Don’t know where he found us or what set off the uncontrolled seething, because there’s no referrer information on this one; either he typed our address in, or the Toronto Library browsers are configured not to send referrers.

you raging racist monsters, Allah will crush you and we will take over you kafars and run our kalifa soon. you Americans are bunch of hateful idiots who are too fat to do any thing to our great kalifa. please shut up and watch while we come and make the Great Satanic land, an Islamic paradise. Allah is on our side. Alah o akbar, Allah o akbar, enshalah we will make this world a better place.

So, where's the CHRC on this?

Shmuel Bar, Deterring Terrorists

Israel has been waging a “War on Terror” since before it was established, with a high degree of success. However, during most of this period, the conventional wisdom there (as elsewhere) was that terrorists cannot be “deterred” and, therefore, that the strategy against them should focus on prevention, disruption, and offensive action in order to eradicate them...

Nevertheless, looking closer at the history of Israel’s conflicts with terrorist organizations, we see that a de facto deterrence strategy was employed and often succeeded, achieving periods of relative quiet in both the Lebanese and the Palestinian theaters...

(Via MESH) Dr. Nima Mina, Blogs, Cyber-Literature and Virtual Culture in Iran

An internet survey conducted by Blogherald indicated recently that in October 2005, 700,000 Persian blogs were registered with various blog service providers. Out of this number, between 40,000 and 110,000 were active, i.e. they were updated regularly by their editors. At the same time, the total number of all blogs worldwide was estimated at 100 million. Beside Persian blogs, there are currently thousands of active English blogs, written and published by Iranians in the USA, Canada and in Western Europe. In the beginning of the year 2006, the search engine Technorati counted Persian among the 10 most popular languages for blogging in the entire world. These figures are spectacularly high, considering that blogs as a Persian medium have only existed since mid-2001. Even general public access to the internet has a short story of less than ten years in Iran.

(PDF warning; 38 pages) http://tinyurl.com/3gcsjm

HRC Afternoon Radio presents, for your electation, Iowahawk. Vote for Iowahawk.
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"Iowahawk: Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Mounted

Announcer
From the Maritimes to the Yukon, the Great White North was once a lawless land where cruel and offensive opinions roamed free - until one man stood up and brought them to justice. One mighty masked man, clad in the scarlet breechcoat of the Royal Canadian Mounted Human Rights Police, astride a golden disabled lesbian steed, with his faithful transgender Indian scout at his side. Together they rode from Yellowknife to St. John's, keeping Canadians safe from the spectre of multicultural insensitivity.

The Canadian Broadcast Corporation invites you to return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as we tell the tales of that legendary singing Human Rights Mountie. It's time for excitement - it's time for lawsuits - It's time for... Warman of the Mounted!"
(Continued)
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/06/canadian-radio.html

Total War vs. Limited War:

"Drawing a line in the Sand"

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.268/pub_detail.asp

Quite simply, if we are to win what we call "the global war on Islamic terrorism," our mission must be to destroy and thereby discredit the Islamic vision of the future before it destroys ours. That is the only circumstance that will permit the emergence of an Islamic Renaissance and the rise of a humanistic interpretation of Islam capable of adapting to life in the 21st century.

...

Military historian Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford's Hoover Institute wrote recently: "Sixteen years ago (1991) on the cessation of hostilities (after the first Gulf War), Saddam Hussein's supposedly ‘defeated' army used its gun ships to butcher Kurds and Shiites while Americans looked on. And because we never achieved the war's proper aim - ensuring that Iraq would never again use its petro-wealth to destroy the peace of the region - we have had to fight a second war of no-fly zones, and then a third war to remove Saddam, and now a fourth war of counterinsurgency to protect the fledgling Iraqi democracy" and the war still rages on.
...

Unfortunately, so long as the US and Israel continue to define their war against Jihadism in terms other than the vanquishment of the enemy and its ideology; so long as both continue to prosecute this war in limited, defensive terms without recognizing that both are engaged in an existential conflict with enemies dedicated to total war, both are destined to lose.

Why did the Dhimmi cross the road? To get to Al Jezeera.

Another CBC hack goes follows Avi to darkness (although, as a CBC hack, darkness is their origin, too so I guess there won't be any change in management.)

Another soon to follow if the article is right.

http://www.insidethecbc.com/aljacorpa

ET: "Kate's blog, with its diversity of topics..."

A diversity of topics indeed, but always presented from a single, particular ideological perspective. The result: comments that mostly stand in agreement with this perspective. The risk: reducing SDA to an echo chamber.

Her blog, her prerogative.

By contrast, in his brief stint at the helm, Vitruvius did something that's never been done before on SDA -- i.e., provided an alternative view on a topic, and let the chips fall where they may.

The key characteristic of intellectual curiosity? Willing exposure to new ideas, new perspectives, new information.

"The key characteristic of intellectual curiosity? Willing exposure to new ideas, new perspectives, new information."

So says an admitted socialist.

Western Canadian; I haven't been able to find any references to out and out bans, not with the niqab or any other traditional dress. Tajikistan upheld its ban on hijabs in universities. Azerbaijan, I believe, has a ban on the wearing of traditional dress for passport photos.
Turkey used to have a full ban at universities, but I believe they may have eased this restriction, as they found women were not enrolling in great numbers, whether through personal conviction or through family pressure,is not clear, I would imagine a bit of both.
My opinion, mine alone and not from a book or other source, is that an outright ban would only serve to inflame extremism and would be counter-productive. Lots of 'stans to visit and only so much time. Hard to say about regional bans. Hope that helps.

ANYONE WATCH CBC NOON?? Question period was focusing on Julie Couillard and Max Bernier. Then the Liberals and their Capo Mr. Buzz Hargrove went after the gov. for recent GM plant relocations to Mexico. One thing is for sure! There are no Buzz Hargroves in Mexico. And BUZZ HARGROVES ARE THE ONE WHO TOOK GM FROM THE #2 POSITION IN THE 90'S TO 110TH TODAY!! Check out my claim on the Forbes website!! Ford was #3, they are now #160. Between CBC and the Unions, the auto Can. business is shambles!!

Liberals wetting pants about GM Oshawa plant closure in Ontario.

Needless alarm when viewing the big picture.

GM related stories list from a newsletter.

Just the list tells the story, saves much reading.

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** Tuesday, June 03, 2008
GM will conduct a strategic review of the Hummer brand, it said on Tuesday.

GM reconsiders Hummer, OKs Volt production:

Struggling automaker to shut four truck plants, prepares for Cobalt replacement
By Greg Migliore | 06/03/08, 9:41 am et

With sales of high-profit pickups and sport/utility vehicles in a free fall, General Motors on Tuesday announced big shakeup plans for its product lineup.
The highlights:

-- The Chevrolet Volt hybrid is approved for production.

-- The Hummer brand will undergo a strategic review.

-- A new Chevrolet compact car, built on the global Delta platform, has been approved. It will be the eventual replacement for the Chevrolet Cobalt.

-- GM is shutting down production of big pickups and SUVs at four plants: Oshawa, Ontario (Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra);

Moraine, Ohio (Chevy TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy, Saab 9-7x);

Janesville, Wisconsin (Chevy Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon); and

Toluca, Mexico (Chevy Kodiak medium-duty truck).

GM is also preparing a new generation of the Chevrolet...
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If only they had known about the Mexico truck plant closing. It would have made for an easier question period today.
= TG

Ooops, Harper did know about the closing in Mexico.

Trust BinLayton to make a fuss about what amounts to market place changes. = TG

Alamatl Thanks so much for your efforts, unfortunately I just don't have the time to look myself. She actually said against the law, not banned as I indicated. According to her she said against the law doesn't mean much in some of those Countries. Thanks again.

Yes to Vit

Where is Ad$Scam when it's needed.
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"IN BRIEF

Liberals get extension to repay campaign loans

Ottawa -- Three of the four major contenders in the 2006 Liberal leadership race, including Stéphane Dion, were to miss last night's 18-month deadline for paying off their campaign debts. Mr. Dion, Michael Ignatieff and Gerard Kennedy will fall back on a provision in the law that allows an extension if they have a binding contract to repay the loans. Third-place finisher Bob Rae has already cleared his debts.

The Conservatives have charged that Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand would be showing bias if he grants extensions to the Liberals, but Elections Canada has said it has "normally authorized late payments" under similar rules for candidates in general elections."
(g-m)

QE

There is something to what you say about an echo, but that is because this blog draws people of a like mind. Within this circle, ideas and views are shared and debated. If someone is ideologically against something (i.e.... a farmers right to market their own grain), then that person is not going to be able to discern the difference between one persons argument who may support abolishing the CWB and another who simply wants the choice of CWB or another option. To the Ideologue, both positions are unacceptable because it would destroy the monopoly, hence the echo.

If you listen(read) closely, the opinions on this blog are quite diverse. The reason people of common thought come together like this, is because we would like to have these conversations of diverse opinion without all of the mudslinging. I can't speak for the "Left"(or anyone but myself), but I tried watching Democrat debates and I just didn't see the point. IMO on the "right" the discussion is: "what is the best way to implement policy to achieve our goals?"; whereas, on the "left" the discussion is:"I'm more dedicated to our cause than you are!". We already know the position of the "Left", so adding the rhetoric to our the discussion is pointless. Most people on this site with more discipline than I have will not even comment on the comments of a "Troll"(not calling you one), they would prefer to lower their CO2 footprint and save their breath.

Jay-Z said: " A wise man told me not to argue with fools; because people at a distance can't tell who is who."

This dinosaur is dead; a fossil.
Rewrite headline:
Dino is dead.
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" TQS says the plan to abolish the news department follows surveys indicating the public is not tuning in to news and is migrating to the Internet and specialty channels."
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"News business killing TQS, CRTC told"
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/435732

Western Canadian, I will try a broader search, but it may take a while. It is an interesting topic however and I don't mind, but my internet access may be limited in the next couple of weeks, work constrictions. Oh well eating is fun as well;)

Yesterday, a story about a carbon trading pact between Ontario and Quebec. Hailed as visionary, lauded by the press.

Today, a story about the GM truck plant in Oshawa closing, another about the dollar slipping because of the plant closure, nary a peep about the obvious connections that can be drawn between the events.

The good news is that Ontario and McGuinty will have lots of credits to trade.

I watched the news clip with McGuinty and Charest exalting their plan,scam,idea,whatever,and how IT IS TIME to stand up.While Charest was talking about the demographics and 'obvious' eventuality of Canada being in their corner(pocket),I couldn't help but notice how weird McGuinty appeared. He looked very 'uncomfortable in his skin'kind of like he wasn't sure if he had just let a wet one go in his shorts. Watch the video,I kid you not,how did this weasel get elected? Then,when it was his turn to speak,he let go with the ,'we are all together on one planet,sharing one world,sharing one destiny,yes, that is basically what he said.What is wrong with you people in Ontario? You are paying for t-bone and being served salisbury.This is the first time I have ever given any attention to McGuinty,he bears watching.I would not buy a used car from that man........Two thumbs up for vitrivious.

Sorry, my error.I meant Mr.V.

CBC is running a pro-Khadr piece tonight,fed to them by his lawyer. He is a very well-mannered ,well-liked child,who would not pose any danger to anyone. But he may turn nasty if he is kept in G-Bay for much longer. And to present the opposing point of view,sorry,none available.

Alamatl Thanks Mate