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She has fame, fortune, a world class ego and a luxury hotel room she calls home. A long scraggly beard, 5″ fingernails* and the process will be complete
A political story from Quebec that comes as a breath of fresh air;

Quebec City on Sunday elected a 68-year-old retired woman as mayor who didn’t even run a campaign. Andree Boucher had no lawn signs, no volunteers, raised no money and didn’t even have a formal platform! But she won — quite handily — beating out several high- profile challengers, including an ex-Jean Charest cabinet minister.

Adam Daifallah has the rest. And don’t forget to buy his book!
Strange bedfellows who are strangers to no one here…
Bill Roggio with an update from Iraq that you won’t
find in the mainstream.
Speaking of which, surely they have a Special Ops unit and a bullet to spare?
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37 Replies to “Quick Links And Reader Tips”

  4. This is my approach to winning over Liberals. I post this to left leaning blogs.
    Do you think it may attract possible converts?
    No?.. Ok , let’s see how you would do it.
    ==========================
    Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: Save the Good Liberals Vote CPC this time
    It’s embarrassing to admit I used to vote Liberal. However , now to allow the good honest Liberals to repair the terrible damage to the party and allow the party to regain the respect of Canadian voters, they must be allowed to sit the next one out.
    If you vote the Liberal party back in as a crippled minority, and that is the case today. they are unable to get much done and if they fail any further the public will write them off as dead meat.
    There are some very bad eggs in the Liberal party and it will take some time out of office to get that repaired. After that is taken care of, then the party will come back fresher and stronger than ever.
    In the mean-time, it is clear that many who post comments in favour of the Liberals here are going to be shocked to learn about some real documented truths of goings on in the Liberal Government of Canada today.
    Read back into the archives of these Blogsites and you will be amazed at the very real truth about all that is going on in your government, behind the scenes.
    http://SmallDeadAnimals.com [Canada’s Leading Blogsite ]
    http://BendGovernment.blogspot.com
    http://TheCanadianSentinel.blogspot.com
    http://BendGovt.blog.ca
    These are must know, behind the scenes, sites every Liberal in Canada needs. TG

  6. Big kudos to Judy McLeod and David Hawkins, for their piece under the “strange bedfellows” link, and to Mr. Wajsman for his piece earlier.
    Rough night for Paul Martin at SDA. If I am reading the CFP article correctly, a special investigator from the loan syndicate behind the takeover of CSL has been running surveillance on Mr. Gomery since June, and that this detail is in the report.
    Is this so? McLeod and Hawkins describe this as a detail overlooked by the media, and these days there’s no less banal way to put it, but increasingly there’s no difference between a detail and the whole proverbial ball of wax. It’s as if some priestly class has decided what the truth shall be.
    The really important unasked questions are about the media, at this point. The only thing I know for sure is that by coming to Kate’s site tonight and reading the links provided, I get about ten years worth of MSM-style truth.

  9. Your Dollars -15 Million – blowing in Costa Rica
    Lafleur of Lafleur Communications is keeping neighbors up all night with loud party time fun.
    Remember, this is only one of the many Adscam Pirates.
    Others are in Turks & Cacaos , [Belize..Cdn $] Barbados, Bermuda.
    If Gomery wanted 14 of the 15 million paid back, do we even have an extradition agreement with Costs Rica?
    Sordid details, [ you really may not want to know], are at:
    http://My.Opera.com/T-G/

  10. Our Girl Rona, on message and on the job:

    �The side-deals the Prime Minister has signed with several provinces would have been unnecessary had he reformed the equalization formula in a wholesale manner and in a way which was fair to all provinces.     Instead the Prime Minister is simply pitting province against province and endangering the equalization program.� said Ambrose.
    …
    “Stephen Harper has committed to sitting down with the provinces to address the urgent need to reform the equalization program to ensure that it remains a national program which treats all provinces equally,� said Ambrose.”

  11. Oh, here’s a good one: Carol Skelton reports the Liberals are going to great lengths to not implement Bill C-12 – The Quarantine Act – almost six months after it received royal assent.
    I’m not sure the urban voters in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto would appreciate this pro-flu pandemic policy of the Liberal Party of Canada if they knew about it.
    I hope the voters in Ottawa and Gatineau know that if a disaster hist either side of the Ottawa River the doctors from the other province will NOT help due to insurance issues. It happened in the USA with Katrina and it will happen here unless we get a CPC government to pass emergency legislation allowing doctors to cross provincial borders in emergencies.

    �In the wake of SARS, a new Quarantine Act designed to prevent the introduction and spread of communicable diseases was identified as a top priority,�     said Skelton. �However, if this government�s treatment of this legislation is any indication, disease control and prevention is anything but a priority to the Liberals.�

    �If a pandemic strikes tomorrow, we will not have this legislation and its tools available to us,�     cautioned Skelton. �In today�s Health Committee meeting, Public Health Minister Carolyn Bennett refused to explain the delay in implementing the Act and attempted to pass the responsibility for an explanation onto the Chief Public Health Officer. The Liberal Cabinet talks about priorities and accountability but when it really counts, we don�t see any leadership.�

  13. Nearly half of the Canadians surveyed in a new Statistics Canada report lacked the basic skills required to decipher information fundamental to their day-to-day life.
    …

    Roughly 42 per cent of those surveyed between the age of 16 an 65 scored below a level three in prose literacy,     which it called the desired level “for coping with the increasing demands of a knowledge society.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051109.wliterate1109/BNStory/National/

  14. Arming the corporation
    Sandra Rubin, Senior Business Writer
    Financial Post
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Coaching senior executives before meetings and conference calls, running rigorous post-mortems and being vigilant about monitoring information — even blogs — are some of things general counsel should be doing these days to protect their corporations from liability, lawyers at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual meeting were told…
    …”It’s not unusual for a rumour that shows up on a blog to end up being in the in-boxes of people at the hedge fund and, also, for people at those hedge funds start acting on that information,” said Mr. Chia. “So I think it is a good idea to keep ahead of the rumour waves, and try to see where they’re coming from.
    “What kind of people are on these blogs? Do these people know what they’re talking about, do they sound credible? Do they sound like they’re part of the investment community? I think it’s an evolving space but in a couple of years you’re going to see companies putting a lot more energy into investigating blogs and their activities. Certain companies are already doing that.”…
    http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=a6299a42-9e87-42f0-89f3-8dbfc7bd7ae9

  15. Darfur update.
    In May Paul Martin, in his effort to buy David Kilgour’s vote, promised that Canada would send around 100 troops to Darfur as advisers to the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Darfur. Sudan refused to let them in.
    Then in June the government said it would try to send around 100 clapped-out surplus Grizzly armoured personnel carriers, which have been in storage for six years, to the AU forces in Sudan. It just didn’t know how it would get them there. And since Sudan still refused to let Canadian troops in, the government suggested the Canadian Forces might train AU troops on the Grizzlies in third countries. Or maybe contracted civilians could provide the training. Or maybe the government would find APCs from other countries and somehow get those to Sudan.
    Finally, on July 28, Defence Minister Bill Graham announced the loan of the 105 armoured vehicles to African Union forces for use in Sudan. In September the vehicles arrived by ship in Senegal and 67 Canadian troops were sent to train African Union soldiers there on operating the vehicles. The training was completed in late September; the vehicles are still in Senegal awaiting air transport to Sudan (which the Canadian Air Force cannot provide).
    This is part of “Operation Augural”.
    See:
    http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/sudan_e.asp
    http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/augural/index_e.asp
    Mark
    Ottawa

  17. Website says legion forced it to remove image of poppy
    A Canadian website says it has been forced to remove images of a poppy after the Royal Canadian Legion accused the site’s owner of violating its trademark.
    Pierre Bourque, of the Canadian news site Bourque Newswatch, had been using the poppy image to promote a Remembrance Day contest, but removed it after the Legion’s Poppy and Remembrance Committee sent him a cease-and-desist email….
    http://www.canada.com/montreal/montrealgazette/soundoff/story.html?id=cfadf61e-6176-438a-b6d6-6851d759d9c3
    Note: Don’t miss Bourque’s response in comments section.

  18. Slice & Dice Harper? Or, funny, bawdy BS? >>>
    Stronach aims Viagra remark at Harper
    Last Updated Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:42:19 EST
    CBC News
    Human Resources Minister Belinda Stronach, who defected from the federal Conservatives to join Paul Martin’s cabinet last spring, made a bawdy remark about her former leader in a segment taped for this week’s edition of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. >>> http://www.rapp.org/url/?GQP9X209

  19. PM puts students in political hot seat
    …The prime minister was in York along with Newmarket-Aurora MP Belinda Stronach and dropped by the school for an hour-long question and answer period with 600 students…
    …Prior to the prime minister’s visit, students were asked to submit questions and, based on those questions, it was decided who would get the prime minister’s ear.
    For some students, the process was a little too contrived.
    “It’s totally staged. I was hoping that anyone could ask questions,” Grade 12 student Peter Davey said. “They are censoring our questions.”…
    http://www.yorkregion.com/yr/yr4/YR_News/Newscentre/Era_Banner/Aurora/story/3152473p-3653799c.html

  21. Kate,
    You might want to be careful about how much “Martin stuff” you post here. You know, the “stuff” the MSM doesn’t print/broadcast. (Earnscliffe, taxpayer coin to CSL, questionable ties to shady individuals/corporations, etc.) I wouldn’t want to see you get one of those infamous “audits”.
    Do you track domain addresses as to exactly “who” (wink wink) is visiting your site? If not, you may want to check into some software that does this for blogs. I’ve seen a few blogs lately who have posted “welcome messages” to certain corporations and government departments when their posts get a little…how shall I say…”close to the source”. Think of it as “call display” to weed out LPC “staffers”.
    If you have been “visited” it would be interesting to hear who has been “dropping by”. I’d hate to see your site compromised by LPC “SS” as it gets even more popular.
    Eskimo
    PS. Keep up your brilliant work, you are a modern day Canadian Wonder Woman! (how’s THAT for a kiss-up?) 😉

  23. Ailing minister opts for sun over Ottawa
    By JANE ARMSTRONG
    …Mr. Efford’s health and working schedule have come under scrutiny since he resigned as natural resources minister, a senior cabinet post, in September, citing ill health. He remains the regional minister for Newfoundland and Labrador and continues to draw his $213,500 cabinet salary, although he has not travelled to Ottawa since the spring…
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051110/EFFORD10/Front/Idx

  25. Canadian Legion? I am ex-RCN and the Canadian Legion has always been a Mystery to me.
    They refused to allow an image of the Poppy on a blog-site. See JM 9:32 above.
    If it was me. I’d say Sue me. This is not your poppy it’s a different one. You can not copyright all poppy images.
    In July or August there were several notes about sending small cards and gifts to our guys in Afghanistan. The Canadian Legion was contacted about this and they flatly refused to consider any part of the idea.
    Then there is a Legion branch where a guy sits and drinks beer all day while waiting by the telephone. The number is listed in his newspaper ad for furniture moving. He has a van and moves furniture from business via the Legion telephone. That may be OK, but for reputation. Several times the RCMP… well you know.
    The Legion spirit. What is that exactly? I guess there are some really good ones too. TG
    Did you Know? Can’t be a Teen. Too brilliant!
    We wear a poppy.. she? Well you better look.
    My daughter? Don’t I wish. TonyGuitar.
    http://YoungConservative.blog.ca/main/

  27. Hey Steve:
    Is that kind of like the Jenin “massacre”?
    Why put a link to a shameless anti-US propaganda film on this site?
    Most of us here are not apostles of Michael Moore.
    EPW

  29. epw:
    Then you will know what is talked about and be a legitimate part of the conversation. There are many troubling aspects to this including the validity of the images and the status of WP through out history as having a valuable use in warfare.

  30. University of Western Ontario Gazette, “York, Guelph drive off army: Guelph policy to ban Canadian Armed Forces from on-campus recruiting”, Nov. 10.
    http://www.gazette.uwo.ca/article.cfm?section=FrontPage&articleID=466&month=11&day=10&year=2005
    Excerpts:
    ‘Last week at York University, a group of students confronted the Canadian Armed Forces (there to recruit students for jobs), driving them off campus. Meanwhile, the University of Guelph�s student council, the Central Student Association, is drafting a policy that would ban military recruiters from campus, as well as oppose any research done on campus that would benefit military organizations.
    �We don�t think a university campus is the right venue for the military to be recruiting,� said CSA communications commissioner Hannah Draper. �We have a code of conduct around suppliers and which employers and recruiters we want on campus.�..
    York Federation of Students president Omari Mason said the students were not happy with military policies, and students should have a right to debate or challenge anything on campus, as long as it�s peaceful…’
    Happy Remembrance Day!
    Mark
    Ottawa

  31. Cost of housing reserve evacuees rising
    THUNDER BAY, Ont. (CP) – The federal government has spent more than $2 million during the past two years on hotel rooms for 40 residents of a northern Ontario reserve who were evacuated from their mould-infested homes, reserve officials say. >>
    via cnews

  32. Eskimo, I did a post on the Gomery-Martin-CSL connections a couple of days ago on my own site as I couldn’t find any other blogs saying anything about it. I don’t fear the Liberal regime. I doubt if Kate’s afraid of those bums, either.
    Forget the MSM– they’re terrified of the Liberals, so they’re not going to investigate exactly how the regime operates, let alone tell us. It’s up to bloggers.

  33. Mastermind killed, but pupils may be poised
    Azhari ‘was a master teacher’
    Peter Goodspeed
    National Post
    …When he was killed in a shootout with Indonesian police on Wednesday, Azhari Husin, the mastermind behind the two Bali bombings, was stockpiling bombs for yet another terrorist atrocity…
    …Azhari was an unlikely terrorist commander. A mild-mannered statistician who earned a doctorate from Britain’s Reading University with a thesis on Malaysian real estate values, he nevertheless became al-Qaeda’s “Demolition Man” in Southeast Asia…
    http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6b1b67cb-a861-4499-aa00-d15722d96b51

  34. Teachers in B.C. offered $500 for hardship
    B.C. teachers left financially strapped by a two-week illegal strike will be eligible for tax-free “gifts” of up to $500 as well as $50 food vouchers, national teacher groups confirmed Monday…
    …Federation secretary-general Julius Buski said the fund has something under $1 million available for distribution…
    …”We’re hearing stories of teachers in distress because some of them have debt problems to begin with…
    http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html?id=9335b253-b1a3-4f83-96e6-16d5c5cefcd9

  35. Veterans turn their back on GG in protest
    CTV.ca News Staff
    It was meant to be a solemn occasion to honour fallen soldiers, but a small number of veterans chose Friday’s Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa to launch their protest against Canada’s new Governor General.
    As Michaelle Jean laid a memorial wreath on the War Memorial, the words “Turn, turn,” were called out, and about 25 people, led by veterans, turned their backs on the Governor General.
    It was meant as a statement against the newly appointed Jean, who the protesters believe has separatist sympathies. >>>>>>>
    http://www.rapp.org/url/?IVFGBTVJ
    ctv.ca

  36. Hey Eskimo, the only people afraid are the Lie-beral’s, afraid of the truth. Only Lie-beral’s utter threats and use intimidation to try to keep their critic’s from voicing their opinion’s. If the truth hurts, well they only have themselves to blame for being the corrupt, morally bankrupt and ethically challenged organization that they are. They’ve had long history, ever since the days of Laurier, of doing the wrong thing for Canada while enriching themselves.

  37. Hello— statue? Whacha doin? Robinn a bank? >>>
    �Cell phone bandit� robs four Virginia banks
    WASHINGTON POST ^ | November 11, 2005 | TOM JACKSON – WASHPOST
    Posted on 11/11/2005 6:35:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
    WASHINGTON – When it comes to multitasking, it’s hard to beat the woman who can rob a bank and never interrupt her cell phone conversation.
    In an act of either incredible cool or something much more sinister, a young woman has robbed four Wachovia bank branches in Northern Virginia in recent weeks, all while seemingly immersed in cell phone chats, police say. In the most recent holdup, on Nov. 4 in Ashburn, video footage shows the woman to be almost uninterested as a teller hands her a stack of cash, and she continues talking on her phone as she turns and walks out of the bank
    “This is the first time that I can recall where we’ve had a crime committed while the person was using a cell phone,” said Loudoun County sheriff’s spokesman Kraig Troxell, echoing comments by officials from other law enforcement agencies. “The question would be whether anyone is on the other end of the line or not.” >>>>
    [image included]
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520574/posts

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