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Still down. You’ll have to amuse yourselves for a while longer.
Update – We’re back in business here, but it’s going to take a while before I’m up to speed and posting again. Thanks Kevin, for filling in.

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  2. “Expired drugs, unlicensed nurses, stray cats and scuttling rats…”
    My first thought here after stumbling across this piece, was that Stephen Taylor
    must’ve shot more late-night video at the Liberal leadership convention…
    alas it was not to be.

  3. Stephane Dion has a look-alike–at least I can see a resemblance. Elizabeth May and Stephane make a lovely couple, don’t you think?

  4. Another High Ranking Liberal Defection to the Conservatives
    Mark Persaud Chair Federal Liberal Multiculturalism Committee

  6. The Danes are starting to get it:
    Article: ‘After the Danish Cartoon Controversy’
    While some politicians and commentators embraced an extreme tone, as when a People’s Party spokesperson compared Muslims to cancer cells,[1] much of the debate was constructive. For the first time, newspapers began to report crimes committed by gangs of teenage immigrants and honor killings of young Danish Muslim women. Politicians detailed overrepresentation of immigrants in benefit abuse and criminal activities. For example, in 2004, Danish authorities pressed charges against five times as many second generation immigrants than against ethnic Danes. In Copenhagen, three in four minors arrested is of immigrant background.[2]
    Journalists also began to focus attention on the activities of some of Denmark’s most radical imams. These clerics, for their part, did not hesitate to supply the media with headline-making statements. In 2004, one Copenhagen imam, for example, said in a televised interview that Danish women who do not wear the veil “were asking for rape;” other clerics recommended that Denmark adopt the tribal concept of blood money.[3]
    meforum.org/article/1437

  7. I very much dislike the CBC for left-list propaganda nuanced news and constant array of leftist news analysts (Lloyd Axworthy a prime example), despise their constant Bush bashing and last but by no means the least criticism has to be the stammering females that work the yak desks.
    I just shut off Nancy Wilson a few minutes ago.
    Her stammering is so damned awful that listening to her became unbearable.
    Surely to God in this day and age supposed professionals should be required make their points without constant stammer, peat and repeat a word before it gets uttered out in full!
    Geez even kate Wheeler at CTV seems to be copying Wilson.
    At least I am not forced to contribute to pay Wheeler, as I am at CBC and Wilson et al.

  8. T-t-t-t-talking heads Joe. P-p-p-probab-b-b-bly w-w-watched t-t-ttoo m-m-much Maxxxx H-h-headrooom or P-p-p-porky P-p-p-pig.

  9. It’s interesting to see how the Liberals (eg Jason Cherniak and links) are desperately trying to spin the Khan crossing, the Persaud announcement, the LaPierre resignation as ‘trivial and irrelevant’.
    With regard to Khan, they are trying to say that he is both irrelevant, ignorant, useless (a used car salesman is the most frequent adjective)and furthermore, that they expected/wanted him to leave.
    They are demanding the release of his report, insisting that unless he releases it, it will show that he is working for and only for, the Conservative Party rather than the Government.
    This ignores, of course, Dion’s ultimatum to Khan that he CANNOT work for the Government; he can only work for the Liberals.
    Now that the expenses of his trip have been announced, and are a miniscule $12,764.00 – the same denigrating spin is public. The expenses are so low they can’t say anything…
    Then there’s Persaud; the Liberal spin on him is that he’s an idiot, a blah blah….nothing.
    Then there’s LaPierre. His leaving like that of Khan was ‘expected’. Oh? Before an election?
    What we are seeing, I think, is a party in serious trouble; denying, denying this reality. Fascinating.

  11. ET: You hit the nail on the head
    A Party in Serious Trouble, Denying
    Are we going to see another RCMP Adscam report soon?
    Or is this just the tip of the Iceberg & there are more Defections on the Horizon, Because no matter how the Media & Liberals try to Spin our Mean-Spirited Prime Minister(sarc) is Actualy on to something and more & more Joe Taxpayer is seeing that they have a government that is working for the People.

  12. Last week ….The BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) denied the aluminum mining and smelting company Alcan the right to determine the value of electrical power it generates with it’s own facilities and to sell that power at market rates.
    Alcan was granted water rights and the permission to generate hydro-electricity for it’s operations at Kitimat BC back in 1950 where it built the two dams and generating facilities at both Kitimat and Komano for a cost of $500million at the time. Alcan was allowed to sell excess power back to the provinces Hydro Utility BC Hydro for market rates. The province got private investors to pay for two generating stations and got power for no more than it would have paid for the same from any other source.
    Now Alcan has a proposed $2Billion expansion set up to get underway at Kitimat and a signed deal with BC Hydro to continue purchase of excess power at market rates for the next 20 years.
    Still a good deal for the province and for the Utility because they get more capacity for the future without having to pony up the capital investment ( make the taxpayers pay for it). In addition the large smelting operation grows providing more employment and the lifeline of the community is extended another 20 years.
    But is this good enough for the meddling socialists in BCUC? Hell no!
    BCUC has refused to allow Alcan and BC Hydro to follow through on the deal.
    Aside from all the legal ramifications, just what sense does this make?
    Well to a thinking person living in the real world none!
    But to those witless tools at BCUC it’s better to try to strong arm the business and screw it’s investors along with the community involved than to allow a private enterprise to benefit from it’s own investment.
    Alcan has served notice that it will withdraw from the project, effectively putting an end to the community of Kitimat!
    Thanks to people like the directors of BCUC …… The province of BC is surely becoming a Canadian version of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela.

  13. Bomb factory discovered at isolated farmhouse
    Provincial police say they found a bomb factory during a raid on a rural Norfolk farmhouse and seized live bombs and other explosive material.
    Bomb experts and detectives searched the isolated Middleton farm house yesterday and seized explosives, two live bombs they found buried in a field on the property, at least one firearm and bomb-making materials.
    (…)
    A 19-year-old man who occupied the home was arrested on several explosives and weapons charges. Jakob Froese was to appear in court today.
    The Record

  14. Little Mosque in Leeds
    From the Independant/UK
    “Life for man who abused and then killed teenage bride from Pakistan.”
    A husband who beat his teenage bride to death weeks after she arrived from Pakistan in an arranged marriage was convicted of her murder yesterday and jailed for life.
    Shazad Khan, 25, whose 19-year-old wife’s injuries were worse than any a Home Office pathologist had seen in a 16-year career, will serve a minimum of 15 years before he is eligible for parole.
    The prospect of life in Britain held out hope for Khan’s young bride Sabia Rani, who had left school at 13 to help with the cooking, cleaning and the raising of her siblings in the village of Palak, in the Mirpur district of Pakistan. She shared a small home there with her grandmother, parents, two brothers and one sister.
    She met Khan when he visited Pakistan for a family funeral in December 2002 and they married, but it was not until December 2005 that she arrived in Britain, with no grasp of English and little sense of the lifestyle.
    The first signs were not good. Her new husband expected domesticity from her and was unhappy to find that she did not place fresh sandwiches in his lunch box, which he left in the kitchen at the family home at Oakwood Grange, Roundhay, Leeds. When she did produce sandwiches, she had failed to establish that he was off work the following day, which also angered him.
    Ms Rani also found herself living with up to eight – members of her husband’s westernised family yet struggled to fit in with any of them, according to Khan.
    She rarely saw her husband, who worked long hours and had three jobs. Khan told police that his own mother had raised five children while his father worked 14-hour days at a factory – so that is “how it would be” for Sabia.
    The smallest tasks – visiting the supermarket or knowing how to apply the make-up her husband expected her to wear – were difficult for her, Khan told detectives under interview. He admitted this irritated him, as did her failure to fit in with the family.
    Khan’s mother believed Ms Rani was possessed by evil spirits. This was confirmed by a “holy man” in Bradford, who did not meet Ms Rani but told her in-laws about her “problem” after performing a ceremony involving a top she wore.
    Khan told his work supervisor that he was unhappy with his marriage because he had been rushed into it, and soon began kicking and beating his wife.
    Leeds Crown Court heard that Ms Rani’s injuries, similar to those of a car crash victim, were so severe that she would have been in constant pain and ill for at least three weeks before she died.
    Yet Khan’s sister said she had seen no evidence of injuries. She and Ms Rani had been great friends, she said.
    Ms Rani was found dead in a bath of cold water at the family home on 21 May last year, after another attack.
    The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Norman Jones, QC, criticised Khan’s family. “I can’t help but note that others in that house, that very intimate family, must have known,” he said. The court heard further inquiries where being made with the family following the conviction.

  15. Re previous post(ET),I am also finding it fascinating the spin cycle now in racing gear!The posts,that Cherniak in particular has been running,are becoming more and more whacked..almost desperate sounding.I’m sure if Khan had remained in Lib.party,they would be wildly singing his praises,about all he had to contribute to anything and everything!It’s just the Lib.way. These posts are juvenile,”tattletale”stuff,and poor Jason is flailing around,trying to slag the Cons,when he has NOTHING positive to write about his own true love Dion.It’s a pity party of a magnitude never before seen,and I’m lovin’watching him self-destruct!I told you people..head explosion coming!

  17. “Swim Rats, SWIM!
    Ahhhhh hahahaha.”
    (Blam Blam Blam)
    More small dead animals is the only hope for the ship!
    The feces left from these cheese eating vermon are rotting out the superstructure.
    “There goes one!”
    (Blam)
    (ChookChook)

  18. Anyone check these names to a Liberal donor database?
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2007/01/12/3320601-sun.html
    As for Khan….well, as a good conservative, as opposed to Conservative, I certainly hope there is value for money and that the junket wasnt the reason Khan crossed the floor.
    It is fair ball to ask for the report….the CPC has to live with the consequences, large or small, if Khan did no work.
    It is also fair ball for the PM to say his advice is personal and not to be released…..once again you live with the consequences.
    I just hope that there was work done and advice given, written or not.

  19. No, Stephen, it isn’t ‘fair ball’ to ask for the report. It is not, by any logic, a public document.
    Public documents are those prepared by official committees and by ministerial offices. Reports by individual MPs or non-elected advisors are not public.
    We could, after all, use that same invalid logic and insist that any and all reports carried out by the Liberal or NDP or Bloc – ought to be made public. After all, all these parties do research, don’t they? And it’s all paid for by the taxpayer, since they are elected parties. So?
    Do they make these reports public? Do they make them available to all the other parties? No.
    What I find reprehensible is the deliberate assumption that Harper is ignorant and cannot evaluate a report himself; that he requires The Public to evaluate its worth before he is allowed to use it.
    AND, the deliberate assumption that Harper is lying and that there is no report.
    Both require, I think, some evidence, from past experience, to confirm both assumptions. Otherwise, they are the problem of the person who has those assumptions.
    I’m saying that the Liberal party is in serious trouble. They have the MSM going ‘all out’ to bolster them; the CBC is frantic, working overtime, day after day of propaganda about ‘climate catastrophe’, Kyoto; child care and etc. Constant sneering references to Harper. CTV the same. The Star – the same.
    BUT – take a look at the facts. Not the spin. Just the acts.
    Several ‘defections’ in a short period. OK. Think nothing of it.
    But, the words of Dion and other Liberals are disturbing. Dion insists that Khan can only work for the Liberals – not the government, which includes all parties. Yet, Liberals are insisting that Khan hand over his report; but, they rejected his ‘working for the government’! Why do they now claim any rights to his report?
    LaPierre?
    And we have Jason Cherniak suggesting that ‘more Liberals’ should leave! (Does he know that more are planning?) Why? He says that this way, they will open up seats to ‘prominent Canadians’. That if, let’s say, three more leave, then, maybe a by-election will be called (at great taxpayer expense???) – and ‘prominent Canadians’ (Liberals) will get into the House.
    Wow. Encourage three elected Liberals to leave so that your party can get an election for these ‘vacant’ seats to get people like Martha Hall Findlay, Bob Rae, etc..seats in the House? Didn’t the Liberals have Findlay stand down so Stronach could run?
    Hey, Jason – why not have ALL elected members step down, so that …..
    Dion’s embrace of Kyoto is disturbing. It doesn’t take much brain power to realize that Kyoto has nothing to do with climate change, control of emissions. It’s a simple money-transfer scheme, cloaked in a cloud of Guilt-For-Being-Industrial and Successful (aka capitalist and corporate). Why would someone with a miniscule of brain, support such a gross misrepresentation and loss of Canada’s ability to lessen emissions and pollution (because Canada will send the money for that task overseas to undev’t countries who can build polluting factories).
    And the Liberal and NDP fight for control of the Left Latte vote – that’s another scenario.
    Remember, that Chretien won his majorities, not because of his policies, because the Liberals never have policies. He won them because the opposition was splintered into several parties. Now, the Left is splintered…And the MSM are very worried.

  20. On three occassions I had to fly to Toronto for one hour meetings. When I returned I was debriefed by my boss. He got the information he needed and all without a word ever written down. I cannot prove I got the information, but my boss authorized my trips.
    Why does everything have to be written? How many times have we been asked for a verbal report? Say Khan made three trip – thats $4,500 a trip. Airfare most likely took up over 50% of each trip’s cost.
    The report is a red herring. How many times is Dion briefed by his scouts before arriving in a city? Are there reports written for him?

  21. Whooops. The NY Post did it again with the headline -Whacko Jacko Comes Backo- on the day Michael Jackson returned to the USA.
    And the following is from yesterdays Page Six at the NY Post.
    -snip-
    Bombay Babes
    RICHARD Gere supports hookers. The 57-year-old star whipped up a pep rally of 10,000 sex workers in Mumbai, India, this week, getting them to chant, “No condoms, no sex!” at an AIDS awareness event. Gere, who famously ran off with a call girl played by Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman,” said: “Before, there was a total lack of knowledge among sex workers about HIV . . . Now there is a radical change. When sex workers speak of condoms as a norm, it is a powerful statement, it empowers them.”

  22. CBC is in Nelson this weekend. Forecast high for Saturday is -8 and low-12. What is the temp in Calgary for Dion tonight? I gotta admit I love it when the Talking Heads who trumpet global warming freeze their butts off. We will undoubtedly see lots of giggling about the ‘unusual’ weather.

  24. Bilingualism slows dementia Report:
    CTV.ca has a poll going re: How many languages do you speak. So far 1 language is leading big time, therefore the conclusion is, there are going to be alot of dememted people in canada not just restricted to the NDP/liberal parties

  25. they need to run a poll
    how many people will die from global climate change?
    a) 4.5 billion
    b) a bit less
    c) a few more
    d) none , Stephane Dion will save us.

  26. http://tinyurl.com/yzkgaj
    “HOUSTON – Ron Paul, the iconoclastic nine-term congressman from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican.
    Paul, of Lake Jackson, acknowledges that the national GOP has never fully embraced him despite his nine terms in office under its banner. He gets little money from the GOP’s large traditional donors, but benefits from individual conservative and Libertarian donors outside Texas. He bills himself as “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend,” and is routinely ranked either first or second in the House of Representatives by the National Taxpayers Union, a national group advocating low taxes and limited government.
    He describes himself as a lifelong Libertarian running as a Republican.”
    Finally a ray of light in the GOP leadership void!! I’m keepng my fingers crossed. Paul is a fervent 2nd amendment supporter as well as a “constitutionalist”…we haven’t seen one of these since Reagan and Eisenhower before that.

  27. via National Newswatch
    The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has published a report of the recipients of federal government corporate welfare for the years 1982 to 2005.
    I had a quick look at the report and something struck me immediately. On page 11, you see Table 3. It shows the first 10 of the top 50 recipients of federal “financial assistance”. What is common among at least 8 of those top 10? They’re mostly multi-nationals but in which province do you think their Canadian head offices and main facilities are lcoated? Did you guess Quebec? That is correct. It looks like about $3B for those top 10….

  28. ET,
    Oh come on….I cannot believe you mean that nobody is allowed to ask for a report, especially when it was initially stated that the report would be made public and shared with the opposition parties….(read that a good natured O come on and not a nasty one please :-> )
    Where we agree is that Harper is under no obligation to release, as it HIS advice. But he has changed his tune. You know if this had been said to be PM advice only at the ebginning that it never would have gone forward.
    I am just saying there may be political prices to pay for moves like this so I hope Khan’s advice was worth it or he is able to deliver politically.
    I hope he actually did do work. You have to admit had Martin asked that of Belindabeast or Scott (cheeky) Brison and then said no to release you would be making hay out of it. You know you would, I would be….
    My tolerance for Harper is much much higher than for Martin, different people with, in my estimation, different moral codes.
    But I am uncomfortable about how this looks…at one point bi partisan and open and then it all just looks like a game (as fun as that is). If it becomes habit it becomes dangerous.
    I have some tolerance for small ticket politicking, I am not a total purist (unlike Coyne), but this kind of stuff CAN get out of hand.
    That being said Harper is a big boy so I am sure he is aware of the costs of these actions, (trust me I love tweaking Liberals) but it is unlikely I am the only part of his base that this causes a raised eyebrow on…

  29. the politics headlines from CTV (tass news agency) they are taking over the CBCpravda banner for “all liberal, all the time”.
    .NDP says Liberals strangely silent on Stanley Park
    .Ontario slams federal plan to study wait times
    .Quebec Liberal MP Jean Lapierre to resign
    .Chretien says Dion can call for advice any time

  30. Dion proposes oilsands cleanup
    He still refers to Alberta’s hydrocarbon-driven economy as a “milk cow,” but federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says that doesn’t mean he hopes to milk our natural resources. (cnews)…-
    Citizen Dion will impose severe taxation on Alberta’s taxpayers, if he, and his cadres/comrades can seize the federal government again.
    Believe the opposite of what Citizen Dion is mouthing:
    Dion and the socialists hope to milk Alberta’s natural resources.
    It’s the Liberal National Energy Policy, II.

  31. Clean up the tar sands.
    I agree,
    the best way to clean it up is dig up all that old degraded oil and turn it into fuel before that damn river erodes it all away and sends it to the Mackenzie delta releasing CO2 all the way along as it goes.

  32. Globe & Mail has finished accepting comments on Little Mosque on the Prairie, so it’s time to find out “How Canadian are you?”.. Visible-minority immigrants and their children identify less and less with the country, report says…
    theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070112.wximmigrant12/BNStory/National/home
    and a poll:
    In your opinion, has Canada’s policy of multiculturalism been successful?
    Yes 49% 10998 votes
    No 51% 11245 votes
    Total so far: 22243

  33. Tour de Force II, aka Citizen Dion’s Farce II….-
    “Harper says Khan’s report was thorough, thoughtful and useful and
    that the MP will soon head off on a second fact-finding tour in Central Asia.” (cnews)
    Citizen Dion says: Enuff of the sand in moi’s face. Khan can come back to moi; he must kiss moi’s ring, prostrate himself, and swear to be loyal to moi, 100%. Also, moi demands a cc of the report in advance of Harper receiving it. C’est ca.
    P.S. Moi ain’t a farceur.

  34. Ammadinjihad says the Mahdi will be revealed at the spring equinox.
    “What’s Worse than Violent Jihadists?”
    By Timothy R. Furnish
    Mr. Furnish, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, History, Georgia Perimeter College; Ph.D., Islamic History; M.A., Church History.
    Islamist terrorist bombings in the London subways. Buddhists beheaded by fanatical Muslims in Thailand. Hurricanes and Live 8 aside, the global event horizon these days seems to encompass little else but revolutionary (actually reactionary) Islamic violence. How much worse could it get?
    Much worse.
    hnn.us/articles/13146.html

  35. If Alberta is the “milchcow” we should get a higher % of the milk allocation from the protected quebec dairy industy.
    We should get a few new MPs next round as BC and Alberta with a larger population than Quebec is 11 members short . maybe he can address this quickly if he wants to be Albertas best pal.

  36. Here’s something on Khan. Go to the usual internet set up. Then macleans.ca slash topstories slash politics slash article.jsp?content=20060619_128868_128868
    Apparently, he was active in the Muslim community, was concerned about the violence preached by some imams, and then, came the arrests. Then, he went to Harper.
    By the way, I’d like to know exactly where and when Khan said that his report would be available to both the public and to all political parties?

  37. Part of an interesting speech by Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Speech Society (Especially with regards to climate change, Kyoto, motoons, etc):
    “Public Opinion’s Pernicious Influence”
    When we talk of people or forces that try to put limitations on free speech, we should not only look to society’s traditional power-holders – be they religious or secular.
    Equally dangerous – in many respects far more dangerous – is the pernicious effect of so-called popular opinion. That which everybody is expected to think. And if they don’t think it – then at least what they are expected to say if they want to be regarded as part of the civilized, cultured and politically correct consensus.
    Ruling classes, kings, nobles, priests, bureaucrats and party bosses have often conspired to suppress the freedom of expression. But at least they do so openly and their motives are plain.
    They may indeed be evil, but as Søren Kierkegaard said: “I do not complain because the times are evil but because they are contemptible.”
    Evil is what others do to you. Contemptible is what you do to yourself – such as refraining from saying what ought to be said for fear of being ostracized.
    What is called public opinion should not be confused with what people really think. It is not the sum of all private opinions, which can be determined through democratic elections or opinion polls. Public opinion is what is being propagated by the press and by society’s leading institutions.
    And this public opinion is powerful. So powerful that one cannot rule against it even if one is backed by the silent majority. Those who can shout the loudest determine the course. Thus public opinion is not the general opinion but only one opinion among several possible opinions.
    It gains its power by having morality on its side. This means that the propagators or custodians of public opinion need never give reasons for their points of view. They only need to portray the opinions of others as outrageous, immoral, reactionary or something even worse. And often the guardians of public opinion are incapable of realizing that their way of looking at society and the world is but a partisan set of beliefs or opinions – one among many others. But the belief that one represents public opinion often makes one blind and deaf towards other ways of understanding the world.
    Today freedom of expression is almost universally defended at least in the West. But to test its limits in the real world by saying things that go against public opinion is quite another matter. It may totally destroy you as a public persona. Far better to defend free speech as a general concept with some buts added. Yes, free speech is a good idea and we all support it, but one should not say things that offend others, things that fly in the face of good taste and proper manners.
    Such as the Muhammed cartoons.
    An opinion climate such as I have just described is conducive to the idea that people who go against public opinion do so because they are immoral or simply evil. Or as Jean Baudrillard has put it: “political consensus has driven evil out of our societies to the extent that we have lost our political ‘immune defenses’. … The abolition of evil has become an obsession with us. This really amounts to a Totalitarianism of the Good, or to put is less dramatically: behind our quest for universal consensus lies a totalitarian will. That is a problem because you end up by not being able to identify evil” (quoted in Gade Jensen 2006, p. 15).
    Timur Kuran has analyzed what happens when we hide or falsify our opinions. From a rational point of view it is often stupid to be honest. It may be more advantageous for the individual to keep one’s opinion to oneself as a private truth and to say publicly what everybody else is saying (Kuran 1995).
    The upshot may be that public opinion will become a collection of lies. This was the situation which Hans Christian Andersen described in his story about The Emperor’s New Clothes, and which Vaclav Havel identified during Communism’s rule in Czechoslovakia: A situation where citizens are forced or enticed to reproduce opinions which nobody believes in.
    Unless we are constantly aware of the danger, the tyranny of public opinion may well become the bane of free speech and thereby of the very concept of freedom.
    Let me conclude by offering this observation:
    In the era of globalization, freedom must either advance or it must give way to the forces of darkness. And to those who cannot believe that a civilization as mighty as the Western and European civilization can simply collapse and humanity regress to some state of semi-barbarity – who cannot imagine that we can loose our technical accomplishments, our knowledge, our science, our humanism, that we can go back to hunger, illness and early death – just look at what happened to the Roman Empire.
    And the first harbinger of imminent collapse will be the curtailment of free speech.

  38. Librano$: We Canadians demand you cough up/return the millions of $ you have stolen from Canada.
    Canadians must demand that the Librano$, aka Ad$cam Chretien-Martin-Gagliano-Boudria, et al, and Citizen Kyoto Dion, cough up the $250 millions, or more, stolen from them.
    Here is Unity-AdScam Dion:
    andrewcoyne.com: 03/21/2004 – 03/28/2004
    So Adscam began with the honeypot (Secret unity fund was original source of … I was pleased to use it when it was possible,” said Dion, who was the …-
    $$$$$$$
    NEWFOUNDLAND POLITICIANS MUST COUGH UP CASH
    Five politicians implicated in Newfoundland’s spending scandal have until Monday to repay $1.6 million in constituency allowance overpayments….-
    national newswatch

  39. “The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has published a report……..”
    Corporate Welfare Continues to Fleece Taxpayers
    taxpayer.com/main/index.php

  40. Why does every dictator end up with a villa in France?
    http://search.us.reuters.com/news/search.aspx?site=&blob=tags%20and%20graffiti%20saddam
    Click on the picture and read the caption. It reads:
    “Tags and graffiti are seen on the walls of a villa belonging to the family of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and abandoned after the 2003 invasion by coalition forces in Grasse, south eastern France January 11, 2007. Iraq is in talks with France over the return of properties which belonged to Saddam Hussein’s family and which was frozen under U.N. sanctions.”

  41. For those who wish to believe that being Bi-Lingual will postpone your dementia!
    Keep telling yourself……Je ne perds pas mon esprit!

  42. Waugh: Grit and bear it
    Liberal boss’s fiscal plan for Alberta won’t work
    By NEIL WAUGH — Edmonton Sun
    Liberal Leader Stephane Dion was in town splitting hairs, attaching labels and trying to explain where he’s coming from. It didn’t work.
    Especially when he blurted “I’m a Liberal, not a socialist.
    “The government will not decide everything,” he insisted. That’s if central Canadians foolishly decide to vote the Liberals back into power.
    A Stephane Dion coronation will not happen anytime soon in Alberta. No fear of that. Especially after some of the excellent ideas the Quebecer shared with the students at Faculte St. Jean yesterday.
    “We need to be a bit like Norway,” Dion scolded. Then he tore a strip off young guys heading for the oilsands.
    “All these workers living too fast for the easy money in the north,” the prime minister-wannabe blasted as Liberal-appointed senators Tommy Banks and Grant Mitchell looked on. “It’s not good for the economy.”
    I don’t know what your idea of “easy money” is. But it sure isn’t living in camp and freezing your butt at 40 below building oilsands plants. But Tommy and Grant sure know what a soft touch looks like.
    Then Dion went on to explain his plan to link “the daily life of citizens and the big challenge of the planet.” …
    ‘Great future’ in Alberta
    At the same time, the price of oil dipped below $52US-a-barrel yesterday. The falling price may soon take care of the Alberta oilsands boom before the Liberals get a crack at it.
    “I’m not here to kill the milk cow,” Dion boomed. “We will have a great future in Alberta.” So what is the difference between a Liberal and a socialist, anyway? …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/01/12/pf-3321783.html

  43. OMMAG were you aware that Alcan recieved a 400million dollar interest free loan from the province of Quebec plus subsidized power?
    “MONTREAL, December 15, 2006 (Canada.com from The Montreal Gazette) – The Quebec government is injecting more than half a billion dollars in interest-free loans and tax breaks to support Alcan Inc.’s construction of a high-tech pilot plant in the province’s Saguenay region.
    The project is to begin in 2008, with the construction of a $600-million plant to test its more cost-efficient AP50 smelting technology. The plant will be located at Alcan’s Complexe Jonquiere site and is to produce 60,000 tonnes of aluminum a year when completed in 2010.
    “The government is proud to associate itself with a project this important for the Saguenay,” Quebec Premier Jean Charest said Thursday in a statement.
    The province is giving Alcan a $400-million interest-freeloan over 30 years, in addition to $112 million in tax breaks.
    Alcan will also have continued access to a secure supply of about 2,600 megawatts of low-cost power through 2045.”
    Since Quebec is a have not province that would be John Q Taxpayer footing the bill. Alcan is nothing more than a corporate welfare bum with a horrendous environmental record. Don’t weep too hard for Alcan, they’re not worth it.

  44. Not weeping for Alcan ….angry over the treatment of the Local Community of Kitimat….Alcan is not the bad guy there!
    Not supporting corporate welfare either.

  45. I agree with that. Kitimat is getting the shaft. Then again I used to work in Faro, YT. I also worked In Labrador City, back when IOC used to have twenty-five hundred hourly and fifteen hundred staff. Days gone by. Mining is like that and companys like Alcan are like that. When you work for a major industrial outfit you really are just a number.

  47. Kitimat has been a good business deal for years and now the socialists want to squash it. Kind of like cutting your nose off to spite your face, as my dad used to say.

  50. Can anyone tell me why I don’t get all the side bars, just the dead gopher, when I log on. Anyone else have this problem.

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