Always thought the guts of Clarity Act was the brainchild of Preston Manning and Stephen Harper.
Do we have a case of plagiarism here?
It is the Liberal way, take someone else’s ideas and run on them. The all things to all people philosophy.
We saw the Vimy rededication twice too…and it certainly was touching. Very well done.It had an effect. Did anyone else notice the soldiers tearing up?
And a lighter moment…Rachel Harper giving the Queen a bouquet.
Alienated says: “Election coming in the spring. 2008.”
Agreed — the CPC will go down over a popular but conservative budget, thus consolidating their base support (by then larger than it was in 05-06), and attracting enough others for a majority. Also provides another year of pathetic unfair bullying against Dion.
But I could be wrong.
Sample the hateful, self-loathing from CP, aka Canadian Press. Down with the narcissist Canadian Press.
…-
Canadians in Afghanistan face grief, guilt after death of comrades
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – Lt. Ben Rogerson will never forget the explosion that destroyed a light armoured vehicle killing six soldiers under his command. (cnews)
…-
Re: The “British Hospital Rolls Over on Hot-Cross Bun Ban” story that cal2 brought to our attention, I am now officially embarassed or my British ancestory. I took the fact that besides roast beef and yorkshire pudding, English cuisine sucked, and that the English with their stiff upper lips were not regarded as great lovers, dancers or swashbucklers. I did however take great comfort in knowing that the Royal Navy for centuries ruled the seas, the Royal Airforce showed great resolve during the Battle of Britian, and Scotland Yard usually got their man (with the help of Mr Holmes). Now a once great nation is reduced to letting their sailors be captured without so much as a shot being fired and banning hot cross buns lest they offend someone. My grandfather would probably have thanked his lucky stars that he came to Canada when he did if he were alive today.
From Belinda’s article in the Post:
“From 2000 to 2005, the number of undergraduates pursuing degrees in computer science in Canada fell 70%.”
I hope this is a “Liberal statistic” and not a real, actual statistic.
Bob – “computer science” university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads.
Here in Edmonton the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology has absolutely exploded in growth and size.
We also have something here called “campus Alberta” where all of the universities and colleges have reciprocal credits for courses across the province and life long learning is promoted even for seniors.
If Belinda was just looking at University graduate statistics to try to stack her shallow little article then, of course, it is misleading.
Belinda should go back to Daddy’s Corp. and act important.
As for Amadiddydo of Iran, he’s working on a big boomer and the Western Powers are sitting by watching. He really needs those 50,000 uranium centrifuges up his ass.
Lorraine: “Bob – “computer science” university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads.”
Not sure I would describe it that way … there is a big difference. If you have to speculate as to the reason to the drop in enrollment take a look what the major computer/software vendors were doing in the late 90s and the early 2000s … 100s of thousands of jobs were dropped (these were mainly university grads). In the mean time there was an increase in demand for diploma grads.
To oversimplify (and use a single example) the university grads at microsoft write the tools that diploma grads use … to suggest the university grads aren’t capable of using them doesn’t make sense.
Bob – I think the drop was first noticed in the US. No big deal, it’s a changing world.
Report out from British scientists states that if your family is prone to parkinsons, smoking and drinking coffee can help prevent you getting it. Seems smoking and coffee raise dopemine levels. No mention of help from embryonic stem cells.
The drop in enrollment in computer science programs is understandable. And anyone dumbfounded by it must have been living with their head in the sand since 1999.
All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India. India, with a billion people, has an extremely high proportion of their population with University degrees. They’re as educated as a North American or European. Only they work for a fraction of the cost.
So to Belinda I say, “duh.” http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/01/BU106520.DTL&type=tech
The young woman who played “Warrior’s Lament” at the Vimy memorial is a superbly talented Manitoban by the name of Sierra Noble. More info http://www.sierranoble.ca/bio.html
Who had the most to gain from the tax free status of Income Trusts, the Trust Owners themselves and investment bankers?
They wouldn’t be hiding behind the emotional plea that it is for the poor seniors now would they?
Here are the founding members of CAITI- the group organizing the propaganda campaign against the changes to Income Trusts:
Founding Members
Four Individuals (with an average age of 62 years)
Coalition of Canadian Energy Trusts
Sentry Select Capital Corp.
CI Investments
Dynamic Funds
Acuity Funds Ltd.
Citadel Group of Funds
Brompton Funds
Gluskin Sheff + Associates
Borden Ladner Gervais
Lawrence Asset Management Inc.
Canadian Energy Infrastructure Group
Pengrowth Energy Trust http://www.caiti.info/about_us_founding_members.php
Reid: ” … All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India.”
Yeah, and that also. I classify the diploma grads more like service workers and trades – proximity matters.
With the trades, welding in Australia in particular, the guys that build truck boxes decided to import contract Chinese workers to be able to compete with China.
Who knows where all this is going … but it is changing.
Thanks – buglady for the info on the Sierra Noble website.
In an earlier post on this thread this morning I had compared her performance to the Australian singer Beccy Cole in her tribute to the Australian Diggers at war in Iraq.
While this tribute was not political as the Cole “Poster Girl” song it was just as moving, perhaps more so on the occasion and the setting where it was performed.
Congratulations to Sierra Noble for her contribution to a proud Canadian moment in world affairs, I wish her all the success in the world!
Down with Trudeau’s Fraud; Down with the Charter of Wrongs.
…-
PM Passes On Marking Charter Anniversary
Th
The Harper government is passing on a major Ottawa conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Charter of Rights, with the Prime Minister and three Cabinet ministers turning down invitations to speak.
…- (national newswatch)
“For a sitting prime minister, these job numbers are better than any poll.”
[www.lianmacdonald.ca]
Employment numbers make Harper’s day
At current growth, economy could produce a million jobs in just two years […]
Except that Ontario, the manufacturing heartland of the country, continues to bleed industrial jobs, […]
Alberta’s oil boom continues to fuel an economy […] …- http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=cd2c08ed-7c85-4e59-9714-e0ab3e48476f&p=2
The Glob-Mail’s “rob tv” changed it’s name! LOL.
$$$
Al Rosen skewers the greedy media: greed of money, greed of ego. Go, Al. This is a keeper.
Would one of those greedy-ego journos be Diane Francis, aka Miss Shrill-Shill? Doesn’t she toil-sweat-scribble for the Financial Post?
…-
On trusts and Greedy Media
Al Rosen
Financial Post
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Roughly 25 new income trust offerings have lost more than half their value in the past few years after being sold mostly to retail investors. The common reason behind the $2.1- billion in losses is clear: pure, unmitigated greed. Greed by investors, greed by underwriters, lawyers, and accountants, and greed by the media.
We should focus on that last cohort first, because without the greed of the media, investors wouldn’t have been burned as badly as they were by income trust investments over the past few years.
It seems investors have forgotten that the media are businesses too. They survive on advertising dollars, and they rely on content to fill their pages and airtime. In the case of income trusts, the two frequently went hand in hand. Both national newspapers ran several insert sections dedicated solely to income trusts. Pages of lucrative advertising dollars were accompanied by puff pieces on income trust investing.
I had to laugh recently when that other newspaper’s television station renamed itself, partly because it didn’t like people referring to it as “rob” TV. After all, what could have been a more telling name during the past few years, considering the parade of shills that regularly circuited through the station, misleading investors about the risks of income trust investing?
However, it’s not just greed for money that has infected the media, it’s also greed of ego that is doing investors a serious disservice. Lately, it’s a couple of regular business columnists who seem to be hell bent on ignoring plain facts so they can bask in the attention they get from being mouthpieces for pro-trust lobbying efforts.$$$ http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=e09c50f1-6cc1-4b52-96da-77d7b2426fce
(via bourque)
“Newspeak – The official language of Oceania. Newspeak is “politically correct” speech taken to its maximum extent.” …-
Thoughtcriminals Served
(updated daily)
The Newspeak Wiktionary in now open for editing.
All across Oceania, loyal party members are filling the new database with goodthinkful articles. To join the struggle and add content to the wiktionary yourself, you must first declare loyalty to the party and become a member of the forum. …- http://www.newspeakdictionary.com
(via free republic)
Canada Wins Gold At Women’s Hockey Worlds
Once again, Canada reigns supreme in women’s hockey, capturing its ninth world title Tuesday night in Winnipeg. (national newswatch)
She shoots; she scores. …-
Great comment from an Iraqi blogger at:
MichaelTotten.com
**like i said, pray for bush every day, right after u pray for god otherwise u wud have to walk to work every day coz of high petrol prices.
am iraqi but i like bush, i know he did this war partly because of oil, but atleast we benefited from that. having 50% of somthin is better than %100 of nothing.
what condition do u think kwait and saudi be in right now if they hadnt cooperated with america in 1991? they would be part of iraq and the cities probably looked worse than the deserts in afghanistan. no offence to aghanis or anything.
Regards,
Shvan **
=============
There are probably thousands of Iraqi who feel this way but would not dare express their opinion.
That opinion is worth a Muqtada beheading. = TG
From cbc.ca/nb
Here’s what the City of Dieppe feels about financial transparency:
“To put [on the internet] that I have $4,000 left or $2,000 left in my expense budget, I don’t see the public interest in that,” he said.” – MAyor Achille Maillet
“”She’s the only one that believes that citizens need transparency,” – Councillor Charles Cormier
“http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/ 2007/04/11/nb-dieppeexpenses.html”
This is the same City of Dieppe which had to raise property taxes to deal with spiralling spending, and which uses 25% of the budget simply to service debt.
Maurice-Mao Stlong is the Mayol of “Woman Town”, aka the Blothel. One eggloll, 2 eggloll, 3 …
…-
Women to rule new town [in China}
China is to create the world’s first ‘Woman Town’ where women make all the decisions and disobedient men face punishments.
Chongqing is to convert its Shuangqiao district into Woman Town, covering 2.3 square km, reports Chongqing Morning News.
The slogan: “A woman never makes a mistake. A man can never reject a woman’s request” will be carved into the town gates. …- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815526/posts
Hindus eye Niagara as their Ganges – Community seeks designated waterway for burial rituals
canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d71f9582-344f-42d3-a75c-2dec149320ac
What is becoming of Rideau Hall?
National Post
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Rideau Hall is not “Canada’s national home,” as the Governor- General’s Web site now says. It is the home of the representative of Queen Elizabeth, and it is not primarily an art gallery, as the current resident, Michaelle Jean, and her staff seem to think….
….These moves may or may not be stealth republicanism, or an attempted constitutional amendment by curatorial decree. But Ms. Jean and her staff are evidently trying to siphon off the great symbolic power of the monarchy, to further their particular tastes and agendas. If they continue on this path, they will undermine a highly honourable office, and consequently validate the warnings offered by Ms. Jean’s detractors at the time she was appointed.
Belinda leaving politics! Bob Fife on CTV just had a “love’in” on what a great person blah, blah, blah!
Looks like Liberal party is dropping like flies.
To grip made a cross on elections in 2007
Joel-Denis Bellavance
The Press
Stephen Harper will measure the popularity of his minority government from here a few months in three bys-election in Quebec, and gives at spring the 2008 possibility of starting general elections, according to information’s obtained by the Press. …-
googoo translation (via national newswatch)
Yes, Belinda jumped to Titanic Librano$ and now jumping to Titanic Magna$.
It will take longer, but Magna$ fortunes are headed downhill unless they decide to get into the Electric Vehicle mfng business. = TG
Another two Canadians killed in Afghanistan today and once again the story is ignored by SDA. Funny when one finds “Support our Troops” on the main page, you’d think when those troops make the ultimate sacrifice to the country they serve, it would at least rate some sort of small mention.
So what gives?
Is the phrase “Support Our Troops” just a con feel good saying that’s to be ignored when those troops have the audacity to end up dead shedding Prime Minister Tubby Guts in a bad light?
*
Stand by for Dummy Coderre’s latest strokes of genius…
the first completely segregated Tamil, Paraplegic
and Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered Bases in the
Canadian military establishment.
Because it’s all about showing sensitivity.
*
* April says… “once again the story is ignored by SDA”
Hey, Ape…
Not to minimise this terrible blow to family and friends
of these soldiers… but let’s get some perspective here.
We’ve been in Afghanistan for 5-6 years, which works
out to roughly 10 deaths per year…
“About 3,000 people per year die in motor vehicle crashes
in Canada. Of that total, 40 per cent (1,200 deaths) are
attributed to alcohol. Canadians are spending up to
$25 billion annually in emergency care,
rehabilitation and other costs resulting from traffic collisions.”
So maybe take your manufactured outrage back to Blogging Dippers… where it belongs.
*
*
my bad… it’s albatros39a, not the month of april…
who’s being a complete donkey-head about this
*
Lloyds of London recorded a profit of $7 Billion for 2006. Profit !!
Thanks Al. Because of calamity Jane, the world was scared stiff, bought more insurance, …and, .. and, .. got stiffed.
Always thought the guts of Clarity Act was the brainchild of Preston Manning and Stephen Harper.
Do we have a case of plagiarism here?
It is the Liberal way, take someone else’s ideas and run on them. The all things to all people philosophy.
We saw the Vimy rededication twice too…and it certainly was touching. Very well done.It had an effect. Did anyone else notice the soldiers tearing up?
And a lighter moment…Rachel Harper giving the Queen a bouquet.
though crescent rolls celebrated the defeat of the Turks it is a suggestion
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265132,00.html
Alienated says: “Election coming in the spring. 2008.”
Agreed — the CPC will go down over a popular but conservative budget, thus consolidating their base support (by then larger than it was in 05-06), and attracting enough others for a majority. Also provides another year of pathetic unfair bullying against Dion.
But I could be wrong.
AGW laugh of the week – CO2 levels in 1830 were higher than they are now and have lagged temperature changes since then. Whole puddle of nonsense is based on bad science, followed by worse science, closely chased by morons like Gore and that lying little geek Suzuki. Ha ha.
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/003901.html
http://www.biokurs.de/treibhaus/180CO2_supp.htm
Sample the hateful, self-loathing from CP, aka Canadian Press. Down with the narcissist Canadian Press.
…-
Canadians in Afghanistan face grief, guilt after death of comrades
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – Lt. Ben Rogerson will never forget the explosion that destroyed a light armoured vehicle killing six soldiers under his command. (cnews)
…-
Re: The “British Hospital Rolls Over on Hot-Cross Bun Ban” story that cal2 brought to our attention, I am now officially embarassed or my British ancestory. I took the fact that besides roast beef and yorkshire pudding, English cuisine sucked, and that the English with their stiff upper lips were not regarded as great lovers, dancers or swashbucklers. I did however take great comfort in knowing that the Royal Navy for centuries ruled the seas, the Royal Airforce showed great resolve during the Battle of Britian, and Scotland Yard usually got their man (with the help of Mr Holmes). Now a once great nation is reduced to letting their sailors be captured without so much as a shot being fired and banning hot cross buns lest they offend someone. My grandfather would probably have thanked his lucky stars that he came to Canada when he did if he were alive today.
From Belinda’s article in the Post:
“From 2000 to 2005, the number of undergraduates pursuing degrees in computer science in Canada fell 70%.”
I hope this is a “Liberal statistic” and not a real, actual statistic.
Bob – “computer science” university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads.
Here in Edmonton the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology has absolutely exploded in growth and size.
We also have something here called “campus Alberta” where all of the universities and colleges have reciprocal credits for courses across the province and life long learning is promoted even for seniors.
If Belinda was just looking at University graduate statistics to try to stack her shallow little article then, of course, it is misleading.
Belinda should go back to Daddy’s Corp. and act important.
As for Amadiddydo of Iran, he’s working on a big boomer and the Western Powers are sitting by watching. He really needs those 50,000 uranium centrifuges up his ass.
Lorraine: “Bob – “computer science” university graduates have been replaced by the far more highly trained technology school grads.”
Not sure I would describe it that way … there is a big difference. If you have to speculate as to the reason to the drop in enrollment take a look what the major computer/software vendors were doing in the late 90s and the early 2000s … 100s of thousands of jobs were dropped (these were mainly university grads). In the mean time there was an increase in demand for diploma grads.
To oversimplify (and use a single example) the university grads at microsoft write the tools that diploma grads use … to suggest the university grads aren’t capable of using them doesn’t make sense.
Bob – I think the drop was first noticed in the US. No big deal, it’s a changing world.
Report out from British scientists states that if your family is prone to parkinsons, smoking and drinking coffee can help prevent you getting it. Seems smoking and coffee raise dopemine levels. No mention of help from embryonic stem cells.
The drop in enrollment in computer science programs is understandable. And anyone dumbfounded by it must have been living with their head in the sand since 1999.
All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India. India, with a billion people, has an extremely high proportion of their population with University degrees. They’re as educated as a North American or European. Only they work for a fraction of the cost.
So to Belinda I say, “duh.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/01/BU106520.DTL&type=tech
The young woman who played “Warrior’s Lament” at the Vimy memorial is a superbly talented Manitoban by the name of Sierra Noble. More info http://www.sierranoble.ca/bio.html
Who had the most to gain from the tax free status of Income Trusts, the Trust Owners themselves and investment bankers?
They wouldn’t be hiding behind the emotional plea that it is for the poor seniors now would they?
Here are the founding members of CAITI- the group organizing the propaganda campaign against the changes to Income Trusts:
Founding Members
Four Individuals (with an average age of 62 years)
Coalition of Canadian Energy Trusts
Sentry Select Capital Corp.
CI Investments
Dynamic Funds
Acuity Funds Ltd.
Citadel Group of Funds
Brompton Funds
Gluskin Sheff + Associates
Borden Ladner Gervais
Lawrence Asset Management Inc.
Canadian Energy Infrastructure Group
Pengrowth Energy Trust
http://www.caiti.info/about_us_founding_members.php
Reid: ” … All those jobs have moved offshore to countries like India.”
Yeah, and that also. I classify the diploma grads more like service workers and trades – proximity matters.
With the trades, welding in Australia in particular, the guys that build truck boxes decided to import contract Chinese workers to be able to compete with China.
Who knows where all this is going … but it is changing.
Thanks – buglady for the info on the Sierra Noble website.
In an earlier post on this thread this morning I had compared her performance to the Australian singer Beccy Cole in her tribute to the Australian Diggers at war in Iraq.
While this tribute was not political as the Cole “Poster Girl” song it was just as moving, perhaps more so on the occasion and the setting where it was performed.
Congratulations to Sierra Noble for her contribution to a proud Canadian moment in world affairs, I wish her all the success in the world!
Down with Trudeau’s Fraud; Down with the Charter of Wrongs.
…-
PM Passes On Marking Charter Anniversary
Th
The Harper government is passing on a major Ottawa conference marking the 25th anniversary of the Charter of Rights, with the Prime Minister and three Cabinet ministers turning down invitations to speak.
…- (national newswatch)
“For a sitting prime minister, these job numbers are better than any poll.”
[www.lianmacdonald.ca]
Employment numbers make Harper’s day
At current growth, economy could produce a million jobs in just two years […]
Except that Ontario, the manufacturing heartland of the country, continues to bleed industrial jobs, […]
Alberta’s oil boom continues to fuel an economy […] …-
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=cd2c08ed-7c85-4e59-9714-e0ab3e48476f&p=2
The Glob-Mail’s “rob tv” changed it’s name! LOL.
$$$
Al Rosen skewers the greedy media: greed of money, greed of ego. Go, Al. This is a keeper.
Would one of those greedy-ego journos be Diane Francis, aka Miss Shrill-Shill? Doesn’t she toil-sweat-scribble for the Financial Post?
…-
On trusts and Greedy Media
Al Rosen
Financial Post
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Roughly 25 new income trust offerings have lost more than half their value in the past few years after being sold mostly to retail investors. The common reason behind the $2.1- billion in losses is clear: pure, unmitigated greed. Greed by investors, greed by underwriters, lawyers, and accountants, and greed by the media.
We should focus on that last cohort first, because without the greed of the media, investors wouldn’t have been burned as badly as they were by income trust investments over the past few years.
It seems investors have forgotten that the media are businesses too. They survive on advertising dollars, and they rely on content to fill their pages and airtime. In the case of income trusts, the two frequently went hand in hand. Both national newspapers ran several insert sections dedicated solely to income trusts. Pages of lucrative advertising dollars were accompanied by puff pieces on income trust investing.
I had to laugh recently when that other newspaper’s television station renamed itself, partly because it didn’t like people referring to it as “rob” TV. After all, what could have been a more telling name during the past few years, considering the parade of shills that regularly circuited through the station, misleading investors about the risks of income trust investing?
However, it’s not just greed for money that has infected the media, it’s also greed of ego that is doing investors a serious disservice. Lately, it’s a couple of regular business columnists who seem to be hell bent on ignoring plain facts so they can bask in the attention they get from being mouthpieces for pro-trust lobbying efforts.$$$
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=e09c50f1-6cc1-4b52-96da-77d7b2426fce
(via bourque)
“Newspeak – The official language of Oceania. Newspeak is “politically correct” speech taken to its maximum extent.” …-
Thoughtcriminals Served
(updated daily)
The Newspeak Wiktionary in now open for editing.
All across Oceania, loyal party members are filling the new database with goodthinkful articles. To join the struggle and add content to the wiktionary yourself, you must first declare loyalty to the party and become a member of the forum. …-
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com
(via free republic)
Canada Wins Gold At Women’s Hockey Worlds
Once again, Canada reigns supreme in women’s hockey, capturing its ninth world title Tuesday night in Winnipeg. (national newswatch)
She shoots; she scores. …-
Great comment from an Iraqi blogger at:
MichaelTotten.com
**like i said, pray for bush every day, right after u pray for god otherwise u wud have to walk to work every day coz of high petrol prices.
am iraqi but i like bush, i know he did this war partly because of oil, but atleast we benefited from that. having 50% of somthin is better than %100 of nothing.
what condition do u think kwait and saudi be in right now if they hadnt cooperated with america in 1991? they would be part of iraq and the cities probably looked worse than the deserts in afghanistan. no offence to aghanis or anything.
Regards,
Shvan **
=============
There are probably thousands of Iraqi who feel this way but would not dare express their opinion.
That opinion is worth a Muqtada beheading. = TG
From cbc.ca/nb
Here’s what the City of Dieppe feels about financial transparency:
“To put [on the internet] that I have $4,000 left or $2,000 left in my expense budget, I don’t see the public interest in that,” he said.” – MAyor Achille Maillet
“”She’s the only one that believes that citizens need transparency,” – Councillor Charles Cormier
“http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/ 2007/04/11/nb-dieppeexpenses.html”
This is the same City of Dieppe which had to raise property taxes to deal with spiralling spending, and which uses 25% of the budget simply to service debt.
Maurice-Mao Stlong is the Mayol of “Woman Town”, aka the Blothel. One eggloll, 2 eggloll, 3 …
…-
Women to rule new town [in China}
China is to create the world’s first ‘Woman Town’ where women make all the decisions and disobedient men face punishments.
Chongqing is to convert its Shuangqiao district into Woman Town, covering 2.3 square km, reports Chongqing Morning News.
The slogan: “A woman never makes a mistake. A man can never reject a woman’s request” will be carved into the town gates. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815526/posts
Hindus eye Niagara as their Ganges – Community seeks designated waterway for burial rituals
canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d71f9582-344f-42d3-a75c-2dec149320ac
What is becoming of Rideau Hall?
National Post
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Rideau Hall is not “Canada’s national home,” as the Governor- General’s Web site now says. It is the home of the representative of Queen Elizabeth, and it is not primarily an art gallery, as the current resident, Michaelle Jean, and her staff seem to think….
….These moves may or may not be stealth republicanism, or an attempted constitutional amendment by curatorial decree. But Ms. Jean and her staff are evidently trying to siphon off the great symbolic power of the monarchy, to further their particular tastes and agendas. If they continue on this path, they will undermine a highly honourable office, and consequently validate the warnings offered by Ms. Jean’s detractors at the time she was appointed.
Belinda leaving politics! Bob Fife on CTV just had a “love’in” on what a great person blah, blah, blah!
Looks like Liberal party is dropping like flies.
To grip made a cross on elections in 2007
Joel-Denis Bellavance
The Press
Stephen Harper will measure the popularity of his minority government from here a few months in three bys-election in Quebec, and gives at spring the 2008 possibility of starting general elections, according to information’s obtained by the Press. …-
googoo translation (via national newswatch)
Yes, Belinda jumped to Titanic Librano$ and now jumping to Titanic Magna$.
It will take longer, but Magna$ fortunes are headed downhill unless they decide to get into the Electric Vehicle mfng business. = TG
Dementia Democraticus Edwardsanassis.
…-
Caption John Edwards’ “Walk A Day In My Shoes” stunt at a nursing home …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815644/posts
WarnK comments, puts up a pic, (JChr included), and links to this:
Prime Minister Harper pays tribute to Jean Béliveau
http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media_gallery.asp?media_category_id=121&media_category_typ_id=3&media_id=870#tag
Chretien asked/wanted/urged Beliveau to be Governor-General. Jean refused Jean.
As Citoyen Dion said, Bam, the dog. End of story.
Another two Canadians killed in Afghanistan today and once again the story is ignored by SDA. Funny when one finds “Support our Troops” on the main page, you’d think when those troops make the ultimate sacrifice to the country they serve, it would at least rate some sort of small mention.
So what gives?
Is the phrase “Support Our Troops” just a con feel good saying that’s to be ignored when those troops have the audacity to end up dead shedding Prime Minister Tubby Guts in a bad light?
*
Stand by for Dummy Coderre’s latest strokes of genius…
the first completely segregated Tamil, Paraplegic
and Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered Bases in the
Canadian military establishment.
Because it’s all about showing sensitivity.
*
*
April says… “once again the story is ignored by SDA”
Hey, Ape…
Not to minimise this terrible blow to family and friends
of these soldiers… but let’s get some perspective here.
We’ve been in Afghanistan for 5-6 years, which works
out to roughly 10 deaths per year…
“About 3,000 people per year die in motor vehicle crashes
in Canada. Of that total, 40 per cent (1,200 deaths) are
attributed to alcohol. Canadians are spending up to
$25 billion annually in emergency care,
rehabilitation and other costs resulting from traffic collisions.”
So maybe take your manufactured outrage back to
Blogging Dippers… where it belongs.
*
*
my bad… it’s albatros39a, not the month of april…
who’s being a complete donkey-head about this
*
Lloyds of London recorded a profit of $7 Billion for 2006. Profit !!
Thanks Al. Because of calamity Jane, the world was scared stiff, bought more insurance, …and, .. and, .. got stiffed.