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  2. POLL: Afghans’ Criticism of U.S. Efforts Rises; In the Southwest, Taliban Support Grows
    (abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/story?id=3931809&page=1)

  6. Draftaleader.com – have your say on John Tory’s performance as Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

  7. More: AdScam, Buttcrack Karl, key Liberals , $$$$$$$$, the Liberal-NDP Gong show, LAVs.
    BTW, Reporter Daniel Leblanc broke the AdScam sewer wide open in the MSM.
    Names include: Chretien, Marc Lalonde, Manley, Ouellet; all Liberals.
    …-
    Key Liberal pushed Schreiber project
    With deal-maker set to testify Tuesday, documents reveal that Chrétien minister fought hard for plan to build armoured vehicles
    DANIEL LEBLANC
    Globe and Mail Update
    OTTAWA — A proposal to build military vehicles in Canada that failed to get off the ground under the Brian Mulroney government was still alive after the Tories were banished to the back benches.
    Liberal cabinet heavyweight André Ouellet waged an intense backroom fight in the mid-1990s to rescue the project, which lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber was aggressively promoting, according to federal documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.
    The ministerial correspondence shows that Mr. Ouellet, the foreign affairs minister and Quebec lieutenant at the time, was a major booster of the plan by one of Mr. Schreiber’s European clients, Thyssen AG, for a factory to build light-armoured vehicles in Canada. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/23vahm

  8. Buttcrack Karl plays many roles for the Liberal-NDP Gong Show: juicer, palm greaser, cash cow, er bull, jailbird, political porn video star, liar; and, Kris Kringle, aka Santa Karl; mit der gift$$$$$$$ +
    Canadian taxpayers are paying dearly for the Liberal-NDP Gong Show.
    …-
    It’s going to be ‘like Christmas’ for ethics committee: Schreiber (cbc)
    http://tinyurl.com/yqutm9

  10. The Montreal Gazette is running an interesting opinion blog – What is Life Like for Anglophones in Quebec.
    While Official Bilingualism is increasingly being flogged/financed/not quite imposed yet in AB (but with Harper’s “New Phase” soon to come) – it is apparent (not based on this series but certainly supported by it) that Official Bilingualism in Quebec has little meaning except perhaps in a few quarters.
    $4.3M has just been announced by QC to support immigrants to become part of the culture. Right. And just where might a good part of this money have come from. Likely the same place a $.5M federal grant was just given to a Francophone employment agency in Calgary to help other Canadians adjust to life in another province.
    The irony of it all. The billions of dollars that have been spent and will continue to be spent on forcing Official Bilingualism on the ROC for no other reason than Trudeau’s Revenge – The next Chapter.
    The population for whom this has been done could really care less and have no intention of becoming remotely bilingual. Soooo…. it begs the question – why is it being rammed down our throats with the underlying subliminal seduction that if we are not open to this – it is somehow un-Canadian
    Of the approx. 8M people in QC – for about 6M English has no meaning and they have used, and will continue to use, the Notwithstanding Clause (via Law 101) to ensure that it doesn’t.
    It is time for Bernard Lord to get an earful in Western Canada and take it back to Central Canada.
    In the ’50s, AB university entrance path in high school required French 10/20/30. Is the “New Phase” going to bring this back?

  11. Daniel:”Did Iron Butterfly use the tritone in that song?” That would be correct,sir.

  13. See also todays Globe & Mail (Tues) – Canada’s Tenuous French Connection.
    The appointment of Lord is bound to put this entire issue on the front burner – and it is about time.

  17. Why does everyone in the media keep talking about a bad US economy? example: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2007/12/04/4706752.html
    But here are the statistics:
    * Real GDP grew at a strong 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2007. The economy has now experienced six years of uninterrupted growth, averaging 2.8 percent a year since 2001.
    * Real after-tax per capita personal income has risen by 12.7 percent – an average of over $3,800 per person – since President Bush took office.
    * Real wages rose 1.2 percent over the 12 months that ended in September. This rise is faster than the average rate during the 1990s.
    * Since the first quarter of 2001, productivity growth has averaged 2.6 percent per year. This growth is well above average productivity growth in the 1990s, 1980s, and 1970s.
    * The deficit today is at 1.2 percent of GDP, well below the 40-year average. Economic growth contributed to a 6.7 percent rise in tax receipts in FY 2007, following an increase of 11.8 percent in FY 2006.

  18. Duffy live dec03/07
    view on ctv.ca dec04/07
    Duffy’s discussion on Dion at the end Gerard Kennedy Will Not Shut The F*** Up so they froze him & cut off the microphone. Its just hillarious you can see it at the very end of the video Kennedy Hand in the Air & His Mouth wide open while the conservative still on split screen thanking duffy Then quick cut to duffy.

  19. From the people who failed to predict the Iranian Islamic Revolution:
    Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, US agencies say
    Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and has not restarted it since, a stunning new assessment released yesterday by intelligence agencies in the United States has found.
    The findings contradict an assessment by US intelligence officials two years ago that Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons and appear to undercut President Bush’s repeated warnings about Iran becoming a nuclear power.
    More: PM: US report should not deter world from dealing with Iran
    Earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Iran is continuing in its efforts to produce a nuclear bomb despite the report. According to the minister, Iran had indeed stopped its program four years ago but has since renewed it.
    For anyone who liked the “crack in the floor” masterpiece:
    Bear-faced cheek wins the Turner (and a Michelangelo compliment)
    The artist who produced a shaky video of a man walking around a gallery in a bear costume has won the 2007 Turner Prize, Britain’s foremost contemporary art award.
    Mark Wallinger, 48, from Chigwell in Essex, has been intriguing visitors to the Turner exhibition at Tate Liverpool with Sleeper, in which, dressed in synthetic fur, he wanders aimlessly around a gallery long after closing time, looking out at passers-by and occasionally disappearing from sight.

  21. OVERWORKED nurses have been ordered to stop all medical work five times every day to move Muslim patients’ beds so they face towards Mecca.
    I’ll tell ya what I would gladly do – five times a day – for those muslims; I would read them some Mark Steyn, some Robert Spencer and maybe some Ann Coulter five times a day!
    England is the proverbial canary in the western mine.
    Every week a little piece of western civilization is lost to Islam.
    Every week we are a little more dhimmis than we were the week before.
    The left is fighting to save thriving polar bears from extinction when in reality it us westerners who are slowly going extinct trough low birth rates and Islamization.
    Western civilization is disappearing before our very eyes, it is slowly being swallowed by Islam, but this is happening so slowly that most people do not realize it, kind of like you do not notice your hair is growing right now.

  22. A commentary on the Cdn. Islamic Congress, Mark Steyn and the human rights complaint:
    Open Letter to the Canadian Islamic Congress
    The Canadian Islamic Congress has yet to see the contempt that is truly appropriate for Islamic supremacism. As a reminder, an Islamic supremacist is to a decent Muslim what a white supremacist is to a decent Caucasian….

  24. http://www.am770chqr.com/news/news.cfm?dir=national&file=n120406A&n=1
    One in five people foreign-born stats reveal as Canada struggles with overt racism
    at 8:42 on December 4, 2007, EST.
    Gregory Bonnell, THE CANADIAN PRESS
    People walk through the Chinatown district of Montreal in this file photo. (CP PHOTO/Ryan Remiorz)
    OTTAWA – One-in-five people in Canada is foreign-born according to census numbers released Tuesday, an immigration surge unprecedented in a quarter-of-a-century and one that comes as the country grapples with acts of overt racism that fly in the face of Canada’s reputation for tolerance.
    While the “neo-racism” that infects society through subtle, systemic practices has largely been the focus of anti-racism crusaders, recent reports of assaults against Asian fisherman in Ontario and open anti-Muslim sentiment in Quebec have become the subject of inquiries and commissions.
    Canada garners kudos from around the world for laws promising equality for all, but experts say the true test of a tolerant nation is in day-to-day living.
    “It’s important for us to have human rights written down… but really where human rights exist is on the street,” said Marguerite Cassin, a Dalhousie University professor who has written papers on racism.
    “We know we have human rights when there is an absence of (racist) incidents.”
    The latest census figures show that 19.8 per cent of the population in 2006 was foreign born, the highest proportion since 1931 and up 13.6 per cent from five years earlier. By contrast, the entire Canadian population grew only 3.3 per cent in the same period.
    Almost two-thirds of the nation’s foreign-born population resided in Canada’s three biggest cities: Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
    The highest percentage of newcomers to Canada were from China (14 per cent), followed by India (11.6), the Philippines (7) and Pakistan (5.2). For the first time, the proportion of foreign-born immigrants from Asian and Middle Eastern countries (41 per cent) outstripped those of European heritage (37).
    “The newcomers who came between 2001 and 2006, we have about 1.1 million of them, and they added to Canada’s diverse population because they report coming from about over 200 countries,” said Statistics Canada analyst Tina Chui.
    “When you look at that, Canada is like a world within a country.”
    An aging population and the declining birth rate has Canada on track to becoming fully dependent on immigration for population growth by around 2030, Statistics Canada data suggests.
    Among Western nations, only Australia had a higher percentage of foreign-born residents (22.2 per cent) than Canada in 2006. The United States had 12.5 per cent foreign-born.
    Almost four decades after Canada became the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as official policy, the emergence of apparently racist acts raises questions about how harmoniously the races are living together.
    In 2004, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism found that while Canada supports ethnic diversity through policy, law and numerous government-led programs, “tangible” racism continues to exist in the country.
    The Muslim population in Quebec continues to deal with what it sees as racist attitudes in everything from girls’ soccer to small-town misconceptions about Canadian Muslims.
    In January, the rural town of Herouxville passed a policy paper laying out norms for immigrants that declared, among other things, that it is forbidden to stone women in public.
    A commission has since been struck to hear what Quebecers feel is reasonable in terms of accommodating the practices of other cultures.
    “What we’re seeing is that, in the regions of Quebec there are people who have never met minorities before (and) are coming out with… outlandish statements,” said Sameer Zuberi of the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations.
    “A lot of it has to do with people not understanding and people not knowing each other.”
    Although Canadian-born, Zuberi said it was during his teen years that he began to notice that others viewed him as “different, even though I was born (in Montreal).”
    “I would say that is an ongoing thing, it exists and that has led to a lot of the reason why I’m doing what I’m doing today,” he said.
    In Ontario, reports of Asian-Canadian anglers being targeted and assaulted while fishing on Lake Simcoe in the town of Georgina, 80 kilometres north of Toronto, have instigated an inquiry.
    Several men face charges after the fishermen where pushed into the lake, their gear destroyed and windshields smashed.
    “In a way, I’m glad that it’s coming out, it’s coming forward, it’s being talked about,” said Avvy Go of the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic.
    “I hope that this will force all Canadians to take a look at what’s happening and try to understand why, in 2007, we still have to deal with that in Canada, supposedly one of the most multicultural societies in the world.”
    Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall struck an inquiry following the assaults and said it’s clear when cultures ignorant of one another meet it can set the stage for conflict.
    Greater understanding of one another’s practices is key to overcoming that threat, she said.
    “That’s not new, because our diversity and the constant change of populations who are coming to Canada mean that we are always having to learn about new communities,” said Hall.
    “In the various places where attacks have occurred against Asian-Canadian anglers, we see what appears to be racial stereotyping, racial profiling, hostility.”
    That hostility isn’t confined to just two select groups.
    Each year, B’nai Brith Canada releases its list of anti-Semitic events which includes everything from rocks thrown through synagogue windows to hate crimes on the Internet and toppled gravestones.
    In Vancouver, a special task force has been struck amid a dramatic spike in murders as gang factions within the Indo-Canadian community wage war against one another.
    In the United States, immigration issues – largely focused on Mexican immigration – loom large in political debates heading toward the 2008 presidential election and the country remains mired in the racist legacy of slavery.
    Canada’s history is filled with its own sordid tales of the ugly actions that result when suspicion of newcomers overwhelms.
    The internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War, the Chinese Head Tax and past discriminatory immigration practices against African Americans and Jews are just a few examples, said Cassin.
    Current laws prevent people from being denied access to education or participation in society based on their race or culture, “so at that kind of level, in institutional practices, there is equality,” Cassin said.
    “The reality, however, is that we do differentiate among one another every day on everything, from choosing jobs, organizing promotions to who gets served in line first, all of those kinds of things.”
    While overt acts of racism are easy to identify, a subtler form that Cassin identifies as “neo-racism” is a much trickier entity.
    “Do we mean is something illegal, or do we mean that we’re not nice to each other?” said Cassin.
    “Or does it mean what I try to get it to mean, which is that we treat one another in racialized ways, where we’re taking our race into account when we’re making decisions or we’re making preferences.”
    Moving beyond those practices will be “tough work,” Cassin added.
    “Making Canada, making a country made up of people that come and will continue to come from all sorts of other countries and circumstances, it’s tough work. It requires engagement,” she said.
    “It’s not completed. It’s a work that is something that all of us have to be part of all of the time.”
    –
    Highlights from the 2006 census on immigration and language, as reported Tuesday by Statistics Canada:
    -Almost one in five people (19.8 per cent) living in Canada last year was born in another country. That’s the highest proportion since the 1930s, when Canada’s immigration rate peaked before dropping off during the Depression and Second World War.
    -The immigration stats illustrate a country of two solitudes: more than 60 per cent of immigrants live in the large urban centres of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver; only about five per cent live in rural parts of Canada.
    -Most of the recent newcomers to Canada are from Asia – 58 per cent when those from the Middle East are included. Europeans, the dominant immigrant group for most of the 20th century, represented only 16 per cent of those who moved to Canada from 2001-06.
    -Australia (22 per cent) is the only Western country with a higher proportion of immigrants than Canada (19.8). In the United States, where immigration provokes a major political debate, it’s 12.5 per cent.
    -About 20 per cent of the population reports a mother tongue (their first language learned) of neither French nor English.
    -More than one million people in Canada declared one of the Chinese dialects as a first language. In some suburbs around Toronto and Vancouver, those with English as a mother tongue are now the minority compared to all other languages spoken.
    -The new census data will give fodder to both sides on the bilingualism debate. Knowledge of French among anglophones has increased slightly to 9.4 per cent of the population, but French-immersion students are losing their language skills after they leave school.
    -Statistics Canada said an anonymous e-mail campaign just before the census might explain a slight drop in the number of francophones who said they could also speak English. The e-mail urged francophones not to say they were bilingual for fear Ottawa would cut French-language services. Even though Statistics Canada posted a notice on its website to dispute the content of the message, “it seems plausible that the e-mail influenced some francophones in their responses.”

  25. Kate,
    Although this a over a year old it is about the US economy doing fine, sorry not fine, doing great!
    ( emphasis mine ),
    … … …
    From Townhall.com
    The big-bang story of U.S. private business
    By Lawrence Kudlow
    Saturday, July 8, 2006
    Did you know that just over the past 11 quarters, dating back to the June 2003 Bush tax cuts, America has increased the size of its entire economy by 20 percent?
    In less than three years, the U.S. economic pie has expanded by $2.2 trillion, an output add-on that is roughly the same size as the total Chinese economy, and much larger than the total economic size of nations like India, Mexico, Ireland and Belgium…
    … … …
    I have the whole article saved in a file.

  26. Islam 2.0? Novel naivety…..
    Canadians aren’t replacing ourselves fast enough so we will replace them with muslims….great thinking….

  27. Ontario to aid military families: make OHIP coverage easier, guarantee jobs on return.
    Mr. Harper, are you listening? It’s not so hard. As the ad says, JUST DO IT!!
    ————————-
    Province to aid military families
    December 04, 2007
    Rob Ferguson
    Queen’s Park Bureau
    As a military spouse just back from a posting in Belgium this fall, Cathy Priestman paid cash to see a doctor upon her return to Ontario because it takes 90 days of residency to qualify for OHIP coverage.
    That waiting period will now be waived and the civilian jobs of reservists called to active duty will be guaranteed under new legislation that got unusually speedy passage in the Ontario Legislature yesterday to ease the burden on military families.

  28. Pete: “Why does everyone in the media keep talking about a bad US economy?”
    I don’t think “everyone in the media” is talking about a “bad US economy”. To the extent there is even a “they”, “they” are talking about a lot of bad economic signs and a slight downturn right now. The real worry is what could possibly lie ahead. And it ain’t a partisan concern. Real money and real life outside partisan political and idealogical bubbles are driving the concerns.
    Many business people and many business media are very concerned about definitely bad economic signs and economic problems, especially the well-reported housing and financial crunch, huge trade deficit and budgetary deficit (which is only historically low because of the huge excesses under Carter and Reagan, but remains very high in absolute dollars) and weak dollar, and slowing (though still solid) growth. Those are usually indicators of possible economic downturn, anywhere from 6 to 18 months down the road. The economy is like turning a steamline around: changes to yesterday’s events won’t be felt for months or years.
    I’d say the consensus in the business world and the business media world is that the forecast is cloudy, with some good chance of precipitation but with a possibility of sunny periods and a possible “soft landing”.
    The White House Council of Economic Advisers’ economic forecast for example is going to have to revisit and downgrade its 2006 fourth quarter preliminary GDP growth numbers. The report (summarized here: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/16/news/oxan.0216.php) also indicates a number of economic soft spots:
    • Weak investment spending.
    • Plummeting residential investment.
    • Government spending stimulus. “A key boost to growth in the fourth quarter came from a rise in federal defence spending not private markets.”
    • Downward growth revision. “Most data releases since the GDP report have come in weaker than expected, which suggests that the government’s revised GDP data for the fourth quarter will reduce the quarterly growth estimate to 2.5-3.0 percent.”
    The report also indicates some fragility to the economy:
    “1. Employment. The economy created only 111,000 jobs in January. While the pace of job growth hit 2.1 percent year-on-year in March 2006, it eased steadily over the course of 2006, and by last month had slowed to 1.6 percent year-on-year. Manufacturing jobs declined since the third quarter of last year. All measures of hours worked were weak in January.
    One key indicator of future employment growth is the temporary worker category. Recently this has turned flat.
    2. Purchasing Managers Index (PMI). This survey is a ‘diffusion index’ that measures whether business conditions in the manufacturing sector are increasing or decreasing. The PMI dropped to 49.3 last month. Readings below 50 indicate that the US manufacturing sector is declining.
    3. Yield curve. The ‘yield curve’ is commonly defined as the yield on 10-year government bonds less the interest rate on 90-day commercial paper An inverted yield curve is taken as a signal that credit conditions are tight and monetary authorities are trying actively to discourage borrowing. The typical reaction to tightened credit conditions is that capital spending and housing weaken — developments now underway:
    • Since 1970, there have been six episodes when this measure of the yield curve has been inverted for at least nine months, and all were followed by recessions.
    • The lag between the beginning of the yield curve inversion and the onset of recession ranged from three to six quarters.
    • The present yield curve inversion began in July 2006, meaning that if the yield curve remains inverted through the end of March 2007 a ‘recession watch’ would start.
    4. Mortgage equity withdrawal (MEW). MEW is turning decidedly more negative. MEW boosted consumer spending in recent years and helps explain the negative US saving rate. However, with home prices flattening off and declining in many areas, refinancing has slowed sharply, and MEW has softened.
    Consumer spending remained robust during the fourth quarter, but this may not continue if MEW remains weak. Meanwhile, rising interest rates and the resetting of many adjustable rate mortgages have driven the ratio of the median mortgage interest payment to median family income to its highest level in nearly 25 years.
    5. Other weak indicators. A series of other measures suggest caution: • Industrial production fell an unexpected 0.5 percent month-on-month in January.
    • Trucking industry volumes turned weaker in the final months of 2006 — this weakness has persisted.
    • Large homebuilders continue to report tumbling order for new homes.
    • Automobile industry sales at General Motors and Ford dropped by double-digit year-on-year rates in January.
    The market’s sanguine estimate of US economic prospects this year may yet be proven accurate. However, given recent mixed economic signals, and the persistence of significant downside risk, US economic statistics bear a close watch in the coming months for further signs of trouble ahead.”

  30. To clarify:
    The data referred to in that report was from 2006, before the housing and credit crunch and collapsing dollar this summer and fall.

  31. “Islam 2.0? Novel naivety…..”
    Islam 2.0 sounds hipper than, for example, Islam A and Islam B to identify the virulence of the strain. Jabotinsky (28 December 1931) described Islam 1.0 as “pan-Islamic fanaticism in its most medieval and reactionary forms.”

  32. Ted, while I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, the fact is the media is taking “warning signs of future trouble” and reporting it as “bad US economy” as if it’s a foregone conclusion.

  35. And as for your link to the White House report for all the signs of a good economy, I can assure you that no business person is going to rely on Bush’s press release when it comes to putting their own money on the line.
    Notice how all the really good economic indicators the White House cites are averaged out over multiple years? Last year, the same White House report (cited in my comment) from the White House later had to be significantly downgraded as the actual numbers came in.
    Which is not to say the economy is doing good or bad right now; just that you can never trust politicians of any stripe for economic analysis or predictions. Especially when they are telling you how good THEY are doing.

  36. Why was this “damaging report” tossed/stuffed into the Round File?
    “Is it because: “Jim Bruce, a founding member of the [UN’s] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, said one of the chapters he wrote concluded”:
    The sky is falling!
    Stuff all their bs into the paper shredders.
    …-
    Government shelves damaging report
    http://tinyurl.com/3x49od

  37. If someone can not see that the main stream media both in Canada and the USA began telling us the USA economy was bad the day after George Bush got elected, then I suspect they can not see either that the main stream media has a strong liberal bias.
    and that says a lot.

  38. Well it was bad. Now it’s not. Can you provide some links to show the “media” is out there saying the US economy is bad. If it is so obvious, it should be pretty easy.

  39. And that is “bad” not worsening or identifying problems because any objective economic observer could only conclude that the economis is not as good as it was a year ago and certainly not as good as two years ago, and the economy is showing signs of some very significant concerns and problems. The “media” is not making that up, my Friend of the USA.

  40. More from the Liberal-NDP Gong Show.
    The ghost of a cadaver, aka PET/NEP, hovers over the Gong Show.
    Buttcrack Karl and Liberal MP Szabo exchange Xmas gifts: $1.31 million for Karl; a stack of paper for Szabo.
    Barbel, Marc Lalonde, Buttcrack himself and “among those” posted bail. Who are the “among those”?
    Lalonde, PET’s ex-fin-min, was among those socialists who set up/managed the NEP, aka The Rape of Alberta.
    The quote from Buttcrack-kissing Liberal MP Szabo is disgusting.
    …-
    “Among those posting bail were Schreiber, his wife Barbel and former federal Liberal cabinet minister Marc Lalonde.”
    “Committee chair Liberal MP Paul Szabo thanked Schreiber for providing the documents.
    “It’s a wonderful Christmas gift to us and I can only give you a small Christmas gift back. I’ve just been advised that you have received bail,” said Szabo. “So you’ll be sleeping in your own bed, hopefully tonight.”
    …-
    Court grants $1.31M bail to Schreiber
    http://tinyurl.com/2ounhl (cbc)

  41. Only the curious would pause, for a time, when the Liberal Chair of the Ethics Committee today offered that Robert Thibault was not in attendance.
    Szabo would have us believe that Thibault was shovelling himself out at home in Nova Scotia.
    The truly curious would check to see how many other MPs from the snow-laden province of N.S. did in fact make it to Ottawa.
    Several did, including, Scott Brison, Geoff Regan, Yvon Godin, Peter McKay.
    We wish Robert Thibault well…shovelling …ah, yes, snow…

  42. Ladies & Gentlemen, Boy’s & Girls of all ages Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth, Introducing in the center Ring……
    Did i hear it right Szabo apologized for KHS’s pants falling down?
    Is it not proper procedure that when transporting a prisoner that they(prisoner) Do Not have a belt on, So that the prisoner may not Harm Himself/Herself in any way.
    So why is Liberal Szabo apologizing? Is he(szabo) therefore going against the policy of Law Enforcement officials across Canada.
    I just looked at the comments on the ctv.ca article on this, Not One comment in favor all acusing Szabo of leading a Liberal/Ndp joke & utter waste of Taxpayers Monies. Liberals have created a big money wasting witch Hunt that Canadian’s are Not buying into.

  44. More, uranium, please.
    Investors covet Canadian nuclear energy market
    MONTREAL: The Canadian province of Ontario is preparing to invest tens of billions of dollars in the modernisation of its nuclear industry, a project that promises a windfall for international industry leaders. […]
    Canadian natural resources minister Gary Lunn announced this week a complete review of AECL’s structure. Industry captains have no longer any doubt: Ottawa envisions partial privatisation of AECL.
    Therefore, big international nuclear energy players can get a piece of the Ontario pie by investing in AECL. …-
    http://tinyurl.com/2h8yst (indiatimes)
    …-
    Cameco Corporation — Uranium – Fuel – Electricity – Mining …
    “Uranium in Saskatchewan” is a series of fact sheets that are produced annually … Saskatchewan is the world leader in uranium production and the uranium …
    http://www.cameco.com/uranium_101/uranium_sask/

  45. Ted,
    I’m not saying the media is making up bad news about the US economy
    (although occasionally they do make up things)
    the main stream media is simply “magnifying” and making big stories with the bad news and is under reporting or plainly ignoring the good news about the US economy while a Republican is in power.
    Until recently unemployment numbers under Bush were lower than under Clinton ( they are now about the same but still better than they were in the 70s,80s and 90s ) but the MSM is still constantly telling us – with grim faces – that jobs are being lost in the USA.
    When Clinton was president they did the opposite.
    They do the same thing with good news/bad news from Iraq.
    The US MSM does it to hurt republicans
    our Canadian MSM does it because they want us to hate the USA as much as they do or to bash conservatives.
    They do a similar thing with Israel/ Palestine with news about Israel almost always making them look bad and palestinians as poor little victims.
    They are just as dishonest with global warming and so many other things.
    The canadian MSM under reported the 33% co2 increase while the liberals were in power but now is attacking Harper pretty much daily for not doing enough about co2 reduction.
    If they do mention the 33% co2 increase that happened before the conservative got elected they say “Canada” or ” the Canadian governement did not do enough” to avoid saying it was liberals who were in charge.
    And I could go on all day with similar examples
    ( but I have to leave now )
    The news that fit their liberal agenda or ideology or whatever you want to call it are selected, heavily edited, magnified and repeated, they bring in some liberal expert to tell us how grave and how serious this is and to confirm it is a solid fact that no one should ever doubt, and then they repeat again and again until the average Joe is brainwashed.
    Hell! how do you think they managed to have millions of people believe polar bears are all dying when in fact their population has gone from 5000 to 25000 in a few decades?
    Without ever using the word “bad” they brainwash people into believing some things are bad.
    The MSM liberal bias is obvious, only a liberal would deny it.

  46. ‘Listened to the CBC (radio) news on the way home less than an hour ago. Of course, the Schreiber committee hearing was the lead story. The commentary ended by pointing out that the Conservatives were trying to distance themselves from Schreiber.
    Of course, even though the CBC heaped utter scorn on both the Reform and Alliance parties, which were the solid base of the present Conservative Party, which is not Mulroney style “conservatism” by choice, the CBC deliberately chose–they’d deny this up and down–to conflate in the listener’s mind the two-altogether-different-substance-and-style Conservative parties.
    What swine: the CBC, that is!

  48. Buttcrack was so touched by Szabo’s apology he was on the verge of tears. Butt recovered his poise and continued his lies.
    The Liberal-NDP Gong Show; a spectacle of bathos, self-pity, and avarice. The entire affair is a concoction of filthy schmalz, aka in Yiddish, grease from a chicken, from a whimpering greaser known as Karl.
    Let the Liberal-NDP Gong Show die without a whimper.
    …-
    The German-Canadian businessman began his testimony on the verge of tears, saying he was touched by an apology for the spectacle of his pants falling down as police escorted him home from jail to retrieve documents in preparation for the committee testimony.
    He recovered his poise within minutes and began telling the tale [lies] of his relationship with Mulroney …” …-
    http://tinyurl.com/3dbxh9 (global)

  49. Most interesting item from KHS testimony today was that the comittee Chair Szabos said on Duffy that a full inquiry may not be needed after all.
    In a totally unrelated item later on Duffy, NDP MP Mulclair stated that court documents filed in German courts show that KHS was charged with tax evasion on $48 mil of unreported income.
    KHS lawyer admitted to $14 mil of unreported income.
    Also said that TEN MILLION DOLLARS WAS SPENT IN CANADA on helpful elves.
    Crooked Liberals. $10 million dollars.
    RCMP investigation shut down by Chretien.
    Inquiry is not really needed.
    Thinking, thinking, thinking,
    Connecting dots……..
    No, nothing here, move along.

  50. lookout: I only listen to CBC2 classical music shows — and they’re probably the best in the world. Once in the car, I almost had an accident trying to get switched to another station at the start of the “news” hour but, sadly, got the first few seconds: it was the day Zarquawi was killed, and the lede was how unfortunate it all was (you know, cycle of violence, it’ll only embolden them, etc).
    Seriously lookout: it’s masochism for us to listen to CBC current affairs. You’re getting state propaganda all day in your work; why punish yourself after the work day?

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