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In the emotionally harrowing documentaries 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers and Voices from Inside the Towers, distraught and helpless people who knew they were speaking their last words can be heard, in one call after another, saying the only thing they needed to make clear to their nearest and dearest during their final goodbye.
In tonight’s tips music an emotional Mark Knopfler performs a song he was inspired to write after reading a column written by Ian McEwan four days after 9/11: here’s If This Is Goodbye.
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  1. I want to congratulate Stephen Harper for finally understanding the dynamics of Quebec politics and using this understanding to his advantage. His opposition to the niqab and his resistance to the “refugee” invasion have been brilliant.
    Quebec voters do NOT want Muslim immigrants and they do not want the islamisation of the country. Good on Harper for listening and giving the people of Quebec what they want. Quebeckers now have a real choice. Harper’s position on the Niqab issue and the handling of the “refugees” bullshit was proven to be the right choice by the collapse of the NDP in the polls in Quebec. Harper has effectively punctured the NDP orange balloon and it is letting all the air out, as people in Quebec are obviously not buying what Mulcair is selling
    I have another suggestion for Harper that is guaranteed to get him at least ten more seats in Quebec.
    He has to come out NOW against Montreal’s Mayor former liberal Dennis Coderre who wants to dump 8 billions liters of raw sewage in the Saint Laurent river. He has to come out saying that he will not allow it and that as long as he is prime minister he will not allow Montreal to use the Saint Laurent river as a garbage dump.
    Of course he needs to say it in french:
    “Je ne le permettrai pas. Tant que je serai Premier Ministre, Montreal n’utilisera pas le Saint Laurent comme une poubelle”
    The media shit storm that will ensue is GUARANTEED to get the Conservatives at least ten more seats in rural Quebec where they despise Montreal. But he has to do it this weekend, because election date is approaching.

  3. I really hope that I’m wrong about this, BUT ….
    This evening I’ve been watching Canadian TV shows (CFL football; NHL hockey)
    and have seen the new Justin Trudeau/Liberal “Rally” commercial several times, as
    well as the Stephen Harper/”Heart to Heart Chat” commercial several times.
    While I don’t know much about “political strategy” I do know a fair bit about
    advertising …. and assuming these 2 commercials are going to be dominating
    the final week of campaigning, I regret to say that the Liberals are going to win.
    The new Liberal “Rally” commercial is extremely effective and emotional … almost
    like an NHL playoff game. It will be particularly effective with young voters (pep rally
    atmosphere and the promise of taxing “the 1%” in order to reduce taxes on “the middle class”)
    and also with women (it shows Justin’s wife and cute young kids). Prime Minister Harper’s “Heart
    to Heart Chat” is very low key, totally rational and unemotional. It may appeal to old farts like me
    but compared to Trudeau’s commercial it will genuinely bore voters under 35.
    Like I said, I really want to be wrong about this, but in a close contest the Liberals
    are running the much stronger TV ad in the last days of the campaign.
    Davers6

  6. Advance voted today in Whacktoria. Busy polling station, but, I don’t understand why retirees vote in advance polls, its not like they’re working on Election Day. Anyways, lots of orange jackets in the lines. No surprise, I live in a DipCom riding, where they could run a goat and the goat would win. Instead its a Rainbow Commie, whose only claim to fame is his pride parade advocacy. Does nothing for the riding, but build his pension, and complain, complain, complain. Too many gubmint workers who don’t know any different than what the Ceeb and their SS tell them.
    These are the ideal “gimme free stuff” voters. We all know that politicians who promise lots of free stuff will get results from that, no matter the damage, present and future, it causes. PMSH hasn’t promised anything except, more of the same, to the LIV crowd. Not looking forward to election day, Canadians, by and large, are stupid.

  7. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking, but I have to disagree with you on this.
    Trudeau’s performance during the campaign has been uninspiring and, at times, downright abysmal. He is prone to making stupid comments and his numerous gaffes are, despite the media’s apparent disinterest, in the back of the minds of many voters. I don’t think that a rah rah commercial will make much of a difference. After all, we’re electing a Prime Minister, not the president of the student council or the head of the decoration committee for the prom.
    Besides … there’s still lots of time left until the election. Time for Harper to pull more rabbits out of his hat and time for Trudeau to ignore his handlers and come up with more off-the-cuff foolishness.
    As for old farts …. there are still lots of us around and we all vote.

  8. My husband and I voted in the advance poll today. The only people in the hall were polling station workers and us (it was supper-time.) One of the guys at the door said there were 250 voters during the first four hours yesterday (big turnout! – this is rural, south Vancouver Island.) One of the officials told me that “everything’s changed this year”…which I took to mean that there are far more ways to prove one’s identification, especially regarding your residential address. We showed up with our Voter’s Cards, driver’s licenses (picture I.D.) and lots of choices to show our street address. Without looking at our papers, we had to say our names out loud and recite our street address to one of the poll officials. This is our first federal election in this riding. I was hoping to see a potato-bag-headed voter, but no such luck.

  9. “…but I don’t understand why retirees vote in advance polls, it’s not like they’re working on Election Day.” What an ignorant and patronizing remark!!! You have absolutely NO IDEA as to what retirees do or do not do. Trust me, a fair few will be “working” on election day, working for the candidate of their choice: phoning to get out the vote, transporting voters to polls, being scrutineers, and maybe – heaven forfend – actually getting paid as poll clerks, etc. After all, they are available during the day.
    Perhaps said seniors are voting in advance because they are uncertain what the 19th will bring. Health issues, family issues: there are many reasons why seniors might decide to cast their vote early. The grandparent-on-call for the young’uns could get caught short on election day if there’s sickness in the family; better to vote now so as to be available with no strings. Brother-in-law not doing well; again, a reason to vote early in case one is called out of town.
    Finally, has it ever occurred to you that seniors, like others, schedule vacations months in advance? It’s the trip of the lifetime, and well deserved, but it happens over election day so the conscientious senior votes early.
    By the way, in our household, it’s the junior members who are scrambling to fit voting into their schedules. Would you complain if they showed up at your polling station?

  11. HEY DANINBC
    LEMMI TRANSLATE FRANCES statement…….wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
    Lol lighten up France’s I don’t think he meant it in a negative way at all. Don’t get all flustered and fill your depends unnecessarily . This is a misunderstanding on your part.

  12. DanBC: I can’t see where poor old Frances said anything about “Voting Liberal” which leads me to believe that you’re doing the old “make stuff up” routine. Ar you sure that YOU’RE not the one who is “Voting Liberal”? Or perhaps you might take your own advice about “chill out”. Or perhaps you might reconsider that nasty little dig about “Canadians, by and large, are stupid” when it’s you who are making the stupid comments. I think that Whacktoria and you deserve each other.

  14. Trust me those comments are pretty rank HDS, but come 20th October you will hear far worse.
    I predict a Conservative majority come election night and if that happens the Libtards heads will explode.
    We will be treated to the best HSD yet on all canadian TV channels.

  15. On the last ”Reader Tips,” (Oct. 10-15) I reported my negative experience at the advance polls. I don’t know what it takes to convince people in this country that all the legislation that the Conservative Party of Canada pushes through Parliament in not necessarily advantageous to the Conservative Party of Canada!!
    At the advance polls, or at the polls on Oct. 19-15, YOUR VOTING CARD IS NOT ID, NOR IS IT A GO-AHEAD TO VOTE! IT REALLY MEANS NOTHING (except that you are registered to vote..)
    Your driver’s license only proves who you are and where you live if your physical address is on the document. In rural areas, on farms, ranches and small towns, most driver’s licenses show your PO box and not your land number or house address. Thus you can’t use it to vote. You have to have a bill (Sask Power, Sask Tel, Shaw Cable etc.) that shows the location of your residence.
    And I still believe that the new voting ID legislation will cost the Conservative party of Canada big time!! Only time will tell!
    .

  16. “At the advance polls, or at the polls on Oct. 19-15, YOUR VOTING CARD IS NOT ID, NOR IS IT A GO-AHEAD TO VOTE! IT REALLY MEANS NOTHING (except that you are registered to vote..)”
    My Voter’s Card sped up the process. And I was told to leave it with them.
    The driver’s license is used to compare your face to the photo. I used our Shaw bill and Property Tax statement for our residential address, but I had many other papers, just in case. (It’s pretty basic.)

  18. “The Media are now actually talking about the possibility of accidentally stumbling into World War 3.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/
    …-
    “DM | Russian jet ‘shot down by Turkish forces’
    Turkish forces have shot down a Russian jet after it flew into the country’s airspace, according to unconfirmed reports on social media.”
    …-
    “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).” Otto von Bismarck

  19. “Harper Announces Successful Conclusion Of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations” (conservative.ca)
    …-
    “RI could join Trans Pacific Partnership within two years”
    “Smart start: Trade Minister Thomas Lembong says Indonesia could join the US-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) in two years after it completes ongoing preparations to join the free trade pact.”
    http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/11/ri-could-join-trans-pacific-partnership-within-two-years.html

  20. The 1% class-warfare rhetoric is imported by American campaign advisers. At the election debate I attended in my riding, it was the wealthiest, the incumbent, Liberal MP who spoke of the 1% and called for change. The last thing he wanted was change, and he certainly is a member of the 1%.

  21. Not an accident. I am very concerned about the volatility of new the world — military and economic, as well as things like the refugee situation. Those voting for Liberals with their outrageously unqualified and inexperienced leader are living in a fantasy world. Even Justin’s “support group” will need a long time to get up to speed. Canada could be in for a rough ride.

  24. Elizabeth Smart and the niqab
    http://takimag.com/article/niqab_nightmare_david_cole/print
    “Detective Richey admitted on the stand that he was concerned about violating Mitchell’s “civil rights” and offending his “religious beliefs,” so he backed down. He retreated from the library, giving in to Mitchell’s claim that the niqab was sacred and that lifting it would be a gross civil rights violation. Mitchell and Barzee ushered Smart out of the library, and she would be forced to endure seven more months of rape, torture, and physical and mental abuse before being rescued.”

  25. PET Cemetery Report.
    Of Liberal Justine and Mohammed.
    …-
    “Trudeau jumps from praying in a mosque to attending Pride Parade”
    https://bcblue.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/trudeau-jumps-from-praying-in-a-mosque-to-attending-pride-parade/
    …-
    “2 suspected lesbians in Indonesia to undergo rehabilitation”
    “Islamic Shariah police in Indonesia’s devout Aceh province say two suspected lesbians apprehended this past week in a tourist resort will undergo rehabilitation instead of being charged with a crime.
    The law enforcement chief of the Shariah police, Evendi A. Latief, said Saturday that the two women confessed…”
    http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/10/03/2-suspected-lesbians-indonesia-undergo-rehabilitation.html

  26. Wish Harper had promised a federal holiday in February. Something to celebrate our history and not a generic flag day or family day. And as I am a ‘non working’ senior this doesn’t affect me. By the way we voted ages ago as I’m helping get out the vote on the 19th and my senior husband is a deputy returning officer.

  27. Any STOP signs defaced in Ottawa with “HARPER” stuck on the bottom of them in Ottawa? I know Harper derangement syndrome is rampant but in this Ontario town in a strong Conservative riding it shows how desperate the opposition are. I don’t know who is responsible for removing them but I’ll find out with a call to the town office on Tuesday.

  28. I have always wondered exactly what “Stop Harper” refers to. Stop him from what? Reducing taxes? Lowering the deficit? Protecting Canadians? Enacting legislation to put more money back in the hands of Canadians? Keeping the economy functioning when so many others are floundering?
    It’s no use asking any HDS sufferer because they don’t have an answer.
    It’s a sad testimony to our times when it becomes nothing more than “cool” or “trendy” to constantly criticize a good and honest man.

  29. Liz J (with all the apostrophes).
    We have those STOP Harper stop signs in Vancouver too.
    I”m always wondering: stop him from …. what, exactly?
    Of course for lefties the phrase itself is the argument.
    If you just say STOP, obviously the man is up to some kinda evil.
    Oh, we also have STOP eating animals stop signs too.
    A pony-tailed male acquaintance of mine has terminal HDS.
    The main issue is those omnibus bills.
    Curiously, he doesn’t seem to mind Obama’s monster omnibus bills.

  30. Citoyen MulcairBloc’s Twitless Loser.
    “as the company has struggled to attract new users.”
    …-
    “NDP candidate says she didn’t favourite Harper/Hitler tweet on purpose”
    “The NDP candidate for Oshawa is blaming her lack of proficiency with social media for “favouriting” a tweet comparing Stephen Harper to Adolf Hitler.
    Mary Fowler…”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/10/ndp-candidate-says-she-didnt-favourite-harperhitler-tweet-on-purpose
    …-
    “Twitter expected to begin layoffs and stop headquarters expansion”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/twitter-expected-to-begin-layoffs-and-stop-headquarters-expansion/article26764302/

  31. I don’t know where all the apostrophes came from but fixed now I think!
    “Stop Harper” is another sign of HDS for which there’s only one cure, a Harper majority government on October 19th.

  32. I voted yesterday in a pre-poll and was entertained by a forty something special snowflake going into full HDS. A pot-bellied cyclist, you know the type; helmet, shorts, pedal shoes, team shirt with protruding belly, rushed into the polling station and rounded the corner of the corridor to be confronted by the line-up, time was 11:50am and there were about twenty people in line. He moved directly to the front of the line and asked the polling clerk what was going on and why was there a line-up. After getting an explanation his next statement was along the lines of “F***ing Harper and his Damn Rules.” He stomped off like he had somewhere to go, muttering about Harper all the way down the corridor. I don’t think he heard the polling clerk tell him to complain to Elections Canada. Anyway it was an entertaining display of HDS by the typical LIV.

  34. A sure symptom of HDS is blaming Harper for everything. This fool probably never heard of Elections Canada and, even if he had, wouldn’t have a clue how to contact them or the initiative to do so. Anyway …. if he was so easily deterred by a short lineup, he probably didn’t think voting was that important anyway.

  36. If you’re a senior, you vote when you can, which means when you’re well.
    At least that’s why I voted at the advance poll this year.
    No way I was going to miss casting a vote in this election.

  37. Update:
    Citoyen MulcairBloc’s Twitless Loser.
    “Honestly … I don’t know, because the first time I saw this tweet … was (Friday) when I got tagged on it on Twitter, so I don’t ever remember … favouriting it before,” said Fowler, 37. “If it did happen, it was certainly by accident. I would never compare Stephen Harper to Hitler, obviously, and it’s not something I would have ever done on purpose.”
    Fowler said she’s “definitely not” on Twitter enough to know how to use all its features.
    …-
    “NDP candidate survives ‘Hitler’ gaffe on Twitter”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/11/ndp-candidate-survives-hitler-gaffe-on-twitter

  38. “Fear has made a comeback…”
    …-
    “Restarting The Engines”
    “Niall Ferguson’s Wall Street Journal article examining “The Real Obama Doctrine” has been widely cited in the media to explain the administration’s foreign policy failure. But it also contains three points that bear upon future events.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/10/11/restarting-the-engines/#comments
    …-
    “Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver’d-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister’s apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes.”
    (Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

  39. Another blitz from those afflicted with HDS, we see in the various “comments” sections the statement “as a lifelong Conservative….fill in the complaint, I will not be voting Conservative”. Just more lies of course, they’re on a roll this entire campaign spouting lies and getting away with it. It sure works in Ontario, Liberals won repeatedly on lies, Ontario voters reward lies and corruption.

  40. Mao* Stlong TPP Lepolt.
    …-
    “Mulcair tells BC crowd that only he can stop Trans-Pacific Partnership deal” (montgazette)
    …-
    “Top tennis stars choke on ‘hazardous’ smog at China Open in Beijing” (CNN)
    …-
    “For some businesses in China, the cost of exclusion from TPP is too high”
    “… Mr. Kong is now thinking about uprooting from China.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/asian-pacific-business/exclusion-from-tpp-to-cost-china-central-bank-official-warns/article26734745/
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

  41. I hear people saying they want to vote strategically. Their political position is “anybody but Harper”. I searched a bit, found strategicvoting.ca . And, surprise, 90% of recommended candidates are Liberals. I am convinced that this web site is a LPC ploy to trick people into voting for them.

  42. Manny, I checked that site, which suggested that 15 out of 23 of the B.C. ridings in the list should draw strategic votes for the NDP. Liberals don’t tend to do well in B.C., except in Vancouver. Elizabeth May has really been pushing strategic voting, and she’s offered to broker a coalition, if necessary.

  43. Elizabeth May! Now there is someone who the voters of S&GI can be proud of. She is going to volunteer to broker a deal in a coalition government! Just like she wanted to deal with Dion by not running candidates in certain ridings to skew the electoral process. And don’t forget how she weaseled her way into the climate conference as a representative of Afghanistan. She is a staunch advocate for Proportional Representation which would ensure minorities “have a voice” or in other words dictate policy. Then there is her penchant for supporting people like Gomeshi and little Omar. Evidently she never saw the pictures of little Omar with his trophies! With elected representatives like this we’ll be well on our way to an across the board carbon tax and UN Resolution 21, but as she herself once said “Canadians are stupid! And I fundamentally agree with that statement.” I hate to think that this next election may prove her right.

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