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Radioactive 48 Comments

660 News Calgary;

The Stelmech Tories are floating the idea of creating a western based financial hub, hoping to turn the province into a major global financial player.
The hub would cluster financial operations, as the province continues to look for ways to take financial clout away from eastern Canada.
The Finance Minister tells The Herald major banks in Toronto don’t always understand the financial needs of the energy sector and it would be in the province’s best interest to create it’s own hub.

We need to hear from you soon, Mr. Wall. Soon.

Nice Try, Luser

The Libranos 35 Comments

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:29:56 -0600
From: Noam D. Garrett
To: harpermustgo@hotmail.com
Subject: Harper must resign to save our party
[snip]
Please help in spreading the word about this petition to urge Harper to resign to save our party:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/resign_now_harper/

As if a fake name and Hotmail wasn’t big red flag enough …
X-Originating-IP: [192.251.226.205]
IP Address: 192.251.226.205
Hostname: anonymizer.blutmagie.de
We’ll be seeing lots of this in coming days.

Reader Tips

Reader Tips 60 Comments

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing the finale from Johannes Brahms‘s Symphony #1, Leonard Bernstein conducting (9:57).

Update: Courtesy of EBD in the comments, here is Mr. Andrew Coyne’s most excellent essay: The Tories Made Them Do It.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Rifts Threaten Your-Country-Or-Your-Buck-Ninety-Five Coalition

The Libranos 86 Comments

John Ivison;

A person close to Mr. Ignatieff said that any deal with the Bloc Québécois and NDP struck by Mr. Dion would be a “poison chalice” for the next leader. He said that Mr. Ignatieff has the support of more than 50 of the 77 Liberal MPs, so the success or failure of a coalition proposition will depend on how the leadership candidate views any deal.
Although Mr. Ignatieff has publicly maintained the official Liberal line that the government should fall over its handling of the economy, his supporters say any coalition deal with the left-wing NDP and separatist Bloc is fraught with risk. It would only take nine Liberals to be absent from the House next Monday for the government to survive and the source said he fully expects a number of no-shows

It’s alive!

“Dion is like Frankenstein’s monster – he’s on the slab and just had a jolt of life injected into him. He’s going full tilt ahead with this coalition but his caucus isn’t going with him,” the source said.

Heh.
More – Maybe not so imaginary…

Jack And Gilles

Radioactive 218 Comments

Update: NDP conference call audio is now on Youtube courtesy Stephen Taylor.
Blow up the Hill…

The New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois had a secret plan to form a coalition party well before the opposition’s uproar over the government’s fiscal update, CTV News has learned.
NDP Leader Jack Layton was in talks with Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe for a “considerable period of time,” reported CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife.
Layton held a telephone-conference meeting with his caucus Saturday morning that was recorded by a Conservative member. According to the audio tape, Layton appears to take credit for the possibility of a coalition.
“Let’s just say we have strategies. This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn’t been made with the Bloc a long time ago and locked them in early,” Layton says. “Because, you couldn’t put three people together in one or three hours. The first part was done a long time ago.”
He then goes on to say that the NDP “spotted and prepared for the opportunity and had taken the steps that were required, so that when the opportunity arose, which was when Mr. Harper made his disastrous strategic error by not providing stimulus to the economy and instead playing political games, we were able to move and things began to move very quickly.”

Update: Stephen Taylor has the transcript of the NDP conference call.
Update 2 – Signs arise of a rift between the Loser Who Would Be King and the Heir Apparent…

Seven Year American Depression Watch Remains On High Alert

Baiting The Left 25 Comments

Sales during the day after Thanksgiving rose 3 percent

… to $10.6 billion, according to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago-based research firm that tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets. Last year, shoppers spent about $10.3 billion on the day after Thanksgiving, dubbed Black Friday because it was historically the sales-packed day when retailers would become profitable for the year.
But this year, many observers were expecting consumers to spend more time browsing than buying, amid contractions in consumer spending and growing fears about economic uncertainty and trouble in the global financial markets.
“Under these circumstances, it’s truly amazing when you think about all the news that led into the holiday season, it certainly appears that consumers are willing to spend more than most expected,” said ShopperTrak co-founder Bill Martin. “Everybody wants value for their dollar, so we saw a tremendous response to the discounts.”

Are Americans finally becoming immunized to the perpetual alarmism of our “state of fear” media? If waning public interest in “global warming” hysteria is any indication, the answer may be yes.

“The greatest character assassination in the 20th century”

Little Known Facts 22 Comments

After the war, there seemed to be a consensus among Jewish leaders about Pius. On Dec. 1, 1944 the New York Times reported that the World Jewish Congress publicly thanked the Holy See’s protection of Jews, especially in Hungary. In October 1945, the World Jewish Congress made a financial gift to the Vatican in recognition of Pius’s work to save the Jews. In May 1955, the Israel Philharmonic played at the Vatican as a gesture of thanks to the pope for his services to Jews during the war.
When Pius died on Oct. 9, 1958, the public accolades continued. In fact, the New York Times received so many tributes over the next three days that it could only publish the authors’ names, among them, leaders of major Jewish organizations. Two days later, the Times cited memorial services for Pius in several New York City synagogues.
Last month, at a meeting of the Vatican’s synod of bishops, Haifa’s Chief Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen advised that Pius “should not be seen as a model” or be canonized. Israeli social affairs minister Isaac Herzog called the canonization process “unacceptable.”
What sparked the sea change? Most historians mark 1963 as the year that soured public opinion, with the production of a play, “The Deputy, A Christian Tragedy.”

An interesting read about the power of historic revisionism.
Related – A Jew recommends John XXIII for the title “Righteous among the Nations”

Dear Canadian Liberals, Including That Pack Of You With Dead Tree Columns

The Libranos 139 Comments

Only three years ago, the Liberals were flush with cash, with over $17 million flowing from the government allowance and contributions from supporters.
Fast forward to 2008. Of the 305-member list of top donors from 2005, a mere dozen have contributed the maximum to the Liberals this year, even though the limit is far lower.

No party that refuses to support their own, with their own money, has the right to demand so much as a nickel from any Canadian.
So much for the “existential threat”. If you want them to exist, then get out your cheque book and shut the hell up.

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