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• review of by-election numbers worse than though for liberals

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 159
  by Bruce_the_vii For an unkown American professor with French he actually did pretty well. go to newest post
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• HST as seen through Alice’s looking glass

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  T he debate over the introduction of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and British Columbia is getting curiouser and curiouser, as Alice would say. In fact, the entire Canadian debate on value added tax has a decided Alice In Wonderland sense to it. The two-part HST value added tax with its federal and ...
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• my canada includes omar khadr

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 135
  Omar Khadr will receive less justice than a man accused of masterminding 9/11. A U.S. military commission will resume hearing the case against Omar Khadr, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday, the same day the Supreme Court of Canada heard a federal government appeal in his case. It is unclear when or ...
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• I’ll miss Lou Dobbs on CNN

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  I ’ll miss Lou Dobs on CNN each evening, not because I share his opinion on most issues or even because I like his personality or style for, in fact, I neither share many of his opinions nor particularly like the man. I find Dobbs to be overbearing with an irritatingly inflated sense of his own self-importance. ...
  2 days ago

• Podcast: Can fat-cat bankers be good Christians? And Conservative gain = Liberal pain

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 643
  Today on the podcast, can bankers with extravagant salaries still be good Christians — when unemployment and foreclosures continue to mount? Charles Lewis takes a look at the prosperity gospel and the Christian conflict between following scripture and...( read more )
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• Premier McSlippery...Ripping off the vets.

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 159
  by ridenrain Quote: Only $2.25 from new Ont. Yellow Ribbon licence plates to help military families By Keith Leslie (CP) – 21 hours ago TORONTO — Its "offensive" and "misleading" for the Ontario government to promise to donate a portion of the sale price from new "Support our Troops" licence plates to help ...
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• Warren Kinsella’s still in the Grit war room

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  T he rumour yesterday that Warren Kinsella would be among the recent exodus from the Opposition Leader’s Office (OLO) have apparently been proved to be untrue. According to the Globe and Mail this morning, the former Jean Chrétien speechwriter will not be shown the door as head of the Michael Ignatieff Liberal ...
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• O Canada, MP Jason Kenney stands on guard for thee

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  T he current Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, is like a fresh breeze in Ottawa. The new 62-page guidebook , Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, is but the latest in a series of welcome measures taken by Mr. Kenney to address weaknesses in the ...
  2 days ago

• I’m a Lumberjack And I’m Okay

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 683
  You may well have noticed that my Canadian content has been on the rise of late. I find myself in the grips of a sort of strange bout of nationalism at the moment, which I denote as strange for reasons that will be at least partially outlined in this post. I just can’t muster much enthusiasm for writing about US ...
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• You Know You’ve Got an Improved Canadian Citizenship Guide When

  
  Currents by Jonathon Narvey — Authority: 422
  … the sovereigntists are going to hate it . “There’s probably some political risks here,” Mr. Griffiths said. “The Bloq Quebecois and sovereigntists aren’t going to like the focus on military history or Canada’s journey from colony to nation state.” Well, yeah. Isn’t that the point? How about we ...
  3 days ago

• Ive analyzed the Canadian political scene

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 159
  by Bruce_the_vii ridenrain wrote: Without a leader, platfom or policy. Serves them right for taking voters for granted for so long. Yeah, Ignatieff did kind of take them for granted. Thats exactly what he did. However, there continues to be a rift in the Liberal caucus. I have enough letters from them that are ...
  3 days ago

• How Ignatieff can save the Liberal Party

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  H ere’s my improbable forecast for the next 16 months: the Grits dump Michael Ignatieff, appoint/anoint Toronto MP Bob Rae as leader, merge with the NDP (at least the right-most elements of that hapless party) and force a general election. Sound improbable? I agree. However, politics can be full of surprises, ...
  4 days ago

• Ezra Levant takes on the Post’s Don Martin

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  E zra Levant, in yesterday’s post on his blog , gave an example of the recent spate of Tory bashing ideas that almost certainly are dreamed up by Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal war room and disseminated to Grit-friendly journalists and broadcasters. Mr. Levant points out the inaccuracies in Mr. Martin’s recent ...
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• Multi culturalism IS a hot botton issue.

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 159
  by Bruce_the_vii The Liberals need to hit some hot botton issues to generate interest in their party. A sleeper hot button issue is multiculturalism. Almost nobody gets this whole citizens of the world thing. An appropriate level of discussion would be on limits. We dont want Muslins in polygamous relations. In fact ...
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• Albertan Hate Crimes Awareness Day

  
  Posted at wordpress.com — Authority: 416
  . .. It’s a sobering report into how hate crimes are reported and investigated in Alberta. 2008 statistics released by the Alberta Hate Crimes Committee shows there were 68 hate crimes identified by Calgary police last year, compared to 155 by police in Edmonton. The difference is that the cops themselves are ...
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• jason kenney changes citizenship guide: canada no longer called nation of peace

  
  we move to canada — Authority: 135
  From the Globe and Mail , emphasis mine: The Conservative government has re-written the book on what it means to be Canadian. No longer will prospective immigrants learn that Canada is a strictly peaceful nation. Instead there will be a greater emphasis on Canadas military history and on the poppy as a symbol ...
  5 days ago

• Former Conservative MP Elsie Wayne doing better after strokes, son says

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 643
  Elsie Wayne, the former Saint John mayor and Conservative MP who suffered two strokes over the weekend, is faring “a little better” than she was a few days ago, her son said Tuesday. Steve Wayne said his 77-year-old mother had undergone a battery of tests...( read more )
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• Liberals take a drubbing in by-elections

  
  Russ Campbell's Blog — Authority: 126
  I n what was Canadians’ first opportunity to give their assessment of the Liberal Party’s choice of leader, last night’s by-elections were a clear repudiation of Michael Ignatieff. Liberals would like to suggest that they had no expectations of success. They did, however, run candidates in all four ridings,  ...
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• An amazing thing occurred in Parliament last Tuesday

  
  Totalrecoil — Authority: 103
  A truly amazing event took place in Ottawa this past Tuesday. Manitoba MP Candice Hoeppner ’s private members bill C-391 to eliminate the federal long-gun registry, passed on second reading by a vote of 164 to 137. This was amazing on several different levels. Firstly, it was a private members bill which rarely ...
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• Indian Government Far More Courageous Than Canadian Government

  
  Celestial Junk — Authority: 542
  The political world is made up of visionary and bold leaders, skulldugerous power seakers, and slimy weasels that simply play the middle in order to survive. India, not Canada, is offering bold and visionary leadership on climate change : Jairam Ramesh, Indias environment minister, released the controversial ...
  6 days ago

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