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• Much Ado About Torture

  
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  Why doesn’t Gen. Natynczyk support the troops? Notwithstanding a new EKOS poll indicating that 83% of Canadian surveyed believe the Harper government was aware “there was a strong possibility that prisoners would be tortured,” I seriously doubt this issue will have any serious impact on support for the ...
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• Keeping The Polar Bear Myth Alive

  
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  The Vancouver Sun ran a story today to make sure we know that the polar bear population is dropping and that they now have to eat each other to survive… Because they are running out of land. SUN: Polar bears pushed to eat each other by lack of ice: Researcher According to Manitoba Conservation, at least ...
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• Corruption, Lying and Fossils: This Is Not the Canada I Love

  
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  According to a survey released earlier this fall, Canada ranks eighth as the least corrupt country: the top (and best) spot went to New Zealand and the bottom, to Somalia. When the results were announced, I remember thinking that, yeah, we are pretty honest. But lately it seems a curtain has been lifted and we ...
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• Canadians Abroad: Stephen Harper, Belated Visitor To China

  
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  Stephen Harper probably felt like he was already back on Parliament Hill when he visited the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea the other day. The juvenile antics indulged in by both sides as they literally glower at each other across the DMZ seem to be animated by exactly the same spirit that ...
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• Natynczyk Changes his Testimony

  
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  Schadenfreude : General changes story on Taliban suspect Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Canadas top military commander, is now saying a suspected Taliban fighter abused by Afghan police in June 2006 had been detained by Canadian troops, contrary to comments the defence staff chief made Tuesday. "The individual who was ...
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• The Truth Would Have Set You Free

  
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  In response to my latest post on the Canadian Afghan detainee transfer scandal, Jonathan McLeod of The Politic and Canned Goods and Ammunition offered the following thought , By the way, if, when this all started to come out, the government had just admitted that something wrong might have happened and ...
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• New Conservative Accountabiility report

  
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  another bunch of thugs and crooks? “  Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has paid out nearly $7 million to political staffers who have left their jobs over the past two years. The amount of “separation pay” that was doled out at the discretion of cabinet ministers is more than twice the amount ...
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• Canada’s Winter Olympians to Prime Minister Harper: Show Leadership at UN Climate Summit

  
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  Canadian winter Olympians are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to protect winter sports by supporting a fair, ambitious and binding agreement at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Nineteen members of Canada’s Olympic team took a break from their busy training schedules to tell the prime minister that global ...
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• This and That

  
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  1. Voting in the first round of the 2009 Canadian Blog Awards is open until Saturday. 2. Voting in the first round of my " Political Moment of the Decade " contest is open until Thursday night. 3. Voting in the first round of Davebertas Alberta version is open until Saturday. [ And, yes, contrary to popular ...
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• Wednesday Night #1449

  
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  Reminder : Although relatively little has been done to publicize the event, we draw your attention to the presence of the Olympic Torch Relay in Westmount on Thursday (the 10 th ), beginning at 5:47PM at City Hall (we might ask how it arrived in Westmount if it is beginning at City Hall). The City has ...
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• Ujjal’s Going Rogue!

  
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  I must say, I’ve been really quite impressed with the work that Liberal National Defence Critic Ujjal Dosanjh has been churning out on the Canadian Afghan detainee transfer scandal. All too often, National Defence flies under the radar in Canadian politics, as we just don’t exert enough influence on the world ...
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• The Real Opposition in Ottawa Isnt the Liberals: Thank Goodness for Greenpeace

  
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  Canada has got the "Fossil of the Day" award in Copenhagen already this week because of our feet-dragging on climate change, and the Harper governments protection of the Alberta oil sands projects. Unfortunately, that is just the latest in a sorry list of foreign policy and other moves that are undermining this ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
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  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Harper Says Global Recovery Must Precede Environment

  
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  Dec. 7 ( Bloomberg ) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he will use Canada’s co-chairmanship of next year’s Group of 20 countries meeting to urge members to put economic recovery before efforts to protect the environment. "Without the wealth that comes from growth, the environmental threats, the ...
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• Wary of provocations, Stephen Harper sets foot in North Korea during DMZ visit

  
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  It was to the demilitarized zone - a tension-filled world of stare-downs and one-upsmanship - that Stephen Harper came Monday, no doubt anxious to avoid adding to the long list of provocations that have transpired over the years.
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
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  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
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  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Rich nations win climate ’shame’ award

  
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  Copenhagen, Dec 7 (DPA) The world’s most industrialised nations won Monday’s edition of the Fossil of the Day award, a prize given by environmentalists to the biggest offenders of the fight against climate change.The coalition of industrialised nations won first prize for arriving at the Copenhagen conference on ...
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• On blackouts

  
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  With the Globe and Mails latest report offering some important answers as to what it is that the Cons have been covering up when it comes to torture in Afghanistan, the focus figures to shift away from this weekends discussion of the Cons information suppression processes. But its worth following up based on the ...
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• Toronto to host G20 summit next June

  
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that next years all-important G-20 summit will be held in Toronto on June 26 and 27.
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