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The number of conditional sentences handed down in Canadian courts could be drastically reduced under ...
It isn't just Google, and it isn't just China. Security experts say there's a raging, ...
Green jobs are a waste of space, a waste of money, a lie, a chimera. ...
'Everyone in the world was beating their chest," Prime Minister Stephen Harper observed, speaking of ...
Community-organizing group Acorn said Thursday it was considering quitting its voter-registration work amid a growing ...
The surging Wildrose Alliance party would form the next provincial government in Alberta if an ...
The Democrats have gotten to the precipice — to borrow President Obama’s word — of ...
SAINT JOHN -- A New Brunswick daily newspaper issued a front-page apology Tuesday for a ...
#1 -- BBC | Sack Afghan poll officials - UN UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said ...
You shouldn't hire me to care for your sick mother. But you could. I am ...

Remember the Crimea. Look after the Army (1)

The scandalous underequipping of soldiers in Afghanistan has uncomfortable echoes of 150 years ago There is a moment in every war when it becomes necessary to wheel out the big guns, the heaviest weapons in the armoury. In the continuing war ...
Remember the Crimea. Look after the Army (1)

Patchwork Pension Plan Adds to Greek Debt Woes (1)

ATHENS — Vasia Veremi may only be 28, but as a hairdresser in Athens, she is keenly aware that, under a current law that treats her job as hazardous to her health, she has the right to retire with a ...
Patchwork Pension Plan Adds to Greek Debt Woes (1)

MacNair: Asking for honesty is asking too much

Despite the myriad sources of information from which to draw in order to write a column that has a grain of truth to it, it would appear that the usual suspects from the usual media sources insist on getting it ...
MacNair: Asking for honesty is asking too much

Dithering on deficits not an option: Harper (2)

Tackling the deficit and clamping down on the growth of government spending will avoid "devastating cuts" in the future, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday in Parliament. "Bad choices now, unaffordable long-term spending commitments, ill-advised tax hikes, ditherings on deficits and ...
Dithering on deficits not an option: Harper (2)

Mere misery now reason for mercy killing

Healthy, elderly who are simply "tired of living" could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated in the Dutch parliament. MPs will discuss the proposals after campaigners collected more than 100,000 signatures ...
Mere misery now reason for mercy killing

Justify Jaffer deal (2)

While the secret non-trial and exoneration of former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer on cocaine-possession and drunk-driving charges may have satisfied the letter of the law, it hasn’t exactly enhanced public confidence in the judicial system. A furor erupted earlier this week ...
Justify Jaffer deal (2)

Canada Mar. 11th, 2010 (10)

#1 -- CBC | Murder charge laid in deadly police shootout Ontario Provincial Police have charged former township leader Fred Preston with first-degree murder in death of a constable who was killed in a shootout on a rural road in southwestern ...
11 March 2010 I Read the full story

World Mar. 11th, 2010 (10)

#1 -- BBC | Greece hit by third general strike in a month Public services and transport in Greece have ground to a halt as workers stage a third general strike in protest at the government's austerity measures. [...] #2 -- BBC | ...
11 March 2010 I Read the full story

Green energy bubbles

That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.com bubble collapse ...
11 March 2010 I Read the full story

*Moral* courage

The time has come for somebody in the Democratic party to show moral courage. Consider the situation. Despite a seventy vote majority in the House of Representatives and a then-twenty majority in the Senate, the Democratic party was only able ...
11 March 2010 I Read the full story

Remember the Crimea. Look after the Army (1)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack Respond

The scandalous underequipping of soldiers in Afghanistan has uncomfortable echoes of 150 years ago
There is a moment in every war when it becomes necessary to wheel out the big guns, the heaviest weapons in the armoury. In the continuing war in Afghanistan, it is time to deploy the moral firepower of William Howard Russell, the [...]

Patchwork Pension Plan Adds to Greek Debt Woes (1)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack Respond

ATHENS — Vasia Veremi may only be 28, but as a hairdresser in Athens, she is keenly aware that, under a current law that treats her job as hazardous to her health, she has the right to retire with a full pension at age 50.
“I use a hundred different chemicals every day — dyes, ammonia, [...]

MacNair: Asking for honesty is asking too much

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 1 Response

Despite the myriad sources of information from which to draw in order to write a column that has a grain of truth to it, it would appear that the usual suspects from the usual media sources insist on getting it wrong. You can hardly blame them. Well, actually you can, but it will hardly help. [...]

Dithering on deficits not an option: Harper (2)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 1 Response

Tackling the deficit and clamping down on the growth of government spending will avoid “devastating cuts” in the future, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday in Parliament.
“Bad choices now, unaffordable long-term spending commitments, ill-advised tax hikes, ditherings on deficits and difficult decisions will doom those countries who choose them to years of debt, stagnation and [...]

Mere misery now reason for mercy killing

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 2 Responses

Healthy, elderly who are simply “tired of living” could be allowed to end their lives with a lethal injection under new euthanasia laws being debated in the Dutch parliament.
MPs will discuss the proposals after campaigners collected more than 100,000 signatures in support.
The influential Dutch “Right to Die” campaign, which has been active since 1973, has [...]

Justify Jaffer deal (2)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 5 Responses

While the secret non-trial and exoneration of former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer on cocaine-possession and drunk-driving charges may have satisfied the letter of the law, it hasn’t exactly enhanced public confidence in the judicial system.
A furor erupted earlier this week after prosecutors inexplicably dropped all criminal charges against the ex-politician.
In return, Jaffer pleaded guilty to [...]

*Moral* courage

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack Respond

The time has come for somebody in the Democratic party to show moral courage.
Consider the situation. Despite a seventy vote majority in the House of Representatives and a then-twenty majority in the Senate, the Democratic party was only able to barely pass health care legislation in both Houses of Congress; and the two versions [...]

Green energy bubbles

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 3 Responses

That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot.com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown. If you can’t hear it, you are not alone.
While investment [...]

World Mar. 11th, 2010 (10)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack Respond

#1 — BBC | Greece hit by third general strike in a month
Public services and transport in Greece have ground to a halt as workers stage a third general strike in protest at the government’s austerity measures.
[...]
#2 — BBC | Nigeria charges 49 over Jos killings
Nigerian police say 49 people are to be charged with [...]

Canada Mar. 11th, 2010 (10)

March - 11 - 2010 Reporter: Jack 2 Responses

#1 — CBC | Murder charge laid in deadly police shootout
Ontario Provincial Police have charged former township leader Fred Preston with first-degree murder in death of a constable who was killed in a shootout on a rural road in southwestern Ontario.
[...]
#2 — CBC | Federal contractor racks up hefty bills
Federal contract workers charged the government [...]

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