Monthly Archives: June 2009

Stars die

Three in the past three days: ‘Tonight Show’ Straight Man Ed McMahon Dies At 86 Longtime television personality, game show host and Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon died in a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday. He was 86. Perhaps best known … Continue reading

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Money floods out of Iran (4)

Millions of pounds in private wealth has begun flooding out of Iran in the wake of mass demonstrations which have paralysed commercial life. Fears of a new round of crippling sanctions are also thought to have fuelled the movement of … Continue reading

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B.C. court rejects Robert Pickton's appeal

Vancouver–One of the costliest and lengthiest murder trials in B.C. history involving convicted serial killer Robert Pickton will not be reopened after the province’s highest courts this morning found there was not enough evidence to order a new trial. Pickton, … Continue reading

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Why Barack Obama is bad for Canada (2)

When Barack Obama met with Stephen Harper in Ottawa on Feb. 19, his message on the oil sands sounded like it could have been written in Calgary. He talked about the need for government investment in new technologies to cut … Continue reading

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As Deficit Grows, Concerns Rise (2)

Among his many promises upon taking office, President Obama’s goal of cutting the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term is perhaps his loftiest.  Yet with each spending proposal Obama rolls out, the deficit grows astronomically … Continue reading

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Harper among leaders to skip UN 'summit' on financial crisis

Canada is among Western countries whose leaders have spurned invitations to attend a United Nations “summit” opening today on how the world body can help solve the global financial crisis. UN General Assembly president Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, who is a … Continue reading

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Ontario liquor store workers get deal

TORONTO, June 24 (UPI) — The union representing Ontario’s public liquor store workers said it reached a tentative contract with provincial officials Wednesday, averting a strike.  Vanda Klumper of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said the four-year deal with … Continue reading

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Brodbeck: Talk about absurd

Can you imagine if cops left a drunk, cocaine-snorting, knife-wielding convicted criminal with a history of violence against his own family inside a locked house with young kids and something happened to the children? The public outcry would be deafening, … Continue reading

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MPs 'snub' Ahmadinejad

More than 100 MPs appear to have snubbed an invitation to celebrate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s election win, local press reports say. All 290 MPs were invited to the victory party on Wednesday night but 105 did not turn up, … Continue reading

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Leave Khadr decisions to PMO

The federal government is telling the courts to back off when it comes to the Omar Khadr case and leave foreign affairs decisions to the Prime Minister and his cabinet. In a hearing yesterday, Justice Department lawyer Doreen Mueller urged … Continue reading

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Barney Rubble – Take Two

(Reuters) – Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers want Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to relax recently tightened standards for mortgages on new condominiums, saying they could threaten the viability of some developments and slow the housing-market recovery, the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading

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Khamenei vows not to waver over protests (6)

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today vowed he would not waver in response to protests over the disputed presidential election. Claims of vote-rigging in the June 12 poll have provoked the biggest street demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic revolution … Continue reading

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