Monthly Archives: May 2010

Drunk and Stupid

I was sent a link to a video today that was passed on by a learned judge to a friend of mine. Both were very impressed by it and so am I. As the US enters a long weekend and … Continue reading

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Honda Strike Becomes a Rallying Point in China

FOSHAN, CHINA — A strike at an auto-parts factory owned by Honda in southern China has unexpectedly become a cause célèbre in the nation’s struggle with income inequality, with Chinese media reporting extensively on the workers’ demands and calling on … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update May 28th, 2010 (22)

Canada #1 — CBC | Anti-G20 vandals hit Toronto ATMs At least one suspect has been arrested after vandals spray-painted a handful of ATMs in downtown Toronto, marking some with anti-G20 slogans. [...] #2 — CBC | Oil refinery leak … Continue reading

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Gunmen Attack Pakistani Mosques, 30 Killed (3)

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen armed with grenades attacked two mosques of a minority sect during prayers in eastern Pakistan on Friday, seizing control of one them and battling with police, officials and witnesses said. At least 30 people were killed … Continue reading

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Noonan: He Was Supposed to Be Competent (3)

I don’t see how the president’s position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped … Continue reading

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Hurricane plus oil equals more problems

(CNN) — A predicted busy hurricane season this summer is on a collision course with an unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the results are anyone’s guess, weather experts say. “The problem is that this is a … Continue reading

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Steyn: We’re too broke to be this stupid (3)

Back in 2008, when I was fulminating against multiculturalism on a more or less weekly basis, a reader wrote to advise me to lighten up, on the grounds that “we’re rich enough to afford to be stupid.” Two years later, … Continue reading

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Fixed-election-date legislation full of loopholes: court

Canada’s much-ballyhooed fixed-election-date legislation is so vague, say the courts, that a prime minister can drive a campaign bus right through it. And that’s exactly what happened in 2008 when, a little more than a year after the Conservative government … Continue reading

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Bob Rae hints at Liberal-NDP accord (2)

Bob Rae says there’s no rule preventing the Liberals and the NDP from ganging up and toppling a newly elected Tory government: He’s done it before and now he’s hinting it may happen again. In a brief memoir posted this … Continue reading

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Filthy Mexico lectures us

President Felipe Calderon of filthy Mexico has come to Canada to lecture us on the environment. Perhaps Iran’s president will be next in line, to teach us something about the treatment of women, and China’s president will come to give us tips on a free press. … Continue reading

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Tories start to squirm

A foreign diplomat whose president will attend the G20 summit in Toronto paused on a fairway recently to ponder a tricky shot, and my trick question on the news value of Canada’s global gabfest one month from today. “The news … Continue reading

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World May 28th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | ‘Maoist sabotage’ kills 65 on train in eastern India At least 65 people died when two trains collided in eastern India after one was derailed by what officials say was an act of Maoist sabotage. [...] … Continue reading

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