Monthly Archives: July 2010

Canada July 29th, 2010 (10)

#1 — CBC | RCMP dealing with management ‘issues’: memo Senior RCMP officers, including Commissioner William Elliott, say they are working through their issues, following complaints about Elliott’s management style, according to an internal memo. [...] CBC | Missing Mountie … Continue reading

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Identities of Afghan Informants Exposed (6 – Bumped)

Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. In just two hours of searching the WikiLeaks archive, The Times of London … Continue reading

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Iranian Leaders in the Dock?

JERUSALEM (July 28) — As the European Union announced new, tougher sanctions this week against Iran, a blue-chip coalition of lawyers and human rights activists reiterated its demand that Iranian leaders be brought before the International Court of Justice for … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update July 28th, 2010 (22)

Canada #1 — CBC | Ottawa balks at new costs for delayed N.B. reactor The federal government is holding firm to its position that it will not pay extra costs associated with the growing delays at the $1.4-billion refurbishment of … Continue reading

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Our Divisive President

During the election campaign, Barack Obama sought to appeal to the best instincts of the electorate, to a post-partisan sentiment that he said would reinvigorate our democracy. He ran on a platform of reconciliation—of getting beyond “old labels” of right … Continue reading

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Mexico arrests many drug suspects, but few charged

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — It’s practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, … Continue reading

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Blagojevich's fate in jury's hands

CHICAGO | Jurors who will now decide the fate of disgraced former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich have two very different portraits to ponder: The Democrat is either an insecure bumbler who talked too much or a sly, greedy political schemer … Continue reading

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Canadians discover long-lost ship

MERCY BAY, N.W.T. • The ship whose crew discovered Canada’s Northwest Passage has been found 155 years after it was abandoned and disappeared in this isolated Arctic bay, a historic find and one that may help bolster Canadian claims to … Continue reading

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Biggest provinces push plan to cap emissions

Canada’s three largest provinces are forging ahead on a cap-and-trade system to stem global warming emissions, a move made just after a similar plan was abandoned by the U.S. Senate. The system, set to start in January, 2012, would cap … Continue reading

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Cameron Goes Full Idiot

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s July 27 speech in Turkey will not live on in history. But it should, as an example of the decline of Western diplomacy and of suicide by political correctness. It is a textbook example of … Continue reading

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Time for census reform

The great summer census debate yesterday rolled into a Commons committee in Ottawa where it mostly rolled over Liberal MP Dan McTeague and other opposition party activists who are trying to turn the census issue into a partisan free lunch. … Continue reading

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World July 28th, 2010 (10)

#1 — BBC | Passenger plane crashes in hills near Pakistan capital A plane with more than 150 people on board has crashed in hills north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. [...] #2 — BBC | Rio plans to clear … Continue reading

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