Monthly Archives: October 2011

Italy at heart of crisis as borrowing costs climb (19)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

ROME – Italy’s borrowing costs jumped to record levels on Friday, underlining its vulnerability at the heart of the eurozone debt crisis and skepticism about whether the struggling government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi can deliver vital reforms. The 6.06% … Continue reading →

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Gurney: More fear-mongering from the gun haters

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

With the battle to save the long-gun registry lost, Canada’s antigun zealots are shifting their focus to a new target (no pun intended). As a consolation prize for losing the registry fight, they want a sweeping update of the classification … Continue reading →

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Canada will look to sell oil elsewhere if U.S. balks at Keystone XL: Oliver

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

If the United States turns it back on increased supplies of Canadian oil by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, Canada will look to export more to other countries, particularly in Asia, federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Friday. Mr. … Continue reading →

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Goodspeed: Adapting the U.S. forces for a frugal era

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

Over the next two months, tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq will pack up their gear and head home, ending nine years of war and a painful era of American history. Under the terms of a 2008 bilateral … Continue reading →

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Anti-beaver senator once lauded the ‘toothy tyrant’ (2)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

The Conservative senator who this week called for the polar bear to replace the beaver as Canada’s national animal emblem gave an equally impassioned speech last year in Parliament celebrating the flat-tailed rodent — which she now derides as a … Continue reading →

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Quebec anti-collusion chief asked to step down

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

MONTREAL – The author of a scathing government report on Quebec’s construction industry has been forced to resign, QMI Agency has learned. Jacques Duchesneau, a former police chief and head of the province’s anti-collusion unit, was asked to step down … Continue reading →

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Moran: OWS ‘movement’ de-evolving

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

I take issue with the idea that the Occupy Wall Street Movement is growing, or “evolving,” or demonstrating any sort of progress toward becoming a force of any kind. In fact, headlines across the country today demonstrate a movement that … Continue reading →

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Gunter: Mothball ‘dud subs,’ buy nukes

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

Boy did the Brits ever see us coming in 1998 when the Chretien Liberals pulled up to Honest Nigel’s Used Submarine Shop looking to buy four underwater patrol boats.  The quartet they sold us for the unbelievably low price of just $750 million … Continue reading →

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Morning Update October 29th, 2011 (10)

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Jack

CANADA #1 — CNews | Klees abandons plans for Speaker’s chair TORONTO – Renegade Tory MPP Frank Klees is abandoning his plan to run as Speaker, which would have effectively given the Ontario Liberals control of the House if he’d won. … Continue reading →

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Libin: What the West wants next

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Jack

Spend enough time driving around Alberta and you might still spot, on the very occasional older model vehicle, the yellow, Reform-era bumper sticker: “No Kyoto, no wheat board, no gun registry.” Those were radical enough ideas back in the mid-’90s … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Update October 28th, 2011 (10)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Jack

CANADA #1 — CNews | Acquittal in slaying of accused serial killer’s brother TORONTO — A construction worker was acquitted Thursday of murdering the brother of accused serial killer Mark Moore. [...] #2 — Globe | Beavers can’t cut it as … Continue reading →

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Foster: Irrational euro-deal exuberance (23)

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Jack

There is, failing the arrival of the Intergalactic Monetary Fund, no lender of last resort but the taxpayer That optimistic little girl looking for the pony in the pile of manure was back in the markets Thursday, as investors apparently … Continue reading →

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