Monthly Archives: November 2011

Durban downbeat (3)

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

On Monday, another round of international climate negotiations opens in Durban, South Africa. Expectations are low. Few expect the United Nations summit will overcome the solidified deadlock that has lasted for more than 10 years. Time is fast running out … Continue reading →

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China keen on Canadian crude

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

SINGAPORE/BEIJING — China is set to embrace Canada’s offer of more crude, heating up competition with the United States as the world’s top two oil consumers jostle to secure supplies and meet ravenous demand. Shipments from a politically stable country … Continue reading →

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Is a Liberal comeback mission impossible?

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

Peter C. Newman, the iconic chronicler of Canadian public life, says the party that governed Canada longer than the Communists ruled Russia is dead in the cold, cold ground, a corpse of its own making only tangentially helped into the … Continue reading →

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O’Toole: Occupy’s alternative social, political model ‘not self-sustainable’

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

They wanted to create a different social model. Strip away the cacophony of disparate chants and placards, and what remains is the core principle of the five-week protest camp called Occupy Toronto. Though the borders of St. James Park did … Continue reading →

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Fulford: Too much sensitivity doomed the Shafia girls

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

Day after day we absorb the details of a heart-stopping story about children who asked for help and badly needed help, yet could not be helped. The Shafia murder trial in Kingston, Ont., has become a drama about the frustration … Continue reading →

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Rennert: Mainstream media turn blind eye to dark side of Tahrir Square

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

At the beginning, most mainstream media turned into cheerleaders for the Arab Spring revolutions to topple secular dictatorships like Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt. Once Mubarak was gone, the story line went, democracy and respect for human rights would flourish. … Continue reading →

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Black: How the ROC bought off Quebec

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

The splintering into factions of Quebec’s Parti Québécois, the rejection of the Bloc Québécois in the last federal election, Quebec’s declining share of federal MPs, and polls showing a collapse of separatist enthusiasm among the province’s youth, all help illustrate … Continue reading →

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Morning Update November 27th, 2011 (10)

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jack

CANADA #1 — CNews | Explosive package kills disabled mom Confusion and concern are gripping Innisfail, where RCMP have confirmed an explosive package killed a young paraplegic mother. [...] #2 — Globe | Quebec nationalists pelted with rocks in Montreal showdown … Continue reading →

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RCMP investigating claims it waited years before searching Pickton farm

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jack

The RCMP is reviewing explosive claims that its members could have acted much sooner in obtaining a search warrant that may have stopped Robert Pickton’s murder spree years earlier. The allegations, by Cpl. Catherine Galliford, once the high-profile RCMP spokesperson … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Update November 26th, 2011 (10)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jack

CANADA #1 — CNews | Montreal is falling down MONTREAL — Montreal is falling down. That’s according to the latest batch of highway inspection reports from Quebec’s transport department. [...] #2 — Globe | Sino-Forest’s business model still shrouded in fog … Continue reading →

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Now UK faces a £5bn bill to bail out Spain… as ministers plan for euro collapse (15)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jack

Britain was last night planning for the collapse of the eurozone as Spain weighed up a bailout that could cost UK taxpayers £5billion. The Government is preparing for the biggest mass default in history and the break-up of the single … Continue reading →

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Steyn: SS Spendaholic sailing into debt abyss

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Jack

I see Andrea True died earlier this month. The late disco diva enjoyed a brief moment of global celebrity in 1976 with her ubiquitous glitterball favorite: “More, More, More How do you like it? How do you like it? More, … Continue reading →

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