Monthly Archives: December 2011

Editorial: Scrap the gun registry, and its records

In a recent letter to the editor of the Edmonton Journal — a fellow Postmedia paper — Claude Roberto, the secretary general of the Bureau of Canadian Archivists, objected to plans by the Tory government to destroy the information collected on individual … Continue reading

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Morning Update December 31st, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Family lucky to survive carbon monoxide poisoning  OTTAWA – Ditching their detector was a nearly fatal mistake for a Gatineau family, who are lucky to be alive after severe carbon monoxide poisoning. [...] #2 — Globe … Continue reading

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Gunter: The Tories haven’t changed us (1)

A hat-tip to my colleague Kelly McParland for suggesting earlier this week that Stephen Harper and the Conservative government are not so much changing Canada as simply demonstrating how much Canada has moved away from the elite blueprint the Liberals began using … Continue reading

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Afternoon Update December 30th, 2011 (10)

CANADA #1 — CNews | Trump fired up over Keystone delays The White House-delayed Keystone XL pipeline proves Canada’s government trumps America’s, says The Donald. [...] #2 — Globe | Skier dies in Pemberton avalanche A backcountry skier from Whistler, B.C., … Continue reading

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Crux: More Lawrence Martin on Conservative “juggernaut”

Mainstream journalist Lawrence Martin refers to the current Conservative majority government and its leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as a “juggernaut” poised to dominate Canadian politics. It’s the second such anti-Conservative rant in only a few days. I wrote about … Continue reading

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Italy seeks boost to bail-out fund (15)

Mario Monti has pleaded for the eurozone to expand its “big bazooka” bail-out fund as an expensive Italian bond auction suggested that even last week’s flood of cheap loans from the European Central Bank (ECB) has failed to stem the … Continue reading

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Iran-U.S. brinkmanship over Strait of Hormuz nears breaking point (1)

TEHRAN — A showdown between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s threats to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers worsened Thursday with warships from each side giving weight to an increasingly bellicose exchange of words. Iran’s … Continue reading

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Arab Spring: the revolution has only just begun

This year, the certitudes of the old Middle East dissolved with unseemly haste. A regional order frozen in place since the death of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser 40 years ago finally thawed. It produced a torrent of uprisings, coups, standoffs, civil … Continue reading

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Retired general unearths story of Canada’s real-life war horse

On a farm in Paradise, N.S., lies the grave of a horse named Fritz – a war horse, it turns out, that survived the horrors of the First World War and lived out his final days in peace in Canada. … Continue reading

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