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Two Suzukis

The two Suzukis: There’s Saint Suzuki, the one you see on CBC, and Secret Suzuki, the capitalist millionaire There are two David Suzukis.Most of us know one of the Suzukis. Let’s call him Saint Suzuki. That’s the Suzuki whose TV show on the CBC const...

Smile For The Day

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I just woke up...

A few hours ago, I sat in my favourite chair ready to listen to the Speech of the Throne by the Governor General. After a few minutes of platitutes, I fell asleep. Did I miss anything? I mean anything real?

Shipbuilding scheduling conflict means taxpayers on the hook for an extra $55-million

OTTAWA — Canadian taxpayers will be forced to shell out an extra $55-million due to a scheduling conflict in the federal government’s national shipbuilding strategy, senior officials have confirmed.At the same time, Canada’s navy will be forced to re...

TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING,

TWAS THE NIGHT OF THANKSGIVING,BUT I JUST COULDN'T SLEEP.I TRIED COUNTING BACKWARDS,I TRIED COUNTING SHEEP. THE LEFTOVERS BECKONED -THE DARK MEAT AND WHITE,BUT I FOUGHT THE TEMPTATIONWITH ALL OF MY MIGHT. TOSSING AND TURNING WITH ANTICIPATION,THE THO...

Andrew Coyne: U.S. and Canadian political systems both dysfunctional, in opposing ways

One way of explaining the current breakdown in the U.S. political system is in partisan terms. If only those Republican congressmen were not so intransigent. If only Barack Obama would negotiate.But this does not get us very far. It does not explain ...

The Conservative plan to become Canada’s Natural Governing Party

OTTAWA — Canada’s Conservatives, after nearly eight years of power, have become the country’s Establishment Party.Traditionally viewed as a collection of misfits who couldn’t keep power once they achieved it — and who stabbed each other in the back d...

Happy Columbus Day

For all the people in the world that celebrate the discovery of the new world,

Paypal Buyer Protection Doesn't apply to Software Key Purchases

Just got burned by a seller ijn France for $40. He sold me a Steam purchase of ROME II. My son had the game less than 24 hours before it was disabled by Steam at the request of the game's manufacturer. I can only assume that the license key fraudelen...

Kwame Kilpatrick, ex-Detroit mayor, sentenced to 28 years

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced by a federal judge on Thursday to 28 years in prison after he was convicted of public corruption including bribery, extortion and racketeering, which prosecutors said had worsened the city's financi...

If the seller will not ship to canada, dont put them on ebay canada...dont waste our time

When the UN probes Canada’s First Nations tragedy, don’t expect results

After months of failed attempts seeking permission to enter Canada and investigate the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canadians, James Anaya, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations on Indigenous peoples, has arrived. He was greeted ear...

SOME GOOD READING FOR THE FLOCK

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/politics/story/1.1927667

NDP pour cold water on Tory efforts to force election over cost of cancelled gas plants

Ontario’s New Democrats poured cold water Wednesday on efforts by the Progressive Conservatives to force a snap election over the $1.1-billion the Liberal government spent to cancel gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga.The Liberals killed the gas p...

Harper government defends security certificate program at Supreme Court

The Conservative government “carefully crafted” changes to the national security certificate system that brought the rarely used tool for dealing with threats to Canada in line with the Constitution, says a federal lawyer.As a Supreme Court hearing o...

Hi there.... I am listing some great quilts,but no one is even looking...help

Hi there..... I am listing some great quilts,but no one is even looking. what should i be listing them under to attact attention.. any help would be appreciated....

More Proof that the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer

The rich are getting even richer. The top 1% control 46% of the world’s assets -- and 86% of global wealth is owned by the richest 10%. Yet two-thirds of the world’s adults have wealth of less than $10,000. http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker...

prepaid duty

Does anyone else have a problem with the fact that the service charge incurred when a seller collects the duty upfront is not indicated in the listing?

The Shady Presence of Politics' Back Room Boys

Two recent reviews of Michael Ignatieff's new book, Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics, by two former political insiders reveals that the old backroom political dynamics in Canada are alive and well. It reminds us of Robert Caro's observ...

hypocrasy pure hypocrite

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/harper-scrubs-sri-lanka-visit-over-human-rights-violations Wow,kanada a world leader violating human rights. What a wimp of a man. W1

Liberal reign in Ontario 10 years tomorrow

And here's the result. Our debt doubledOur household energy rates doubledOne million Ontarians are either out of work, on welfare or gave up lookingWe lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs, while the Liberals added 300,000 bureaucrats to the payrollAnd now...

Harper...........selling off Canada and our ethics one bit at a time

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/06/malaysias-state-owned-energy-giant-to-spend-36b-building-gas-plant-pipeline-in-canada/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Malaysia

Between boast and reality lie Canada’s deficits (opinion)

Mark Carney, as governor of the Bank of Canada, used to urge Canadians to export their way to greater prosperity, especially by selling more to emerging markets, particularly China and India.Prime Minister Stephen Harper seemed to agree. His governme...

OAS & CPP an entitlement , --- GREY POWER - Quiet no more!

From my inbox: OAS & CPP an entitlement , --- GREY POWER - Quiet no more!ONE REALLY BAD THING IS THAT A GREAT MANY SENIORS HAVE NO INTERNET TO RECEIVEEMAILS LIKE THIS ONE, SO SNAIL MAIL AND TELEPHONE ARE ALSO NEEDED... On top of all this stuff that y...

Congress Gives Standing Ovation to Cops For Executing Unarmed Mother

Couple years ago I would consider this to be possible only in dystopian fiction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_flkAhBNk#t=35

How Canada's sex-assault laws violate **bleep** victims

It’s a crime like no other. A violation of the self as well as the body – an assault on trust, on privacy, on control. It’s also an offence with an afterlife: a sense of bruising shame and guilt.And it happens to women in Canada every 17 minutes.Some...

Meet the cabinet minister tasked with fixing the Senate

In his appointment as Minister of State for Democratic Reform and fixer of what is wrong with the Senate, Pierre Poilievre has arguably been handed the toughest job in cabinet.But he is also coming full circle to the issue that marked his entry to th...

Are you dipping at the store ?

Lately we bought a bottle of a spread: http://www.hiddenvalley.com/products/sandwich-spreads-and-condiments/spicy-chipotle-pepper/ When I was going to use it for first time, top came of quite easy and seems someone dipped their finger in there and pu...

Simply amazing - modern technology - 240 years old.

Listen and watch! http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton

Go to the doctor, I am mad

Geez, people are stupid. Stupid to the point that they would rather be dead. Just got a call that B, 56, had a heart attack and is the hospital. I warned and I warned and I warned. Last month J, 52, "I'll go to the doctor on my day off". Diagnosed an...