Alright, this is classic government.  We are in a financial crisis right?  So I am assuming that means we should be careful about wasting money.  To deal with it our fearless leaders got together and held a meeting of the G20.  Good idea so far.  But look at the images from the meeting.  In the [...]

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As if their service charges were not enough, banks now want the money we collect for schools and hospitals and roads and all that other stuff we pay our taxes for.  This morning on CNN Senator Chris Dodd, when questioned about the 700 billion dollar bail out package passed by the U. S. Congress in [...]

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The Canadian public in their generosity are sponsoring the following freedom sensations in Afghanistan.  Each and every one a player dedicated to winning the democracy game.  And here is your starting line-up.  Forward line Center:  Ismael Khan (former governor of Herat province, accused of human rights abuses, now Minister of Water and Energy, expected to run [...]

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So what have we done?  Has 90 years of standing before cenotaphs, 90 years of standing for a moment of silence and 90 years of seeing the colours lowered changed the world for the better?  I want to say yes but I have such a hard time doing so.  Twenty years later the sons of [...]

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  Remembrance Day is fast approaching.  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 the guns fell silent across Europe.  The Great War was over.  Later it would be known as the War to End all War and finally after we did it again as just plain World War One.  [...]

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Did you hear the lastest on the news this morning over a hundred B.C. cops have been bad boys.  From the 1000 or so complaints brought against police in British Columbia, 106 were so grievous that they couldn’t be swept under the rug.  From drunk driving to shooting an unarmed suspect without cause.  And gee [...]

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Canada’s health care system is falling apart.  Every day we are being bombarded by reports that waiting lists are getting longer and that more and more Canadians are racing south of the border to purchase health services on the open market.  Some are travelling as far as India for some treatments.  The critics argue that [...]

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Well, the election is over and I congratulate President-Elect Obama.  I hope that the next four years prove my impressions wrong and you embark on a program that renews the promise latent in America.  If you do you will have my full support and my humble apologies.

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How important is it to elect the first Black president today?  Is it so paramount that we don’t want to look at his character and his policies?  Now before anyone gets their knickers in a knot, I am not saying that Barak Obama is a Marxist.  I can categorically tell you that he is not [...]

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