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12 June 2010

Weekly Traffic Drivers, June 7-11, 2010

  1. Salma Hayek and Maria Bello freak out over snake (link to Huffington Post)
  2. Harper and Williams share love of total message control
  3. Five years of secret talks on Lower Churchill:  the Dunderdale audio
  4. There are gulfs and then there are oilspill gulfs
  5. Air ambulance controversy;  curious ATIP redaction may hold clue to full story
  6. Playing the numbers (Part 1 of the 2006 polling goosing series. Also Part 2 and Part 3)
  7. Arrogance never impresses (Charlene Johnson)
  8. Live Blogging the Old Man at the Chateau
  9. Vermont’s energy future…in Quebec
  10. Counter-spinning negativity – Jerome! version

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