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16 January 2010
The Recession in pictures
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Via John Gushue who got it from Business Insider who got it from Calculated Risk , a chart comparing job loss as a share of peak employmen...
Text “HAITI” to 45678
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From the Salvation Army: Toronto, ON January 14, 2010 – The Salvation Army has activated its Text to Donate program in support of the Hai...
15 January 2010
Pat and Rush in perspective
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Nothing more need be said than Keith Olbermann’s 1:48 summary of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh on Haiti. Even this is more attention tha...
Op Hestia: Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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An unidentified member of 2 Air Movements Squadron (8 Wing, Trenton, Ontario) helps load a pallet of medical supplies onboard a Canadian Fo...
Twitter feeds on Haiti
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On the right, at the top. 1. Joanna Smith ( smithjoanna ) from Toronto Star . Thanks to John Gushue for blogging her stuff over at his ...
The A-Team
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Any movie with the line “Sucks to be you” in it can’t be all bad. -srbp-
Of Cukes and Unis
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Truly, things are very strange when the guy who backed a second university for the province - despite evidence at the time of declining en...
14 January 2010
Kremlinology 14: Dead Caterpillars
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Brian Tobin did it. Roger Grimes did it. Well, yes both served their political party as leader and served the province as Premier. But...
As myths go…
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This one was strong. From the Globe and Mail , December 2007: Now, instead of the predicted poverty, there's the "Danny Will...
13 January 2010
Racket on the Edge
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Expect to see much more bitching, moaning and complaining that ticket prices for the 2010 Juno award show will be $ 189 for individual tic...
12 January 2010
As bad deals go…
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Okay. So like, let’s just make sure we are all clear on this. First, there was the disastrous deal with Venezuela that was supposed to ...
Zombie TV
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So Jay Leno is going back to late night television, thereby displacing Conan and Jimmy and undoing the great change that NBC brought to tel...
Changes to pensions just tip of public sector fiscal iceberg
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The provincial government is considering making some changes to public sector pensions, according to the Telegram . Options include add...
11 January 2010
Province may lose big-time in Hebron royalty give-away
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According to the Telegram , the Hebron partners won’t be filing their development application for the project until December 2010. That’s ...
10 January 2010
A statement of fact isn’t a criticism
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Finance minister Tom Marshall told the Telegram’ s Dave Bartlett a few interesting things in an interview that appeared in the Saturday prin...
09 January 2010
Budget 2010: Slowly the facts emerges
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From an interview with the Telegram (not online) here’s a telling little statement from finance minister Tom Marshall: He said corpora...
Jeff, the SCC and senate reform
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Canada’s Ersatz George Will should learn to do that or at least take his own advice. Jeff Simpson implores – presumably the prime minister...
08 January 2010
Let me fish off Old Wyoming
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You be the judge. Otto Kelland is best known in Newfoundland as the writer of the ballad “Let me fish off Cape St. Mary’s”, written in 1...
07 January 2010
Senate reform, again
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One glaring point the Globe and Mail front pager on senate reform missed is blatantly obvious. The Globe claimed that: Analysts say...
There’s even a local version…
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of the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament. Facebook sez. And they have a rally scheduled for January 23rd in St. John’s. Presuma...
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