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After Obama's State of the Union Address and Gingrich's victory in South Carolina, the 2012 Presidential campaign
Cuba's health care eight times more efficient than Canada's
Is dingbat dictatorship headed for thousand year monarchy
Can any Republican beat Obama?
To stop drunk driving slaughter do we need flawed laws or tough enforcement?
If the Euro fails will world-wide depression follow?
Is Victoria's wanna-be-billion-dollar-sewage-plant a white knight or a white elephant?
Could Steve Jobs have succeeded in Canada?
Toronto Globe and Mail dismisses mainstream economics as junk science
Is Canada a fraud shelter for the global mining industry? If Barrick Gold has its way, we'll never know!!!
Goals for "Occupy Wall Street" - amendment of the United States Constitution and a guraranteed annual income
CRTC blocks Canada's access to Amazon Fire
Victoria doomsday professor poses as Nobel Prize winner
Harper government and Canadian military engage in propaganda dog fight
Conrad Black --- It's time to cut Lord Crowbar some slack
Toronto media ballyhoos tiny Ottawa protest --- humanrighters ignore nazi regime in Saudi Arabia
RIM --- Another RAH-RAH-CANADAH company hits the skids
Quebecers suspect Harper wants them to quit Canada
Plan a perfect retirement --- make government inefficiency work
Canadian dollar 16.2325% overvalued
Since 2001, Kanada alone has squandered $92 billion on fake security blanket
After 20 years auto fatalities halve --- testosterone crashes soar
Noveau riche communists spoil kids with Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis
"Blue-ribbon" riot panel whitewashes Vancouver's fuzzy-faced mayor and the piggishness of big-time hockey
Why Canadian house prices have skyrocketed 600% in 30 years?
Hair-brained Quebec social "scientist"-cum-cabinet-cum-language-kop strives to abolish freedom of the press
Star reporter writes politically incorrect "obituary" to Jack Layton
Medical Marijuana: Tories Set To Outlaw Individual Growers
Videos --- So Vancouver's mayor thought he'd abolished mobs
Video -- middle east/Pakistan expert tells Charlie Rose that Americans are lousy liars but shameless
Is the U.S. headed for another Great Depression?
The real lesson of Weinergate? Lying is as human as walking, talking and sex(ting)
Another Bre-X style TXE scandal? How many trees in Chinese forest? --- the Bay Street establishment versus mavrick short-seller
A Vancouver enforcer at work
Women Have Scandals Too
Lost colour D-Day movies
Liberty be damned --- good government gives Canada high happiness rating
Senate reform --- The Leader turns Lord Acton on his head
Netanyahoo, the U.S. Congress and the religious vote
Annals of the Apocalypse --- World Health Organizations warns cellphones may cause cancer
Video --- Charlie Rose interviews Henry Kissinger on China
The Leader to abolish political party boondoogles - and it's a good thing
Before dinner, Mladec, the Butcher of Srebrenica, says his prayers, downs slivovitz
Taxpayer warning --- don't let the mayor of Victoria near submarines
Government pals playing float-plane monopoly in Vancouver harbour
A look at the finale of Oprah
When the Big One comes --- Vancouver Island won't break in half --- otherwise all bets are off
What ever happened to the three-day weekend and the 32-hour week?
Annals of the law's delay --- trial judge fails to happy face charged drunk driver --- appeal court reverses his conviction
The second fastest serve in tennis
Video -- eagle rescuers craned up to nest -- untangle snared chick
Do nice girls finish last?
Is addiction really a disease?
The video --- 1961 --- the Kennedy brothers didn't want to lose the white south --- Martin Luther King didn't want to die --- non-violent American students stopped a second Civil War
The story of Dominique Strauss-Kahn --- How can a committed socialist sleep at night --- in a $3,000 hotel room?
Is Microsoft 2011 the General Motors of 2008?
Since Pierre Trudeau every majority government has been an unchecked, unbalanced dictatorship and it's getting worse
Under the nose of Chamber of Commerce --- multinational buys Victoria firm --- moves 56% of jobs to Costa Rica
Killer cop cases --- U.S. cases settled 10 times faster than Kanadian
Veteran journalist --- did the media courageously cover The Leader?
Humankind's pathetically primitive ability to store energy
How come? Demand for gasoline goes down --- but pump prices go up
Power Corp recaptures control of the Liberal Party
Scotland elects separatist government
Dziekanski kops --- a warning to President Obama
Count Iggy --- in favor of common sense, common honesty, common decency and democracy --- finishes last.
Oust the bureaucrats --- guarantee each Canadian enough to live on and save money, claims Tory Senator
Bureaucrats leave cities and towns barefoot and pregnant
St. John The Socialist has a tiger by the tail --- who signed Set 'em Up Ruthy's nomination papers?
Massaging the truth about Jack Layton
The 2011 Election --- How in Hades Come?
Video --- President Obama announces killing of bin Laden
"Progressive" parties receive 50% of vote --- outflanked by Harperites with only 40%
Liberals' "Passport to Learning" full of academic balderdash
Britain's crisis of succession: Charles and the story behind the royal wedding
Pope to make regressive predecessor a saint
How China's crooked consultants help the rich enter Canada
Grim Fairy Tale --- Telecable monopoly heir could compete in a real market
Unless someone's getting rich --- political sleaze just doesn't register in Canada
Grim Fairy Tale -- Cuban Commandante Fidel Castro is just gonna' fade away
Some doctors showing some leadership in Alberta
Is chrome-domed newsreader angling for Senate seat?
In last 30 years --- the Canadian economy has grown 150% --- wages have gone down --- why?
New Democrat fanatics elect one of their own kind leader --- shoot themselves and B.C. in the foot
Which leader speaks the better French?
Professor claims taxpayer party subsidy is democracy in action
Cruise lines scamming Canadian ports
Was the Lincoln assassination's lynched landlady innocent or guilty? The film
The American civil war is still being fought
Bella Bella school whips paleface equivalents
Bike fanatic claims helmets cause head injuries
A natural coalition --- Alberta and Quebec
April 12 leaders' debate -- the video
Is Count Ignatieff looking down his nose at me?
The Republicans' scorched earth policy
Royalty propaganda extravaganza a bust in Canada
Vancouver government lets Chinese government censor billboard messages
Canadian telecable monopoly produces another fairy tale bust --- "The Kennedys"
Tory propagandars misfigure "family" tax cuts
Grim Fairy Tale --- corporate tax cuts grow the economy
How to reduce our ruinous drug costs
Liberal campaign should be about democracy --- not Harperian rollin' out the barrel.
Tory lackies shield The Leader from Bad Thought Bad Talk
Canadian Navy plans to run Pacific Fleet from far, far away
Grim Fairy Tale --- unmuzzled, The Leader would not bite
10 years from now two proven killer mad-dog sexual psychopaths can run free in the streets of British Columbia
For dragging dog behind pick-up Okanagan hillbilly gets conditional sentence
B.C. schools teaching pro-polygamating
Florida religious nut kills 25 - number rising
Canadian fashion tycoon and Manhattan Hedge Fund manipulator duke it out in the Bahamas
The Leader announces $100,000 Registered Animal Saving Plan for Seniors
The CBC's Compass poll --- what'd it tell me I didn't already know?
The cost of housing gets curiouser and curioser
Caution --- Obama declares Alberta oil sands part of U.S. reserves
Too many dim-witted students overload Canada's colleges
Telecable monopoly dictates debate rules to Canada's political leaders --- how, what, where, when, how much --- t
Rolling Stone magazine's photos of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan
Telecable monopoly broken --- Netflix secures movie deal
The best way to help alcoholics --- feed 'em alchohol
Surpass --- The Leader makes big "coalition"smokescreen mistake --- Predictable --- The Leader
At on- sixth cost of The Leader's fighter planes --- the size of Panama Canal triples
Déjà vu all over again --- Canada's Fishery and Oceans bureaucracy stifles research
How to end Canad's traffic jams
Ignatieff rules out leading a coalition
What's wrong with a coalition government?
What's wrong with attack ads?
How it happened: The events that led to the fall of Canada's government
Elizabeth Taylor dies
40% of Americans believe God created humans in last 10,000 years
Tory attack ads kibosh Count Ignatieff's humble roots
What is Libya? --- Who are the Qaddafis?
Why aren't old incompetent doctors being put out to pasture?
25% of B.C. student loans in default
B.C. kops turf sheriffs from traffic beat
Videos --- technology that's shaken the world
Why are credit card agreements so long?
Is B.C. 's new "Liberal" premier the real thing?
Harper compared to Nixon!!!
750,000 Saudi dollars cuts 10 deserving students out of Dalhousie Medical School
In tiny Bahrain, Saudis struggle valiantly to save their world for feudalism
Fukushima puts the world-wide nuclear industry on life support
What happens when we unplug the internet?
How housing prices have skyrocketed
The Japanese nuclear catastrophes show the risk --- but the Globe and Mail says we shouldn't stop de
What to expect when the Canadian election battle begins
Head shots should be history
Canada' below Slovenia in technological innovation
Will Wisconsin's chill on labour move north?
YouStream video of Japan Earthquake
A traitor to his class, Warren Buffet's salary ... $100,000 per year!!!
Why folks won't ride buses
Rocket scientist trial --- a poster boy for what's wrong with the law
NHL risking its integrity by turning a blind eye
History's 10 Worst Earthquakes
Can Canadians trust Harper with majority government?
Editorial tells Canada's lawyers to smarten up -- how about the judges?
Study claims military spending a boondoggle
Colonel Gadhafi: Dying Days
Canadians spend 11% of income on food --- Chinese spend 36%
Alberta court finds Ottawa's bid for national securities regulator unconstitutional
Will the public ever blush when the Harper government misspeaks, won'tspeaks and nastyspeaks?
Big Pharma going bankrupt
Fidel Castro supports Khadafi
Nothing has got better since 1950 --- except the internet
The elusive Libyan rebels?
Vancouver's subsidized super casino foes duke it out with developers
About where Obama grew up --- right praying/thinking/wannsabePres Mike Huckabee a liar or an ignoramus
A former rock star of the ad world explains why he doesn't watch commercials
% of Canadians who are mathematically illiterate?
Meteorites show signs of life in space: scientist
$10 Million+ Ponzi psychopath loosed after 14 months in jail
Jon Lee Anderson's weekly dispatches from Libya
How local governments are starved of their rightful revenues.
What's driving the Arab Revolution --- higher expectations
Sexual psychopath let loose among handicapped children
Where can a deposed dictator hide?
Sober second thought: B.C. neoCons to review new drunk-driving laws
Globe TV columnist says Academy Awards are "insufferable inanity"
Michael Ignatieff --- a problem --- not a solution
Big Pharma financed Florida governor fights to block prescription drug registry
The student loan fiasco in for-profit colleges
Kleptocrats: The dictators' guide to amassing wealth
Quebec City hands over profits of Quebec Arena to Media Mogul
Civil disobedience without violence --- does it work?
TeleCable monopoly pays Born Jim Shaw $16,000 pension --- per day!!!
Tories hiding fighter jet, fat cat tax cut, crime costs
Judge hints victim "led on" rapist --- gives him no jail time
Don't expect Western-style democracies in middle east
Will the Middle East Revolution wash over to China? Six experts differ
Victoria builds earthquake-proof hospital
Founder of Salvation Navy passes
If Saudis revolt we risk a new global recession
Victoria's establishment paper questions Darth Vader heist
Big government's junk-science-billion-dollar plan to raise each Victorian's taxes by $1,000 a year
Canadians don't trust Harper for majority government --- detest Ignatieff
Wall Street turned a blind eye to Bernard Madoff
Canada's electronic services are high-priced --- the CRTC keeps out foreign competition
Is Saudi next? --- Hundreds back Facebook call for Saudi protest
Gadafis' hidden billions: Dubai banks, plush London pads and Italian water
The American economic dream now a nightmare
Vancouver Olympics book-keepers foist super-expensive buses on long-suffering Victoria taxpayer
MS patients complain of inadequate care in Canada after liberation therapy
Bahrain - the revolution just a bridge away from Saudi Arabia
"My money belongs to society -- not my children," says Canadian tycoon
U.S. renegade Mormon may have 80+ wives
Can Bahrain uprising succeed?
How China's cyber attack against Canada works
For Arabs, the challenge of democracy starts with the family
An NHL arena for Quebec City? Absurd
B.C.'s Liberal government refuses to charge Liberal lobbyist with bribery
Egyptian women fear return of frequent harassment and assault
How Calgary's new mayor mugwumped and ignored science -- now there's no more fluoride in Calgary's water
Canada's hapless judges drowning in a procedural legal swamp
Five dead-wrong economic Ideas that refuse to die
Beware of junk "multiculturalism"!!!
What do Chinese autocrats say about the revolution in Egypt?
Self-touted on PBS, Chevron Faces Record $9 Billion Amazon Fine
Iran Autocrats want to lynch opposition leaders
Mubarak sons nearly came to blows over fate of their father
Harper keeps Canada in dark --- to his own peril
Egypt's "Robespierre moment" won't mean instant democracy
Federal cabinet minister admits lying to parliamentary committee --- wants to "move on"
How life insurers shirk supervision and liability
Mubarak sons nearly came to blows over fate of their father
Canadian soldiers are fatter and more inactive than average Canadians
Questions grow on Canada's west coast tanker traffic
Egypt --- a revolution or a revolt?
How Canada metes out the wet noodle treatment to white collar criminals
Will Bush Junior dodge torture arrest in Switzerland?
Shaw defects from the Big Talk monopoly --- stops imposing limits on net use
High-priced B.C. ferry boss set to sail
Vancouver Olympics's "leader" didn't know nothin' about nothin' about the killer luge track
Monitoring of tankers not reliable: coast guard
Saskatchewan's mother lode --- the Bakken oil field
CRTC changes will invite crooked financial reporting, accountant warns
Push me/pull you story of B.C. Ferries shows why utilities should be run for the public interest ---
Big Food wants to drain 40 B.C. streams for bottled water
CRTC wanted to enrich a few companies while damaging the economy and the rights of users
Ottawa disbands sodium reduction task force
Neocon premier loves dogs over people?
Six years after the Mayerthorpe massacre, RCMP finally upgrade training program
Web TV may replace cable and TV networks
B.C., not its teachers union, should run education
How B.C.'s public welfare system dehumanizes the giver and the receiver
Post-Olympic slaughter of 70 sled dogs prompts rage, embarrassment
How corruption stole Africa's medicine
Calling a party "Liberal" in Alberta constitutes politcal suicide --- liberals are setting up a new
Ottawa considers paying for stadiums with unspent $1-billion
NotsoGrim fairy tale --- Money is everything in politics
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