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<title><![CDATA[Stephen Harper’s Open and Transparent Government]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since the issue of Afghan detainees came to light, Harper has been first hiding behind the generals and soldiers and now he found himself Judge Iacobucci. So much for open and transparent government.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["The Respondents"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:13:15 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE MATTER OF THE SECURITIES ACTR.S.O. 1990, c. S.5 AS AMENDED- AND -IN THE MATTER OF ANTHONY IANNO AND SAVERIO MANZOSTATEMENT OF ALLEGATIONS OF STAFF OF THE ONTARIO SECURITIES COMMISSIONStaff of the Ontario Securities Commission make the following allegations:The Respondents1. Anthony Ianno ("Ianno") is an individual resident in Ontario.2. Saverio Manzo ("Manzo") is an individual resident in Ontario. Between 1992 and 2003, Manzo was registered with the Commission as a mutual fund salesman.Covalon Technologies3. Covalon Technologies Ltd. ("Covalon") is a reporting issuer in Ontario that trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange ("TSXV") under the trading symbol "COV". Covalon is a medical biosystems company.Overview of the Respondents' Conduct4. In the period between January 2007 and April 2008, Ianno purchased a large number of shares of Covalon. He purchased a significant proportion of these shares on margin (meaning that they were purchased on credit advanced by a br<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exploding the Myth of the Total Quality Toyota]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:07:17 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The FT has an article which details union concerns that Toyota was sacrificing quality for price competitiveness.  This is not in of itself news: it is a constant of the conditions of capitalist production that cost is weighed against quality and market share.  What is interesting is that Toyotism has largely been described [...]<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Maher on Massa]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:12:15 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyOkay don't get the wrong idea. Bill Maher talks about Eric Massa on MSNBC Countdown. He is fracking tickling - I mean quite funny.Massa has added quite a few words to the dictionary or given new meanings to existing words which will live on for a while. Such as "fracking", "snarkling", "tickling" etc. You have to google these words to get Massa's meanings.  Eat your heart out teabaggers or whatever your favourite snack is.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Stephen Harper’s Senior Manitoba Minister" and "a Conservative Conspiracy"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:13:41 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vic Toews blames media for Rahim Jaffer 'smear job'by Jane TaberAs originally posted on: Ottawa NotebookMarch 10, 2010Stephen Harper's senior Manitoba minister has launched a public attack on a journalist from his province over her reporting of the Rahim Jaffer affair, calling it a "smear job."In an angry letter, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews accuses Winnipeg Free Press reporter Mia Rabson, the only Manitoba reporter covering Parliament Hill, of advancing the "Liberal spin."Mr. Toews writes that Ms. Rabson "regularly engages" in "conspiracy theory" stories "because they don't involve a lot of thought or work.""They just involve innuendo and superficial understanding of the issue. In fact, the more superficial, the better, because a thoughtful examination of the issue quickly destroys the conspiracy," he writes.The minister does not mince his words, arguing that Ms. Rabson was merely parroting the suggestion by Manitoba Liberal MP Anita Neville that the Conservative government was "<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Businessman / Former Canadian Federal Member of Parliament Tony Ianno and "an Acquaintance"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:13:11 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ex-MP Tony Ianno faces securities probeby Emily MathieuAs originally posted on: thestar.comMarch 10, 2010Former Trinity-Spadina Liberal MP Tony Ianno will appear before the Ontario Securities Commission following allegations of illegal trading.According to a statement of allegations by the commission, Ianno purchased 4 million common shares of Covalon Technologies Ltd., a medical biosystems company, between January 2007 and April 2008, then "manipulated the market for Covalon shares by raising or artificially maintaining their price."The purchases were made in 11 different accounts, held at eight different brokerage firms, the commission said.It said a significant portion of the shares were purchased on margin, or purchased on credit advanced by a brokerage and secured against the value of the shares."I will vigorously defend," Ianno said Wednesday. "I have done nothing wrong and (look) forward to seeing the commission and dealing with it."Among the allegations is that Ianno encourage<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Eric Massa mess]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:11:43 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyI have known quite a few politicians both here in Canada and the US. Quite a few of them are nutty but this Eric Massa guy, who recently resigned from the US Congress, gets the prize. The above video from Countdown, MSNBC, sheds some light. His interview with Glenn Beck of Faux News was excruciating for poor Beck.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harper is tough on Crime]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:13:08 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[However if you're Rahim Jaffer and your wife is in the federal cabinet then your crime is washed cleaned in no time.Moreover, the way Helena Guegis behaved at PEI airport any ordinary citizen would have been arrested and put in jail and would have faced a judge in due course. Remember the guy in US who crossed the line to kiss his girlfriend and got arrested for it. If he were in Canada and a member of Harper's cabinet his arrest would have never taken place.   Tough world, eh, and tough on crime.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Follies: Bull fighting]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:12:59 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Watch CBS News Videos OnlineCBS 60 Minutes had this whole one-hour on bull fighting in Spain. Is it different from dogfights? Besides matador putting his own life in danger the bull is killed in the end. At least the man does it for fame and fortune. What does animal get out of it? Is this not cruelty to animals and an outdated ancient cruel ritual?<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:10:48 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The blogosphere is already filled with cries of "special treatment".  I don't think so -- it's fairly common for weak impaired cases to be pleaded down to careless.  Usually the Crown sees a decent chance of losing flat out and then agrees to a plea to careless.  The drug charges may well have been tainted by an improper search.  Overall a good result for Jaffer but not one reflecting special treatment.http://tiny.cc/pandabear119Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer pleaded guilty Tuesday in an Ontario courtroom to careless driving and must pay a $500 fine.Jaffer had been charged with impaired driving and possession of cocaine but those charges were dropped. Jaffer will also donate $500 to charity.Outside the Orangeville courthouse, Jaffer apologized for his actions and acknowledged the seriousness of the charges. But he said he was pleased the ordeal was over."I'm relieved. It's been a long period that it's carried on," he said.Crown attorney Marie Balogh said in court that after a car<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Is The Saskatchewan Party Exploiting 9/11 To Fundraise??]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:04:54 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I want to add my voice to those of other Saskatchewan bloggers who are shaking their heads in wonder at a poster being circulated for a Saskatchewan Party fundraiser:-Accidental Deliberations-Humble OpinionThis poster is from the constituency represented by Saskatchewan's current Environment Minister, Nancy Heppner.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Even Ken Starr condemns Liz Cheney for her tactics in smearing the US Justice Department]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12:21 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyKen Starr is as conservative as they get, he's the one who tried to finish off Bill Clinton's Presidency.  Yet even he condemns Liz Cheney's tactics to smear the lawyers of the US Justice Department.  What is with the Cheneys?Liz Cheney's father Dick Cheney started this one-trillion dollar war with Iraq which has resulted in murder and mayhem, and jeopardized World peace (after all, it was Cheney who was REALLY in charge in the Whitehouse).  Now his daughter wants to bring back the McCarthyism of the 1950s.  It is good that even staunch conservatives and Republicans are calling her out on this.  Ken Starr appeared on, of all the programs, MSNBC's Countdown to express his views and to state how wrong Liz Cheney is.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Political Elites Pretending to Be Patriots"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:12:52 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama and the Just War Mythby Thomas H. NaylorAs originally posted: Second Vermont RepublicDecember 15, 2009Radical nonviolence can undermine power and authority by withdrawing the approval, moral support, and cooperation of those who have been dealt an injustice. It derives its strength from the energy buildup and very real power of powerlessness.Not unlike virtually every other political leader throughout history who has ever led his nation into war, President Barack Obama frames the war on terrorism as one in which we have only two choices. Either take the war to the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq, killing the terrorists in their own backyard, or risk being killed by them here at home.Kill or be killed. Those are our only options. We are the children of light, the source of all that is good. They are the children of darkness, the source of all evil. Since only we deserve to live, they are obliged to die. We call this "just war."The last eight articles which French writer Albert Camu<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ignatieff a Disaster for LPC]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff makes me sick. For the umpteenth time, he delivers a spineless ultimatum to his foe, one Stephen Harper, whose spine suggests there's a one-inch thick, two-foot long, poker up his ass.I agree with Kady O'Malley's take (in the comments section) on Iggy's most recent foray into the snarling arena:[I]t bothers me that the leader, at least, seems to be ignoring the fact that an<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Democracy in Iraq?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:13:26 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A big deal is being made in the US media and administration about the elections in Iraq. It is one of the worst hoaxes in human history including war crimes and crimes against humanity. Bush and Cheney carried out a blood bath and genocide in Iraq in the name of democracy. Is it a democracy?-Ask the relatives of the millions who were killed during Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld's blood bath in Iraq for oil - oil which is now being shared by the US and its European partners.  Ask the millions who are refugees in neighbouring countries to escape the blood bath. Ask those millions who are living in squalor with no running water, proper food or shelter, struggling to survive in Iraq.  A country was destroyed and its infrastructure was destroyed with the pretence of "democracy". Many were killed during the so-called recent elections because perpetual animosities have been created through this war of atrocity. It is a society in ruins and that is your modern democracy spread by Bush, Cheney, Rum<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservative minister calls niqab a mask]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the story of a Quebec woman who wears a niqab (a head garment which is worn over the entire face with a slit for the eyes) filing a human rights complaint over her expulsion from a French course at a Montreal-area college, federal Conservative Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Josée Verner waded-into the fracas last week.In an interview with a Quebec City radio station, Verner went on the offensive against Muslim women that choose to wear the niqab. She called it a mask, said she wouldn't open the door to a woman wearing one, nor would she want them using her hypothetical day care centre. She also ponders if they should go to the bank or not:"It has nothing to do with religious beliefs, even though there's a debate that should take place there," Verner told CHOI-FM in Quebec City. "But quite frankly, for someone who goes around who is quote-unquote masked, no matter what time of day, if someone rang on my door bell wearing a mask, I wouldn't open the door.""If I was in<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["This Individual" and "this Government"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEWS RELEASEOffice of the Official OppositionJanuary 9, 2009For Immediate ReleaseAppointment of Provincial Court Judge InappropriateThe recent appointment of Don Singleton as a judge is inappropriate, says Opposition Justice Critic Kelvin Parsons.As recently reported by CBC, Don Singleton pleaded guilty in August 2005 to charges of evading taxes on imported products such as tobacco and alcohol in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Singleton was given an absolute discharge. Government recently appointed him to the provincial court bench in Grand Falls-Windsor effective February 9th."The appointment of Mr. Singleton as a judge is inappropriate," said Mr. Parsons. "The fact there was an absolute discharge in this case is irrelevant, Mr. Singleton broke the law while he was a practicing lawyer and his appointment is an insult to the others who applied for the position and the current judiciary that sit on the bench to uphold the law. This individual barely has the required time to even be considered<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Montreal Folk Legend Kate McGarrigle Remembered]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:06:59 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After a four-year battle with cancer, Kate McGarrigle passed away on January 18 at the age of 63. CBC online pays tribute to this Montreal Folk Legend...<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chile's big government gets in the way of free-market quake solutions.,]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Or not.(h/t The Washington Monthly)<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[National Anthem: Canadian Flag]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:11:33 PST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I posted this  picture  while ago. I was not so far off. Harper's attempts to change the national anthem flopped. What is next on the agenda? He could say that current flag is not Canadian enough and needs "C" in there. Change is coming you may not ‘C' it yet.<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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