Campaign 2008: This Time, It's Canada's Turn

profwhat.

Posted to Politics on Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 08:46:43 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called for a new federal election on October 14.  Polls indicate Canadians are currently disposed to keep Harper's Conservative Party in power, although support for Stéphane Dion and his Liberal Party is growing in key ridings.

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It's Not Illegal To Be An Asshole ... Yet.

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Wed Jul 30, 2008 at 08:42:49 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Guy Earle claims to be an edgy stand up comic and one who will fight back if heckled. So, last year when he was heckled during a performance, he responded in kind. Used a bit of abusive language, he did. Made disparaging remarks about the sexual orientation of the hecklers, he did. He says it's allowed as he's a bit of an asshole and it's part of his act. Apparently, not everyone agrees because he's facing a hearing in front of a provincial Human Rights Tribunal. He sees it as an attack on his free speech rights while the government likes to think of it as more like prosecuting hate speech.

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Canadian Judge Gets Kid Out Of Time Out

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 09:58:43 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

One can read this story and ask what's next? Will there be court orders to eat your vegetables? Or, perhaps, they'll assert the right not to clean one's room? Whatever the future holds, the present got just a little more bizarre up in Canada as a judge overturned a father's decision to not allow his child to go on a school field trip.

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Six Feet Underwater

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 04:05:35 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Canadian police are puzzled, the public fascinated and discoverers horrified as the latest in a series of grisly events has occurred in British Columbia (BC). Another severed foot was discovered on the banks of the Campbell River. This marked the sixth severed foot found washed up on shore in BC in the past year and the second time it's happened in a week.

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My Mind Reader Tells Me There's A Crime Going On.

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:20:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Some psychics claim they have the power to gather information they normally wouldn't have access to, see into the future and read your mind or transmit information by the power of thought. They even claim they can help police solve crimes. For most of us psychic powers seem either fantastic or weirdly interesting and amusing, yet ultimately harmless. But, according to Colleen Leduc of Barrie, Ontario her encounter with a psychic was anything but amusing.

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

MayorBob.

Posted to Business on Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 09:27:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

We've all heard of the phrase "giving of yourself for others." Stacey Fearnall is a person who lives by that credo. She believes in it so much the 36-year-old from Owen Sound, Ontario offered to shave her head in return for pledges to a local cancer charity. People pledged (CN)$2,700 and Stacey took the razor to her "long red locks." Then she showed up for work at Nathaniel's restaurant thinking she had done a good deed. If she was expecting to be congratulated for doing a bit for charity, she's disappointed. Stacey was told to leave work and not return for the rest of the summer.

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Harper Jeopardizes Nuclear Safety

shane.

Posted to Politics on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 10:04:49 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

On November 19, 2007 the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission discovered that the Chalk River nuclear reactor was in non-compliance of safety regulations.

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Banned in Canada

port1080.

Posted to Media on Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 02:37:25 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Canada's Border Services Agency recently released its list of examined and prohibited videos for the third quarter of 2007, and The Smoking Gun was there.

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Time To Sell Your Dollars?

thefadd.

Posted to Scoop on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 08:09:45 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

America's current precarious economic situation is well documented. The leanings of its federal government toward ever-expanding internationalist programs is also well documented. Enter the perfect storm: new currency.

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All Your Exchange Rate Are Belong To Us, Eh?

pO157.

Posted to Business on Sun Jun 17, 2007 at 08:39:13 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

Canada, once "America's Attic" and the place to go for ridiculously cheap merchandise due to the once favorable exchange rate is now poised to take the upper hand on its southern neighbor.

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Canadian Supreme Court Nixes Guantanamo North

1fastdog.

Posted to Legal on Wed Feb 28, 2007 at 08:04:11 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Canada's Supreme Court unanimously struck down the use of secret testimony to imprison and deport foreigners as possible terrorism suspects, ruling Friday that the procedures violate Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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