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The NDP released their Kyoto plan yesterday. Lots of good stuff in there. Check it out. http://douglas.ndp.ca/kyoto/en/index.php

I was listening to the radio yesterday and some intrepid reporter went out in weather that was -3 with the windchill to ask his fellow British Columbians to keep warm. I'm not sure how he managed to find such stupid people, but he did. Anyway, I was thinking it was lucky that it wasn't really...

Ricky, you were asking about Canadian versus American accents somewhere on here. I can't find the thread now, but it doesn't matter. There was a pretty cool show on PBS on Thursday night/Friday morning called Do You Speak American or something like that. It was a three part series, but they...

And by good evening I mean happy damned 2:13 a.m.. I'll mean happy 4:13 a.m. when that rolls around and about 7:13 a.m. I'll feed the dogs. Why not? It's not like I'll be asleep. You know how to tell when you have insomnia? You can listen to the Cowboy Junkies while drinking beer for two...

http://www.rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=35982 Scott Piatkowski (an excellent writer btw) wants to give sixteen year olds the right to vote. I agree with him. The kids aren't any stupider than us adults, and they are going to have to live with the effects of today's policies for far...

I lost the software to the scanner a while back. I think it might have been with some books we gave to the truck guys. I'm not really sure though...this office is pretty scary. Anyway, the software needed to reinstalled so I went to the HP website and found it and clicked "download". It took...

Mel Hurtig spoke to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on December 8. Here's his testimony. http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/2004121514275848

The corporate flunkies at CD are at it again. Fortunately we have people like Linda McQuaig to put into words how these people are eating away at the fabric of our nation. http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20041213194915157

They indicted Pinochet. I wonder if Kissinger is getting nervous about what might come out in court? http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/12/13/chile9840.htm

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20041210160858661 That will take you to an interview with David Orchard, conservative black sheep and Canadian sovereigntist. If you want to support a true Canadian conservative, Orchard would be the man to back.

Our Privacy Commissioner is promising to act against a US company that mines data on Canadians. A spokesman for the company said, "[T]he company's clients include Canadian government agencies, but declined to name them," according to the article. So the Privacy Comminsioner is trying to shut...

The Red Cross keeps condemning Bush for torturing people. Bush keeps doing it. Eric Margolis compares it to goings-on in the former USSR. http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/04/765847.html

It took a while, but the Saskatchewan finally repaired the economic damage done by the Progressive Conservative Devine government of the 1980's and the province is now a have province. The status is dependent on oil prices at this time, but if wheat prices improve and the BSE crisis is solved...

An interesting opinion column from the NYT The whole article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/opinion/20sat1.html?oref=login&th but you'll need a free subscription.

At the risk of drawing the ire of apologists for the Bush regime and those who do not have faith Canada's ability to stand on its own two feet...."Way to go Carolyn, I hope you get re-elected." While the right cringes every time Ms. Parrish speaks, and Paul Martin was so mad that he fired her...

The movement to impeach George Bush is picking up steam. Check it out http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4238

I learn a lot of things watching TV. Very few of them are useful to me, and others I already knew, but here are some of them: If you want to burn a body in a dumpster full of paper, you need at least five gallons of gasoline to destroy all genetic evidence. If you are going to kill somebody...

This just showed up in my mailbox from Human Rights Watch: Just exactly what the hell was Bush doing? I understand that all he cared about was the oil, but is he so arrogant that he didn't even bother to try to make his plethora of excuses seem feasible? I guess he is.

I just checked to make sure I had everything I need for watching the election. Here's the list. 1-pouch Borkum Riff pipe tobacco 1-freshly cleaned Falcon pipe 3-disposable lighters 4-packages Marlboro Red Packs (yeah, yeah...I'll quit again tomorrow) 4-mini kegs of wheat beer 1-box of CO2...

England has just joined France, Nigeria, and the United States in an investigation into bribery and corruption in Halliburton when Dick Cheney was CEO.