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Yahoo! News Canada - Latest News & Headlines Looks like Richmond's taking its cue from Quebec?

Non-alcoholic beers taste terrible. Ginger beer is not bad though, and a particular malt beverage called Tiger is good too.

Yahoo! News Canada - Latest News & Headlines Just try not to laugh or roll your eyes. Looks like this is serious business! :)

If China's keeping its currency artificially low for so long, it had better be prepared for when it blows up in its face. Japan tried that for as long as it could until it could keep the value down no longer in the 90's. Once the value started rising strong, Japan ended up in recession for many...

Canada's is at a distinct disadvantge here with a small population having to fund a geographically massive transportation infrastructure. Comparing Canada to a country with a much higher population density is like comparing apples and oranges. Also, infrastructure aside, a carbon tax also...

A gas tax is not so bad; it can always be compensated for by a reduction in personal income taxes. It might hurt their distant export and import markets, but could benefit their neighbouring import and export markets.

Yahoo! News Canada - Latest News & Headlines Did he not know the NDP was a federalist party going in? Now don't get me wrong. As far as I'm concerned, he as an individual has a right of association and as such is certainly free to join the party of his choice or no party at all. However, his...

Some religious schools are opposing anti-bullying laws in Ontario and Manitoba because they'd also allow for the establishment of gay-straight alliances. Strictly speaking though, such an alliance is merely promoting respect for gay people and says nothing of whether they're practicing gays or...

Did the ox think it was 'to die for'? ;) Just askin'.

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Finally. Sorry about the screw up in the thread title: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/30/pol-cp-truth-reconciliation-commission-documents.html Ottawa ordered to provide all residential schools documents The sad part is that getting the truth of of the government is like...

I'm happy the government is finally starting to deal with the problem of First Nations having access economic justice. However, unless we find a stable source of revenue for this extra funding, we'll be right back at square twenty years from now when some future government has to cut funding to...

Republicans do some soul-searching after Romney loss - World - CBC News This might be a good thing. Should republicans go back to the old Burkian roots of liberal conservatism rather than the neo-conservatism of recent years, they might be able to give the Democrats a run for their money.

Imagine some kind of agreement where the NDP would campaing on raising taxes and not on spending increases, spending increases being conditional on affordability; and the Conservative Party campaigning on reducing spending, with reducing taxes being conditional on affordability. In most...

NDP backtracks on Iran comment | Canada | News | Toronto Sun I find the title of the article misleading, since Mulcair is not Dewar. They were each expressing their ideas. Honestly, the fact that an MP can comment without approval from the party leader and without having to agree with him is a...

Beijing court finds boyfriend guilty of student's murder in B.C. - Yahoo! News Canada In practircal terms, it's not such a big dea; besides, it saves the Canadian taxpayer money. Symbolically though, is this not a violation of Canadian sovereignty? I thought jurisdiction over a crime...

Marois and Harper: Frenemies with benefits? - Politics - CBC News Seems like a match made in heaven. Harper is very much in favour of decentralization, as is Marois, even if for different reasons. As for the languages commissioner, both Harper and marois are probably on the same page their...

Did intelligence fears prompt Canada to cut Iran ties? - World - CBC News Interesting. Could it be the government closed the embassy to protect the safety of Iranian-Canadians in Canada? Maybe, and that might be a valid reason. If so though, why not just say so?

Canada's trade deficit grows to largest level ever - Business - CBC News Bearing in mind that it's not clear if this "largest level ever" deficit takes real dollar value into account, while an extreme deficit might be risky, a moderate one might help to bring the value of the dollar down in...

BBC News - Why is Europe avoiding the F-word? I like the way the article puts European Federalism in historical perspective. I was not even aware that government debt contributed to the federation of the United States, and that crisis also contributed to the union of England and Scotland. iT...