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    GST cut to go ahead, income tax cuts will be reversed

    ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Say goodbye to Liberal income tax cuts and hello instead to a Conservative GST reduction, to be introduced in the upcoming federal budget, Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Wednesday. The minority Conservative government intends to stick to its own tax-reduction...
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    Other Premiers Blast Ontario Premier

    MONTREAL (CP) - Dalton McGuinty came under fire Wednesday from his fellow premiers after asserting that Ontario can't afford to give more money to poor provinces. The Ontario premier did not attend the second day of meetings with his colleagues but he left some ruffled feathers in his wake...
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    Quebec-Ontario Special Relationship

    Now I have been watching BQ members in the house of commons and they usually mention Ontario and Quebec in their comments and then at a second glance say the rest of Canada. So does Quebec and Ontario have a different relationship compared to the rest of Canada. A special relationship. What do...
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    Kidnapped man rescued: 8 people arrested

    VANCOUVER (CP) - A millionaire's son snatched a week ago at gunpoint and held for nearly a week as his terrified parents pleaded with his kidnappers was rescued Wednesday in raids on 14 houses by armed police officers. A shaken Graham McMynn, who had been confined during his captivity, was...
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    Liberals and NDP Tied for Support

    Environics March 31, 2006 Conservative 41 Liberal 22 NDP 21 Bloc 10 Green 5 Alright. A Conservative failure and it will be the NDP will be in control. They should do a poll after the debate to see which party was effected.
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    Lighter Note: Who would you want to date from Hollywood

    So on a lighter note instead of my usual dreary look on life as socialism battles the fanaticalism of every form of right-wing mumbo jumbo. I want to ask people. Now from hollywood, there are extremely hot looking ladies and men, doesn't mean they are intelligent, but hot. So if you had a...
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    Bob Marley: Good Musician or Drug addict?

    Was Bob Marley a good musician, a good reggie player or just a criminal who smoked weed. Me personally. I love Bob Marley and think he is one of the best reggie players in the world. And Lakia, I have not. Sorry.
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    American Business interests Killed Ken Saro Wiwa

    Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer and environmental activist. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Intitially...
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    Shell Oil Destabilizes Ogoni people

    Ogoni: MOSOP Decries Further Destabilizing Plot by Shell The Ogoni were admitted into UNPO on 19 January 1993, by the Membership of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP). The first president of MOSOP was the well-known Nigerian writer and poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was brutally...
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    Venezuela marks anniversary of 'US backed'? coup

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela unveiled a monument Tuesday to people killed in clashes leading up to a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez — a short-lived revolt that he insists had U.S. backing and that underlies his increasingly hostile relations with Washington. ADVERTISEMENT The U.S...
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    Israel: Foreigners taking over a terrority

    First off the Balfour Declaration of 1917 would create a Jewish HOMELAND which doesn't mean anything like a state, and even if it means state the Zionist Federation was suppose to accept other 'peoples' religious and political aspects. Which mean respect the Palestinian people. Which has never...
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    Israel shells populated areas: most definetly a crime somewh

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w041117A.xml Another murder by IDF forces. I am sure it is some kind of crime to shell an area with high civilian population. I believe they should be charged for war crimes.
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    Canadian Soldiers: Common debate important

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/WorldNewsArticle.htm?src=w041155A.xml So in the end the Commons debate is useful, has had no ill effect on Canadian troops, and to them was extremely important to them and the Canadian military which I am apart of. So, everyone elses response to it isn't...
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    Should we be remorseful for dead bikers

    Should we be remorseful for the dead bikers? I think so, they were human beings, they had families, and we don't know if they committed a crime in their lives, and its a sad story even if they are a biker or not, what makes a difference?
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    Hillier speech about the need for money

    http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n041155A.xml Now I hope, and this is a big hope that the Conservatives come through with more money for the military. That's the only thing they are good for, the military, I don't think they have any other use because they are...
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    So why are conservative people afraid of debate

    Now I hear the Conservative members of this forum as well as around Canada complaining about why we had a democratic debate in the first place about Afghanistan. Now I am glad that the NDP had this debate on Afghanistan, and I am not truly concerned as a Canadian soldier if two MPs from the...
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    U.S will blame U.N for failure in Sudan

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Efforts to stop atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are unraveling, with a new peacekeeping force uncertain, relief aid under attack and U.N. sanctions stymied, U.N. officials and analysts say. ADVERTISEMENT "The situation is spiraling downward on the ground and...
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    Saddam Hussein Lawyers at disadvantage

    AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein's lawyers are denied the same rights and resources as the prosecutors in his trial, a U.S.-based legal adviser to the deposed Iraqi leader said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Curtis Doebbler said Saddam's legal team is at a disadvantage compared with the...
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    I am beginning to like Chavez

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. ambassador was "provoking the Venezuelan people" and threatened Sunday to expel the American diplomat, whose convoy was chased by pro-government protesters on motorcycles. ADVERTISEMENT Chavez condemned the crowd of...
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    Becoming a Writer: Its hard damn it

    Well not only am I a Canadian soldier, since my sister keeps saying that she is a better story writer than I, even though she has never completed one of them except the one that we completed together 8 years ago called Short Stories and Poems that appears in the National Library of Canada. So I...