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Gilles Duceppe has cushiest position of all the leadership candidates – oh to be in his shoes with only a single province to worry about and a steady flow of federal funds till the day he dies or leaves politics. It can’t be that hard to get the required number of voters to keep his party in...

Grits are out to lunch on corporate tax cuts. "The Grits have argued that the Conservative plan to reduce the corporate tax rate to 15% from 18% is “not needed” and the money should be used to pay down the deficit and on other priorities. In effect, Mr. Ignatieff had no money to spend on his...

Team Canada: Right to left - Amber Holland, Kim Schneider, Tammy Schneider and Heather Kalenchuk Team Canada beat Team China in the semi-final of Capitol One's World Women's Curling Championship in Esbjerg, Denmark today. They will advance to the Gold Medal game against Sweden on Sunday...

The more than able rink of Amber Holland from Saskatchewan did what no other team from the province has managed to do since 1997 and that is win the Scotties Tournament of Hearts thus dethroning the former Team Canada rink of Jennifer Jones. Sask was superb during the tournery winning everyone...

Andy Fantuz signed a contract with the Chicago Bears ending speculation about his move from the CFL to the NFL. Andy was the CFL's outstanding Canadian and top receiver in 2010. Andy entered free agent status at the end of the regular season in 2010. He tried out with several teams in the NFL...

The town of Wallaceburg, Ontario is dressing up big time for the XLV Super Bowl on Sunday. Their hometown boy Shaun Suisham is the field goal kicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He already holds the NFL title as the only kicker to complete four goals of 40 yards or more in a single game - which...

Fans of figure skating, of which I am one, were treated to the performance of a lifetime on Sunday night. Patrick Chan was sublime. He was magic on ice. Media types quickly ran out of superlatives to describe his stunning performance. I am sure that every person in the stands and everyone...

Fox News and the poisoning of American political debate John Doyle | Columnist profile | E-mail From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 12:00AM EST Last updated Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 12:51PM EST John Doyle: Television For some time now, the very core of the U.S...

I managed to hold it together through most of Sgt Ryan Russell’s funeral today until that is a very poignant and most fitting rendition of ‘You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings.’ If ever a song was more fitting I don’t know what it would be – the tears that fog my sight as I write this are my...

Canada made it by the Russians today with a score of 6 - 3. Our guys meet the Czechs tomorrow. In spite of all the talk about the team not being as good as the 2009/10 team, I thought our young men played a good game. They had almost double the shots on goal compared to the Russians. They showed...

For anyone interested in surviving a nuclear blast, the US government has kindly made a PDF – 2.7mb – available for all those DYIers out there. “In June, the administration released to emergency officials around the nation an unclassified planning guide 130 pages long on how to respond to a...

Skidmore Journal Town Mute for 30 Years About a Bully’s Killing http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/science/16terror.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2 I will be interested in reading any comments that this story might prompt.

Group of Sask. women walk away with double their asking price on Dragons' Den In true Saskatchewan style, a group of ladies from the tiny town of Foam Lake went to the Dragon's for help in marketing their cookbooks. They even managed to get that famous scrooge Kevin O'Leary on board. What...

My congratulations to the Red and Gold of Laval for their fabulous win over the Calgay Dinos to become the 2010 Vanier Cup winners. Well played, well fought game by the Rouge et Or and they should all be most proud of their team. I sure hope some of these young men stick around to try out for...

Thought I would start this thread as I can continue to post under it rather than have a new thread for each game. Don't mean to ruffle feathers or upset anyone but football is my passion and I do post a lot about it so one thread makes sense to me. Hope the mods don't mind me starting another...

Okay, I admit it, I am a fan. Watching the show sometimes takes me back to the days of Ed Sullivan. I enjoy the variety of acts and discovering new talent. My favs so far are The Architects - absolutley amazing act wherein one of the group manipulates an electrical current in time to the...

Thought I would start this thread for anyone who wanted to comment on this series. Game One in Philidelphia - the City of Brotherly Love. The talking heads on TSN have called for a Blackhawk vs Flyers final. It would be so sweet to see them proved wrong, most especially in the case of the...

With only 29.7 seconds left in the game, the Canadiens almost had me believing they would tie the game. That is how well they played tonight. They never gave up. Their energy level just seemed to keep rising during the game. In the third period they almost seemed to explode across the ice at...

Yet another legacy of Monsanto is now being seen across the US. Round-Up ready Monsanto seeds and subsequent use of Round-Up (also known as glyhosate) has now spawned a host of super weeds that are forcing farmers to use even stronger herbicides. So far Quebec, Ontario, and BC have reported a...

Opening hours of parliament and I can already see that our parliamentarians have learned nothing from the spirit of the Olympics. Oops, have to take that back as all the members of the House just stood and sang O Canada while the torch was carried in by one of our para-olympic athletes - good on...