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Now, for a whole year we did not have hockey. Unless you count the minor league teams who sometimes were more exciting than the pros. However, I thought one of the reasons why the lockout took place was to keep all the teams together, and to have the smaller market teams be as competitive as the...

Liberals issue 77 press releases in “Year of the Veteran,” but refuse to treat disabled veterans fairly WINNIPEG – MP Bill Blaikie today called on the Liberal government to abandon plans to appeal a court decision awarding disabled war veterans and their families the unpaid interest from their...

Canadians Pay Less Tax as of January 1! December 31, 2005 Effective January 1, 2006, Canadians will keep more of the money they earn thanks to Liberal tax cuts. This year, every Canadian will be able to earn $8,848 before paying any federal tax. This is an increase from $8600 in 2005 and...

One dead Indian, is a movie regarding the tragedy at Ipperwash, a lands claim agreement that went bad in Ontario resulting in the death of Dudley George in 1995. The movie is on CTV if anyone wants to watch. And comment on it, I hope to watch it, it seems extremely interesting. Ipperwash...

HAVANA - Fidel Castro and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales say cooperation between their countries will bloom despite U.S. worries about more nations allying with communist Cuba and a growing leftward tilt in Latin American politics. The two men late Friday announced a 30-month plan to...

Man bites dog? No - woman marries dolphin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 15:08 on December 31, 2005, EST. JERUSALEM (AP) - Sharon Tendler met Cindy 15 years ago. She said it was love at first sight. This week she finally took the plunge...

So the Liberal now have 32%, Cons 30% and the NDP 18%. So it is tied just like before, but now in Ontario; Lib 40% Cons 36%

Now June 9th, 1975 holds significance with my family because my father, was also a peace officer/classifications officer at the prison in 1975 and was actually Steinhauser's 'partner' if you could say, they worked together on many incidents. About a month before the incident took place, a...

http://start.shaw.ca/start/enCA/News/NationalNewsArticle.htm?src=n123104A.xml Now, I think the Creba's murder is horrible, and a young girl lost her life, over some stupid incident involving two different groups of people who had met 'accidently' at that area, resulting in a gun battle...

Well, now the NATO mission in Afghanistan is not peacekeeping, or at least not peacekeeping in the 'perceived' sense of the word. Now, before anyone states that, oh I must hate the Canadians doing wonderful work in Afghanistan, I don't, I am apart of the Canadian military but I think people...

Canadian army still relying on local hires in dangerous hotspots -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 13:24 on December 30, 2005, EST. By MURRAY BREWSTER OTTAWA (CP) - As Canadian troops prepare to head back en masse to Afghanistan in the weeks...

The UN peacekeepers are leaving Sierre Leone after six years in that troubled nation. They lost 150 soldiers who died while protecting civilians and fulfilling their mandate. When they first arrived, the government was none existent, and rebels chopped off the hands of civilians and killed...

Now, in Iraq, and around the world there has been 'this war on terrorism'. Now, terrorism has been going on for decades, you could even say centuries if you look at the tactics used by belligerants over the wars. Since Sept 11, 2001, there have been numerous terrorist attacks, like Beslam...

Wanting to become a UN peacekeeper or UNICEF worker, I finally got a course from the UN in New York. I didn't know this until a few months ago but, you can get a diploma if you complete 12 UN courses. And they are pretty cheap, about 100 U.S. at the most and can get to Vancouver Island in a...

Now, even though I was barely 10 or 11 when Tupac Shakur was shot and killed and I was living in an isolated place in Alberta, I have grown up in the past five years having Tupac Shakur as my ideal. Not the violence part which was apart of his videos and songs (which) which was fake talk, but...

Layton slams Liberals for racist taunts against his wife, an NDP candidate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- at 20:31 on December 29, 2005, EST. By KEITH LESLIE TORONTO (CP) - A Liberal party official's posting of "racist" comments on a...

I found this on another forum about comments made by Stephen Harpers comments with regards to what I preceive is the NDP and the Liberals or all left-leaning Canadians? Make your own decision on that http://nodice.ca/etalk/viewtopic.php?p=6891#6891 Credit to bold comments goes to mileslunn...

Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051227.wharparm1227/BNStory/specialDecision2006/ Courtenay, B.C. — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says major cities across the country should be given a regular army presence by creating territorial defence units to help...

The First Peoples National Party of Canada (FPNPC) is a political party that is eligible for registration as a federal political party in Canada. It intends to advance the issues of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada by nominating candidates for election in electoral districts with large...

Now money might have been blown on the Gun Registry and other programs that neo-conservative gun lovers love to hate but even with 52 gun-murders this year in Toronto in 2004, because of legislation there was: When contrasted against a decade's worth of statistics on gun murders nationwide...