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    Stephen Fry in America

    I am really enjoying this series on HDNet as Fry travels to all 50 States in an English Cab. The third episode has him in Montana visting the Homeland Security Agency Border Patrol. They make a big deal out of the ability to respond within eight minutes to an intrusion of the 49th. Fry then goes...
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    100 Years of Powered Flight in Canada

    A number of events are planned this weekend in Baddeck to commemorate this event. Flight of the Silver Dart - Centennial Celebration Baddeck 2009 The Hawk 1 project is another project celebrating this year with the snowbirds, this is a schedule of the Hawk 1 apearances this year: Hawk One -...
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    Canada rated world's soundest bank system

    4 hours ago - Reuters By Rob Taylor CANBERRA (Reuters) - Canada has the world's soundest banking system, closely followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Australia, a survey by the World Economic Forum has found as financial crisis and bank failures shake world markets. But Britain, which once ranked...
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    Describing a Canadian

    And its not " an unarmed American with health insurance." Once in a while someone does a nice job of describing a Canadian, In case anyone asks you who a Canadian is . . A Canadian can be English, or French, Quebecois , or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A...
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    What its like in Afghanistan

    This posting from a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan is just a sampling of what our guys are facing. This you don't see on CTV or CBC. They are giving it 110% the link to the video is below. From one who is there: "-if you've seen the video, look at about the 16 second point and you'll see my...