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Brault Brault Brault Your Boat…

Ahem. I will be posting a link to some very interesting off-site information at 11 pm Mountain Time this evening. Information which may or may not pertain to Jean Brault’s recent Gomery testimony and salacious rumours about the impending collapse of Canada’s Liberal government. I’d like to say more, but one does have to be ... Read More

They Just Don’t Understand

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Paul Celucci, George Bush and a bunch of other people just don’t understand why Canada wouldn’t want to participate in balistic missile defence. For all the folks who don’t get it, here’s a little anti-BMD primer. OK, so here’s the thinking. If you’re gonna decide whether BMD is a good idea or not here are ... Read More

Gay Rights vs Property Rights

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It’s things like this that cause me to regret supporting same sex marriage: A B.C. lesbian couple, who accuse a Catholic men’s group of discriminating against them by refusing to rent them a hall for their wedding reception, took their case to a human rights tribunal Monday. Deborah Chymyshyn and Tracey Smith rented a Knights ... Read More

Stay Home

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Finally, someone has spoken up about the rampant political opportunism surrounding the tsunami relief efforts in Asia. The U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, pointed out in his own diplomatic way that, as the water recedes, it is quickly being replaced by a flood of foreign dignitaries. As they drop by for a photo op and ... Read More

Will We Keep Caring?

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After almost two weeks of constant news coverage of the tsunami horrors in South Asia, some rather odd questions are being asked by media critics and other writers around the globe. Some wonder if news budgets would have been spent half as quickly, had the waves not obliterated areas frequented by tourists, such as Phuket ... Read More

He Blinked First

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Here’s a quick recap of where things stood yesterday afternoon: Ian Scott had posted a conjecture to his Web site that Warren Kinsella took exception to, and resulted in some legal unpleasantness between those individuals (still ongoing). [Update: now resolved ] I did some research into Ian’s post, and while I agree that the content ... Read More

A Question for Warren Kinsella

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Warren, in light of the umbrage you displayed over the post at Babbling Brooks which drew a legal response from you, I’m curious as to how you would defend your conduct towards David Janes, another Canadian blogger. To refresh your memory, here are your words again: “The Internet is full of red-necked, mouth-breathing rightist poltroons ... Read More

Publicly Owned Private Property

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Lawyers representing the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have just put the hammer down on a couple of bloggers who were only trying to help send some traffic to the CBC’s Web site. Bloggers Sarah and Leo assembled a RSS feed for the latest news items offered up on the CBC’s Web site. They were simply helping ... Read More

You Say Militant I say Po-tah-toe

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I took a good-natured heckling over comments I made in yesterday’s piece on Style Over Substance. It was noted that perhaps I completely overlooked that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is, in fact, a terrorist group, and should not be referred to as a mere militant organization. To which I responded “ah, but you have miss-interpreted ... Read More

Style Over Substance

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CBC reports that CanWest Global is in the hot-seat for altering the meaning of reports it obtains from other news agencies. They have evidently been peppering Middle-East news with the word ‘terrorist’ when describing mainly Arab groups. No kidding. As an example, Schlesinger cited a recent Reuters story, in which the original copy read: “…the ... Read More