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The Liberal Party is “perfectly capable” of fighting an election even without a new leader in place if the need arises, Interim Leader Bill Graham insisted Tuesday.
the globe and mail
Given the current field of Liberal leadership hopefuls not actually having one has to be worth something.
Written by jay on April 5th, 2006 with no comments.
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Like Dinning, Manning also would attract money from plenty of corporate types looking to hedge their bets. Unlike Dinning, Manning would receive support from grassroots Albertans, who see Dinning as too fancy (think Paul Martin without the ships).
ezra levant, national post
It would be nice to see an actual conservative government in Alberta. But the fun part about this story is the last line of this graf.
Written by jay on April 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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What surprised the city planners was that what they considered major issues for the area: namely historical context and less density, were viewed differently by the community who welcomed higher densities as a way to bring enough people into the area to support the shops and services that were needed locally. The Woodward’s redevelopment will have one million square feet of building area, including over 500 market and 200 non-market residential units as well as office, retail and community non-profit space and Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Extra height on the 397-foot tower was traded to the developer in return for 31,000 square feet of non-profit space.
the tyee
A great article on the transformation of the semi-skid row along West Hasting Street in Vancouver.
“The community” in this case are, for the most part poor, often drug addited or alcoholic, people living in SROs, shelters and or the street. These are people who have been entirely left behing in Vancouver’s (in my view ill advised) rush to become a “world class” city. But this community has absorbed Jane Jacobs through its pores. Couldn’t miss it when they had to walk miles to buy reasonably fresh food or a razor.
The anti-density mantra of the NIMBY yuppies is often a code for keeping the sort of people who live near West Hastings out of their neighbourhoods. But for the sort of people who actually live near West Hastings, density is one of the few things which can help tranform their neighbour hood and with it their lives.
Written by jay on April 4th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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According to Africa’s food security early warning system, Zimbabwe will harvest only 600,000 tons of maize this season. The country consumes an annual average of 1.8m tons, leaving it the highest cereal deficit in southern Africa.Zimbabwe will also have to import 200,000 tons of wheat, 40,000 tons of sorghum and 6,000 tons of rice to avert widespread deaths related to starvation.
The government has no money to pay for this and Mugabe has consistently refused to appeal for food aid. To do so would mean admitting the failure of his land distribution programme. Some believe the WFP should stop plugging the gap as this has the side effect of sustaining the regime.
times of london
If ever there was a candidate for regime change it is Zimbabwe. Bad enough that Mugabe’s wacked African Marxist political land redistribution has virtually destroyed the country’s capacity to fed itself; now he is refusing food aid lest it underscores the idiocy of that policy.
A relatively small, well armed, group of soldiers with air support could go in, arrest Mugabe and his henchmen and let the food so desperately needed go to the people of Zimbabwe.
Does such a force need to be African? I don’t think so. It would be good to have African participation but eliminating gangsters who are killing the population of the nation they have somehow attained power in is an international responsibility.
The essential problem in Zimbabwe is an old lunatic who has long since ceased acting on behalf of the people his responsible for. It is time for Mugabe to go. By force if necessary and damned quickly.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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A man died Sunday after an explosion in the washroom of a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in downtown Toronto, police said.They did not immediately confirm reports, by radio station AM-640, that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast with explosives strapped to his body.
globe and mail
With luck there will be a direct connection between this guy and the Tims and no possibility of a terror link.
Written by jay on April 3rd, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Google Romance….today of all days.
Written by jay on April 2nd, 2006 with no comments.
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In his address to the nation on Friday, Mr Chirac said the bill would become law, but promised to make some changes.He pledged to shorten from two years to one the period in which youths under 26 could be fired - and said employers would need a reason for the dismissal.
bbc
So, you are a French employer thinking of trying out some new hires. You’d been promised the ability to let the duds go without cause for two years. Now you discover that the President of the Republic, noting a few million people in the streets, has trimmed a year off the window and now requires cause.
Hmmmm….
Think you are going to hire the noir from the ‘burbs. I think not.
France is pretty much screwed. A fact that its elites are not unaware of; but there is not the slightest chance they will actually do anything until and unless they are staring national bankruptcy in the face. That is likely a decade away. And, by then, it will be very late indeed.
Written by jay on April 1st, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Ralph Kinney Bennett writes about the evolution of the baseball glove at TechCentralDaily. Wonderful. Go read it.
Written by jay on April 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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