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31

When Harper was Smarter

January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

The CBC reports,
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a “socialist scheme” designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.
The letter, posted on the federal Liberal party website, was apparently written by Harper in 2002, when he was leader of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance […]

Jan

31

Scramble the Jumping Sharks

January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Look for hysteria come Friday when the IPCC releases its next report. We’re all going to die…die I tell you.
Lorne Gunter poured a little ice water on the over heated rhetoric we can expect Friday.
The January issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, contains an article by scientists at the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, in Liverpool […]

Jan

29

Culture in Oz

January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“There was a time in the 1990s when I feared that multiculturalism was heading to a stage where the concept of Australia would cease to exist. So concerned were we about our ethnic or cultural backgrounds, we would forget what we were today and Australia would be seen less as a nation than as just […]

Jan

28

Civil War??

January 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The sounds of exploding grenades and automatic weapons fire echoed across Gaza City as gunbattles raged through the night, witnesses said. But there were no casualties reported in either the bomb blast or the fighting.

The clashes are the worst among Palestinians since the Islamist Hamas group rose to power a year ago, unseating President Mahmoud […]

Jan

21

Younger, Ethnic….Sigh

January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

CBC’s classical music station, Radio Two, is revamping its evening and late-night programming in a bid to attract younger listeners, the public broadcaster announced Wednesday.“Half of our audience on Radio Two now is over 65 . . . and we’re not attracting new listeners into the service,” said Jane Chalmers, vice-president of CBC Radio.
“We want […]

Jan

19

Cut and Run

January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Al Gore is traveling around the world telling us how we must fundamentally change our civilization due to the threat of global warming. Today he is in Denmark to disseminate this message. But if we are to embark on the costliest political project ever, maybe we should make sure it rests on solid ground. It […]

Jan

14

Those pesky staffers

January 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

He also had a casual chat with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach. While they discussed their recent surprise victories to become leader of their parties, Mr. Stelmach’s staff wouldn’t allow the Progressive Conservative Premier to pose for photos with the federal Liberal Leader. globe and mail
I always love stories where “staff” tell Premiers of provinces what […]

Jan

9

Crappy Reporting

January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Minister links weird weather to global warming” vancouver sun
Hmmm. I thought. That was rather silly given the el Nino event which is almost certainly a) causing the weird weather, b) definitely not caused by global warming.
So I read the story from the Vancouver Sun. Not one quote from John Baird linking global warming and the […]

Jan

9

January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“I think the preponderance of the evidence on [climate change] is clear, that it’s a real long-term challenge, but what I’ve said is it can’t be fixed overnight. This country is headed to be 50 per cent above its Kyoto target in 2012,” Stephen Harper said on CTV’s Question Period. “We can’t tell the Canadian […]

Jan

8

The Last Hurrah

January 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Imagine that you are, more or less, running the CBC. Your ratings (minus HNIC) are in the toilet, the wrong party is in government, the looming threat of privatization is hanging over you. What would you do?
Apparently you’d make a television show about Muslims on the Prairies.
Go out with a bang as it were.
Could be […]

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