Isn’t this wonderful news?
OTTAWA (CP) - Minor tax changes in 2005 will save most Canadians perhaps enough money to toast the federal government with a small cappuccino each month.
After 7 straight budget surpluses, accomplished on the backs of working Canadians, it’s about bloody time we see some significant movement in the area of tax reduction. [...]

During the last federal election, the Conservative Party of Canada did quite well considering its standing prior to the election. That being said, they will never seize power from the ruling Liberals unless they make significant inroads into Ontario. Although the party accomplished much it wasn’t enough to crack the Liberal juggernaut.
Generally speaking eastern Canada [...]

An excellent piece from Honest Reporting.
When disaster strikes anywhere in the world, Israelis can be counted on to help. So it’s no surprise that within hours of the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the following humanitarian missions all departed from the tiny Jewish state:

The Israeli organization Latet (’To Give’) filled a jumbo jet with [...]

Hmmmm. Once again the UN finds itself at the center of controversy. Remember that shockingly stupid remark by U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland when he backhandedly charged the US with being stingy? In case you forgot, he said,
“If actually the foreign assistance of many countries now is 0.1 or 0.2 percent of their gross [...]

Explosions and gun battles in Riyadh resulted in the deaths of 9 terrorists and 1 bystander.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Islamic extremists set off bombs and battled with police in the Saudi capital Wednesday night, leaving nine militants and one bystander dead and causing oil prices to jump as the insurgents signaled they will keep [...]

Some of the aid agencies currently accepting donations to help the victims of the tsunamis.
Doctors Without Borders Mercy Corps
Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies
AmeriCares
CARE
UNICEF

UPDATE: An information blog has been created here at Blogger. It’s [...]

Is it true? Has Pakistan really declared war on Islamic extremism?

KARACHI - The silent tug of war being fought between the Pakistani army’s Islamists and its liberal army leadership appears to have reached a boiling point, with well-placed sources telling Asia Times Online that the army, for the first time in its history, has taken [...]

Interesting item about possible military incursions into Syria by US forces.
The US is contemplating incursions into Syrian territory in an attempt to kill or capture Iraqi Ba’athists who, it believes, are directing at least part of the attacks against US targets in Iraq, a senior administration official told The Jerusalem Post.

No doubt the bleeding hearts [...]

More scumbags bite the dust.
Israeli troops killed three Palestinian gunmen in Tulkarm and the deputy head of the Fatah Al-Aksa Martyrs’ Brigade in Jenin over the weekend, which was marked by sporadic mortar shelling of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip.Early Saturday, a joint-task force of the crack Egoz unit and Nahal troops slipped into [...]

Temporary PA Leader Mahmoud Abbas officially kicked off his presidential campaign by calling on Israel to end its occupation. Speaking from Ramallah, Abbas also made it clear Israel should free all political prisoners.

He said Israel’s planned withdrawal from Gaza should be part of a wider pull-out from all the territory it had occupied since the [...]