Feb 28, 2006
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice is holding off on a Liberal pledge of $5 billion saying there is more to it than simply cutting a cheque.
Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice says “overwhelming” groundwork must be laid before $5 billion promised for native people can be well spent.Until that’s achieved, survival of the landmark Kelowna accord [...]
Feb 28, 2006
Very interesting story from Investors.com of all places. Hint, hint - where are you mainstream media? Apparently Saddam Hussein had made tapes of conservations he had in his presidential office where he discussed such things as programs of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
Inconveniently for critics of the war, Saddam made tapes in his version of [...]
Feb 27, 2006
It looks like the EU is ready to cave in.
France and the European Commission are leading a diplomatic drive to unblock £23 million in EU funding for the Palestinian Authority, without waiting for Hamas to renounce violence or recognise Israel.
I wonder how much this has to do with the recent cartoon furor?
Feb 27, 2006
According to a report by CTVNews the Conservatives have no intention of changing their minds with respect to scrapping the bloated and ineffective gun registry.
Canada’s new minister of public safety says the government has no plans to back off on its intention to scrap the controversial long gun registry.”We’re not backing away at all,” Day [...]
Feb 26, 2006
Ever the hear the expression “government has no business being in business”? According to an auditor’s report the City of Winnipeg had lost about $50 million as of the end of 2004 due to poorly run city owned/operated ventures called SOAs or special operating agencies.
It isn’t just photo-radar that’s failing city taxpayers. A new investigation [...]
Feb 12, 2006
Iranian President and regime nutbar Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is demanding that the West remove Israel from the region or others will do it for us.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Palestinians and “other nations” will eventually remove Israel from the region.Addressing a mass demonstration in Tehran - one of many organized throughout Iran [...]
Feb 12, 2006
In the previous post I included a quote from one of the people involved in the anti-cartoon protest this weekend in Toronto and Montreal. He said that he wanted people to understand their values.
Here is another example of so-called values.
A leading imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist [...]
Feb 12, 2006
Developing story out of Australia alleges that nation’s wheat exporter was involved in a kickback scheme with Saddam Hussein.
THE nation’s peak intelligence agency had no inkling that Australia’s wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, John Howard said yesterday.As the Government faces a second week of defending attacks in parliament over the wheat-for-weapons [...]
Feb 12, 2006
Canadian Muslims engaged in a peaceful protest in both Montreal and Toronto over the weekend against the now infamous cartoons. While I congratulate those who attended for keeping it peaceful and avoiding the idiocy seen in other parts of the world I have to question the motives. Why do they not protest against the sick [...]