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Don Martin: Parliament flips the flipper at Europe
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It's not easy to stump a parliamentary dining room waiter, but the query was a first and he drew a blank. When eating seal meat, red or white?Red wine, he advised with some hesitation. It's an animal. White, we figured. It comes from the sea.Armed with a swallow of Chardonnay and the bottle on standby in case it unleashed a nasty aftertaste, Newfoundland MP Gerry Byrne joined me for seal
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Mayor David Miller budgets by surprise: Editorial
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Someday, Toronto Council will budget like a fiscally responsible adult.
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Hugh MacIntyre: Ron Paul's imaginary world of NAFTA
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Ron Paul is an openly libertarian politician who supports the conceptof free trade. Yet he has been on the record as being against NAFTA. Today’s National Post reports that Ron Paul is part of a movement in Congress to take the United States out of NAFTA.CongressmanPaul is allied with protectionists but he is not a protectionist. Heexplains his position in this old interview with Lou Dobbs:There
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Kevin Libin: Sarah Palin knows her Canadian health care history. Do we?
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Sarah Palin and the American media have a symbiotic relationship. Like a clownfish and sea anemone: the more the media attack her, the easier to cast herself as a victimized proxy for the everyman; the more Palin plays up the part, the more fun reporters have with her antics. The media thinks Palin’s the clownier one; she thinks it’s them. At a Calgary speech on Saturday, she repeatedly mocked th
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Adrian MacNair: If at first you don't succeed, launch a human rights suit
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The same woman who was banned from an “integration” classfunded by the Quebec government for refusing to remove her Niqab, has been removed from another class for the same reason.The immigrant from Egypt is launching a “human rights” complaintafter provincial Immigration Department officials expelled her lastfall from a government-sponsored language course after she refused to take off her niqab.
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Detroit's amber waves of grain
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Some of the most innovative thinking in urban planning is going on in Detroit.Weird, but innovative.A while back, Tasha Kheiriddin wrote about rhe Detroit mayor's plan to forcibly relocate parts of the crumbling city's dwindling population, huddling them together in greater densities for the sake of efficiency. Why spend good money sending garbage trucks out to neighbourhoods that h
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David Akin: Toews blasts Jaffer coverage
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Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who isalso the senior minister for Manitoba, is unhappy with reportage on theJaffer case done by Winnipeg Free Press Ottawa bureau chief Mia Rabson and me. The following is a "letter to the editor"-type of response Toews is circulating widely to supporters and others: " Never let the truth get in the way of a good story” - William Randolph
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