Posted in May 12th, 2008
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End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
End Impunity in the Gambia- Editor MBai Presents Scary And Disturbing Piece To The Ghana Based Africa Legal Aid NGO!!!
The impoverished nation of The Gambia, is currently witnessing untold human rights, social and political crisis. Faced […]
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Posted in May 11th, 2008
The ever so popular CCTV cameras have become really popular in stores to help catch thieves and prevent crime. Even the great Tim Hortons, known for its coffee and doughnuts uses them.
Apparently their cameras caught on camera a thief. Someone in their store committed a crime. It was one of their employees at that and […]
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Posted in May 5th, 2008
When menopause hits you will no longer joke about how Krispy Kreme doughnuts go straight to your hips. That’s because they won’t. You’ll be storing fat like a man. Your body will have lost the estrogen supply it needs to direct fat to your hips and buttocks, and will instead store it in your midsection. […]
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Posted in May 3rd, 2008
A Calgary family is mourning the loss of their baby that may be the fault of using an internet telephone service.
Sandra Luck says it was due to a VOIP 911 call that went unanswered. She watched her 18 month old nephew, Elija fight for his life while they waited for emergency help to arrive. She […]
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Posted in April 28th, 2008
This is the rather grim message being put out by British Columbia’s Building Trades Union. Most of us think of BC as the home of aging hippies with creative grow op’s. And the few aging hippies that don’t do Marijuana are out hunting mushrooms, some legal, expensive, and delicious, some illegal, foul tasting, and hallucinogenic.
t […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
Can’t people think of a color other than blue for a scarf? I thought the Blue Scarves were conservatives who meet at the Vancouver Public Library on Thursday evenings to discuss the threat to modernity by Islamo-fascism. But now people on the political Left are wearing blue scarves too, as they stand on Vancouver street […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
This was the message that Alberta premier Ed Stelmach faced last night at a fund raising dinner in Edmonton last night. Just as Ed ‘Big Oil’ Stelmach was preparing to give a rousing ‘Why Greenpeace is wrong’ speech, two Greenpeace activists dropped down from the false ceiling and unfurled a banner reading Ed Stelmach, the […]
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Posted in April 24th, 2008
According to a representative for American Idol, Jordin Sparks had to temporarily withdraw from Alicia Keys’ tour and cancel all performances for the remainder of the month.
“All of her April activities have been postponed or canceled so she can take care of her voice properly,” 19/Jive Records spokeswoman Wendy Washington told The Associated Press.
The 18-year-old […]
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Posted in April 22nd, 2008
The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up. And today groups fighting gentrification in Vancouver in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics fought back.
The Carnegie Community Action Project and other groups in the Citywide Housing Coaltion held a rally to express outrage that the City had evaded the legally required consultation process for a 7 story […]
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Posted in April 16th, 2008
Should a painter be allowed to decide what he or she paints? Should a musician be allowed to decide what music to play or write? Should a photographer be allowed to decide what pictures to take?
In New Mexico, the answer to that last question is a resounding, “No.”
The New Mexico Human Rights Commission ruled […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2008
The subject of Net Neutrality seems to be reaching a head here in Canada. And the driving force behind it, is not consumers, or ‘think tanks’ but rather ISP’s themselves. The internet is not a level playing field, but rather a type of grand MLM scheme. Most ISP’s in Canada are small fish serving from […]
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Posted in April 9th, 2008
Colin Hansen is rewarding sexual harassment. That’s how a resident of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside views a visit by BC’s Minister of Economic Development a week and a half ago to deliver $13.3 million in cheques to the Simon Fraser University Center for the Contemporary Arts. The cheques delivered on March 28th are part of a […]
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Posted in April 7th, 2008
At a meeting at Carnegie Center on Vancouver’s low income Downtown Eastside on Thursday evening, Chair Margaret Prevost told Rachel Davis to “Shut up”. For many members present that about summed up what was behind this Special meeting to change Carnegie’s constitution: silencing Rachel Davis.
Davis and two others elected to the Board, William “Bill” Simpson […]
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Posted in April 6th, 2008
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Assalamualaikum, Islamic Greetings of Peace
Peace Tv is a household name not only in Pakistan but also entire Muslim world.because it has presented a convincing picture of Islam through wise talks, debates and dialogues.
Infact Ijaz ul Haq, son of late Zia ul Haq, a minister in Musharaf’s government is a big fan of Dr. Zakir Naik. […]
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Posted in April 3rd, 2008
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Two years ago, Atlantic City, NJ lost its only Supermarket. IGA closed its doors in April 2006 forcing residents and tourists to shop at small markets or outside of the ocean resort.
Since the closing, attempts have been made to convince others to replace IGA, but no new supermarket has yet to open.
In late December […]
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Posted in April 2nd, 2008
It may be true that you can’t fight City Hall. But if you hire a lawyer you might at least break through stonewalling by Vancouver City Hall Community Services General Manager, Jacquie Forbes-Roberts, and her in-house lawyer David Hill, both of whom have been thumbing their noses at the rule of law.
Carnegie Board member Rachel Davis forked […]
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Posted in April 1st, 2008
While the fact that the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) computers were exposed to badware because an employee was doing some “unauthorized surfing” makes good press — it highlights what can happen to any business, or government system when human beings use them to go to the murkier waters of the Internet.
Trust me, the RCMP […]
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Posted in March 25th, 2008
Obviously $200,000 of damage due to a grass fire, is not a laughing matter. And that was the case in Calgary last weekend. A grass fire in the Springbank area (just outside Calgary, Alberta) scorched more than a kilometer of tinder dry grassland and destroyed some barns, vehicles, and just about everything else. A number […]
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Posted in March 20th, 2008
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A construction worker in the movie industry killed himself at one of Mel Gibson’s homes in the Agoura Hills, near Malibu.
48-year-old, Michael John Van Dyke, hanged himself on one of the structures under construction on Gibson’s property.
His body was discovered early yesterday morning by the job site foreman. According to TMZ, Mel’s rep says the […]
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Posted in March 19th, 2008
Queens University in Kingston Ontario is running ads on Vancouver radio asking, “Did you know you can now earn a Queens MBA while living in Vancouver?” Queens is running these ads right under the nose of Simon Fraser University’s new Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver. In this environment of intense competition for Masters of Business Administration students, Simon […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2008
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This article is a second release of this musing. It was published last June, but should have another revisit by Catholic readers. In light of the recently listed “sins” that include those against the environment. HJMN
There are always ways that the Catholic Church can join in the environmental movement in small but yet effective ways. […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2008
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A legal opinion issued Thursday in Connecticut may allow lawmakers to extend a state smoking ban to the American-Indian casinos, which claim that smoking restrictions would be a threat to tribal sovereignty.
Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have debated this week to make casinos completely smoke-free or limit smoking to 25 percent of the gaming floor which is […]
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Posted in March 4th, 2008
The electoral process in Canada does not get the coverage that the US elections do. And yesterday was the big Provincial election here in Alberta. Up for grabs were the ‘premiership’, mayors, and members of the ’seat of power’ in Edmonton.
I think it is possible to summarize the entire event as ‘a huge yawner’. Alberta […]
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Posted in March 4th, 2008
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Senator Clinton was civil until she started losing. Obama is answering her, charge by charge. This is not going to be enough. The Clintons have a veritable Kitchen Sink Factory to create weapons to hurl at their opponents. But Hillary’s own tub is full of dirty bathwater. Maybe it’s time for Obama to throw the […]
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Posted in March 3rd, 2008
In what could be the first chink in the otherwise impenetrable armor of Barack Obama, a memo obtained by the Clinton campaign proves that Obama’s senior economic adviser did tell Canada that Obama’s rhetoric on NAFTA was only “political positioning” and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
The memo is the first documentation to emerge publicly out of […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Greg Felton says he doesn’t hate Jews. But at the Vancouver Public Library Monday night, City Librarian Paul Whitney went into damage control mode over the decision to feature Felton and his book, “The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America”, during Freedom to Read Week. Whitney explained that the library “must stand […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2008
An Agreement was recently signed by the US and Canadian Armed Forces
It allows for the movement of both armies across the border for domestic disputes
No Okay from Congress for the Move
It wasn’t announced by the Canadian Government and Received little Press coverage
What is Presidential Directive 51
U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of USNORTHCOM, signs […]
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Posted in February 24th, 2008
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From Churchill’s Parrot blog
“Our loyal, brave people… should know the truth. They should know that there has been a gross neglect and deficiency in our defences… This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of the bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year, unless by a supreme recovery of moral […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
Quebec Canada is more well known for its francophone attitude of ’screw you’ if you don’t speak French than it’s ability to hack computers. Every few years Quebec holds a referendum to remove itself from Canadian rule, the only thing that prevents it from passing is that they don’t let the rest of Canada vote […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2008
After more than 15 years of direct access to NHL dressing rooms, this is my truth: regardless of how well you know a player, a staff member, fellow media, there is one underlying fact. When something serious happens, we are one fraternity.
You don’t have to know a person well. Sometimes, you may have barely encountered […]
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