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Watch CBS News Videos OnlineCBS 60 Minutes had this whole one-hour on bull fighting in Spain. Is it different from dogfights? Besides matador putting his own life in danger the bull is killed in the end. At least the man does it for fame and fortune. What... Read Moresmall dead animals
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Stéphane Grappelli, Mccoy Tyner, Marc Fosset, and Jean Philip Viret performing How High The Moon ¤, in Warsaw, in 1991 (5:30). For fans... Read MoreXUP
Ottawa’s Green Bin program is, if not exactly in full swing, then at least in semi-swing. There have been a few problems: The city suddenly realized that it was going to have problems meeting their contracted targets with OrgaWorld Canada. One of t... Read MoreMacleans.ca » Mark Steyn
MARK STEYN: If he rages naked at his aides it’s because he can do nothing about anything that matters... Read MoreCoren’s Comment
Been a little busy this week with a daily TV show and several weekly columns. Also had a speech on Thursday in London and did The Agenda on Friday – Steve Paikin being one of the best and most reliable people in Canadian television. When I look at... Read MoreEnormous Thriving Plants
"At an Ohio Right to Life fundraiser Friday night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin once again defended the notes she wrote on her hand during last month's Tea Party Convention. She said she didn't have a good answer to media criticism at the time, but... Read MoreDavid Akin's On the Hill
After Question Period, outside the House of Commons, MPs from all sides had more to say. The Conservatives, by and large, were not pleased and pretty much stuck to the last point that Nicholson had made in the House. Here, for example is Vic Toews, the pu... Read MoreSlyVisions dot Com
Google Maps Helps Man Get a Job Internet Sanctions Lifted on Iran, Cuba and Sudan by U.S. SeaWell Networks raises $7 million Chip-firm Tilera raises $25 million Forrester: online retail sales to reach $250 billion by 2014 Read MoreTorontoist
"When we say something is important, it's not a word we take lightly." —Kevin Sack, the City's Director of Strategic Communications, to the National Post, after a press release was sent out this evening saying that Mayor David Miller will be making an... Read MoreCory Doctorow's craphound.com
Here's the fourth installment of "Clockwork Fagin," a young adult steampunk story commissioned for a Candlewick Press anthology edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. The story runs to 12,500 words and should take about a month to read for the podcast. Mas... Read MoreGirl On The Right
No matter how long the mustaches grow on the hairy-chinned feminists, they never get any wiser. Women are still being badgered to “have it all” and “do more”, even though nature trumps nurture when it comes to childbearing. Women r... Read MoreYayaCanada
Flaherty blasted for $3,100 Hortons photo-opBut Transport Minister John Baird fired back, arguing government planes can only be used when no commercial options are available, and the rules were followed in Flaherty's case. ===>He also accused Mulcair... Read MoreThe Hook Home
Cutting gaming grants may reduce public support for gambling, said New Democratic Party housing and social development critic Shane Simpson. Read more ... Read MoreDawg's Blawg
I've held off commenting upon the recent developments in the Torturegate scandal, which, like Grand-daddy Watergate, started with something minor and is now busting out all over. But reading Kady O'Malley's excellent colour commentary last Friday and now... Read Morematthewgood.org
Beat Porto 5-nil to win on aggregate 6-2 and advance. Bendtner made up for his failures on the weekend against Burnley by scoring three. Into the final eight we go. Read MoreDanielle Takacs: Galloping Around the Golden Horseshoe
Here are the results of the last several federal elections (click on the images for better resolution) across the Canadian electorate from two different lenses (wouldn't it be nice if polls always told us how many respondents actually planned to vote):I'm... Read MoreThe Galloping Beaver
HELLACIOUS HELENA'S HUBBY has beat the rap! The egregious Rahim Jaffer is the mysterious beneficiary of a get-out-of-jail-free card issued by some weasel.According to the G&M:He was initially charged with driving while having more than 80 milligrams i... Read MoreJay Currie
But it appears that worst of the Great Collapse is behind us. So what’s Harper’s deficit machine of a finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, going to do? The answer is … spend even more money, but disguise it as an austerity budget. This... Read MoreMacleans.ca » Andrew Coyne
Parliament’s first week back will see a war of narratives as Harper fires up his big guns: the budget and the Throne Speech... Read MoreMichael Geist Blog
The government appears to be backtracking on quickly opening the Canadian telecom market to foreign investment. Industry Minister Tony Clement's press secretary now says "our government will also be investigating the existing restrictions f... Read MoreCanadian Soapbox
As of tomorrow it will have been 3 weeks since I received the H1N1 shot, and I'm happy to report that all is well. I haven't blogged in a while, but that had nothing to do with getting the vaccine, the only side effect I experienced was a sore right arm.I... Read MoreMontreal Simon
OK. I want to make some things absolutely clear Your Honour. I think Rahim Jaffer should have received at least six months for hypocrisy. I also believe that Helena Guergis should have been arrested for banging on a security door at that airport in P.E.I. Read MoreMarginalized Action Dinosaur
White males need not applyInternal e-mail reveals hiring ban at Public Works Tom Blackwell National Post Saturday, November 19, 2005 A major federal department has temporarily banned the hiring of able-bodied white men in an unusual move critics say could... Read MoreThe Mark News - All Articles
Co-hosted by Andrew Z. Brown In this week's podcast, Seth Godin shares his insights from the Art of Marketing conference in Toronto. Robert and Andrew also catch up with several surprise guests at the conference. (Run-time: 17 minutes.) Check out the Bu... Read MoreThe Disaffected Lib
I swear, I promise never again to use the metaphor about 'throwing somebody under the bus.' We've all gotta stop, please?Put yourself in the shoes of the humble bus driver. Imagine. All you ever read about is people throwing other people under your bus. I... Read MoreGen X at 40
I am usually not one for the adjective "Canadian" to describe any cultural behaviour but this graph has captured it. h/t to pp. Click for a bigger image. Read MorePeace, order and good government, eh?
We don't usually do Disney here. (I've actually tried to make a minor career out of dissing Disney every chance I get, and I'm moderately disappointed that they haven't yet sent fearsome lawyers out after me.) But it is so true. Nothing says love like spa... Read MoreDarrenBarefoot.com
I have seen no more than three operas in my life. The one I saw on Saturday night, at the invitation of Burnaby Lyric Opera’, was “Cosi Fan Tutte”, directed by Matthew Bissett, an old friend. Keep these facts in mind in reading this pos... Read MorePublic Eye Online
Last week, the ministry of children and family development's top bureaucrat told MLAs she's "never refused" to meet with the government's independent child protection watchdog, despite having recently rebuffed the watchdog's request for a briefi... Read MoreColbyCosh.com
I was joking yesterday that given the recent history of Edmonton Oiler medical oversight—recent injured-list visits having been occasioned by everything from Jumping Frenchman Syndrome to hookworm to macroscopic devouring pubic lice—Sh... Read MoreMacleans.ca » Paul Wells
Prorogation allowed Ignatieff to see through the fog of his foibles and find his vision
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