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Economic crisis is ruining people's lives, the media has failed to tell the full story Danny Schechter:

& the like of Making a killing from the food crisis Devlin Kuyek: "Right now Cargill is making approximately $471 000 an hour in profits" 5 hours ago view bio: Devlin Kuyek context links transcript While people around the ...

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Fair Vote Canada is a multi-partisan citizens' campaign for voting system reform

that after working with them might be Too partisan for it's own intended Goals...

Fair Vote Canada's seventh annual meeting will feature an exciting array of speakers and presentations, they say

The opening keynote speaker will be Andrew Coyne, National Editor, Maclean's, noted media commentator and columnist.

The detailed agenda and registration form are now available.

The meeting is open to the public.

Advance registration is required.

Visit: http://www.fairvote.ca/

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"All consumers in the country need to know when they go to gas up their vehicles that the pumps are accurate and they get what they paid for," he said.

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The by-elections confirmed the ADQ's dramatic slide in polls since it unseated the Parti Quebecois as the Official Opposition in the March, 2007, election.

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Sounding Like a Copy of the Boob Rae story, "Mr. Dumont's biggest albatross, though, is his 41-member caucus, almost all of them political neophytes.

One MNA explained to a radio host why neither he nor most of his colleagues ever stood up in Question Period by saying:

"It's better to be quiet and look stupid than to speak and prove you are."

Mr. Dumont, who at 38 may be the most talented Canadian politician of his generation, has been dragged down by this team of not-ready-for-prime-time players.

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"No doubt about it, there is something unsavoury about the way [ADQ Leader Mario] Mr. Dumont has shamelessly exploited Quebeckers' insecurity over the survival of their language and culture for political gain," Konrad Yakabuski writes in his last weekend essay Appearances in Quebec are misleading...

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An American intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 to the Pakistani military to arrest a Canadian citizen, according to a federal Court ruling made public Monday afternoon.

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Cleone Grasham's days of shuttling her three daughters hither and yon to sports, choir and other organized activities are over.

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Parliament is currently debating whether to approve the still-undisclosed text of a future free-trade agreement with Colombia.

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For more than 2500 years, people have enjoyed a common right to free passage on public waterways...

Waterkeeper's boat: The Angus Bruce.

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- Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be in Halifax on Monday to make an announcement concerning the Defence Department.

The Prime Minister's Office confirms Harper will be at the Halifax Armoury at 1 p.m., but there were no further details about what he might have to say.

A spokesman says that there will be regular Canadian Forces personnel attending, as well as members of the Princess Louise Fusiliers, a reserve infantry regiment that has sent some of its members to Afghanistan.

Harper will be accompanied by Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Nova Scotia's representative in the federal cabinet. Read more

Then there's Running Planes on Spirit in Canada Aging rescue planes' replacements put on back burner Yesterday | Ottawa Citizen

The Defence Department will upgrade the radios and other avionics equipment on its aging Buffalo search-and-rescue planes to keep them flying until at least 2015, five years past when they were supposed to be ...

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Related Topix: British Columbia, Comox

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Both the Federal and the Provincial governments in Canada have destroyed the nation and the people in what can only be seen as a slow death.

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