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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P.J. O'Rourke The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -- Thomas Jefferson Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the

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I am shocked and saddened by the news that Dr. Sean Egan died today during his attempt to climb Mount Everest. I knew him personally and was following his daily progress with great interest. He was a tremendously energetic, fun-loving man who was always a great pleasure to be around. He will be sadly missed by all of us who knew him. I send my prayers and condolences to his family. Update:

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It is certainly odd to see a company position itself for untendered government contracts. It is also odd to see a company like Canada Communications Group get privatized and have the terms subject to a confidentiality agreement, which raises some questions about just why it would be in a privileged position to get untendered government contracts. See here:Printing services requirements between

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Sorry for the lack of content folks. I'm preparing for new employment opportuniities and don't have much time or inclination to continue lowering my loyal readers into the abyss of despair, as Mark Steyn so appropriately puts the role of conservative commentary in modern-day Trudeaupia. I'm afraid I'll be on hiatus for many weeks at least, spending time deep in secure network environments. If

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I guess no one should really be surprised any more. Quick on the heels of allowing homosexuals in the military it's natural that you'd follow it with an affirmative action recruiting program:The Royal Navy is to place advertisements for recruits in the Pink Paper as part of a new campaign to recruit homosexual sailors. The move follows its decision to sign up to the Diversity Champions

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Whenever a centrally planned bureacracy goes to work to end shortages, the results are fairly predictable:Quebec has been losing nearly half of its new general practitioners to other provinces since a government policy came into effect requiring them to start their careers in regions outside of Montreal. The province had expected to recruit 216 GPs last year, but only 145 stayed on to practise

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I see John Robson is the latest columnist to join the 20th Century and create his own blog. This is excellent news, as John is one of my favourite columnists and I used to go buy an Ottawa Citizen on Fridays just to read his column. Now we can get the benefit of his wit and insight and save the buck. And unlike other columnists it looks like he's doing more than just putting his columns online

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Now that all the great and the good are convinced of the virtues of the fight against obesity, I'm sure they'll be supportive of a private initiative that actually takes the condition seriously. After all, obesity is the hottest, politically correct public health concern of the day, so how could any right-thinking progressive object to any private measures that combat it? On that note, I'm sure

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From Right in Canada we find the new official flag of the Peoples Republic of Trudeaupia: I think I'll have to order one.

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On this day, the fortieth anniversary of day the Red Ensign was replaced by the Liberal Party Logo Maple Leaf, Striving Against Opposition has raised the Red Ensign Standard. Go check it out.

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In Orwell's 1984 there's a character (whose name escapes me at the moment) that very bluntly talks about how once they control the language they control what people can think. Winston figures the guy will sooner or later be disappeared because he spells out the plans too bluntly. I wonder if that may be Ken Dryden's fate, too. Any observer of the Liberal party knows they try to cultivate a

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So what does a former Chief of Staff in the Mulroney government do once the electorate sent that bunch of losers to their deserved oblivion? Well, after a stint as a tobacco lobbyist Norman Spector eventually descends to engaging in insulting, trolling behaviour that ought to embarrass and adolescent. The most immature, idiotic, desparate act of an adolescent troll is to throw around insults

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There are certainly few things more irritating than having an effete liberal throw a hissy fit, no one is really afraid of it. It's an annoying and rather distasteful sight, sure, but it's nothing anyone would actually be afraid of. So once Canada has unilaterly disarmed and decided that the only thing terrorist-supporting countries really need is a little hug, the reaction from

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Via Jason Hayes, we find this inspiring story of the downtrodden working class bravely fighting back against capitalist exploitation:THE union that pioneered extra time off work for women suffering painful periods yesterday argued it was time menstrual leave became common in Australian workplaces. The National Tertiary Education Union was the first to negotiate an extra 12 paid days off a year

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Lightly reported in the English media, after being disgraced in France due to a corruption charge, former French Prime Minister Alain Juppé has been invited to teach in Quebec. At ENAP, the National School of Public Administration. You can't make this stuff up. So, I find it not very surprising that Chrétien treats an inquiry into corruption with utter contempt and stages a publicity stunt

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It's important for governments to set goals and measure them. Setting a goal for a balanced budget, for example, is good. Or setting a target debt-to-GDP ratio. But how do you like your government setting this as a target?the Liberals say they want "to increase by 20 per cent the number of British Columbians who eat the recommended daily level of fruit and vegetables."They will presumably be

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It's great to find another conservative in Quebec. Patrick at Tout le monde en parle is parleying the idea of privatizing the liquor stores in Quebec. I couldn't agree more. The strange thing is we can buy beer and wine in private stores, but not liquor. It is truly the most incomprehensible monopoly.

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And, strangely enough, this is news:“Satan’s horse” is not a myth. As narrated by an elderly Saudi, it is the name local residents of Buraidah, Al-Qasim, used to call a bicycle some 47 years ago at a time when new inventions were unacceptable to the majority of people there and ignorance prevailed.Ah, so this was back at time when ignorance prevailed. That explains it.“The commission for

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There is no other way to put this, but western environmentalists are deliberately and knowingly killing Africans to satisfy their chemophobic fantasies:The European Union on Wednesday warned Uganda that its exports to Europe may suffer if it goes ahead with plans to use the controversial pesticide DDT to fight malaria. [...] The chief of the EU mission in Uganda, Sigurd Illing, said there

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Friends of democracy in Iraq are reporting protests going on in the district of Al Hamadaniyah and surrounding villages due to failure to get election supplies delivered in time, depriving an estimated 150 thousand people of their right to vote. While it's unfortunate that there were these sorts of glitches in the election, I find even this reaction a very hopeful sign. They didn't just shrug

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Here in Quebec we will soon be observing Mercredi des Cendres, known elsewhere as Ash Wednesday. I don't wish my blog to be a bible-thumping one, but this is one occasion where I thought a small reflection on faith in a modern age would be appropriate. But as I pondered it a little, I came across this wonderful post by Chris Taylor which expresses so many thoughts better I ever could. While

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Not long ago the Taliban were dragging people into soccer stadiums for public executions and blowing up Buddhist statues. And now, they're sending a medical relief team to Indonesia, with the team led by a woman in uniform, no less. Avary has some other great pictures, too.

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They just wrecked some computers. At least that's the official story from Saudi authorities:The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) yesterday denied an Al-Jazeera television report about French pilgrims going berserk at King Abdul Aziz International Airport here, but admitted they damaged some computers. Addressing a press conference here yesterday, Sami Magboul, director general of the airport,

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Anyone who has paid a little attention to the Global Warming Hype industry knows they torque their projections of doom and grotesquely hype their rhetoric. Well, Mark Bahner at Random Thoughts has developed his own projections and is challenging them to bet that theirs are more accurate than his. The IPCC has gazillions of dollars of government funding and a massive staff to produce their

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I am issuing a new award in honour of Chief Inspector Dreyfus. You will recall Dreyfus as the one who was driven slowly insane by Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. He eventually ended up in a padded cell still attempting to scratch hate-filled messages on the wall with his feet. Well, in the comments section at the Shotgun we have a guy who clearly ought to be measured for a

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