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CBS News is reporting that Sarah Sanders Huckabee or Huckabee Sanders, whatever, and her understudy, Raj Shah, are looking to bail out of the asylum
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Ms Soapbox and her daughter have gone to Paris for a week. Take good care of the province and the country until we get back.
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Looks like Bill Whatcott is having some legal problems: Whatcott provides more details on his own web forum regarding the charges: The response from Whatcott's
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Now Even American Networks Are Using The C-Words
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Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Connelly calls out the perennial right-wing spin that there’s always money available for corporations or the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Happy Father’s Day Everyone (who qualifies, that is)
Ever notice how nobody says “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” in a flattering, positive sense. But if your kid, just once, is
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Crunch Is Upon Us
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Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Did Brown lay the table for Ford?
The only newspaper in Ontario that gave a real damn about the lynching of conservative leader Patrick Brown back in January was his hometown Barrie
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: New Report on the State of our Democracy.
The Samara Centre for Democracy interviewed 54 former MPs from the last Parliament about their experience in Ottawa and found many of them questioning the
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