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2014
Harper Nobel Peace Prize nomination “a disgrace and insult”
A fast-growing online petition on Change.org is calling on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to reject Prime Minister’s Stephen Harper’s pending nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for his unequivocal support…
Who Will Be Mark Steyn’s Witnesses?
Just noticed another piece on Steyn’s website re the defamation case climatologist Mike Mann has brought against him. Its largely the same old same old, but then there is this…
Kick Russia out of the Helsinki Accords
Is the Helsinki Accord of 1975 a worthless scrap of paper? Because Vladimir Putin sure seems to think it’s a joke. I was not even three years old when the…
Berated for not being able to predict Mark Driscoll’s and Todd Bentley’s futures
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Blogger Jeffrey Yoder is even harder than I can be in the case of Todd Bentley, if that were possible. But…
NATO – You’re Not the Master of the Universe. Now, Stand Down.
NATO’s outgoing CEO, er Secretary-General, Anders ‘Foggy’ Rasmussen, should really send caviar and roses to Vladimir Putin. NATO hasn’t done all that well on Foggy’s watch – the cock-up in…
September 3: missing the point – and point….
Front page – read all about it…getcher papers now…. The jolting headline for September was “Students headed back to school tomorrow”. Wow! who would have guessed? Then there’s a big…
Stock Up on AK-47s. They’re a Hot Commodity.
They’re flying off the shelves of gunstores across the United States. Russian AK-47 assault rifles have become a hot commodity literally overnight since they were added to Obama’s import restrictions…
It’s Called "Virtual Water"
Water-stressed Israel realized this year ago when it recognized that its exports of Jaffa oranges were really exporting “virtual water.” It took scarce water to grow the orange and when…
CCPA Monitor: The battle for the Internet and what it means for Canada
This piece was co-authored by Steve Anderson and David Christopher and was originally published in the September edition of the CCPA Monitor Five commissioners on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission…
Pentagon Exploits Tensions Over Ukraine, Pushes for Multi-Purpose Sensor Chain Across Canada’s Arctic
Arrest that Man, He’s From Russia! They sure know how to pick their opportunities. At the very moment NATO leaders are in Wales fretting over what to do with Vlad…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 2, 2014
Your news links for today: Why U.S. Pressure Is Behind the Stalled Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Bill – Michael Geist Net neutrality activists are about to show you what an Internet ‘slow…
NATO Leaders Huddle and Fume While Putin Chuckles
NATO’s Drang Nach Osten There’ll be an absolute glut of righteous indignation when NATO leaders convene this week in Wales to decide whatever to do with that big bad bully,…
Field of Dreams: Peace Valley Farmers, Ranchers Fight to Keep Land Above Water As Site C Dam Decision Looms
In 1920, Renee Ardill’s grandparents arrived in the Peace Valley with nothing more than a milk cow, saddle horse and team and wagon. They chose a piece of land on…
Field of Dreams: Peace Valley Farmers, Ranchers Fight to Keep Land Above Water As Site C Dam Decision Looms
In 1920, Renee Ardill’s grandparents arrived in the Peace Valley with nothing more than a milk cow, saddle horse and team and wagon. They chose a piece of land on…
Mr. Prime Minister, One of These Is Almost Exactly Like the Other
– Steve Bell, The Guardian
Sometimes In Life, It’s the Little Things That Matter
It’s really a little thing. A little worse. A little more frequent. A little longer lasting. A little more severe. A little more damaging. That’s the face of early onset…
It’s been nine long years
Not really. Not really long years. Nine ridiculously short years. Nine years that feels like days. Nine years that passed in the blink of an eye. Your brother was in…