Category Archives: Current Affairs

U.S. Unemployment Flirts With 10%

Posted on October 10, 2010
Jim by Jim

The big news these days is that the world’s most powerful economy is in decline. Continue reading →

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Absentee Liberal Members of Parliament – Bill C-440 War Resisters

Posted on October 4, 2010
Jim by Jim

As yet, I don`t know the reason for their absence – some may have been ill; but as a group, they threaten to cost us passage of Gerard Kennedy`s Bill C-440. (Most of these members are from the Toronto area.) … Continue reading →

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Liberal M.P.’s: Absent from Important Vote: Unavoidable? or Cowardice?

Posted on October 3, 2010
Jim by Jim

My hope would be that Gerrard Kennedy, Justin Trudeau and others will be taking names for the purpose of kicking some ass after the next leadership convention. Continue reading →

Posted in Asides and Musings, Canada in Afghanistan, Canadian Politics and Politicians, Current Affairs, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Canadians: Who Are We? Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Greens and the Rest…..

Posted on August 26, 2010
Jim by Jim

I do not want to see this Canada – my Canada – the Canada of my children – destroyed by an opportunist who governs by ideology, rather than by responding to the good sense of the Canadian People. Continue reading →

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A Palestinian Doctor Asks the World: Whom Shall I Hate?

Posted on August 16, 2010
Jim by Jim

Late afternoon of Jan. 16, 2009, 2 Israeli tank shells crashed into a bedroom in the doctor’s Gaza apartment, killing three of his daughters—Bessan, Mayar and Aya—along with a niece, Noor. Continue reading →

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