The Stephen Harper government’s decision to appoint an unilingual anglophone as Victims of Crime Ombudsman could soon be the subject of a probe by the Commissioner of Official Languages.
Source: edmontonsun.com - Canada - Anglophone appointment sparks storm
What’s up with this rubbish? A New Brunswick NDP MP is whining because Stephen Harper appointed and anglophone to [...]

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Amanda sent me this…. It is from the newspaper in her hometown… For those of you who don’t remember Amanda, here is a reminder. How did I know for sure this was from her hometown? LoL
(Update: It is from someone who lives in Amanda’s hometown…. My mistake!)
Aren’t y’all glad [...]

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I am what liberal multiculturalism has made me.

Jo Biden said that presidential candidate Senator Barak Obama is articulate and the whole U.S. media machine went into overdrive. Did Biden really mean “Obama speaks well” or did he mean, “not bad English for a black man”? Twenty-five or so years ago I would have [...]

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OneDayBlogSilence is a site set up by school teacher Steli Efti requesting all bloggers keep silent on April 30th as a memorial to the 33 students killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre on April 16th.
Lorelle is being very vocal in her support of this effort, including adding personal stories to back up the call. [...]

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This isn’t always the case. There is definitely a group of people in the blogoshpere, as anywhere else in society who, will disagree with people based solely on the target’s gender, nationality, religion or even simply their side of an issue

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Isn’t it strange that a kid with no talent whatsoever isn’t getting voted off American Idol? That’s right, I am talking about Sanjaya “I sound like a sick Micheal Jackson impersonator” Malakar. Each and every week his performances get worse and worse, yet talented hopefuls are getting booted lift right and centre.
Well, thanks [...]

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I wrote a previous post about the over abundance of shampoos bottles in my bathtub. This post, about a voyeur using a shampoo bottle to hide a camera just makes my point for me.

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IQ vs. EQAbout 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote “All learning has an emotional base.” Since then, scientists, educators, and philosophers have worked to prove or disprove the importance of feelings in intelligence.The idea behind emotional intelligence (EQ) is that IQ, or conventional intelligence, is too narrow; that how we handle our emotions can also [...]

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Imagine that!! A politico lied. What is the difference between Scooter libby and most every other politician? Scooter got caught!
In a case that has seen journalists jailed for refusing to out their confidential sources, politicians ducking from view to stay out of the sights of the special prosecutor, [tag]Scooter Libby[/tag] has become the [...]

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[tag]Kevin Lowe[/tag] did it again. Who’s payroll is he on anyway?
More to come on the Ryan Smyth trade! I have to get my head around it before I can write about it!
Did Lowe say this, or did the Sun misprint?
Asked about the possibility of signing Smyth to return to Edmonton when he becomes [...]

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