Showing posts with label Canadian content. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian content. Show all posts
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Reflections on an Election in Gabon

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Today voters in the Central African country of Gabon will go to the polls to elect a successor to President El-Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ...
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Happy Canada Day!

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Let's take a few moments to wish our friends to the north a happy Canada Day. It was on this day in 1867 that a brave band of Canadians ...
Sunday, June 07, 2009

Canadian Content

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"What's good for the goose is good for the gander," goes the proverb. Yet when it comes to economic protectionism, neither goo...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Gay Conservatives Emerge in Canada

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Word comes from the frozen north that gay conservatives are making their presence known in Canada, following the example of Log Cabin Republ...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

The Dangers of Voting

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Since I drive around a lot on Election Day -- moving from precinct to precinct, visiting each of Charlottesville's eight polling places,...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008

The United Nations' Speech Police

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Here's a tricky question: Is criticism of attempts by Islamic nations to limit free speech around the world itself a form of defamation...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

New York Gov't Encourages Growth of Organized Crime

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The big news from New York today is that a new cigarette tax has become mandatory. As Paul Merrill reports for Albany TV station WXXA : A s...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Travelers' Carnival

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Another blog carnival -- this one the " Carnival of Cities " -- picked up one of my personal favorite recent posts to feature this...
Friday, February 01, 2008

Surfing Along the Axis of Evil

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The Canadian newsmagazine Maclean's has uncovered the web sites of the remaining members of the Axis of Evil and other sordid types. W...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

The Gales of November Come Early

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Today marks 32 years since the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald , an event made more memorable than it otherwise might have been becaus...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007

Dep't of Apologies: Canada Unit

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An interesting email apology was sent to its readers last week from Maclean's , Canada's pre-eminent news magazine: We regret that a...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

Aujourd'hui le Canada a 140 ans

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Happy birthday to our friends north of the 48th parallel! Today marks the 140th anniversary of the British North America Act, which joined t...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

Pearl of Africa

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Americans who have reached a certain age will remember a radio commentary by Gordon Sinclair , a Canadian broadcaster quite well-known in h...