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Think Big, Dammit!
I fear we have become or are becoming a nation that is afraid to think BIG. Why? I have several friends that think BIG when it comes to their own businesses or achievements or dreams. Why then is our government and by association, the Canadian …
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Canada: Economic Coward?
You know, if you were an outsider looking into Canada, you would think we were world’s biggest economic cowards! Note all the wailing, clasping of heads, woe-is-me’s, predictions of doom and the like when it comes to discussions of the new Canada-China Free Trade deal. …
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Get Used To It
From World Two, or at least the fifties, Canadians have become used to levels of service from municipal, provincial and federal governments that were never affordable or sustainable for the size of our population. During the Trudeau era, these services and other programmes brought on …
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Staging the Olympic Games. Too Expensive?
Different figures have been thrown about regarding the cost to the UK of staging their Olympic Games, with 17 billion (Cdn) being one of them. Approximately 3-5 billion Canadian dollars where spent on Vancouver’s 201 Winter Olympic Games, if security, the Olympic Village and other …
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Dig Deeper!
CommonDawg is starting to wonder, if there might not be more to this affair of the Quebec students demonstrating against higher tuition fees. The whole affair seems to have grown far beyond this one issue, with much of the Quebec and other Canadian public involved. …
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Belly to Belly
So here’s little Jimmy working at the Winter Olympic Games in Whistler. I’m employed as a media liaison guy with Olympic Broadcasting Services. One of the menial roles I played was to work in the ‘mixing zone’, where the athletes come through after competing, to …
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What Are The BC Liberals Thinking?!
The BC Liberals have fallen into the Guergis-Jaffer trap. That is, they started to believe their own press. Whereas Helena Guergis and her husband epitomized ‘entitlement’, the BC Libs have long thought themselves ‘omnipotent’. I call it the ‘we are so far ahead of the …
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Why Am I Paying For Helena Guergiss SUV?
It flabbergasts me that in today’s age of ‘pay-down-the-deficit’ via reduced services and cut-backs, that we still have our Canadian cabinet ministers driven around in high-end vehicles with chauffeurs! Today’s Globe and Mail has a story how Ms. Guergis’s husband, Rahim ‘Under-a-HUGE-cloud’ Raffer is accused …
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Canadas Taliban Prisoners, A Tempest in a Political Teapot
The opposition parties of Canada must be rubbing their hands with glee, as the Afghan prisoner debate goes on, and on and on . .. . . Do any of them REALLY care what happens to Taliban taken prisoner by Canadian soldiers? I mean, if …
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