The Commons: Let us renew our commitment to democracy, at least in Egypt

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 5:45 PM - 82 Comments

The Scene. So where were we?

Ah yes, in disagreement. On the left side of the House sat the opposition, themselves divided into three distinct parties. On the right side, save for a few New Democrats there at the far end and two independents in the back corner, sat the government. In general, perhaps even by definition, no one group agreed with much of anything that was said or done by any of the other groups. All were of general agreement that they wanted things to be somehow better, but all were generally inclined to believe that they, and only they, truly understood how to go about achieving that vague state of improvement.

It will no doubt surprise you little to learn that in the six weeks since all sides were last compelled to sit in reasonable proximity to each other, almost nothing—from their thoughts to their words to their general attitudes—has changed.

So let us turn instead, or at least at first, to the small matter of the democracy that may or may not be breaking out in Egypt. Continue…

Back to work (II)

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 5:02 PM - 8 Comments

A statement from Conservative backbencher Phil McColeman, tabled shortly before Question Period this afternoon.

Mr. Speaker, today the House resumes sitting and I can proudly say that on this side of the House Conservative members are eager and ready to get to work for Canadians. This work includes moving on important crime bills that remain before the public safety committee. It is my hope that our eagerness is shared by opposition members across the way. Unfortunately, I am afraid that it already seems to be business as usual for some Liberals. Today the member for Ajax—Pickering is again sticking up for criminals and promoting the failed prison farm system, a program with a dismal rate of success of less than 1%, which loses millions of tax dollars each year. I call on the Liberal Party public safety critic and his coalition partners to work with us to get results for law-abiding Canadians and victims and to stop putting criminals’ rights before those of victims.

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Canadian military unable to refuel new jets in mid-air

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 4:01 PM - 48 Comments

Canada’s new F-35 fighter jets, purchased at an estimated cost of between $16 billion and $21 billion, cannot be refueled while airborne using equipment the military has on hand, meaning Ottawa may have to spend several hundred million more dollars on additional equipment and modifications. The F-35 purchase was touted by the Conservatives as a necessary step in modernizing Canada’s military capacity. But the current Polaris transport aircraft that handles the refueling of the existing CF-18 fighters are not equipped to handle the new F-35s. As a result, Canada may have to buy a new fleet of tanker aircraft that can fuel the new jets in the air, in addition to installing drag chutes, as the F-35 cannot land on the shorter runways in Canada’s north. The purchase of the new planes was the biggest military procurement in Canada’s history. But the opposition has accused the Conservative government of entering a non-competitive bidding process with the Pentagon, and as a result has ignored a number of questions about the development, capabilities and overall cost of the purchase.

Ottawa Citizen

Back to work

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 1:10 PM - 32 Comments

The House of Commons resumed business this morning at 11 o’clock and the first Question Period of the year is but an hour away.

To whet our collective appetite, the NDP has, in keeping with their recent habit, sent out its QP line-up. After Jack Layton has dealt with “the budget and getting things done for job creation” and Paul Dewar has raised the issue of “Egypt,” Glenn Thibeault is set to stand and press the government on “sports concussions and Sidney Crosby missing the All-Star game.”

Let us thus forever retire the fashionable lament that this House too often fails to engage with the important issues facing this country.

Israel urges world leaders to stick with Mubarak

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:54 PM - 13 Comments

Israel is urging several countries to curb their criticism of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, according to a report in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper. On Saturday, Israeli ambassadors were asked “to stress to their host countries the importance of Egypt’s stability.” Americans and Europeans are being swayed by public opinion, one senior Israeli official told the newspaper, and aren’t carefully considering their own interests. “Jordan and Saudi Arabia see the reactions in the West, how everyone is abandoning Mubarak, and this will have very serious implications.” Egypt is a crucial strategic ally to Israel in the Middle East.

Haaretz

Quebec's former lieutenant-governor goes to court

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:41 PM - 1 Comment

Lise Thibault, Quebec’s former lieutenant-governor, is expected in a Quebec City courtroom on Monday for the start of a preliminary hearing to determine whether she should face charges of fraud and breach of trust. The 71-year-old Thibault is accused of spending more than $700,000 without justification over her 10-year term as the Queen’s representative in the province. An investigation launched in 2007 found Thibault was reimbursed for thousands of dollars’ worth of lavish trips, gifts, and receptions for which she couldn’t provide receipts. If convicted, she faces up to 14 years in prison.

CBC News

The lovable government hater

By Jaime Weinman - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:20 PM - 2 Comments

That 70's look: The actor who plays Swanson says he has hair that looks like 'he rolls out of bed and runs a comb through it once' (Mitchel Hasseth/NBC)

If you want a sympathetic look at the anti-government sentiment sweeping the world, don’t watch cable news: watch Ron Swanson, the libertarian, government-hating bureaucrat on Parks and Recreation. The comedy, whose third season started last week on Citytv, is about a small-town parks department, and one of the running gags is that Ron, its director, doesn’t believe the department should exist. Nick Offerman, who plays the character, describes him to Maclean’s as a man who “would like to see as little governmental influence as possible in daily life.” Most government-haters on TV are portrayed as militia fanatics like Dale Gribble on King of the Hill (from the co-creator of Parks), but Ron is something new: a likeable guy who tells schoolchildren that “capitalism is God’s way of telling who is smart from who is poor.”

Not that Ron is intended to be a mostly political figure, even when he’s unveiling his libertarian ideals in the form of a “Swanson pyramid of greatness.” As part of an ensemble anchored by star Amy Poehler, he’s there for humour, starting with his hilarious appearance: Offerman describes him as “a man like the guys who used to be on TV in the mid-’70s,” complete with “a kick-ass moustache” and hair that looks like “he rolls out of bed and runs a comb through it once.”

But Parks is also a topical comedy, and there’s a timely concept behind Ron. Offerman says creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur based him on a real official they met, “a libertarian who claimed to want to bring the department down from the inside. They thought that was very funny, for a mid-level government employee to be virulently anti-government.” Like the philandering councilman who is obviously based on former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, Ron is a slight exaggeration of something real; Schur told the Los Angeles Times that he’s like “one of those Bush appointees who doesn’t believe in the mission of the branch of government he’s supposed to be overseeing.”

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Canadian economy exceeds growth expectations

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:04 PM - 7 Comments

Statistics Canada is reporting the Canadian economy recorded its strongest performance in eight months in November, growing 0.4% on a month-over-month basis. This gain exceeded market expectations, and was the result of a strong performance by the services sector, as well as oil and gas drilling. Analysts said the rise in November output bodes well for a final fourth-quarter GDP annualized growth reading of 2.3%, which would match the Bank of Canada’s forecast. Other sectors did not do as well: manufacturing was on the decline, and construction also decreased. The Canadian dollar gained modestly after the data release, while yields on Canadian bonds increased slightly. “It’s a good number and going forward December’s GDP is expected to be supported by a significant recovery in manufacturing, which tends to suggest that Canada will exit 2010 while not necessarily like a lion, but some sort of domesticated feline nonetheless,” said Stewart Hall, economist at HSBC Securities Canada. TD economists believe this resurgence in the services sector may be short-lived: consumer demands appear to be cooling, and more stringent mortgage insurance rules may dampen the housing market and slow growth in the service sector and construction output through 2011.

National Post

Goodbye, retro Métro

By Martin Patriquin - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:00 PM - 31 Comments

Photograph by Roger Lemoyne

Collectively, Montreal’s fleet of Métro trains resembles a giant, rolling anachronism, the long-ago vision of the future conceived and built smack in the middle of the sixties. The trains slow to a stop with the sound of rushing air, then leave the station with an ascending three-note arpeggio (F sharp, B, F sharp–do, do, doooo) that is as quaintly Montreal as steak frites and bière en fut. So is the colour scheme: sky blue with a white stripe—a streaking Fleurdelisé that efficiently ushers some 400,000 people through the city’s innards every day. And soon enough, most of the fleet will disappear.

Starting in 2014, the city’s transport authority will begin mothballing the old trains, replacing them with sleek, silvery, bullet-like carriages. Bombardier and French conglomerate Alstom have partnered to build the new trains, which will be “more spacious, open and inviting,” according to a promotional video, “with well-positioned support poles and bars.”

But whatever the new trains will offer—air suspension, high-definition television screens, a PA system that doesn’t make the conductor sound like he or she is in the throes of death—they will undeniably spell the end of a glorious chapter in the city’s history. Put into service in the mid-1960s, a time of giddy optimism, the Métro trains have been a comfortable constant as the city above shone—and as it went through various stages of hell.

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Egyptian protesters call for general strike on Tuesday

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM - 4 Comments

Demonstrators in Cairo have gathered for a sixth consecutive day of protests in Tahrir square on Monday to call for a general strike on Tuesday, when organizers expect more than a million people will march in the streets.  Police are returning to the streets after being conspicuously absent over the weekend, giving looters free rein while citizens set up neighbourhood patrols. Observers are unsure whether many of the police decided to join the protestors, or whether the regime gave them the order to retreat to foment citizens’ fear of the lawlessness that resulted. The latest reports from Al Jazeera say that around 125 people have been killed so far in clashes between protesters and the police.

Mohamed ElBaradei, the former IAEA and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has become the leading opposition figure after marching with protestors on the weekend following his release from house arrest. The National Coalition for Change, made up of several disparate opposition groups including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, has asked ElBaradei to negotiate with the Mubarak government.

Meanwhile, several prisons throughout the country were attacked, releasing hundreds of criminals into the streets. Foreigners are attempting to leave the country in droves, leaving Cairo’s international airport in complete chaos.

Al Jazeera English

Doggone Demos

By Jaime Weinman - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 11:41 AM - 12 Comments

One of my favourite subjects is the weirdness of having the 18-49 demographic as the only one that Counts, so of course I had to read this article by Brian Lowry of Variety (paywall’d) about how the broadcast networks — not just CBS — have a problem: some of their dramas are able to draw a lot of viewers, but they’re the kind that the network can’t monetize.

One of the most famous examples is The Good Wife, which is the best drama on broadcast TV but also happens to be one of the oldest-skewing dramas on broacast TV. It gets well over 10 million viewers every week, but three-quarters of them are over 49. (The NCIS twins, which precede it on the schedule, have almost as high a percentage of older viewers but, with more total viewers, are able to pick up a higher 18-49 rating.) If you evaluate it by total viewers, it’s a solid success; by 18-49 rating, it’s a bubble show.

Now NBC has a similar issue with the new show Harry’s Law. In spite of people like me tut-tutting that David E. Kelley has done all this before, it is probably the most popular new show NBC has introduced this season. But its viewers are largely over 60.

So what’s a network to do when a show does what most shows cannot — attract a lot of viewers — but can’t translate those viewers into dollars? As Lowry says, it’s not as simple and clear-cut as it would be if these shows were just unpopular:

The interesting question is how networks other than CBS will handle programs with these kind of demographic profiles. If a series is wholly rejected by viewers, that’s easy: You cancel it. But what happens when a show attracts 10-12 million viewers — a “hit” by today’s standards, strictly in terms of cultural reach — but only a small portion of that audience is salable under the current ad-supported system?

For starters, networks might try to change the yardstick. CBS has long touted the importance of the Baby Boom generation — whose eldest members have begun turning 65 — while NBC recently presented research about the buying power and purchasing habits of “AlphaBoomers,” those age 55-64, typically judged by advertisers to be too set in their ways to try new products, without going quite so far as to prod media buyers to ante up for that demo.

Advertisers, however, will give ground on that front grudgingly, and despite their mutual interest in wringing additional value out of an aging audience, the networks — which haven’t exhibited any ability to act in concert — have little hope of making serious inroads on a piecemeal basis.

I tend to think that advertisers probably sort of know what they’re doing, at least collectively. It doesn’t mean they’re right, but they do have some legitimate reasons for believing that over-50 viewers aren’t as valuable to them. It’s not a question of older people being uncool or whatever they’re being mocked for this week (making fun of old people for watching The Mentalist seemed to become one of the hackiest jokes of 2010). But over-50 people may be more committed to a particular brand and less easily swayed from changing it, and because they’re used to living without recently-introduced technology, they’re less anxious to run out and buy it. Someone who lived a long time without a cell phone might buy a cell phone — once. Someone who can hardly imagine adult life without a cell phone is the one to aim for if you want them to throw away the perfectly good phone they already have and get a slightly better one.

The 18-49 emphasis probably should change, if only because the broadcast networks are all getting an older audience and eventually it’ll be a choice between a) Finding ways to monetize the ways young people are consuming TV, or b) Finding ways to monetize the people who are still watching “live.” The latter way is probably easier and the networks can usually be counted on to take the easy way.

It might happen if, as Lowry puts it, the networks manage to “act in concert” and really, collectively push some new demographic standards to supplement the 18-49 and 25-54 ones. This will not happen any time soon, because why should a younger-skewing network help out CBS? But the way things are going, soon all the networks will be CBS in their demographic profile, and once that happens, it might be time to get together for some good old-fashioned collusion.

Just business

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 11:39 AM - 43 Comments

The Conservatives are rather critical of Liberal MP Mark Holland, but it’s apparently just business.

Party officials say their interest stems not from any animus toward Mr. Holland. Instead, they feel they made inroads in his riding in the 2008 campaign and think it’s winnable this time.

Mr. Holland should perhaps take solace then that stuff such as this and this was not personal in nature.

Super Bowl stress can cause heart trouble for fans

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:50 AM - 0 Comments

According to a new study, the stress of cheering for a losing team can substantially increase the risk that football fans will die of a heart attack, Discovery News reports. Super Bowl fans rooting for the Packers or the Steelers at this year’s event should take deep breaths and stay calm, they note, but it’s easier said than done. “For especially avid fans, the team in a way becomes a part of their family. And when there’s a loss in the family, there’s emotional stress,” said Robert Kloner, director of research at the Heart Institute of Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Reporting in the journal Clinical Cardiology, they note that in men, circulatory deaths in men rose by 15 per cent after a loss, and in women, it rose by 27 per cent.

Discovery News

Were the Tut family mummies destroyed in Egyptian riots?

By macleans.ca - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:46 AM - 4 Comments

According to reports cited by Discovery News, the mummies of King Tutankhamun’s great-grandparents might have had their heads ripped off during the recent rioting in Egypt. Al Jazeera footage suggests the two mummies vandalized at the museum might have been Yuya and Tiuya, identified in recent DNA testing as King Tut’s family members. According to Al Jazeera footage, wooden statues from the pharaoh’s tomb have also been smashed.

Discovery News

'We don't want people building a building on our account'

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:04 AM - 13 Comments

Speaking over the weekend in Carolina, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman addresses the question of a team for Quebec City.

“I don’t want anybody getting excited,” said Bettman. “The fact of the matter is, over the last couple of years, there have been lots of stories suggesting a building in Quebec City is a done deal, that the money has been raised. Nobody has told me that, and in the conversations that I’ve had with a variety of people, including the mayor and the premier, we have said, ‘We’re not planning on expanding, we’re not planning on relocation, so we cannot promise you a franchise.’

“If there’s a new building separate and independent from us for whatever reason and the opportunity presents itself with respect to a franchise, it’s no different than what I said about Winnipeg. But we don’t want people building a building on our account expecting that there is going to be a franchise, because we’re not in a position to promise one right now.”

Fat loss, great sex and lentils

By Michelle Magnan - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:40 AM - 49 Comments

Timothy Ferriss; Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Taylor Shute

Vials, scales, a food journal. These are things you expect to see when dining with Timothy Ferriss, who for years has meticulously tracked his meals, workouts, body-fat percentage and more. Much more: Ferriss, 33, once measured his own feces to confirm that caffeine improves “gastric emptying.” It was all worth it, judging by sales of his new book, The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide To Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman. But when Ferriss shows up at a waterfront restaurant in Marina del Rey, Calif., wearing a long-sleeved red T-shirt and jeans, no food-tracking devices emerge from his backpack. “When I’m not in the middle of a project,” he says, “I behave surprisingly normal.”

“Normal” to Ferriss is still “virtuous” to most. His strict eating habits—and a handful of other tricks, which he divulges in the book—helped him gain 34 lb. of muscle in 28 days, while logging a mere four hours at the gym (hence, The 4-Hour Body). Today, his lunch consists of a turkey burger (no bun), coleslaw with vinegar dressing and a side of celery with peanut butter. He also drinks unsweetened iced tea like a man who’s just escaped from the desert. The meal aligns with his 4-Hour Body fat-loss principles, which go something like this: for six days, don’t drink liquid calories and don’t eat dairy or fruit. Carbs—even whole grains—are outlawed, too. What can you eat? Protein, veggies, lentils and beans. As for the seventh glorious day, go wild. No ice cream bowl is considered too big. Then, repeat the cycle, ad infinitum.

This advice may be controversial, but there’s no denying it’s in demand. On Jan. 2 The 4-Hour Body debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times advice and miscellaneous bestseller list—catapulting his first mega-seller, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, back onto the list. “Skeptics and well-known authors” had told Ferriss The 4-Hour Body would never sell—it was too long, roughly 600 pages. But, as Ferriss points out drily, “Joy of Cooking did just fine.”

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Favourite John Barry Score?

By Jaime Weinman - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:29 AM - 6 Comments

One of the most famous of all film composers, John Barry, died of a heart attack at the age of 77. He hadn’t done a score in some time, but from the ’60s through the ’90s, he built up one of the great bodies of work in film scores; even if you took out his work on the James Bond series, you’d still have a lot of exceptional scores. Sometimes his music was the best thing about a movie, whether it was an Oscar winner like Out of Africa or a Star Wars ripoff cheesefest like Starcrash (or Moonraker for that matter).

The U.S. composer he resembles in a lot of ways is John Williams, and not only because they were associated with incredibly successful franchises. Like Williams, Barry’s sound changed over the years from one that reflected a background in jazz and pop (the James Bond theme was based on melodies by Dr. No‘s composer, Monty Norman, but it was Barry’s big-band sound that made it a classic) to a more lush, symphonic, stately approach. You can hear the change reflected in his Bond scores, from the electric guitars and whooping horns of the ’60s to the almost classical style of some of the later Bond scores.

Also like Williams, he was more of a chameleon when he was younger; by the ’80s and ’90s his sound would be more similar from film to film, whereas if you look at his amazing run in the late ’60s — with exceptional scores for classic films from Petulia to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service — there are Continue…

Reports of Laurie Hawn's support for attack ads were greatly exaggerated

By Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:03 AM - 12 Comments

Over the weekend, CTV reported that Laurie Hawn was defending the Conservative side’s one! day! only! attack ads. On Sunday, Mr. Hawn took to Twitter to clarify his feelings.

CTV cherry picks my remarks. Didn’t support attack ads. Said they’re not my style and don’t pay attention to them.

Attack ad aficionados needn’t fret about the disappearance of the two clips in question as a quick check of the Conservative Party of Canada’s official YouTube page shows plenty of similar adverts are still available. Indeed, of the 30 videos posted there, 22 concern the opposition parties. Nineteen of those are specific to Mr. Ignatieff.

What you don’t know about Stephen Harper

By Paul Wells and John Geddes - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM - 237 Comments

Blair Gable/REUTERS

1. CRISIS POINT: The day he almost gave up power

Stephen Harper’s life and work made no sense to him if he wasn’t the prime minister of Canada. Having the title wasn’t his goal. He needed to hold on, long enough to change a country. Everything he had done in politics since 2002 was designed to unite his base and divide his enemies. Now his enemies were united. He was lost.

It was Monday afternoon, Dec. 1, 2008. On Harper’s desk sat a copy of the coalition deal Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe would sign in a public ceremony a few hours later. Its demure title blackened his mood even further: “A policy accord to address the present economic crisis.” The first paragraph gave the game away: this was about a “new government.” Not his.

At times like this, other leaders have been visited by close friends or trusted confidants who helped them look past the crisis of the moment toward history. But Stephen Harper has no close friend in politics, so the three men waiting outside his door would have to do.

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‘An immediate threat’

By Michael Frisconlanti and Martin Patriquin - Monday, January 31, 2011 at 3:47 AM - 4 Comments

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW TOLSON

It’s been 2½ years since Hani Al Telbani, luggage in tow, was sent home from Montreal’s Trudeau Airport—the first-ever casualty of Canada’s “no-fly list.” Since then, the young Muslim has proclaimed his innocence again and again, insisting that he is “not a danger to the public” and has been “unjustly associated with terrorism.” Telbani is so certain of his version of events that he is even suing the federal government, demanding $550,000 for the “stigma, humiliation, contempt, hatred and ridicule” he has endured because of Ottawa’s “errors.”

Only now, after its own legal fight, can Maclean’s finally reveal the other side of his story.

According to newly released evidence from CSIS, Canada’s spy agency, Hani Al Telbani was one of the devoted administrators of a notorious but now defunct Web forum dedicated to “virtual jihad.” From his fifth-floor apartment in the suburb of Longueuil, Que., the computer engineering grad allegedly posted messages and offered detailed technical support to fellow members of al-Ekhlaas, a militant, password-protected site frequented by thousands of hard-core Islamists—and used by al-Qaeda to broadcast fresh messages from Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Telbani’s online alias was “Mujahid Taqni” (Technical Jihad).

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Mubarak appoints new vice-president, prime minister

By macleans.ca - Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 12:07 PM - 13 Comments

The head of Egyptian intelligence Omar Soliman was sworn in as the country’s vice-president on Saturday, just a day after President Hosni Mubarak responded to massive protests threatening to topple his regime by ordering a full-scale re-shuffle of his government. Ahmad Shafiq, a former aviation minister, was also appointed prime minister. The moves have done little to quell demonstrators, who took to the streets again on Saturday in defiance of a government-imposed curfew. The Egyptian military has so far declined to intervene against protesters but is threatening to clear demonstrators from Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Al Jazeera English

Mubarak speaks

By macleans.ca - Friday, January 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM - 7 Comments

President Hosni Mubarak has finally addressed Egypt, following the third day of violent mass protests in Cairo, when thousands of anti-government demonstrators defied a government-imposed curfew, set fire to the governing party’s headquarters and the military was dispatched into the streets. Mubarak expressed regret at the loss of life of both police and protesters, and said he has been listening to protesters’ demands. He has asked the government to resign and will designate a new government on Saturday, although he himself will not step down. “We will continue our political, economic and social reforms for a free and democratic Egyptian society,” he said. In response to the international criticism of the government’s decision to block internet and mobile phone access during the protests, Mubarak said that Egypt’s media and civil liberties allowed Egyptians to protest on the scale that they did, but that “there is a fine line between freedom and chaos.” Within minutes of finishing address, protesters reportedly returned to the streets once again, chanting “Down with Mubarak.”

BBC

'Canada has a credible plan for addressing our environmental challenges.'

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, January 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM - 188 Comments

In the wake of a recommendation from the National Roundtable on the Environment and Economy that Canada move forward with a cap-and-trade system and a recommitment from the Liberals that they will move forward with cap-and-trade if elected, Peter Kent delivered his first major speech as Environment Minister this afternoon in Toronto.

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Too good to last

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, January 28, 2011 at 3:27 PM - 29 Comments

If you scroll down down to yesterday’s post on those new Conservative ads—”The no context zone“—and click on the video, you will receive the following message.

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