Are you one of those Netniks who can’t resist sharing the fruits of your meanderings on the Internet with friends, family, comrades and co-conspirators?
I know I am, or could be, if I didn’t restrain myself.
I troll the the Net most days and rarely come away from these fishing expeditions without something substantial. Knowing that my [...]

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Dear Jack,
With the coming election, I’m sure you are reading all the polls with great interest. So, I imagine you know, better that most, that in the most recent poll on Canada’s military intevention is Afghanistan (July 10, 2008), 58% disagreed with the decision to keep fighting until 2011. The percentage of Canadians supporting the [...]

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Sgt. Shawn Eades, Cpl. Dustin Roy Robert Joseph Wasden and Sapper Stephan John Stock were killed by an IED on Thursday, August 21, 2008. Their deaths bring to 93 the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. As is their custom, Canada’s political leaders wrapped their corpses in bloody lies and tired platitudes.
“Today, all [...]

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Please respond to this appeal, just in, from Eric Lee at Labour Start:
A few days ago I wrote to tell you about the increased repression directed against Iranian labour activists.
I told you about the case of two women in particular, Sousan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi (at left), who have been sentenced to jail terms and [...]

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Today, Stephen Harper gave Vladimir Putin some advice that he, himself, ought to follow. Said Harper:
“We do call on Russia to respect the territorial integrity of Georgia. I am deeply troubled by a notion I see developing in Russia, and that is a notion that Russia somehow has a say or some control over countries [...]

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Taliban insurgents killed three humanitarian aid workers and their driver yesterday in an attack that is being condemned, rightfully, as murder.
Dead are two Canadians, Jacqueline Kirk (left) and Shirley Case, an American, Nicole Dial and an Afghan, Mohammad Aimal.
By all accounts, they were decent, loving people who didn’t deserve what was done to them.
Prime Minister [...]

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Dear Premier Doer,
We write to ask you to remove the “Yellow Ribbon Garden” from the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature and to refrain from lending provincial support to the “Red Shirt Rally” planned for August 15, 2008 on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature.
We do so because the “Yellow Ribbon” and “Red Friday” campaigns in [...]

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