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UKs unlikely coalition faces first electoral test
LONDON (AP) — It’s the first Ballot Box test of Britain’s unlikely Coalition Government — a Special Election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans to dramatically slash public spending. Thursday’s vote in the northern England district of Oldham East and Saddleworth follows a bitter local battle during Britain’s election in May that resulted in the fir...

UK's unlikely coalition faces first electoral test
It's the first Ballot Box test of Britain's unlikely Coalition Government — a Special Election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans to dramatically slash public spending. Thursday's vote in the northern England district of Oldham East and Saddleworth follows a bitter local battle during Britain's election in May that resulted in the first Legal Challenge since 1911 to a vote due to ill...

UK's coalition govt faces first ballot test
LONDON - It's the first Ballot Box test of Britain's unlikely Coalition Government — a Special Election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans to dramatically slash public spending. Thursday's vote in the northern England district of Oldham East and Saddleworth follows a bitter local battle during Britain's election in May that resulted in the first Legal Challenge since 1911 to a ...

Mounties Apologized for Ramadan Terror Arrests
As the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) searched homes and seized equipment from three Terrorism suspects last August, the Mounties were apologizing to Ottawa Muslims for the timing of the arrests, the Toronto Sun reported Wednesday. The apologies drew criticism from non-Islamist Muslims and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who said the law should be enforced equally for all religious groups. Authorities arrested three men on Aug. 25 - two of them residents of Ottawa - and charged them with p...

Canadian PM tells Muslims not to expect special treatment after Mounties apologize for Ramadan jihad terror arrests
Stephen Harper for President. "Police criticized for apologizing to Ottawa Muslims for Ramadan arrests," by Robert Sibley for The Ottawa Citizen, January 6 (thanks to Patricia): OTTAWA -- There is one law for all Canadians, and no religious group should expect special treatment when it comes to enforcement of the law, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. The remarks were made in response to reports that RCMP officers had apologized for arresting Muslims on Terrorism-related charges du...

Canadian ambassador to stay in Ivory Coast
Carmen Chai, Postmedia News · Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 Ottawa — Canada is rejecting an order issued by the embattled Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo to remove Canada’s ambassador from the West African country, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. At a Friday news conference in Welland, Ont., Harper said he “obviously” doesn’t recognize Mr. Gbagbo’s requests, echoing similar sentiments from Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon earlier this week. “We...

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Never mind the contest between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives for influence in the Coalition – that is almost over, the Lib Dems being dead in the water. The power struggle that really matters is the one that is taking place within the Conservative Party. The battle for its soul is now properly under way. ...

Within Minutes of Shooting, CNN Finds Local Liberal to Blame State's 'Rabid Right' and Gun 'Fetish'
Within minutes of reporting the horrific shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other innocents in Tucson, as the early reports wrongly cited Giffords as dead, CNN found a local liberal Cartoonist/columnist to suggest the violence was “inevitable” because local Conservatives had been “stoking the fires of heater anger and rage.” When CNN anchor Martin Savidge pointed out there was no information yet on the shooter, the cartoonist acknowledged “That is correct,&rdqu...;

Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck
While Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) fights for her life in a Tucson, Arizona, Hospital, liberal media members continue to point fingers of blame for Saturday's tragic shooting spree at prominent Conservatives such as Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to wo...

We dont know a thing yet about Jared Lee Loughners politics, but lets blame him on the Right anyway
The alleged assassin’s MySpace page has been taken down, but you can read the text in this Huffington Post article. It also provides the YouTube videos identified as being from a “Jared Lee Loughner.” According to The Raw Story: The postings describe no coherent political ideology, said Mark Potok, an investigator with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks violent Extremists. Loughner was not in the Center’s database of hate groups and radicals. “He certainly sounds l

Pascrell injects politics into Gifford shooting
Members of the New Jersey House delegation expressed understandable shock and outrage at the attempted Assassination of an Arizona colleague. But one member could not resist accusing conservative Journalists and Activists of egging on the would-be assassin. There's an aura of hate and elected politicians feed it, certain people on Fox News feed it. Jackson paraphrased Pascrell as going on to say that the very "sense of law and order" was breaking down. I'm sitting here talking to you and my Blac...

Prime Minister promotes ethical oil
Here's a Reuters story about Prime Minister Stephen Harper following up on Peter Kent's adoption of the term "ethical Oil" to describe the oilsands. I'm pleased that the Reuters report -- which has huge distribution -- mentions my book! Jan 7 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday the creation of 22,000 jobs in the country in December was "encouraging", but added that the recovery remained under threat and that the Unemployment Rate was too high. In a televised n...

A&E; says it won't air 'The Kennedys'
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A&E; Television Networks says it will not air "The Kennedys," a miniseries about the American political dynasty, on the History Channel as planned. The production stars Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes as John F. and Jackie Kennedy. It was set for broadcast this spring. "Upon completion of the production of The Kennedys, History has decided not to air the 8-part miniseries on the network," a representative for the network told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. "Whil...

Winter Arts Preview: Television
The huge success of the NHL’s Winter Classic series in the U.S. has led the league to bring back the Heritage Classic outdoor game, which was first played in Edmonton in 2003. This time, the game will be in Calgary’s McMahon Stadium, and in addition to being the second NHL game played in the elements in Canada, it will also be the second broadcast in 3-D. (But you’ll the need a 3-D TV and glasses to see it in that format.) The CBC’s other bit of NHL event television, Hock...

Scot dies in triple tragedy as car crashes into reservoir
AN EXPAT Scot has died in Canada after his car skidded into an icy reservoir. James Roderick "Roddy" Allan, 43, died after his vehicle crashed into Spray Lakes Reservoir, in Alberta. Also killed in the accident was Mr Allan's brother-in-law Darrin Waugh and his wife, Jennifer, who were both 39 and from Calgary. The only ADVERTISEMENT passenger to survive the plunge was Mr Allan's partner, Jaimie Waugh, 33. Mr Allan, originally from Edinburgh, studied art in the city and made frequent return t...

Portuguese TV star slain, castrated at NYC hotel...
NEW YORK (AP) - A celebrity Portuguese television Journalist was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a Portuguese Reality TV show, was in police custody Saturday. Workers at the InterContinental New York Times Square hotel discovered the mutilated body of the 65-year-old journalist, Carlos Castro, in his blood-drenched room at about 7 p.m. Friday. He had arrived in the U.S. in late December in t...

Evil And Stupid
For a long time, there was an aphorism about politics that struck me as fundamentally true: "Liberals think Conservatives are evil, Conservatives think liberals are stupid." It seemed to sum things up pretty well, and it worked for a while. But I think it might have run its course. While I was reading the rantings of the Tucson shooter, and the attempts to tie him to the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin and god knows who and what else, I was struck with how he focused on the stupid, illiterat...

Flicker of Hope for Pipe Smoking in Toronto
© Curtis Rush/Toronto Star Members of the Downtown Toronto Pipe Club gather at Mike Kennedy's apartment for a year-end bash. Kennedy is in bottom row at left. When you think of pipe smokers, images arise of Hugh Hefner or Sherlock Holmes, or urbane college Professors and upper-crust Englishmen who wear ascots and play chess. The image carries tones of sophistication and intelligence, if not downright eccentricity. It's now a symbol of a bygone era, something your grandfather did. In a b...

Critics blast new study that suggests ESP is real
First Person: Marilyn Denis (she returns to TV Jan. 10!) Have a seat! Italian furniture maker Calligaris opens its doors in Toronto Last year, colour was reserved for cushions. Now, it’s on the sofa Asked to summarize his views on ESP,or extrasensory perception, Prof. Bem said in an email: “I believe the data (not just my own data) are strong enough to convince me that psi is real.” Derek Abma, Postmedia News · Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 A new U.S. study that suggests extrasen...

Canada employment up in some sectors
There were increases in December in Manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, as well as in natural resources, the agency said, but employment declined in construction, healthcare and social assistance, wholesale and retail trade, as well as in agriculture. Job gains were seen in Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador, while British Columbia posted declines and other provinces showed little change, it said. In November the Unemployment Rate fell to 7.6 percent and 15,200 new positio...

A Letter to Stewart Bell (National Post) by J.R. (Ottawa)
In response to the National Post Article: “Controversial anti-Islamic group plans rally in Toronto” concerning the support Rally the JDL is holding for the EDL. "...In Canadian Universities Jewish Students have been marginalized by pro-Islamist, anti-Israel/anti-Jewish Administrations; Professors, and students. On Canadian streets Islamic Fascists and their leftist supporters called for Jews to be sent to the gas chambers. Present at some of those demos were MPs and Union leaders. Vi...

Harper defends oil sands
Last year, colour was reserved for cushions. Now, it’s on the sofa Update: Police release photos of person near site of Yonge St. fire Louise Egan, Reuters · Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 Ottawa — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday the creation of 22,000 jobs in the country in December was "encouraging", but added that the recovery remained under threat and that the Unemployment Rate was too high. In a televised news conference, Mr. Harper also called Canada ...

Director Ed Burns casts his vote in favor of Comcast-NBC Universal merger
Comcast's the one for Ed Burns. The filmmaker ("She's the One," "The Brothers McMullen") has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission supporting the cable giant's proposed Merger with NBC Universal. While many in the Hollywood community have expressed concern about what the effect of the nation's largest cable and Broadband provider controlling a giant programmer would mean for independent programmers, Burns argues the deal will be good for fil...

Mayor Fischer institutes Merger 2.0 Task Force
Related: Bridges Authority: No tolls on current bridges Mayor Fischer meets with city’s snow team Bridges plan not written in stone, after all Governors, mayor announce cost-cutting plans for Ohio River Bridges Project Inauguration notes, spotted in the crowd Fischer gets to work after day of inaugural celebrations WHAS11 goes one-on-one with Mayor Greg Fischer Fischer inaugurated, calls for unity and compassion Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer calls it Merger 2.0 an...

Louisvilles new mayor plans to review city/county merger
Eight years ago, the citizens of Louisville and Jefferson County voted to merge their governments into what we now call Metro Louisville.  Now, the new Metro Mayor wants to take another look at the results.  Saying it’s time to review the first eight years of merged city/county government, Mayor Greg Fischer signed an Executive Order on Thursday, creating the Merger 2.0 Task Force. The 23-member panel will make recommendations for improving merger for all citizens by October, 201...