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When I saw the movie, I assumed that this must be some made-up incident created for dramatic tension.  But it seems it was perfectly true.  I am astonished that with all the delicate politicians eager to get a case of hurt feelings, this story-line was permitted to continue, without someone...

Early on in the movie Paul Gross says hello to Mr Harper.  Is that a reference to something, or just a wise-crack? Also late in the movie, the Paul Gross unit is sent to reinforce the "Black Devils", who immediately retreat.    I thought there was something in the movie that made me think Black...

Hmmm, discussion of HMCS Charlottetown should be conducted in The Mess ... Foreign Militaries ... French Navy ..., for some reason.

Can anyone provide more info on the activities of the Charlottetown Sea Kings on the kidnapped French cruise ship near Somalia?  I see a few references from AP that they are Canadian, but CNN implies they are French, and I haven't bumped into much of a reference from Canadian media.  For all the...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-12-06-jamaica-violence_N.htm Jamaica calls on army to help police curb violence KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican soldiers will join police on patrols on the Caribbean island in a new strategy to fight rising violence, the prime minister said. Nearly 60...

re: Or am I misreading? Yes, you are misreading. I am entirely in favour of Canada bringing security, peace, prosperity, and civilization to Afghanistan, and the border regions of Pakistan that may need it even more than Kabul, Kandahar, and Helmand. And I'd like it done with double the...

I don't think we need to worry that the Senlis Council will be ignored by the Canadian MSM.  With thousands of Canadians in Afghanistan, the only news we get is ramp-ceremonies and Senlis Council, so I think reprinting an Senlis editorial statement written like an news article is cheap and easy...

re: zipperhead Nice photos zipperhead, but you have not moved the ball forward there.  Or as you might say, you have not "kicked the darkness till it bleeds daylight". I do vaguely recall seeing the glorious Ms McDonald interviewed on the CBC, and without disguise, or...

Not only should I have known that, but I did know that, since I wrote it. The Senlis Council site is a little more flashy than the last time I visited, but "About Us" continues to tell us that Senlis Council is a Vancouver QC and a London (UK?) Executive Director. Although like the Polo Store...

"Google fu"?  I understand "Google", but "fu"? -- is that an acronym of a famous expression? Thanks for the reply, but the question was rhetorical. I'm all for Senlis Council publishing their opinions, and it is certainly a cuter name than "Crazy Old Man Ranting at the Corner of Yonge and...

Forgive me for asking, but Who Is the Senlis Council? How many councilors are there? What are their names?  Where does the council meet?  Are transcripts available from the meetings?  Who pays for the coffee and donuts? and most important of all:  How did this shadowy organization become the...

We should create a special topic to correct media errors, in hopes it might catch on, and even journalists might look at it. Here is my candidate for today: It is just a remark at the end of an article on another subject, but one C17 arrives and the $20 Billion rebuilding of the Canadian...

Thanks for the info.  But we are still left with an omnipotent Vancouver lawyer, with offices is London, Paris, Rio, ... and a shadowy network of European foundations hiding the source of funding, and quite possibly, the source of their universal acceptance by Canadian journalism.  My guess: ...

I see the Senlis Council is back and has applied the "auditor's rule" to Canada's foreign aid -- it doesn't exist unless the paper trail says it exists.  And they cannot find enough paper wrapped in miles of red tape to prove it exists. Who are these people and how did they appear from nowhere...

So what is the Action Plan? I re-submit my proposal from months ago. Cut $100 Million from the budget of the CBC and fund an hour a day on TV, and 2 pages a day in the newspaper (and all the reporters and editors and such to produce that amount of content) to report on the Military, Foreign...

I acknowledge that charity is difficult, and politicians pouting from the lobby-bar of whatever Hilton they are staying in tonight should be ignored in principle, ... but, I think there is something to this one, (which of course is a retread of the same issue from months ago). With all the...

He'd make a more credible argument if he just stuck with the military funding stuff, and didn't try to tie it to justifying a wretched institution like the Canadian Senate.

I was hoping the collapse of Lord Ignatieff would save us from the blushing fawning articles of glorious Canadians who have sacrificed themselves to return to the wasteland and share with us the genius that made them so special on the cocktail party circuit in Oxford, Harvard, ...  At least Paul...

Right back at ya, Ruxted. In a perfect world, the government is a great propaganda machine, but this government is less than ideal, in some part due to their own failures and in some part due to the tired old men of state-media, state-subsidised-media, and state-licensed-monopoly-profit-media...

O'Connor did nothing wrong, but he did not have the cheerful enthusiastic personality to convince the half-wit pencil-neck info-tainers that they should drop the Paris Hilton story, and the "St Pierre the Divine" version of peacekeeping, and spend some time and money understanding what is a...