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By Alison@CreeksideArmorGroup mercenaries in charge of security at the US embassy in Kabul:". . . dancing naked around a fire, licking each others nipples and grabbing each others testicles, sex acts, peeing on each other, vodka shots from butt cracks, eating potato chips from clenched buttocks . . ."Well, boyz will be boyz, stress of the mission and all that, leading directly to:"hazing, weekly

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By Alison@CreeksideWhen Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan complained about young boys being kidnapped and sodomized by Afghan soldiers and interpreters inside Canadian Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar, they were informed by their superiors to look the other way because it was a "cultural difference." One reported incident of "cultural difference" left a young boy with "his bowel and lower

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By Alison@CreeksideIn February, Bernie Farber, CEO of the CJC, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, and 10 other Lib and Con MPs attended the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism. From Farber's Feb 25 column at Canadian Jewish Congress:"Of all the strategies and tactics reviewed, one stood out for broader emulation. It was the development of all-party enquiries into the state of

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By Alison@CreeksideOn June 28th, 200 soldiers of the Honduran military kidnapped the president, Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, and flew him to Costa Rica. His attempted return five days ago was unsuccessful.The coup d'etat was roundly condemned by the UN, the EU, the Organization of American States, and rather more tepidly by the USA. The EU pulled its diplomats, the World Bank suspended aid, and all

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By Alison@CreeksideJustice Minister Rob Nicholson announced in Question Period Friday that the government will comply with, rather than appeal, the Federal Court decision ordering it to repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik, stranded in Sudan since 2003.Good.As Chris Selley writes: "It's all over but the thousands of unanswered questions"Here's one.How much did this July 2006 US Embassy memo figure in

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By Alison@CreeksideBob alerts us to this CBC headline : Canada, U.S. will renegotiate Great Lakes water treaty"Canada and the United States will renegotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Niagara Falls, Ont."Clinton, who was joined by Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, crossed the border for celebrations marking 100 years of the

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By Alison@CreeksideBill C-15, an amendment to the Controlled Drugs [and Uncontrolled Growth of the Prison Industry] Act, guarantees, among other travesties, automatic jail time for people who grow and sell five marijuana plants.Believe it or not, this is an improvement over what the Cons originally proposed -- jail time for just one plant -- until the Bloc and NDP managed to leverage it up to

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By Alison@CreeksideHaaretz, May 25, 2009 :A "new anti-Semitism" that emanates from an alliance of Western leftists and Islamic extremists is more dangerous than the "old European" form of Jew-hatred, Canada's minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism said as he wound up a four-day trip to Israel Sunday."The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat

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By Alison@Creekside"The time has come," the Oliphant said,"To talk of many things:Of envelopes stuffed with wads of cashAnd if they came with strings --Perhaps you only beat the rapBecause the pigs were schwings*.""But wait a bit," the Muldoon cried,"Before we have our chat;I have complaints to make," he said,"Regarding Steve the Fat.""No Hurry," said the Oliphant,"There's always time for that...

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By Frank MoherThat BC's Libs would be re-elected was a no-brainer; they simply hadn't done anything spectacularly incompetent enough in the last four years to get tossed-out. The breadth of their win may have something to do with their effective co-option of the environmental movement, thus drawing off erstwhile Green and NDP supporters. And the coming storm over Olympic cost overruns, which are

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By Alison@Creekside"Environmental blah blah" is how retiring NDP MLA Corky Evans describes the privatization of B.C.'s waterways under the guise of addressing climate change. So-called "green" run of river hydro projects, also known as independent power projects or IPPs, divert water into a pipe several kilometres long and then into a turbine before returning it to the same watercourse

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By Alison@CreeksideOnce upon a time the NAFTA Superhighway/Trade Corridor was just a conspiracy theory.Then it was a gleam in Manitoba Premier Gary Doer's eye. From his 2007 Speech from the Throne :"Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of a Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, connecting our northern Port of Churchill with trade markets throughout the central United States and Mexico.

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By Alison@CreeksideBig hullaballoo following CSIS lawyer Geoffrey O'Brian's testimony before the public safety committee, in which he said that Canadian intelligence agencies would make use of information obtained by torture from foreign agencies in the "one-in-a-million" eventuality that "lives were at stake." In fact, said O'Brian, who has been with CSIS since its inception in 1984, "we would

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By Alison@CreeksideGeorge Galloway, a sitting member of the British Parliament and leader of the Viva Palestina humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, has been banned from Canada on security grounds.Describing him as an "infandous street-corner Cromwell," Jason Kenney spokesweasel Alykhan Velshi told Channel Four News above that George Galloway "poses a national security threat to Canadians" and will

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By Nicole WalyshynMichael Ignatieff was once again out west this weekend, telling the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce all sorts of things he thought they wanted to hear: that they were prescient and progressive, having been the first CoC to admit women as members; that they were right to label Stephen Harper's response to the economic crisis as "weak" and creating "a false sense of hope"; and that "

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By guest blogger Alison@CreeksideStaples?That's your defence -- staples?That there was the possibility of staples?You RCMP lawyers have fucking lost it.Millions watched four RCMP zap Robert Dziekanski within seconds of meeting him, kneel on his upper body till he was dead, and then stand around making no attempt to revive him.We heard the immediate RCMP spin in the aftermath that only three

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By guest blogger Alison@CreeksideSo what's your vote worth to Steve?In the budget, The Conservatives propose to add a $6 billion stimulus package to the $13 billion deficit they had already racked up so far and which they presumably wished to hide within this economic crisis package. We will all get $199 to $599 each, unless you're really poor in which case you'll only get $33. If you're on a

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If the Harper government falls in the next month, let's keep in mind whose fault it is.Jack Layton's. That's right. Mr. blown opportunity himself.But first, let's get something straight: when the opposition parties started moving toward a non-confidence motion back in November, they weren't capitalizing on an opportunity to topple a democratically-elected government; they were doing their jobs.

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Note the yellow highlighted text in the above. Do the people in the Secretary of State's office know something about what's going to happen when Parliament reconvenes that we don't?They sure seem excited about it.~ Frank Moher

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By guest blogger Alison@CreeksideDr Dawg relates that Gerry Chipeur "the Alberta lawyer who drafted a power-sharing proposal between Stockwell Day, Gilles Duceppe and Joe Clark in 2000 is now suggesting that the Conservatives should defy the Governor-General if she were to ask the Liberal-NDP coalition to form a new government if the Conservative administration falls on January 27."CanWest : "

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By guest blogger Frank MoherOne thing of which you can be certain: if you're a western Canadian prime minister, they will eventually try to get rid of you. They, of course, being the central Canadian political operatives and parties who regard it as their congenital right to run the country.It happened to Diefenbaker, it happened to Joe Clark, and now it's happening to Stephen Harper. One could

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By guest blogger Alison@CreeksideCP : "The Liberal motion, which has the approval of the NDP and Bloc Quebecois, reads:'In light of the government's failure to recognize the seriousness of Canada's economic situation and its failure in particular to present any credible plan to stimulate the Canadian economy and to help workers and businesses in hard-pressed sectors such as manufacturing, the

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What Obama's election won't do: Change everything.What it's already done: Ended 29 years of Bush-Clinton rule.What it might do: Change relations between whites and blacks in the United States.And that might change everything.- Frank Moher

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Because of our ridiculous and highly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, the party that most Canadians do not want is forming a government. According to Fair Vote Canada, this stupid, stupid system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, created an unrepresentative Parliament and contributed to a record low

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The Conservatives may have been re-elected last night, but Stephen Harper lost. He coulda been more than a contender; he could have been the leader of a majority government. But he lost it by being small-minded; his silly, captious comment about artists torpedoed the Conservatives' momentum in Quebec, and here we are.Over on bobalicious, BoB blogger Eric Pettifor suggests that "He's got the next

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