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New will to monitor welcome
Albertans should be grateful their canary in the oilsands had the courage to sing.
Opinion
Having a hectic pre-Christmas week? Well, it could be worse.
You could be one of Canada's finance ministers, stuck in Kananaskis
last Sunday and Monday, peering wistfully out at the mountains as a
colleague drones on about a nuance of pension reform.
Opinion
The following are excerpts from two recent posts on Postmedia
Network blogs. For the full posting, for other postings on these
blogs and for other blogs on a wide range of topics, go to
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More buzz about fake twitter
The Achilles Heal of modern social media -- the fact that its ultrademocratic, instant availability comes at a price of lost reliability -- was on intriguing display this week in two separate news items.
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Survey shows pets good source of therapy
A survey conducted by a pet-food manufacturer has established that it's a good thing pets don't understand the strange, non-barking noises that inexplicably come out of their owners' mouths. If they did, they'd have a lot of really juicy material to tell the neighbours, and maybe they'd need pets themselves to talk to after a tough day.
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Harper's resolution? Vote will resolve nothing
In a year-end media interview, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has told Canadians he has no interest in either calling an election, or provoking one by introducing legislation he knows the opposition majority will reject. Clearly, the season has temporarily mellowed Mr. Grumpy-- another demonstration of its great power and magic -- and Canadians should be gratefully relieved.
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Lucy? Laraque doesn't forget
If hockey sage Don Cherry can claim to know suits (shudder), one guesses that it's reasonable for Georges Laraque to say he knows elephants.
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Pipe dream becoming reality
The announcement this week that regulators are recommending approval of the long-awaited Mackenzie Valley pipeline was greeted with yawns and guffaws in many quarters. While the Northwest Territories called the decision "an early Christmas present," many industry experts were skeptical the $16.2-billion project will ever get off the ground given the oversupply and subsequent low price of natural gas.
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Credit-card levies deserve review
Here's a bit of Christmas cheer for Canadian businesses and consumers alike: the country's competition watchdog is taking a hard look at credit-card merchant fees that are among the highest in the world.
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Bring hammer down harder on work safety
Those are the words of Mariana Krsek, whose three-year-old daughter Michelle died 16 months ago, crushed by sheets of metal blown off the roof of a Calgary skyscraper that was under construction. She was walking innocently with her family near the Calgary Tower when she and her father were struck.
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The penny lost?
The Canadian Senate is not a friend of the lowly penny. In fact, arguing it has become more of a nuisance than a necessity after decades of inflation, the Conservativecontrolled upper house of Parliament is recommending that the copper coin be conserved no longer. Unelected they may be, but this time the senators are right, and they are doing us a service by floating the idea of making change.
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Welcome co-operation on tailings
"We must, indeed, all hang together or we shall most assuredly all hang separately."
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Climate talks art of the possible
With respect to both parties, you have to wonder about a global-warming deal that both Environment Minister John Baird and local NDP MP Linda Duncan consider to be a welcome accomplishment.
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Marriage, bafflegab and insecurity
The following are excerpts from recent posts on Postmedia Network blogs. For the full posting, other postings on these blogs and other blogs, follow the links at the end of each item.
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Four decades of an especially tricky era
Has it really been 40 years since Doonesbury came into our lives?
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Cherry pits himself against 'pinko newspapers'
Don Cherry may be a god in hockey circles, but he is still a bit unripe in politics. So why did new Toronto Mayor Rob Ford invite him to his inaugural speech? Cherry, in a neon pink sports jacket that looked like it was cut from some hippie's couch, lambasted "left-wing pinko newspapers" for criticizing his invitation to Toronto City Hall.
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Alberta: Be well paid for losing money
So, you aren't happy with the performance of your financial adviser? Stop complaining.
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What has HQ been working on? Don't ask
While the U.S. defence establishment remains wrapped in heated debate whether to allow gays to serve openly in their military, our armed forces have confronted the question of what people who change their sex can and should wear.
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As years go, 2010 likely better off gone
For Premier Ed Stelmach, 2010 has been -- to borrow a term used by the Queen in 1992 -- an "annus horribilis."
