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Saturday Night's Alright For (Uke) Cover Fighting! - There'sNoUkeLike CoverUkeVille First, The Original....Because these days....Well....Mr. Roboto is.... *Us.* * * And, next....The only Uke cover in...
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Why I Wake Up Early On the Weekend - One of the things I do is fuck off with the dog so Sonja can clean up our house. If it was just the Hammer and I, we would be screwed. The dog and I make...
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Where oh where did I find the basis for this Post? The "de-professionalization of teachers"? It emerged from my Last Post, and now I think I hear a Chorus. - I remember hearing "The Last Post and Chorus" on CBC (Radio), must be thirty years ago. The commentator for the show explained that the words were wrong. ...9 hours ago
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Iran, threats and the UN Charter - *(updated below)* *The Washington Post*'s David Ignatius today persuasively argues that President Obama, in his interview with *The Atlantic*'s Jeffrey G...13 hours ago
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Bill Tieleman on CBC TV NewsNetwork - Connect with Mark Kelley - on Robo Call Scandal - 5:20 p.m. - I joined guest host Reshmi Nair to talk about the Robo Call Scandal on CBC TV's Connect with Mark Kelley Friday afternoon at 5:20 p.m. BC time on NewsNetwo...
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End times? - What a mess, what a wrong-headed, stupid, avoidable, politically driven mess. That’s what this week in provincial and national politics looks like ...1 day ago
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Friday Finds: Lorax Speaks for the SUVs - Google oceans, cutting oil subsidies, beach-bound tsunami debris (Photo courtesy of B Rosen) *The Lorax peddles SUVs to elementary kids* The main ch...1 day ago
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Sears store at Robson and Granville to close: Your ideas for this key urban space here - The Twittersphere already bubbling with ideas for what to do with our “iconic” bathtub building at one of the city’s key intersections, which started life ...1 day ago
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RoboConfetti : WWMD? - Right now the Cons are "reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay in the last election before Elect...
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Assessing ACTA: Video of My Talk at the European Parliament - Yesterday I appeared at the European Parliament's INTA Workshop on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I have written a commissioned report for the ...1 day ago
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The female face of farming: infographic - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and Farming First have produced this interactive graphic showing how women pull their weight in agri...1 day ago
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Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski strikes again [Respectful Insolence] - I was originally going to write about an amazing article that appeared in the NEJM today, but then, as happens all too often, something more compelling c...1 day ago
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Occupy the Pews - This article originally appeared in the Tyee. If you happen to be looking for B.C. Premier Christy Clark at 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning, you might find h...1 day ago
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Hungry kids today, leaders tomorrow - Whether you’re a kid in Canada orHonduras, your school is going to try to convince you to eat better. I attendeda workshop for teachers this week here in ...
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Bye Bye American Pie: The Challenge of the Productivity Revolution - Here’s the good news. The economic pie is growing again. Growth in the 4thquarter last year hit 3 percent on an annualized rate. That’s respectable – alth...2 days ago
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ROGOFF: Jeremy Lin and the Political Economy of Superstars - ROGOFF: Jeremy Lin and the Political Economy of Superstars High salaries for athletes and movie stars are easily accepted by the public. So why, if a finan...2 days ago
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QUOTE OF THE YEAR - 84 patients have died with an infection at Burnaby General Hospital in the past two and a half years. Died. 84 human persons. 437 cases of the infection...
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Wikileaks vs. Stratfor: Pursue The Truth, Not Its Messenger - By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, has again published a massive trove of documents, this time from a private intell...
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Your Top Ten Political Films - We rank fans and viewers' suggestions for top political films. Did yours make the cut? Continue reading3 days ago
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The Dragon Crystals - Part 2 of a dragon story I made up tonight for my son (part 1 is here): So a long time ago, in a land far, far away – called China – there were dragons. An...3 days ago
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Appealing to the base - Hollywood has the same problem with the Oscars that the Republicans are having with their primaries. They can't seem to agree on a candidate with a broad app...4 days ago
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Election fraud including Stephen Harper's win, investigated. For heaven sake, don't let the Opposition drop the ball on this inquiry. - . *BC Mary Comment: As a former resident of a Gulf Island (17 years), I always felt suspicious of Gary Lunn's last re-election. Then a Refo-o-orm Party M.P...1 week ago
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In Syria, small gestures won’t be enough - By Michael Byers and Joshua Freedman National Post, February 23, 2012 On Friday, delegates from a group of countries calling themselves the “Friends of Syria...1 week ago
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Mainstream's cancer - Don Staniford. Photo Anissa Reed *In the lawsuit opposing* fish farm giant Mainstream Canada to DonStaniford, a key battle was fought over the issue of can...
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The Lesson of Bolivia - Travelling through South America for seven months last year really opened my eyes to the true meaning of the words “developing nation”. I had always though...
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Thanks Norman, for my laugh for the day. One thing Mr. Quasniki failed to mention was his own head of hair. Such a beautiful combover.......
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