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Myanmar/Burma
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Myanmar News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
An aerial view of a town in the southern Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar that was devastated by the cyclone More Photos
Junta launches […]
Wednesday Night #1393
We return to some semblance of normality this Wednesday after last week’s back-to-back evenings, with the happy and historic events of Tuesday’s Election Night followed by Wednesday Night ’s more traditional – and certainly more sober – discussion of the economy, along with the huge challenges facing President-elect Obama. One […]
WTO
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WASHINGTON: NO BREAKTHROUGH EXPECTED IN TRADE TALKS
(RCI) A Canadian trade official says a breakthrough in world trade talks is unlikely to happen before US President Bush leaves office in January. But Don Stephenson, a Canadian assistant deputy trade minister, says a meeting of world leaders next month in […]
Canadian General election
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Canada Elects: The Alternative North America Goes to the Polls by David T. Jones
(American Diplomacy) In case you hadn’t noticed, the election is over. To be sure, not the U.S. national federal election that the world has been watching to the extent that it is virtually a global election.
But on Tuesday, October 14, the Canadian […]
Canadian election 2008: Westmount-Ville-Marie
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Lagacé-Dowson’s orange revolution not over yet
Dowson thinks the NDP could capitalize and take some left wing votes in Quebec whenever Gilles Duceppe decides to stand down as Bloc Quebecois leader. “Quebecers have shown that they are comfortable with the government assisting the population. This flies in the face of […]
Wednesday Night #1390
There was a time – until quite recently – when we aspired each week to fulfilling our mission “to entertain, inform and occasionally comment on a wide range of subjects of interest to us and to the many participants in and contributors to the Wednesday Night Salon”. However, the entertain part is becoming increasingly difficult […]
Wednesday Night #1389
Belated Happy Thanksgiving to one and all and warm wishes to our Jewish friends as they celebrate Sukkot.
We hope that in counting your blessings you remembered to thank She Who Must Be Obeyed that the Canadian election campaign does not last for 18 months - 2 years, at least not officially. It just seems that […]
U.S. Presidential Campaign: views and reviews II
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Buckley Bows out at National Review After Endorsing Obama (Daily Beast)
Christopher Buckley: Within hours of my endorsement appearing in The Daily Beast it became clear that National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing […]
Frank McKenna
McKenna eyeing Liberal leadership: source
9 October
Canada ‘ punching below’ its weight in aid — McKenna
Canada has fallen behind too many other nations in providing aid to developing countries, Frank McKenna says.
“I would like to see us stop punching below our weight,” the former Liberal premier of New Brunswick and Canadian ambassador to the United States […]
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