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See also Vice President (R) Sarah Palin
She never ceases to surprise - and on the eve of The Fourth.
Palin announces resignation
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political […]

Here is the wonderful  Montreal City Weblog that does 99.9% of our Montreal-focused work for us. While it also covers aspects that do not interest us - readers will have remarked on our avoidance of organized sport topics with a few rare exceptions (we consider politics a dis-organized sport) - it is full of current […]

See  Canada economy 2009
Kelly McParland: Latest studies show Canada is one awful country (Don’t be too alarmed, this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek)
Boy, do we stink. A nation of dirty-lunged, out-of-work, spendaholic chronic invalids, with a lousy banking system. How did this happen? I wonder if it’s too late to emigrate to North Korea?
1 July
Liberal-Era Diplomatic […]

See also Canada after 2008 election and Canada’s political showdown and Liberal Party Convention 2009 ; “Being Michael Ignatieff” by Michael Valpy
Robert Galbraith’s photos of Liberal Fundraiser in Montreal - June 4, 2009
Ignatieff on how the West will be won
… In part, he said, the Liberals have tried to win votes in Toronto […]

A personal bias, but we suggest any/all of Paul Krugman’s columns
Dr. Doom Has Some Good News
(The Atlantic July/August 2009) Roubini believes that the Obama administration’s policy makers—and especially the much-maligned Tim Geithner—have gotten a lot right. Pitfalls may still abound, but he is now projecting an end to the recession, and he sees growth ahead.
Tom […]

See related posts under Environment & Energy ; Arctic ; Biofuels ; Oil ; Canada & the Climate Change Conference (Bali) ; Liquid Asset The Canadian dean of the discipline, the University of Alberta’s David Schindler, wrote in 2006 that Alberta, along with Saskatchewan and Manitoba, will soon face “a crisis in water […]

Feds name expert panel to find stable isotope supply
The panel will study proposals for the alternative production of the key medical isotopes molybdenum-99 and technetium-99m. On Thursday, University of Waterloo engineering professor Jatin Nathwani urged the government to reactivate the MAPLE project, even as the expert panel started its deliberations. The MAPLEs are a pair […]

Update on Hungary
Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of physical and trade barriers and the establishment of a strong common currency, the rejection of a proposed constitution has led some local politicians to make extravagant promises that they are no more able to fulfil than were their […]

The way Mr. Flanagan sees it now, Stephen Harper is adrift in a vacuum of policy and principle, conniving only to retain power while hemorrhaging respect as a flawed political strategist.
Don Martin: Mentor delivers painful punch to Harper
It’s too harsh to qualify as constructive criticism, even if the author was once Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s […]

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introduction. It was going to be very simple — just one page, indeed just one line: “Nothing has changed.”It took me two days covering the elections in Beirut to realize that I was […]