really globe an mail ...really look around the planet- Germany and Canada are the ONLY 2 countries on this planet not in finanical stink hole -seriously?
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the deficit was here before the conservative gov't stepped the Liberals artificially credited a surplus by rearrange the funds, stole 28 billion from the military and veterans pension fund etc now the liberal media is trying to make it look like the conservative are spending money with no regard for social Canadian values and a series of corrupt members when there is just no money to spend and they are managing to keep us float in this economy is a miracle but this will help the Liberal tax and spend gov't get back in and then we will be in the same boat as the rest of them
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ONLY CANADA AND GERMANY r $$$ in the black on this whole cesspool financial hell burning planet !!!!!!- it's truly about the economy..... and all the fun tricks and media bullshit is nev-a gonna change the fact..... that US is owned $$$$$ by the Chinese- EUROPE UNION IS IN $$$$ TATTERS AND RUSSIA HANDS...... middle east and Persia are $$$$$ disasters of hate and complete disarray..... Africas are systemic $$$$$$$ poverty with the highest population.....
Justin Trudeau- u're cute as a teddybear..... and Muclair is just ... an ... unknon..... and the bloc... needs 2 fix Quebec's intolerance of all that is NOT French...... Canada's Media is so zoned out (well 20,000 Canadians watch all the political bullshit and beans... which is just sooooo flawed... anyway...imho)......
CANADA AND GERMANY- are the ONLY 2 NATIONS ON THE PLANET IN THE $$$$$ BLACK of the financial sinkhole called earth...
We all love teddy bears, unicorns and lollipops..... BUT ...the world is $$$$$ crashing- Canada and Germany are ONLY 2 COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET IN THE BLACK- china owns America, European Union is in $$$tatters and Russia is picking up the pieces, Middle East and Persia is eating itself alive.... and Africas has billions of people they cannot feed- and minerals ousourced 2 Russia and China, Pakistan is in disarray and India has 2/3rd poverty while climbing on the backs of their poor..... it's 2013- tell me.... which would u want runinng our nation..... scary isn't it...
Stephen Harper’s ‘charm offensive’ is economics: It’ll have to do
Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives to Xstrata Nickel's Raglan Mine in the northern Nunavik region of Quebec, on August 23. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper, it will sadden some to learn, is not an ogre or a troll. Nor are the members of his staff orcs, goblins, hobgoblins or cave wights out of Tolkien. They are all, shockingly, human beings.
Having spent the last week locked up with them cheek by jowl — the staffers that is, not the prime minister, more on that later — in rattletrap buses, dingy hotel basements and in the belly of a flying tank, I can attest that they work very hard. Managing a tour of the Arctic, on a very tight schedule, observed and criticized at all times by a gaggle of touchy, tired, grumpy journalists, can’t be anyone’s idea of fun. Yet I saw Harper’s staff do that, with good nature, resilience and aplomb for the most part.
But for the incident Friday afternoon, in which a Chinese journalist from a state-owned newspaper was prevented from asking a question of the PM and shoved a female staffer, last week’s Arctic tour, Harper’s eighth as prime minister, went off without a hitch, from a Conservative standpoint. He hit all the thematic and policy notes he intended to, appeared in a series of photo ops that reinforced those themes and policies, and avoided any major missteps. Another job done, on to the next.
That said, they — meaning Harper and the Conservatives — could be doing so much better than this. To watch the PM in action, up close, is to see repeated opportunities missed, for reasons that make little sense. Much of this appears to stem from his aversion to, and discomfort with, the national media.
Since June, when the Senate scandal broke, there has been speculation that Harper might mount a "charm offensive," to take back some lost ground. There were quiet entreaties from within his caucus, for him to loosen up — give a press conference every week, say, or make a major speech before a non-partisan crowd, once in a while. Several Conservatives I spoke to referred to his freewheeling press conference last December, after Ottawa approved Chinese state-owned CNOOC’s takeover of Calgary-based Nexen Resources. That performance is acknowledged, even by some of Harper’s opponents, to have been impressive and a political win.
The long-established pattern, however, is far more restrictive. Harper’s news conferences are exceedingly rare. On foreign trips, if he speaks to the media at all, he takes a strictly limited number of questions. On this trip there were four "media avails" over six days, each of which lasted just over five minutes. There was a "photo opportunity" last Tuesday evening, at the PM’s camp at Gjoa Haven: It was restricted to a small number of "pool" media, a convention normally used only when there are physical strictures that prevent the whole gallery from attending, such as limited space on a helicopter in a war zone. There was another photo op Wednesday on the Coast Guard vessel Sir Wilfrid Laurier, during which Harper spoke for a few minutes but took no questions.
As for the rest, for the duration of the week up north, ostensibly his favourite and most relaxed time of year, we never saw him — other than from a carefully managed distance of, say, 50 feet. At Gjoa Haven the PM’s camp was 14 kilometres away from ours, across the tundra. Twice at events I moved past the invisible 50-foot barrier to observe Harper engaging with locals up close, say within 20 feet. Both times I was asked by a staffer to move back.
Here’s the weird part: He’s actually pretty good with people, from what I was able to see, through my zoom lens and the hazy veil of the reporter-blocking force field. He appeared comfortable and pleased to pose with all who came out to greet him, particularly children and the elderly. At Gjoa Haven, Harper had to have been tired, as we all were. Yet he posed for photos until there was no one left in line. That’s not a side of the man we normally see.
The consequence of Harper’s almost comical standoffishness with the national media is a shrouding of his message, and an underlying tension that never goes away. The altercation Friday between Li Xue Jiang, bureau chief for the China People’s Daily, and Conservative staffer Julie Vaux, and the Mounties, would never have occurred, had the PMO not been bound by habit to tightly control questions. Setting aside all other issues: Why not just let Li ask his question? Ironically, it was to be about foreign investment — the very topic that garnered Harper plaudits last winter.
The "charm offensive," it is now clear, is the economy, stupid, leavened with some historical exploration romance. If there were going to be a renewed effort by Harper to personally engage, this would have been the week to do it. It’s not happening. It’s a curious approach indeed, given that 2015 will be year nine in a country with a long history of 10 and out, and that politics is still, at the end, a popularity contest.
http://o.canada.com/2013/08/25/0826-col-dentandt/
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IT'S TIME 4 CIVILIZED NATIONS 2 STEP AWAY FROM MIDDLE EAST, PERSIA AND THE ASIAS- LET THEM FIGHT THEIR OWN BATTLES- NONE HONOUR UNITED NATIONS DESPOTS AND THIEVES- AND MOST HAVE SIGNED NO AGREEMENTS-
We care about the poor, the innocent and the everyday people- BUT THIS HARD PART OF WORLD DOES NOT.... let's move on.... Afghanistan - we gave all..... and paid dearly and won major daily victories..... but NO MORE
Assignment Afghanistan: Go Down Nightmare
January 1, 2011 by Adam Day
Oscar Company just after dawn, crossing a field near Chalghowr. [PHOTO: ADAM DAY]
http://legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2011/01/assignment-afghanistan-go-down-nightmare/
AFGHANISTAN- Canada's troops- Idle No More Canada
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