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Swine ‘flu at the Tattoo

Overheard on Twitter: @statsgirl Swine ‘flu at the Tattoo? Sounds like a Dennis Lee book title to me.

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Harper: Mistakes happen, but nastiness betrays character

The fact that Stephen Harper mistakenly thought Michael Ignatieff was the author of a warning that Canada could lose G8 status misses the point. Substandard staff work? Sure. But at root, it was simply...

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The curious cultural journey of “Hallelujah”

Leonard Cohen wants fellow musicians to stop doing covers of Hallelujah. “I was just reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said ‘Can we please have a moratorium on...

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Obama and America’s slide into a police state

Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan, a British immigrant to the United States whom I would describe as a principled conservative, chronicles Obama’s failure to check the America’s slide into a police...

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James Fallows assesses Rose Garden beer

The Altantic’s James Fallows assesses the the Gates-Obama-Crowley Rose Garden pissup from a beer connoisseur’s viewpoint and finds it “mainly missed opportunities.” But then, it’s hard to get...

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Rodney to the Senate? But what about Brooke?

Conservatives were furious when Premier Donald Cameron quit his Pictou East seat in a huff on election night in June, 1993. So on election night in June 2009, Premier Rodney MacDonald was careful to...

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Visual data: the digital revolution in graphs – feedback

One of the great things about running a blog is that when you write about something interesting that you know little about, readers rush in with a wealth of further information. Contrarian friend...

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What the headlines missed about Donald Marshall, Jr.

When then-prosecutor Bob Lutes realized he would be speaking at the same small conference as Donald Marshall, Jr., he braced himself for the rage he thought Marshall must feel toward any prosecutor....

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Local lapses in CBC Radio’s iPhone app explained

This month, Apple approved a free CBC Radio app that offers yet another reason to own an iPhone. It will prove a boon to radio listeners not tied to their radios all day. The CBC Radio app will give...

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Hitch and Maher do Raztinger

America’s most lovable atheist interviews Anglo-America’s most irritating on Pope Benedict’s cover-up crisis, and though it pains Andrew Sullivan to say it, “he’s right, isn’t he?” Moneyquote: Suppose...

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