Archive for August, 2006
Monday, August 7th, 2006
I am a bit of a history buff and, especially, an American history buff (let's face it, it's interesting). I just got through watching Treasure Hunters, a superficial and yet interesting reality TV series that touches on facets of the history and founding of the United States.
Tonight I learned that ...
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
Yesterday Stephen Harper - who is apparently a Lucas Arts production - struck back, according to CTV.ca at Liberals by saying that our leaders and the party itself don't know what we believe in.
Harper states that his party, the Conservative Republican Party of Canada, has "a government to run and ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Our luck with submarines just doesn't seem to be worth the bother, I think.
Today, outgoing East Coast fleet (!) commander, Rear Admiral Dan McNeil, expressed his frustration that the HMCS Chicoutimi, pride of the Canadian fleet, will not start being repaired until 2010.
Imagine that, being frustrated that an already 23 ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Cuban-Canadians are calling for a tougher stance to be taken now that their former government seems in flux. The Cuban Canadian Foundation president spoke today saying that he felt former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who was a life-long friend of Castro, made a "big mistake" putting his faith in ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Barney, the (no doubt former) guard dog for Wookey Hole Caves, went on a rampage Tuesday night and ate himself a few hundreds of teddy bears, including one belonging to the King.
The collection of bears, rining in at about 900,000$ worth, were ravaged by the Doberman pinscher as the museum's ...
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