Well, it's official. Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today (BBC) that "some pockets" of Iraq will not participate in the elections on January 30th. Presumably it would be because of the security situation. He said the pockets "are not large"... but until we learn exactly who will and will not be voting we can't …
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Hi again. So, last weekend Victoria got dumped on, or at least our small neighbourhood, with about 30 centimeters of snow... about 1.5 feet! That's ALOT for Victoria.. and what's more, it's still really cold... like -5 at night (28F)... which again is very unusual for Victoria, and the West Coast of BC in general. …
UPDATE 1: The CBC now reports that the government has officially announced $425 million over 5 years. What's more, personal donations from Canadians has reached $100 million including the largest single personal donation every made, $5 million, to the Canadian Red Cross coming from "Music World' music store millionaires Kroum and Evan Pindoff. Correction I …
