Bad Headlines for Canada: Sponsorship Program has Opposite effect?

Given my (granted limited) attempt to gather International news… I just flipped to cnn.com and was presented with this as the Top Headline on the International Section. New push for separate Quebec If what Chretien wanted to do was truly to promote federalism, it appears he has failed miserably and, at least to outsiders, appeared …

Gomery Report: Will the Government fall?

I doubt it. For a number of reasons… #1: The Conservative Party has not the balls to bring down the government. They *could* do it… without quesiton, but they’d have to make a deal with the Bloc and NDP in order to do it. They’re far too power hungry to do that.. they think they’d …

Iraqi Constitution passes

The official results are in… and the people of Iraq have a new constitution. As I mentioned in earlier posts, two Sunni provinces voted overwhelmingly against the charter… but the required 2/3 in a third province was not achieved. That said, the UN and other international observers has indicated that all the voting was free …