Well we almost found out. Because if Stephen Harper got his way on this, democracy would have changed forever. And not a single citizen will have gotten to vote on the matter.
Feeding America, a U.S. hunger-relief organization, said the actual
number of Americans forced to skip meals and survive without adequate
nutrition is even greater than the report indicates because it is based
on statistics from 2007.
"It is important to note that the U.S. Department of Agriculture
numbers released today are 2007 figures and do not take into account
the unprecedented economic crisis that our country is currently
facing," Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America said in a
statement.
OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.
The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly ``cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.
Actually, it’s worse than even that: MacKay and Harper were making “backroom deals” (the PC/Alliance talks) on top of “backroom deals” (the MacKay/Orchard Pact), the latter of which actually forbade the very existence of negotiations or — you guessed it — “backroom deals” between the former PCs and Canadian Alliance.
I don’t seem to remember Harper thinking “backroom deals” were so bad when he was the chief beneficiary of them.
As it now appears, we could be heading for a Liberal-NDP coalition government with the Bloc providing support in Parliament. These three parties hold the majority of seats in the House and they won the majority of votes in the recent election. In forming a new government, they will be acting in the best interest of Canadians and will be taking a crucial step in the revitalization of democracy in this country.
If these combined reports are the least bit true, it really looks like the pieces are falling into place. Will it happen??? I won't say until I see it with my own two eyes, but it's looking all the more likely. It's taken some amazing events to get us to this point and I can't help but think that it will take some even more amazing events to stop this coalition from happening. The way that things are going this week, anything sure is possible and nothing seems outside of the realm of possibility.
On November 26, 2008 the city of Mumbai in India came under attack
in at least seven different locations in an unprecedented sort of
terror. A combination of gun fire, blasts, grenade blasts have been
used to attack cinema halls, hotels, hospitals, and other public
places. According to media sources 26 armed terrorists came to Mumbai
in rubber boats and landed at the Gateway of India. They captured
vehicles from the street on gun-point and moved to various targets
which included Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel, Ramada Hotel,
restaurant Leopold Cafe, Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST)
railway station, Metro movie hall, Cama Hospital, police headquarters
and other prominent places in the city.
The terrorists so far killed 101 people and injured around 300.
Media reports say that the terrorists searched for British and US
nationals in the hotels and at least 100 people have been held hostage
at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident hotels.
An organization called Deccan Mujahideen has taken responsibility for the attack. The police have seized the boats which carried the terrorists.
Posts
All Comments
