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If passed, Bill C-300 would open up Canadian companies to attacks by those who believe mining should stop By Peter Foster Kill the Avatar bill! That's the cry at this week's annual meetingof The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in To...

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Opening the book selling market to foreign competition would help consumers. Ottawa should take up the causeBy Michael TaubeIndigo Books & Music Inc. is far and away Canada's largestbookstore chain of the bricks and mortar variety. But there's anobvi...

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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes, cautioned comedian Billy Connolly. After that, who cares, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes. The Conservative Party displayed a similarly flagrant disregard for due process, property right...

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Britain already leads the world in spying on its citizens with closed-circuit cameras. There are 4.2 million cameras in Britain, one for every 14 people, and twice as many as China uses to keep control if its 1.3 billion people, according to the Dail...

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Other than attacking colonialism and noshing with the Queen. South African President Jacob Zuma had something specific in mind when he recently visited Britain.Condoms.South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup this spring, an is concerned there won'...

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A lot of fascinating material in yesterday's New York Times storyon the aftermath of the big deal to buy out US Sugar's Evergladesholdings, but one thing of special note to politics: the unrestrainedway that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dumps on curr...

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It's not good enough for Danny Williams, but the Canadian Health Care system does have one supporter:Palin notes irony of using Canada health careBy DAN JOLING (AP)ANCHORAGE, Alaska Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care....

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Deficit reduction: Phase IGood news, everyone: Only $6,698,600,000 left to cut!If, at any pointsince the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada, you'd havedescribed it to us as a party that's aboutlaw and order, a strong military, smaller go...

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Oct. 7, 2008:S&P/TSE Composite Index close: 9,829 Stephen Harper: I think there's probably some great buying opportunities emerging in the stock market as a consequence of all this panic, Jack Layton: I couldn't believe what I was hearing from th...

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Whoever invented the term dreaming in technicolour must have been hanging around Queen's Park recently while Dalton McGuinty was cobbling together his latest speech from the throne. Lieutenant Governor David Onley was proceeding along nicely, readi...

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