Tag: government
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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March 23, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Some would say that President Obama is only saying the right things, and that actions speak louder. In general I agree that this is the case. I was therefore pleased to see that the Obamas will be planting . . .
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December 09, 2009 09:48 PM EST --
This year has been unique for Toronto. This was the first November that there has been no accumulation of snowfall since records starting being kept in 1937. Even though I remember as a kid that there . . .
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December 10, 2008 09:11 PM EST --
I'll admit, I've been busy with other subjects so I've let this one slide. Even though my opinions on politics in my country have been getting stronger and stronger, I've elected to do . . .
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January 10, 2009 10:07 PM EST --
I just heard today that President Obama, who is to be sworn in to the office of president in about ten days, will make his first foreign visit to Canada. This was a tradition for many of the American . . .
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January 18, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
A lot of my posts are stimulated... born... inspired... by other things I read on gather. This was one of them. After several weeks away, trying to get ready to teach a class and doing research . . .
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March 13, 2009 11:36 PM EDT --
The Fifth Estate is one of our news programs that explores and presents news from aparticularly Canadian perspective to the world. It is on CBC, but like anything these days it is available . . .
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April 30, 2009 11:25 PM EDT --
Someone commented on one of my posts that he believed that it was “okay” to torture. I read the comment and drew a breath; my immediate reaction was rather base. But if one person can leave . . .
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May 02, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
It must be nice to live in one world while passing legislation in another.
Republican Congresswoman Virginia Foxx was speaking out against the hate crime legislation passed this week, which . . .
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June 06, 2009 10:30 PM EDT --
I recently read a post that stuck in my mind (as many do). It included the line: "if you don't vote... you don't matter."
Oh, there was a bit of explanation in there... I didn't vote when I lived in . . .
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July 04, 2009 01:42 PM EDT --
My first thought when I heard about Governor Palin's resignation was negative, though it had nothing to do with her activities. I don't agree with some of her policies and was glad that she was not . . .
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March 12, 2009 11:45 PM EDT --
This is a quote. I got an email at work last week that described a new ban on pesticides to be introduced April 22nd, 2009. They can no longer be used cosmetically. My first thought (hey, I can be slow . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:22 PM EDT --
Sometimes when reading a post on Gather I have a thought that is more than just comment-worthy. Sometimes it's the comments themselves that spark a different direction in my thinking. And sometimes . . .
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March 29, 2009 09:59 AM EDT --
Hey guys: I was reading a note written some months ago (I disappear from gather for months at a time and it can take a long time to catch up on email...). This note was pretty short in itself (I have . . .
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April 05, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
I was just reading a post by Katherine E about a principal who sued MySpace.com for a defamatory website page that was drawn up. It sounds like the law suit is going to be successful, in spite . . .
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April 25, 2009 07:00 PM EDT --
I grew up in northwest Toronto, and there was a lot I took for granted. I left in the early 1980s: I went to the University of Waterloo in 1982 and Chicago in 1984. At that time I was technically from . . .
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March 08, 2009 12:40 PM EDT --
Today is International Women's Day. It is an event that is not just the product of the last few years, as so many of these special days are: it is almost 100 years old. Planning started a century . . .
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March 22, 2009 12:14 PM EDT --
I started writing about the AIG scandal a few days ago: but there were so many opinions floating around that I did not want to add more voices to the confusion. I was not pleased about it: as I can tell . . .
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May 31, 2009 10:37 PM EDT --
Mario Sergio, MPP York West Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance
Honourable Sirs:
In April of 2001 I was living in Arkansas, in the US, and while driving home one day I hydroplaned and . . .
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June 16, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
I was reminded last week about one of the things I love about my current job and my current boss. Part of working for the government of Ontario is that they do not discriminate regarding sexual orientation: . . .
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