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HST: one argument against
And in the anti- corner, Susan Eng
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HST: One argument in favour
In the pro corner, Robin Boadway (and Ross Prusakowski)…
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Tags: HST, Robin Boadway, Ross Prusakowski
Who did it well in 1961 and who is trying to do it in 2009?
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Tags: Arthur Schlesinger, Gemma Collins, John F. Kennedy, Meredith McDonald, Nigel Hannaford, Paul Bunner, Robert Schlesinger, Ted Sorensen
The Harper Tories pull out a hot potato: “cuts”
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Tags: Jim Flaherty, Stephen Harper, The Deficit Slashers
Answer: Time bombs were ticking
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Tags: Paul Martin, The Deficit Slashers
This is what sports looks like to American college kids. Frank and I found our way into the gymnasium. After marvelling at the 14,000+ capacity of the place, we walked back through a few hallways, out a door and through a gate, and all of a sudden were standing on the football field. Now we [...]
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Five Days reaches Vanderbilt
Frank and I left the hostel this morning and, after a couple of left turns, made it to the campus of Vanderbilt University. We spoke to Robert Barsky, the multi-disciplinary heart and soul of the school’s ever-expanding Canadian Studies Program.
We stopped in at the office of the Vanderbilt Hustler — no, not that Hustler. This [...]
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Five Days: Waking up to warmth
The Music City Hostel is our home for the next three nights. When we arrived last night, we were met by a whole lot of young people from all over the States — North Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania…
It feels quite bizarre to be back here after just about a year. Not much has changed, [...]
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Five Days to Nashville and back
The trip is off to a sunny start. Frank is currently on a train to Buffalo, and I am on a bus with a wireless connection that left an hour earlier than I had planned, and which goes straight to Buffalo’s airport. Not a bad opening act.
On the way downtown this morning, it took exactly [...]
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Making friends with enemies
I talked about how great Ed Broadbent, Bill Blaikie and Chuck Cadman were in a previous post. Here’s my question, which is quite simple:
Which sitting MPs have earned respect from all corners of the House?
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Tags: Bloc Quebecois, Conservative Party, Liberal Party, NDP
