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 Citizen upheavals face challengesSo, in the dirty, rotten, duplicitous world of international diplomacy, a new chapter – The Jasmine Revolution.
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 Reduce consultant contractsThe city should spend as little money on outside consultants as possible. If there’s a job that could or should be done by full-time salaried city staff then it never be outsourced to consultants.
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 Dollars for votes plainly unfairIt should not be better financially for you to give money to a federal political party than to donate to a real charity.
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 Self-serving social workThe goal of Ottawa’s social workers should be to put themselves out of a job.
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 'Chill, man,' won't work for pot usersFor Giff, once a well-known Toronto publicist and now retired to the country life, keeping his sexual orientation on the "down low" was never a concern.
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 Alarming figure in 2011 budgetOttawa Sun Comment Editor Anthoney Furey talks about an alarming figure in the 2011 budget.
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 Letters to the EditorIt is about time the Conservatives grew a spine and stood up for Canadians by forcing biased bureaucrats at Library and Archives Canada to respect freedom of expression.
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 Feds demand too big a shareIs MP Maxime Bernier the last small-c conservative in Stephen Harper’s caucus loyal to the principle of provincial autonomy that guided the Fathers of Confederation?
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 Flaherty as 'The Nanny'In Stephen Leacock’s fictional 19th century town of Mariposa, barber Jeff Thorpe was thought to be a wealthy man, possibly because of the bargains he used to entice his customers to spend a little extra in his shop.
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 Film cancellation a scandalIt’s a scandal that the film Iranium was pulled from screening at Library and Archives Canada on Tuesday evening.
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 Even 'Premier Dad' was young onceIt was a surprising admission from “Premier Dad.”
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 Budget increase too muchJim Watson shouldn’t feel like a hero. The city of Ottawa lost on Wednesday morning. And lazy, complacent politics won.
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 Increase a lesser evilToday Mayor Jim Watson will present his first budget for council approval.
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 Doing it by the bookForget the politicians. Toss out the consultants. Ignore the policy analysts. Bring in the librarians.
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 Letters to the EditorWith the way the Senators are struggling this season, I suggest making a change in the Scotiabank pizza policy.
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 Damocracy to late to rebuild HaitiWhy is the rebuilding of Haiti stalled? Why, indeed.
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 Prepping his badonk for alien arrivalIf aliens visit Earth, there won’t be panic. But at my house, there will certainly be cleaning.
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 ‘Climate of hate’U.S. President Barack Obama’s unofficial motto was coined by his first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Emanuel was talking about the banking crisis that Obama used to nationalize General Motors and health insurance.
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 What do you want?What value are public consultations in Ottawa?
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 Grim chapter for book publishersWhat began as commentary on holiday reading veered off into insights into the Canadian book publishing industry. Janet gave me The Life and Times of my old friend, Mordecai Richler.
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 Wrong place, time for new bike laneWe don’t believe there should be a segregated bicycle lane on Laurier Ave.
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 Letters to the EditorRecently, I was at a restaurant in the Byward Market and noticed that they had placed stickers indicating a lower price beside the original price.
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 Lobbying for lobbyistsAccording to Anthony Furey’s Jan. 11 column, to quote his offensive word, as a lobbyist, I’m “retarded.”
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 Harper set to make moves on NDPSpring 2011 will be the season of the witch for the federal NDP.
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 Censorship’s dire stateDeveloped societies have come to understand censorship is only a productive tool in the most rare of circumstances, because it’s very rare for the majority of society to agree when it is necessary.
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