Thursday, January 19, 2006

Canada's New Finance Minister?


The roaring and booming of the Canadian dollar is because we apparently have a new Finance Minister or perhaps the government replaced Bank of Canada President David Dodge and didn't tell anyone. This gives new meaning to Petro-Dollar.

Canada's Dollar Gains by Most in a Week After Bin Laden Tape

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's dollar rallied by the most in a week as the U.S. dollar fell after a man identified as al- Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned of more attacks against the U.S. in an audiotape broadcast by al-Jazeera television.

The Canadian currency was among seven major currencies benefiting from the sell-off of the U.S. dollar. Some traders and investors said the currency's drop to a two-month low earlier today was unwarranted given prospects for growth in the world's eighth-largest economy.

``The rise of the Canadian dollar is partly driven by the short-term selling pressure of the U.S. dollar after the tape came out,'' said George Davis, chief foreign exchange technical analyst at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto.

The speaker in the tape warned of more al-Qaeda attacks, while offering a ``long-term truce'' linked to the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.

A tip o the blog to Dust My Broom

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Alberta All A Buzz

Here is some of the reaction in the Edmonton Sun today about Buzz putting down Alberta.

Buzz bids to Bloc Harper

EDITORIAL: Grits get Buzzed
Martin gets Buzzed

Reaction was more muted in the other paper; the Edmonton Journal. Muted is not strong enough it was virtually comatose. Slept through the whole thing and published a pre-writtten essay on electoral reform as its editorial.

While the Calgary papers; the Herald and Sun ran wire stories. The Calgary Sun at least made it the front page story. Though it was still the wire story. Calgary is of course Tory Blue.

But in Edmonton we have two seats that were Liberal. Note the past tense.

Wonder what that other Liberal labour leader and pal of Buzz's, Dan MacLennan Presidentof the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) will have to say about this.

Sounds like he needs to give his pal Buzz a reality check.
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The Envelope Please

Say did anyone know about this new award? Apparently PC Canada, no not Progressive Conservative silly, Personal Computing, has judged the election websites and blogs and found them not wanting. Election 2006: Forget the best platform, who has the best blog, website?

And the winner? Two out of Two best website and blog goes to......the BQ!

Runner ups the Green Party and Conservatives. No mention of the NDP or Liberal election websites. Do I detect a corporate bias here?

Then they go and say this, which I still can't make heads or tails of. No matter how much I scratch the old puzzler.

Most Puzzling Feature on any Website Award
  The Blog
  Lowdown: It's not that we don't love the mud slinging. And it's not that
we don't like blogs (perhaps one of the most democratic mediums of expression
developed in the last century). But, simply put, we fail to understand the
wisdom of putting together a whole campaign based on scientific marketing
studies and craftily spun information, only to have it ruined by someone who
wants to compare Jack Layton or Olivia Chow to a dog (various Liberals), or
secede from Canada if they don't win this election (see: Alberta Conservative
campaign manager Gordon Stamp). For our money, save the rants for the House of
Commons and leave the blogs for people who want to complain about broken
election promises.
Huh? Neither of these Blogs was on any official web site. And Gordon Stamps comments were on a Web Forum page. This comment makes no sense. But then they gave best Web site in English to the Conservatives and that makes no sense either.

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Layton Rallies Edmonton Strathcona

Its come down to this what I have been saying all along you doubting Thomases. Edmonton Strathcona A Horse Race

Like my pal Jan from the Carpenters union who emailed me to say; "You cannot be serious,". Yep I am.

And it appears the NDP War Room has finally got the message too. So Jack whipped into Edmonton last night to push the vote.

Edmonton-Strathcona ripe for NDP's 2nd-ever Alberta win, Layton predicts

EDMONTON - NDP leader Jack Layton addressed a raucous crowd in Edmonton-Strathcona on Wednesday night, predicting a win for local candidate Linda Duncan.


Make a statement, Layton urges city
NDP Leader Jack Layton rallied supporters last night behind the candidate he hopes will prevent a Tory-blue sweep of Alberta in Monday's election.

"As the old song says, 'Something is happening here.' Because on Jan. 23 Linda Duncan and the NDP and the working people of Edmonton-Strathcona are going to make a statement," Layton told the boisterous crowd packed into Bonnie Doon Hall, 9240 93 St.

"Canada is going to learn that Alberta is not all conservative and the Conservatives will learn that they can't take Albertans for granted."

NDP polling shows Duncan, the party's Edmonton-Strathcona candidate, in a strong two-way race with Conservative incumbent Rahim Jaffer.

Jaffer told the Sun he doesn't think NDP support has surged to the levels that party may expect.

In explaining what might be perceived nationally as an unusual pool of NDP support, Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan likened Alberta New Democrats to the crocus, a flower that "grows in the most inhospitable place in the most inhospitable time."

Layton appealed to disgruntled Liberal voters and supporters of the former Progressive Conservative party, taking aim at both the Liberals and Conservatives.

"It's time that the Liberals spend some time in that penalty box," he said. "Should it be two years for misbehaviour or five years for interference with good government?"

And the U of A student newspaper the Gateway has run a full page interview with Linda Duncan. NDP candidate Linda Duncan stresses federal reform Gateway.ualberta.ca

Jaffer claims he is picking up Liberal voters.Jaffer says he is reaching out to disaffected Liberal supporters. Must be the ones that support the 'culture of entilgment' something Rahim is very familar with. The Hill Times named him the laziest MP He thinks he is entitled to our votes for doing nothing. Time to send him packing.

Martin made a strategic error the other day on his only visit to the city, when he tried to rally support in Edmonton Strathcona, it showed they are leaking support like a sieve.

He should have rallied the troops in Edmonton Millwoods Beaumont, where they may have a squeeker of a chance. But only because their candidate there is NDP lite.Liberals Get Their Own Grewal

My Edmonton Strathcona Blog Articles


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The Silencing of Ralph

The Liberals have Buzz. And poor Harper has King Ralph.
Both shoot from the lip much to the detriment of all associated with them.
The Conservatives have put Klein under the Cone of Silence...will it last?

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Klein under wraps for 'six more sleeps,' aide promises

Some fear he'll once again shoot from the lip

EDMONTON - The fact that Albertans haven't seen hide nor hair of Premier Ralph Klein in the last days of the federal election campaign is no accident.

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Golden Globes

I think this gives new meaning to Golden Globes. I know it's a cheap shot but I couldn't resist. Though I still think Drew Barrymore looks better in this shot than she did on the Gloden Globe's Awards the other night.

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Party Leaders Pledge Support for Women's Rights

Will wonders never cease.

Of course given the history of the Liberals and Conservatives around the matter of woman's rights that this pledge isn't worth the paper it's written on.

And after all Harper all ready said he would renege on lesbian rights to get married. And he opposes a National Day Care program. So whats left for him to support?

Major Federal Party Leaders Pledge Support for Women's Human Rights 

    OTTAWA, Jan. 18 /CNW Telbec/ - The Canadian Feminist Alliance for
International Action (FAFIA), a strategic alliance of women's and human rights
groups, is pleased to announce that all five major federal parties have
pledged their support to uphold women's human rights in Canada in the next
Parliament.
FAFIA gave party leaders until 12 p.m. E.S.T. today to respond to their
invitation to sign a statement regarding their plans to uphold Canada's
equality commitments to women.
Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québecois, Jack Layton of the New Democratic
Party, Jim Harris of the Green Party, Paul Martin of the Liberal Party, and
Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party all pledged their commitment. These
leaders have said that once elected, they will take immediate and concrete
measures to ensure that Canada fully upholds its equality commitments to
women. To view the letters from the leaders, visit http://www.fafia-
afai.org/abo/news/leaders_pledge.php.
Campaign pledges represent the first phase of FAFIA's year-long campaign
to promote Canada's full implementation of its commitments to women under
international human rights treaties.
In addition to seeking public support from federal party leaders, women
in communities across Canada have been urging local candidates to do the same,
to date obtaining more than 70 pledges. A list tracking candidates who sign
the pledge is available at: List of Candidates who have Signed the CEDAW Pledge
    This year marks the 25th anniversary of Canada's ratification of the most
comprehensive treaty on women's human rights: The U.N. Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Canada was
among the first countries to sign the treaty in 1980.
According to reviews conducted by the United Nations, Canada's
performance on its equality commitments is lagging. Women in Canada who work
full-time still earn, on average, 71% of what men earn. Poverty rates for
single mothers and women of colour remain very high. Aboriginal women continue
to confront many human rights abuses. Women also suffer from a lack of access
to employment insurance, civil legal aid, and front-line anti-violence
services.

Beware! Fundamentalist Conservatives at the Gates!
Callwood, Egan, Mallick, Morgentaler and Walker
warn against a Conservative majority

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Elsie Wayne plants a big one on her boy

Vote Marriage Canada announces fifty pro-marriage candidates
 in the Prairie Provinces and the N.W.T.
Each candidate we endorse has taken a stand and given clear
indication of supporting marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman
in the next Parliament. Each Member of Parliament endorsed voted against Bill
C-38 and opposed the change in the legal definition of marriage in the last
Parliament. Each candidate we endorse has taken a stand and given clear
indication of supporting marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman
in the next Parliament."


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IF

If the Conservatives get elected to govern will Blogging Tories be as quick to dig up scandals like this?

Some how I doubt it. Call me naive, but I really, really, doubt it.

So what will Angry in the Great White North have to write about then. Come to think of it what will Kinsella have to write about.

For that reason alone folks should Vote Liberal. There I said it.

But I didn't mean it. Really.Just being a lil stinker.
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 I am just concerned about all those Anti-Liberals disappearing from the Blogosphere cause they have nothing else to say. No wait they will all get jobs in PR for the new Harper state.

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A Conservative Majority

This is what a Conservative Majority Looks Like


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Buzz Backpedals

Can't you just imagine a cartoon character furiously backpedaling to get out of trouble. Feet moving going nowhere. I can. Here is Buzz backpedaling after yesterdays electoral reccomendation faux pas deluxe.


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Oh shut up Buzz


CAW's Hargrove Urges Voters to Defeat Conservatives 

    TORONTO, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - CAW president Buzz Hargrove wants to reiterate
the union's position during the current federal election campaign, a position
clearly stated in a recommendation adopted by hundreds of CAW workplace
leaders who attended CAW Council in December 2005.
The CAW recommendation urges its membership to vote to support NDP
incumbents and NDP candidates with a strong chance of winning in the current
campaign. In ridings where the NDP candidate does not have a strong chance of
winning, CAW members are encouraged to vote for the candidate who has the best
chance to beat the Conservatives.
Hargrove joined Prime Minister Paul Martin Wednesday in a Strathroy,
Ontario campaign event for his announcement of a pension guarantee fund to
protect workers pensions when their employer goes bankrupt. Hargrove was also
on hand for Martin's announcement committing to maintain the viability of
Ford's St. Thomas, Ontario auto assembly plant.
At the event Hargrove outlined concerns about the damage that a Harper
Conservative victory would bring to federal government powers and programs.
Hargrove is urging Canadians to vote for the candidate in their riding who is
most likely to defeat the Conservatives.
In response to a reporter's question about what that means for Quebec
voters, Hargrove stated that it is up to the people of Quebec to decide how
they vote to stop a Harper government.
Oh sure the CAW is endorsing the NDP if they 'stand a chance'
but Buzz is endorsing whateverLiberal can find him for a photo op
with PM.

















The result of Buzz's brilliant Strategic Voting plan is;

Poll Result: CAW's support of Liberals drive voters to the Conservatives

A poll released by the SEIU, a union that has no love lost for the CAW
who raided them.

As I have said this election shows how divided the House of Labour is. 

It needs a total renovation.

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