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PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Minister Gary Lunn, Mrs. Laureen Harper and her daughter, Rachel, were at the Canada Pavilion during the Calgary Stampede along with Nathaniel Miller, athlete in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Water Polo, Courtenay Ferguson and Adriano Fisico torchbearers, Vaughn Chipeur, 2010 hopeful in Figure Skating, Renée Smith-Valade of VANOC, as well as Miga, Quatchi and Sumi, the Vancouver 2010 Winter...
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Werner Patels (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has spoken the unblemished truth at the Calgary Stampede (emphasis added): Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff touted Saturday the economic virtues and national reach of Alberta's oilsands, urging Canadians to take pride in the mammoth industrial development, which has touched off international environmental opposition. Speaking at a party fundraiser Stampede breakfast...
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Far and Wide (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Whether you agree or disagree with Ignatieff's approach to the tar sands, that is really irrelevant to this argument about consistency. Ignatieff was in Calgary, and again forwarded his assertions on what the tar sands mean to the Canadian economy, the question of national unity, the idea of not "pitting" one region against another. Nothing new, that's the standard stump speech whenever Ignatieff...
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Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
* Browse Ismailimail via Google News Timeline Canada grants Honorary Citizenship to His Highness the Aga Khan Speech about His Highness the Aga Khan by Senator Mobina Jaffer in the Canadian Senate Ismaili Muslims in the news Alykhan Velshi Dr. Arif Babul Zameer Devraj Arif Lalani Izhar Hunzai Faisel Adam Gulamhussein Senator Mobina Jaffer Community and Institutional News Calgary Ismaili Muslim Community...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
A happy Fourth of July to anyone from the U.S. of A. who happens to stumble across this page. Though I probably should have done the patriotic thing and posted something Canadian on my own country's birthday (July 1st - Canada Day), I was actually out enjoying the day in a pretty cool Canadian way: driving out from Calgary to the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology - passing fields of canola and
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
MONTREAL, July 3 (UPI) -- A Canadian man drove into Montreal Friday to deliver 2,500 pairs of white underwear to homeless men as part of his cross-country Underwear Tour. Brent King, 41, is an engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta. He told The Gazette newspaper the idea of driving a motor home from the west coast to the east coast was a result of learning last fall homeless shelters list underwear...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
CALGARY, Alberta, July 3 (UPI) -- Canada's annual Calgary Stampede got under way Friday as divorce consultants prepared for their own surge in unhappy couples after the 10-day event. Billed as the world's biggest outdoor rodeo event, the Alberta city goes into party mode, which Karen Stewart, founder of Fairway Divorce Solutions, told Sun Media leads to a lot of infidelity. It's the sexual undertones,...
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Slashfood (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Filed under: In Sixty Seconds Rose salt. Photo: seesternrea, Flickr Professionals, history and calculators, oh my! Here is just about everything you could ever want to know about salt . Chef Rob Feenie shares a recipe for Baked Marinated Sake and Soy Sablefish, Asparagus and Soybean Salad and Tomato-Caper Jam. Dishing on local delights , from Halifax's tiny lobsters to Calgary's sausages. Author Michael...
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small dead animals (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
If you donate to a "humane" organization that engages in activism, you need to stop. The Humane Society of Canada is asking Canada's broadcasting regulator to phase out the airing of Calgary Stampede events. The animal-welfare group believes rodeo events...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Well, after months of consistent gains, the Liberal momentum stalled in June, with their mean lead on the Tories down to 2 points. Ekos (June 25-29, n = 2262 demon dialed) Lib 32.2% CPC 31.0% NDP 16.2% Green 11.5% BQ 9.0% Nanos (June 17-21, n = 781 telephone) Lib 36.3% CPC 32.2% NDP 16.8% BQ 9.8% Green 4.8% Angus Reid (June 17-18, n = 1005 online) CPC 32% Lib 31% NDP 18% BQ 11% Green 7% Ipsos (released...
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Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Right-wingers have been having a bit of a time with a brash 22-year-old's Facebook comment, "F**k Canada Day." That raises a number of questions, for me at least. How many Facebook throwaway lines are coughed up by smart-ass university students? How many of them get noticed? Why did this one get noticed? Well, Omar Shaban is one of those Canadians with funny names . And he was, until a day...
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trucks world news (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Ontario man with a passion for old trucks spent a decade lovingly restoring a ravaged icon of heavy hauling Toronto,ONT,CAN - The Globe & Mail, by BOB ENGLISH -July 3, 2009: -- The 1935 Mack BM truck owned by Garry Mack spent its early hard-working years hauling gasoline to Toronto service stations for the British American Oil Co. , and was then employed by Canadian Pacific Railways in Western...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The website is here . A story from the Air Force : New museum in Calgary tells story of Canada’s Air Force July 2, 2009 The front hall of the Air Force Museum of Alberta in Calgary. The story of Canada's Air Force is illustrated from the beginning to today. Credit: Aaron Payton. By Violette Stepaniuk Seven years in the making, the Air Force Museum of Alberta in Calgary hopes to attract visitors...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
One simple question, really, is enough to dispel the nonsensical claim by the Humane Society of Canada that the Calgary Stampede — the world’s greatest annual rodeo, and the quintessential cultural festival of the prairie provinces — is a “brutal, violent spectacle” that runs afoul of federal broadcasting regulations. The question is: “Compared to what? Bullfighting?”...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The Humane Society of Canada has filed a formal complaint with Canada's broadcasting regulator, asking it to phase out airing of Calgary Stampede events.
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whipdaddy | 06/19/2008
Only 1 day left until one of the biggest cross border poker runs begin: Bullrun 2008 Check Out: Bullrun 2007 Photos The invite-only event, with a $20,000 entry fee, will launch from Oil Rich Calgary Alberta (Canada) and end in Cactus populated Scottsdale, Arizona.
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