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Canada’s Howie Mandel to host Walk of Fame gala

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Howie Mandel had been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto in September 2009. (Sean Kilpatick/Canadian Press)

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Howie Mandel, the Canadian comedian who is the face of Deal or No Deal, will play host at the Canada’s Walk of Fame gala in Toronto in October.

Mandel, a standup comedian as well as a TV star, said his job will be to inject a little humour into the show.

He took on judging duties on America’s Got Talent this summer, and received his own star on the Walk of Fame in 2009.

Mandel said he was happy to get the honour, and equally happy that his star has not yet been put in the ground.

“I heard what happened to Gordie Howe’s [star, which has cracked], and I didn’t want that to happen to mine. So I’ve asked them not to put it on the ground,” said Mandel, a notorious germaphobe.

“I don’t want people stepping on it, I don’t want it to get wet or weathered. I don’t know where it is but it’s not in the ground, as per my request.”

Howe’s star and the star for William Shatner are to be replaced, the president of the Walk of Fame promised last week.

Mandel will host Oct. 20 as seven Canadians chosen from the arts, sports or other fields of accomplishment are inducted.

This year’s inductees to the Walk of Fame are Olympian Clara Hughes, musicians Nelly Furtado and David Clayton Thomas, the late magician Doug Henning, actors Sarah Polley and Eric McCormack and author Farley Mowat.

Mandel plans standup shows in the Ontario communities of North Bay, St. Catharines, Chatham, Brampton and Sault Ste Marie, and in Moncton, N.B., in October and November.

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September 30th, 2010 at 2:26 am

Ontario court ruling paves way to decriminalizing prostitution in Canada

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Terri-Jean Bedford, left, and Valerie Scott, shown in 2009, along with a third woman, launched a constitutional challenge of Canada's anti-prostitution laws. An Ontario court ruled Tuesday the Criminal Code provisions relating to prostitution contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers.Terri-Jean Bedford, left, and Valerie Scott, shown in 2009, along with a third woman, launched a constitutional challenge of Canada’s anti-prostitution laws. An Ontario court ruled Tuesday the Criminal Code provisions relating to prostitution contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers. (Michael Turschic/CBC)by CBC editors

An Ontario court has thrown out key provisions of Canada’s anti-prostitution laws in response to a constitutional challenge by a Toronto dominatrix and two prostitutes in 2009.

Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice ruled Tuesday the Criminal Code provisions relating to prostitution contribute to the danger faced by sex-trade workers.

In her ruling, Justice Susan Himel said it now falls to Parliament to “fashion corrective action.”

“It is my view that in the meantime these unconstitutional provisions should be of no force and effect, particularly given the seriousness of the charter violations,” Himel wrote.

“However, I also recognize that a consequence of this decision may be that unlicensed brothels may be operated, and in a way that may not be in the public interest.”

The judge suspended the effect of the decision for 30 days. It does not affect provisions dealing with people under 18.

Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Rona Ambrose, minister for the status of women, both said the government is concerned about the decision and “is seriously considering an appeal.”

Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, Valerie Scott and Amy Lebovitch had argued that prohibitions on keeping a common bawdy house, communicating for the purposes of prostitution and living on the avails of the trade force them from the safety of their homes to face violence on the streets.

The women asked the court to declare legal restrictions on their activities a violation of charter rights of security of the person and freedom of expression.

The women and their lawyer, Alan Young, held a news conference Tuesday afternoon and expressed elation.

“It’s like emancipation day for sex-trade workers,” said Bedford, adding the ball is now in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s court. “The federal government must now take a stand and clarify what is legal and not legal between consenting adults in private.”

‘This decision means that sex workers can now pick up the phone and call the police and report a bad client.’— Valerie Scott

Scott called it an amazing victory, saying the decision lessens the risk of violence for sex workers.

“We don’t have to worry about being raped and robbed and murdered,” she said. “This decision means that sex workers can now pick up the phone, and call the police and report a bad client. This means that we no longer have to be afraid, that we can work with the appropriate authorities.”

Moreover, sex workers can set up guilds and associations, health standards, workers’ compensation programs, as well as pay income tax. “We want to be good citizens and it’s time, now we finally can,” said Scott.

Young handled the case mostly free with the help of 20 of his law students. They were up against nearly a dozen government lawyers.

“Personally, I am overjoyed because this is a great David and Goliath story. Sex-trade workers are disenfranchised and disempowered, and no one has listened to them for 30, 40 years,” Young said.

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The case does not solve the problems related to prostitution, he said.

“That’s for your government to take care. Courts just clean up bad laws.”

“So what’s happened is that there’s still going to be many people on the streets and many survival sex workers who are motivated by drugs and sometimes exploited by very bad men. That’s not going to change,” Young added.

“Here’s what changed. Women who have the ability, the wherewithal and the resources and the good judgment to know that moving indoors will protect them now have that legal option. They do not have to weigh their safety versus compliance with the law.”

A spokesman for Ontario’s attorney general said the office will be reviewing the decision carefully and will consult federal colleagues regarding a potential appeal.

“Ontario intervened and argued that the prostitution provisions of the Criminal Code are constitutional and valid and designed to prevent individuals, and particularly young people, from being drawn into prostitution, to protect our communities from the negative impacts of street prostitution and to ensure that those who control, coerce or abuse prostitutes are held accountable for their actions,” said the statement from the Ontario attorney general’s office.

The government had argued that striking down the provisions without enacting something else in their place would “pose a danger to the public.”

‘Shocking and horrific’

Some conservative groups such as REAL Women of Canada, which had intervener status in the case, argued that decriminalizing prostitution may make Canada a haven for human trafficking and that prostitution is harmful to the women involved in it.

While prostitution is technically legal, virtually every activity associated with it is not. The Criminal Code prohibits communication for the purpose of prostitution. It also prohibits keeping a common bawdy house for the purpose of prostitution.

Those laws enacted in 1985 were an attempt to deal with the public nuisance created by streetwalkers. They failed to recognize the alternative — allowing women to work more safely indoors — was prohibited.

The ban on bawdy houses is an indictable offence that carries stiffer sanctions, including jail time and potential forfeiture of a woman’s home, while the ban on communication for prostitution purposes is usually a summary offence that at most leads to fines.

The provisions prevent sex-trade workers from properly screening clients, hiring security or working in the comfort and safety of their own homes or brothels, Young said.

Young cited statistics behind the “shocking and horrific” stories of women who work the streets, along with research that was not available when the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the communication ban in 1990.

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Web Bot Founder predicts World War III in November 2010 from human telepathic potentials

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Web Bot Founder predicts World War III in November 2010 from human telepathic potentials.

Researcher Clif High has published a prediction expecting a ‘tipping point’ around November 8, 2010 into global nuclear war, triggered by a mistaken Israeli-influenced attack on Iran.

Clif High’s expertise is in linguistics. He gathers information off a web crawler using Web Bot. He assumes humans have a psychic-telepathic potential, and that leaks out into changes in the language patterns through the internet. LINK

From the language changes he makes predictions out of the data set and goes well out of his way to say “this is the data set — and here is my opinion.” LINK

Ancient Pagan Gnostics and indigenous peoples have appreciated human spiritual interconnected to each other, and with Nature. Clif High has sought to develop Web Bot as a basis to “tap into” human psychic-kinetic potentials in a space-time context.

He calculates the outbreak of a Nuclear War in early November 2010 using Web Bot.  His research through Web Bot suggests the outbreak of a nuclear war “started without provocation by Israel against Iran drawing”.  Web Bot conjectures that the U.S. would be drawn  into an orchestrated nuclear war toward in order to help bring a ”New World Order” into fruition by 2012. LINK

By tracking internet activity the founders of Web Bot embrace the idea that clairvoyance is distributed within the general population of internet users. LINK

Web Bot, or the Web Bot Project, refers to an Internet bot software program that is claimed to be able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the Internet. It was created in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends.[1] The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, who call themselves “The Time Monks”[2], keep the technology and algorithms largely secret cites Wikipedia.

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September 27th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

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Americanized Tim Horton’s sells baked goods from a freezer

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Corporate America has built itself on the pursuit of insatiable commercial profit and greed.  The result has often been poor quality, that is apparent in America’s fast food chains that it has exported to the world.  It is apparent that our beloved Tim Horton has been enveloped in that corporate culture, as Maclean’s reports.

Canadians have too often sold out to American interests for their own short term personal commercial gain, only to regret it later.  It is vital that we, as Canadians, protect our culture reflected in our national institutions from being Americanized.

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Tim’s regulars may have a hard time swallowing the news that their maple dip is no longer produced under the Maple Leaf. As national symbols go, a Hortons donut is second only to a Hortons coffee. But Timmy’s selling baked goods from a freezer? That’s standard operating procedure, and has been for quite some time.

Yes, it was certainly a scandal back in 2003, when Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce confirmed the truth: that the company he built (and had recently left) replaced its in-store deep fryers with frozen globs of dough trucked in from a factory. “This is not a philosophy that I would have embraced if I still owned the company,” he famously boasted. One Hortons spokeswoman, convinced that she could stop the unflattering headlines, famously told a reporter that “until I confirm or deny anything, it simply doesn’t exist.”

It did exist, of course. And the backlash was swift. (Joyce’s words were especially damaging. “I’ve tried them,” he said of the new donuts. “And they’re certainly not the same.”) In time, though, most people eventually forgot—or simply stopped caring—where their honey crullers came from. Truth be told, many customers still have no idea that the donuts on display have to be defrosted.

But that is about to change. In the coming weeks, Tim’s devoted disciples will receive a very fresh reminder about just how much their donuts have evolved. Hortons’ historic decision to go frozen is now at the heart of a proposed $1.95-billion class action lawsuit that has exposed a bitter—and very personal—battle inside the country’s favourite coffee shop. Scheduled for a hearing in November, the high-stakes case pits store owners against senior executives, store owners versus each other, and even relative against relative. And no matter how many spokespeople try to control the message, the spat is sure to have some patrons pining for the old days, when the smell of deep-fried Dutchies hung in the air at their local shop.

In 1995, he famously sold his beloved company to Wendy’s, the U.S. burger chain, in a transaction worth $600 million. But despite being appointed senior chairman of Hortons and given a seat on Wendy’s board of directors, he soon came to regret the deal. Convinced that Wendy’s was “poorly managed,” Joyce clashed with fellow board members so often that he eventually stopped attending the meetings. Finally, in 2001, Hortons’ co-founder walked away for good, selling every last one of his shares for US$250 million.

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Mounting evidence suggests Extraterrestrial interests built Great Pyramids

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You know those big stone structures out in Egypt?  The ones  which were supposedly built to house the remains of dead pharaohs???  The ones you thought were built by the Egyptians?

Well, you are wrong! They were apparently built by Extraterrestrials. Let’s take a look at some undeniable evidence….

 First, look at this diagram: 

The pyramid is highlighted in red, and its two diagonals are extended beyond the end of the pyramid to the north-east and north-west.  The mass of squiggly lines above the pyramid is the Delta of the Nile River, and, as you can see the two diagonals encase the Nile neatly and entirely.  Is that simply a coincidence?

Yes,  I’m sure that the way the Egyptians did this was to have someone walk hundreds of miles to the end of the delta and hold a really, really long piece of string while someone walked all the way back to the site of the pyramid.  Then,  those two people stood there while two more people repeated the process on the other side of the Pyramid.  Just so that they could build a big building in such a way that its diagonals lie on those two lines.

Now, that is likely?

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September 27th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

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Eyewitnesses reported alien spacecraft crash in England

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Location. Clevedon, Somerset, England
Date: January 23 2009

Time: before midnight
A UFO has crashed at a local primary school—giving the clearest sign yet that aliens do exist. The object, described by witnesses as an alien spacecraft, crashed on the playing fields at Yeo Moor Junior School shortly before midnight on Wednesday. It then took off again, but as well as leaving a trail of debris behind, footprints were also found. Police are not confirming what it is but a crime scene investigator exclusively told the newspapers “he had never seen anything like it before” and that in his opinion it appeared to be alien. Mrs. Symes of Baytree Road said she was walking her dog about 2300 on Wednesday when she heard “an amazing noise”. She said “Initially I thought it was an aircraft having trouble, and then I spotted this strange-looking rocket type machine falling to the ground.”

 It crashed at the school and there was a huge explosion. Her dog was going berserk and she suddenly felt very frightened so she ran home and immediately called the police. “When I was on the phone I heard engines start again and saw the rocket take off and disappear within seconds”. The police cordoned off the school field.

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September 27th, 2010 at 6:13 am

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Mounting evidence suggests Extraterrestrial interests built Great Pyramids

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You know those big stone structures out in Egypt?  The ones  which were supposedly built to house the remains of dead pharaohs???  The ones you thought were built by the Egyptians?

Well, you are wrong! They were apparently built by Extraterrestrials. Let’s take a look at some undeniable evidence….

 First, look at this diagram: 

The pyramid is highlighted in red, and its two diagonals are extended beyond the end of the pyramid to the north-east and north-west.  The mass of squiggly lines above the pyramid is the Delta of the Nile River, and, as you can see the two diagonals encase the Nile neatly and entirely.  Is that simply a coincidence?

Yes,  I’m sure that the way the Egyptians did this was to have someone walk hundreds of miles to the end of the delta and hold a really, really long piece of string while someone walked all the way back to the site of the pyramid.  Then,  those two people stood there while two more people repeated the process on the other side of the Pyramid.  Just so that they could build a big building in such a way that its diagonals lie on those two lines.

Now, that is likely?

Here is what the evidence suggests.  Extraterrestrials, flying high enough over the Earth to be able to see where the Nile Delta’s origin is, easily saw what orientation the pyramid would need to be in order to have its diagonals lie on those two lines.

Second piece of evidence:

The big dark shape on the upper left of this diagram is the great pyramid.  If you look at the compass rose in the bottom right, you can see that the pyramid is lined up exactly with the magnetic North Pole,  a difference of only 16 minutes, or some absurdly small number like that (there are 60 minutes in one degree).  COINCIDENCE?   How could the Egyptians possibly have built their pyramid facing the exact magnetic North Pole without even having a compass?  FYI, a compass was not invented for a few thousand years after the ancient Egyptians were long gone?  IS THAT LIKELY????

This is how it may have worked:  Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, came along and using their compasses,  they landed on earth and found the actual magnetic north and south poles.  THEN THEY BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!

 
Now look at this:

This is a photograph of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and its neighbour, as seen from the Sphinx, on the evening of the summer solstice.  As you can see,  the sun is setting in the exact center of the two pyramids.  COINCIDENCE???

For the Egyptians to be able to do this, they must have known the day of the summer solstice, and they therefore,  must have known the exact length of the year, or 365.25;  once again, a fact not discovered until long after the Egyptians were gone.   HOW LIKELY IS THAT???

The story may in fact be that meddling aliens, in all of their calculated self interest, saw the earth upon entering the solar system, and by calculating the size of its revolutions around the sun,  the velocity it was at which it traveled and the angle of its axis of rotation,  they were able to easily calculate the longest day of the year or the length of the year.

THEN BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!
Here is another photo:

This is a photograph taken on the day of the winter solstice from the entrance of the Great Pyramid.  The Big shape silhouetted in the middle of the photograph is the Sphinx.  Since this is only a photograph,  and not a movie,  you can’t get the full effect.   But even in the photo, you can see that the sun is tracing around the Sphinx’s head.  In actuality,  the sun rises exactly at the left side of the base of the Sphinx’s head.   Then it traces it all the way around until it sets on the right side of the Sphinx’s head.  COINCIDENCE???

Had the Egyptians done this,   since this occurs only on the day of the winter solstice,  they would have had to have known the exact length of a year. How likely is that?

It’s those aliens,  who after finding the length of the year,  found the shortest day of the year, and then built their Sphinx and Pyramid accordingly.

Consider this:

This above image is a diagram of the stars of the Belt of Orion.  Now look at the diagram of the pyramids below.

Though this fact is not as remarkable, the positioning of the three Pyramids of Giza are exactly aligned with the position of the three stars in the belt of Orion, both in position and in size.  While it is possible,  it would create many difficulties for the Egyptians in terms of measuring huge distances.  Not only this,  but in fact,  at the time that the pyramids were supposedly built (about 3000 BC), the stars that make up the Belt of Orion were not exactly at the correct angle to match up with the pyramids.  

If the location of the stars is traced back over thousands of years,  the time at which the belt is exactly aligned with the pyramids is in fact 10,500 BC.  A time when there were supposedly no civilized    humans living on the earth.  Another fact to support this is,  if you consider the Sphinx, a lion with a human head and then look at the size of the body,  you can see that the body is perfectly proportioned for the head of a lion,  not the human head.   This human head  looks tiny and silly sitting on top of the body.  This is because the Sphinx was actually built in 10,500 BC,  around the same time as the pyramids,  with a real head of a lion.  Evidence to support this is that there are signs of water erosion all over the Sphinx.  The last time that there was any water nearby, aside from the Nile is around 10,000 BC.  Also,  the constellation of Leo the Lion (thus closely related to the Sphinx), was in fact rising directly behind the sun in 10,500 BC.

Are they saying that the Egyptians built their pyramids to be in the exact shape of Orion’s Belt,  but purposely aligned them differently from what was actually in the sky?  That after they built the Sphinx, they purposely made the head look small and funny?  Then, they broke their backs carrying water from the Nile just so that they could put water erosion lines all over the body?

In fact, no Egyptian did it at all.  The aliens, with their plethora of wisdom,  came down in the year 10,500 BC and built the Pyramids and the Sphinx.  They built it with a head of a lion to match the Belt of Orion, as well as the constellation of Leo.  Thousands of years later, Ramses, the egomaniacal dictator-pharaoh of Egypt,  decided that he didn’t like having the head of a lion on top of the statue in his land.  So,  he had a head in his own likeness constructed instead.  But the Egyptians, not being very skilled at huge masonry, built the head somewhat too small.

Why is it that the great Pyramids of Giza,  built in 3,000, are perfect, and still standing as tall as the day they were built?  (Aside from the capstone and the polished stones, which were stripped by humans in the building of Cairo)  The other Pyramids, which were supposedly built about 500 years later, all have shoddy masonry, and are crumbling down.  An example of this is the famous ‘bent’ pyramid,  which  started out with the sides being built at one angle,  then suddenly shifts in the middle to a shallower angle.  This is because the angle at which it was started  was much too steep for it to stand when finished.   It is  because the Egyptian pharaohs saw the great pyramids standing on their land and decided that they wanted pyramids of their own.  But they found that it was much harder to do than was expected and ended up building silly looking structures that don’t even come close to comparing with the magnitude of elegance emanating from the Great Pyramids.

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Tim Hortons founder regrets selling-out to American interests

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Corporate America has built itself on the pursuit of insatiable commercial profit and greed.  The result has often been poor quality, that is apparent in America’s fast food chains that it has exported to the world.  It is apparent that our beloved Tim Horton has been enveloped in that corporate culture, as Maclean’s reports.

Canadians have too often sold out to American interests for their own short term personal commercial gain, only to regret it later.  It is vital that we, as Canadians, protect our culture reflected in our national institutions from being Americanized.

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Roland V.  Joyce had sold out his beloved company to Wendy’s, the U.S. burger chain, in a transaction worth $600 million. But Maclean’s documents that despite being appointed senior chairman of Hortons and given a seat on Wendy’s board of directors, he soon came to regret the deal.

Convinced that Wendy’s was “poorly managed,” Joyce clashed with fellow board members so often that he eventually stopped attending the meetings. Finally, in 2001, Hortons’ co-founder walked away for good, selling every last one of his shares for US$250 million.

Tim Horton opened his first coffee shop in 1964, and half a century later the company’s place in the Canadian landscape is the stuff of business school textbooks.

An all-star defenceman with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Horton was the public face of the original concept, a hockey icon whose name alone could reel in customers. But his behind-the-scenes partner,  Joyce, was the man with the master plan.

During those early years—while Horton was patrolling the blue line, and Joyce was working night shifts frying batter—the company grew from that single store in Hamilton to three dozen restaurants. Later, when Horton was killed in a tragic car crash, Joyce bought out his partner’s widow and kept on expanding. Today, there are more than 3,000 Tim Hortons outlets from coast to coast, and nearly 600 south of the border. And every morning, millions of Canadians reaffirm the famous slogan: “You’ve always got time . . . ”

Like every fast-food chain, Tim’s business model is built around franchisees. Every store owner pays the company a hefty start-up fee—close to half a million dollars—plus a percentage of yearly sales to cover rent, royalties and advertising. Owners are also obligated to buy their supplies from the company, but after that, the profits are theirs. As Joyce wrote in Always Fresh, his 2006 autobiography: “If there was ever a sure thing, owning a Tim Hortons franchise was it.”

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In the coming weeks, Tim’s devoted disciples will receive a very fresh reminder about just how much their donuts have evolved. Hortons’ historic decision to go frozen is now at the heart of a proposed $1.95-billion class action lawsuit that has exposed a bitter—and very personal—battle inside the country’s favourite coffee shop. Scheduled for a hearing in November, the high-stakes case pits store owners against senior executives, store owners versus each other, and even relative against relative. And no matter how many spokespeople try to control the message, the spat is sure to have some patrons pining for the old days, when the smell of deep-fried Dutchies hung in the air at their local shop.

Officially, the case is about a few disgruntled franchisees who claim their profits are shrinking because the company, via Maidstone, is charging “inflated” prices for those frozen goodies. But flip through the court file—through thousands of pages of exhibits and affidavits—and a much deeper storyline emerges: an old-fashioned power struggle between those who are still loyal to Ron Joyce, and those who replaced him at the top.

The lead plaintiff is a Burlington, Ont., store owner named Archibald Jollymore, Joyce’s former executive vice-president (and his cousin). One of Jollymore’s primary targets is Paul D. House, Joyce’s successor as president (and a man who garnered zero praise in Joyce’s recent autobiography). Both men have different philosophies, to say the least.

House and his colleagues claim Jollymore is a poor businessman, and if his Hortons outlet is truly losing money, it has nothing to do with frozen products. Jollymore claims he has been “intimidated and bullied” by head office, and that the executive chairman personally threatened his life. “If I had a gun,” House allegedly said, “I’d shoot the bastard.”

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Telecommunications: EU elites demand that Canada abandon its cultural sovereignty

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The European Union (EU) likes to present itself as a hallmark of democracy.  But, according to many of its opponents, it is little more than a crypto-fascist super-state, which is run by a quasi-mafia of interconnected elites with established ties to European colonial institutions.  These are the same imperial-driven institutions which have been responsible for executing wars, the slave trade against Africans, and a variety of other similar agendas.

As Canadians, if we value our social policies and national independence, we will affirm our sovereignty against their attempts to re-establish neo-colonial claims and oppression.

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Canada’s negotiations on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could influence the legislation Industry Minister Tony Clement is expected to table this fall to loosen the foreign ownership rules for the telecom sector, says Scott Sinclair, a senior researcher on trade and investment with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

“I think it could have a significant impact,” Sinclair, who has been following the negotiations, said in an interview.

A draft of the text leaked in April revealed a telecom chapter through which the EU is proposing to open up Canada’s telecom sector to European take-overs which would further undermine our control as Canadians of our own society.

EU and American elites in the name of ”trade” and investment” are seeking to assimilate and destroy our nationhood.

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Potash: Canada losing control of its own resources to foreign interests

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Once again, NAFTA in association with the WTO are undermining Canadian democracy and sovereignty.

It was then opposition leader John Turner durning the height of the national debate on “Free Trade” in 12 October 1998 who has remarked: “Any country that is willing to surrender economic levers inevitably yields levers politically and surrenders a large chunk of its ability to remain a sovereign nation. I don’t believe our future depends on our yielding those economic levers of sovereignty to become a junior partner in Fortress North America to the United States.”

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Much is being said about BHP Billiton’s hostile $39-billion takeover offer for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan. Many Canadians loathe relinquishing control of another world-leading mining company. The positive are coming from BHP executives who are cooly pressing forward.

Canadian resistance is understandable. The takeover of Falconbridge, Alcan and Inco are still fresh in our minds. As are the broken promises and year-long strike at what were Inco’s Sudbury operations, but now belong to a Brazilian owner. The province of Saskatchewan can ill afford to lose the potash royalties that make up 20% of its 2009-10 budget. Delisting PotashCorp, the sixth largest company on the TSX, would not be a positive event for the exchange.

A foreign takeover of a major Canadian industry will require review by the federal government, a group that has proven to be a rubber stamp for offshore interests. NDP leader Jack Layton has called for a public review instead.

Two-thirds of the world’s potash resources lie in our Prairie Evaporites. Canadians rely heavily on fertilizer for the health of their food industry. To loose pricing and production control over potash is not in our interests.

Perhaps the federal government could be persuaded to declare potash a “strategic resource,” and block foreign ownership on that basis.

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