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third batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer : China getting feet wet with B.C.'s shale gas http://tinyurl.com/6qacqaz Hughes/Vander Zalm libel suit : Globe http://tinyurl.com/8967plx CP http://tinyurl.com/7d6ojx7 Say what? Israel eyes Cyprus for military air base http://tinyurl.com/844x2k6 WSJ: Canadians Dish Out U.S.-Dollar Debt (pushing borrowing costs to record lows) http://tinyurl.com/7ge2sy8 China Daily: Canadians hope PM's China trip will fuel energy ties http://tinyurl.com/7tm2tsn A ‘great’ 2 solitudes moment! La Presse: Impose taxes to slow warming, QCers demand Gazette: QCers tough on environment, not themselves La Presse: A 3-month old baby persona non grata in the House of Commons http://tinyurl.com/6qhvh74 In Global Times (China), how a Chinese expert on Canada views Harper visit and the bilateral relationship http://tinyurl.com/849xj4x Global Times (China) op-ed: Canadian First Nations cast China in new light http://tinyurl.com/6qtjs4s USA Today front page: Gadhafi regime missiles er, missing http://tinyurl.com/6wlu8te T Star line story: Farm crash mirrors 2004 tragedy http://tinyurl.com/6tf4avd second batch of today's tweets Bill Johnson: Why did I donate to the CAQ? Because silence on sovereignty is golden http://tinyurl.com/87vkw55
Le Journal front page: GG’s receive 100% of their salaries for the rest of their lives after term is up Richard Martineau contre André Pratte http://tinyurl.com/6o9gd7y Two from
Globe : French-language NDP debate to test Dewar’s progress http://tinyurl.com/7kop3hc La Presse : Le président de la Chambre aurait exigé l’expulsion du bébé d’une députée du NPD à la veille d’un vote A column defending the Canada Revenue Agency is definitely worth reading http://tinyurl.com/872gz2n @jsource http://tinyurl.com/87lldgm @MisterJohnDoyle http://tinyurl.com/2cgk5xs respond on last week’s Krista Erickson/Gillis ruling Canadian magazine suscriptions down in 2nd half of 2011/not offset by expensive single copy sales http://tinyurl.com/839wnxy La Presse : AG will drop auditing 18 federal agencies because of budget cut http://tinyurl.com/7468nl7 Luc Lavoie répond a Vincent Marissal http://tinyurl.com/8xasqgk #assnat #cdnpoli Star: Majority of Canadians support return of death penalty, poll finds http://tinyurl.com/6mknh7d N Post front: Quebec on pace to be poorest province http://tinyurl.com/7oxclwc Postmedia: Skills shortage is critical: Canadian Chamber of Commerce http://tinyurl.com/7n88xs2 Globe editorial: Job loss at Electro-Motive Diesel tragic, but companies cannot be forced to stay in Canada http://tinyurl.com/778p2l6 Michael Den Tandt: Time to get out of Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/6os5uon Paul Heinbecker http://tinyurl.com/7gd568l @dgardner http://tinyurl.com/85jyduw on Iran Worthington: We need more tough TV interviewers in Canada http://tinyurl.com/6wrlmkc first batch of today's tweets Tim Harper: Syrian crisis first tough test of diplomacy under Stephen Harper http://tinyurl.com/7b2tdmo Star: Ontario doctors make $8 billion a year http://tinyurl.com/6ua62ou Citizen: Ontario doctors' pay doubles in decade http://tinyurl.com/6u9jxpj Walkom: What the fake citizenship scheme says about Harper http://tinyurl.com/6pdcuqs Yaffe : NDP's anti-oilsands campaign could prove toxic at polls http://tinyurl.com/823gev2 HT : NGOs nominating winners of Queen's Jubilee medal favourable to Conservative government, say opposition MPs http://tinyurl.com/6qkjnzs On the when does life begin motion, Mallick http://tinyurl.com/7wredlq vs Lakritz http://tinyurl.com/6sxr3a2 Gazette editorial: Why did the health minister kill limits on trans fats? http://tinyurl.com/8956nxp In the Post, Gunter http://tinyurl.com/6rtlpxx @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/6pvrf4x on equalization Simpson: Ontario needs to take its medicine http://tinyurl.com/7e65kz6 Akin: Pipelines, pandas trump democracy http://tinyurl.com/6udbv3e #pmprc NYT: Radical Muslim Americans Pose Little Threat, Study Says http://tinyurl.com/7ls3mo3 Globe: Alta seeks way 2 pay 4 B.C. support of pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7lf3gom Alta payouts to B.C. not on table http://tinyurl.com/7nb3kmm La Presse: Speaker orders QC #NDP MP’s 3 month-old baby out of House of Commons before gun registry vote sixth batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer: BC Liberals don't inspire a lot of trust when it comes to balancing their budgets http://tinyurl.com/7vhf6o8 Alberta recognizes it will have to share w/ BC some of “rewards” from the pipeline to the coast http://tinyurl.com/6ncjh8n N Post front: Pickton inquiry chief riled by cover-up charge http://tinyurl.com/7ugvb76 fifth batch of today's tweets The Charter’s notwithstanding clause is overlooked in this NY Times article http://tinyurl.com/6nntytt CTV: 6 Quebec MPs return Queen's jubilee medals in protest http://tinyurl.com/7hkh6ct Le Devoir: The #NDP has no position on the possible partition of Québec http://tinyurl.com/7m7x87p NY Times: E.U. Rebuffs China's Challenge to Airline Emission System http://tinyurl.com/78bzlcv fourth batch of today's tweets Robert Fisk reports from Syria, and a lot of people in Washington/Ottawa won’t like what he says http://tinyurl.com/7ay72zv La Presse: Duceppe affair—Federal parties demand an investigation by Elections Canada http://tinyurl.com/8yk56r9 Star editorial: Caterpillar’s shutdown of London locomotive plant must be a lesson http://tinyurl.com/7xnxnnx André Pratte on Quebecor’s various wars http://tinyurl.com/82lu9y5 La Presse: It cost us more than $180K to deport Mugesera http://tinyurl.com/75bum5s USA Today lead story: Lawmakers in 9 states target own pension perks http://tinyurl.com/8x3zg9m Hébert: Radio-Canada’s days as talent incubator may be over (doubt they’ll be asked to cut pay though!) http://tinyurl.com/7bmypse CP union requests conciliation; mgmt asking for 10% pay cut or equiv staff cut http://tinyurl.com/7h7gqbo NY Times op-ed columnist disagrees with paper’s editorial position on Keystone XL http://tinyurl.com/6q699xk China Daily op-ed: Relations blossoming again http://tinyurl.com/82ey9km #PMPRC Gazette: Lobbying commissioner investigating Power Corp., Caisse and Quebecor http://tinyurl.com/6qh6ro2 third batch of today's tweets T Star lead story (T Star gets action): PM orders @kenneyjason to review rejections of Afghan interpreters http://tinyurl.com/83ob27l Ed Journal: Alberta Minister to move quickly to appoint oversight panel http://tinyurl.com/6lkb3mp Studin in Globe: Why the Quebec question still matters http://tinyurl.com/7gn6e73 N Post front: Few refugees recognized from Sun Sea, Ocean Lady http://tinyurl.com/89tytck @acoyne ’s back onto Caterpillar, dissing a couple of Star scribes along the way http://tinyurl.com/6tgts5r Star: Tory MP Stephen Woodworth wants human rights for unborn children http://tinyurl.com/7omv9wf ‘Great’ hed (#CBC): Conservative MP wants to know when life begins second batch of today's tweets Pierre Martin: Bloc Québécois and PQ showing new signs of life http://tinyurl.com/79j6hjv CP: Canada set to be No. 2 in economic growth http://tinyurl.com/7zsnjqj Andrew Cohen: Through the looking glass on Iran http://tinyurl.com/73sw3r8 L Martin: The myth of Tory economic performance http://tinyurl.com/7gmorpj first batch of today's tweets Paul Dewar at Star ed board http://tinyurl.com/87k5jzv in Hill Times http://tinyurl.com/877u82e Postmedia: Minister killed plan to limit trans fats: notes http://tinyurl.com/6spqon8 seventh batch of today's tweets [Saudi Prince/major WSJ shareholder] Alwaleed bin Talal: The Lesson of the Arab Spring http://tinyurl.com/7nxpz6t On T Star front, doctors back down http://tinyurl.com/8a5lotb after yesterday’s embarrassing front page story http://tinyurl.com/78lug6k Canada an international outlier when it comes to retirement age http://tinyurl.com/77vhh4p sixth batch of today's tweets W Post front page: Obama administration’s Afghanistan endgame gets off to bumpy start http://tinyurl.com/6nfrvv7 NYT: Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Reports http://tinyurl.com/8xbrx6o Hmm… Ontario court urged to block aboriginal man’s extradition to U.S. (on drug smuggling charge!) http://tinyurl.com/6uvgkjz Guardian: Bill Gates backs climate scientists lobbying for large-scale geo-engineering http://tinyurl.com/8434j24 fifth batch of today's tweets Many journos were delighted by @PatMartinMP's f-bomb and @justinpjtrudeau’s "piece of shit," but not all it seems http://tinyurl.com/6qs64zk Guardian: China bans its airlines from paying EU carbon tax http://tinyurl.com/7rawkyb In Le Journal, Duhaime says Bloc violated the Elections Act by paying its DG from H of C funds http://tinyurl.com/87gymyl fourth batch of today's tweets W Post: Publication of report linking diesel fumes/cancer delayed as industry demands to see documents first http://tinyurl.com/6uz89mf T Star prediction! NDP leadership race likely to remain unpredictable till March convention in Toronto http://tinyurl.com/7lbo3ll W Post front page: Obama holds edge over Romney in general election matchup, poll finds http://tinyurl.com/7jhdotv third batch of today's tweets Star editorial: Stephen Harper’s China trip is about more than bringing home the pandas http://tinyurl.com/7zxmb7b Ibbitson: Trans Pacific trade deal at what price? http://tinyurl.com/7ul5abo Leger : Old Age Security needs reform; panic is not an option http://tinyurl.com/7uqju4o Globe: Ottawa looks abroad for OAS pension solutions http://tinyurl.com/77vhh4p HT: #NDP MP Comartin says it could cost more to change MP pension than not http://tinyurl.com/7n9xd8g Bob Brown in Globe: Let’s debate OAS based on fact, not perception http://tinyurl.com/7e7btrd HT: CP reporter who broke ‘fake’ new Canadians oath story saw Sun TV ceremony/struck her as ‘interesting’/filed ATIP http://tinyurl.com/822q3dm Sun editorial: Boisvenu speaks for many Canadians http://tinyurl.com/88tcm6n CP: Baird compares Iranian threats and nuclear ambition to Nazis Holocaust http://tinyurl.com/84lfr7q HT: House can change Standing Orders to make it more democratic, now http://tinyurl.com/6svg6ps Citizen: Canadians oppose fracking (Council of Canadians Environics poll) http://tinyurl.com/7ek6ukb Star: Canada’s equalization scheme unconstitutional, study says http://tinyurl.com/7eaudmc second batch of today's tweets J.L. Granatstein: Canada doesn't need the UN's permission http://tinyurl.com/7ewdvcv Globe: A decade after going to war in Afghanistan, the wins are fading http://tinyurl.com/8xz8kbb Stinson: Orange wave, financial ripple [for #NDP] http://tinyurl.com/82j6gbe Tim Harper (print ed hed): Foreign firms cash in on Harper tax breaks http://tinyurl.com/7nyb4p5 first batch of today's tweets Star: Drugs, alcohol, weapons smuggled into Canada’s prisons rising http://tinyurl.com/8xn249u CP: Harsher sentences for pot growers than for pedophiles caught PM's eye: documents http://tinyurl.com/7kfyxan fourth batch of today's tweets Crowds pack Prince Rupert's streets to protest Northern Gateway pipeline (with video) http://tinyurl.com/7merscu Robson: Death penalty debate far from closed http://tinyurl.com/7atpef8 NY Times: U.S. Plans a Shift to Elite Forces in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/7tobxar Michael Smyth: Dix's priorities come with hefty price tag http://tinyurl.com/7r8bayc Hmm… Albertans whose names were connected to neo-Nazis/white supremacists are angry http://tinyurl.com/6ud9wsm Lords reform Bill 2 be a major part of upcoming Queen’s Speech; in 2015 Brits will elect 20% of Lords via PR http://tinyurl.com/83lka4a Cheers? Two glasses of wine a night triples risk of mouth cancer, UK Government warns http://tinyurl.com/7lkdt2g third batch of today's tweets Russia and China's Syria resolution veto shames UN, says UK Foreign Sect’y William Hague http://tinyurl.com/7qm3zlb I wonder @jandrewpotter & @JamesMoore_org if the tacky ad on Citizen p 2 has the approval of Heritage Canada NDP wants Baird to er, “exert dip pressure on China & particularly Russia to secure a UN resolution on [Syria] crisis” http://tinyurl.com/6w6erz5 Say what? JFK had an 18-month affair with a 19-year-old White House intern? http://tinyurl.com/6ll5bwc How concerned is the Harper gov’t about the reaction to its OAS musings? The lead letter in today’s Edmonton Journal: http://tinyurl.com/8ydw3ns second batch of today's tweets Doyle McManus in the LA Times: Who reviews Obama’s drone attack 'kill list'? http://tinyurl.com/7wt96wp Really, @TondaMacC ? No Team Canada banners, jackets/no travelling circus of premiers but Harper taking page out of JC political playbook? Léger/Le Journal: 71% of QCers opposed to raising retirement age to 67 @ezralevant regurgitates Sun editorial attack on @JamesMoore_org but drops (ridiculous) demand that Harper fire him http://tinyurl.com/758x37e CP: Honour killings ‘un-Islamic,’ fatwa declares in wake of Shafia trial http://tinyurl.com/7r7qgbe Today’s howler (T Star lead story): Cash-strapped hospital flies MDs to Florida http://tinyurl.com/78lug6k first batch of today's tweets Cohn: How Canada let Caterpillar strip a plant clean http://tinyurl.com/7jsrtwu Journal du Dimanche: Sarkozy tied with Hollande in first round if Le Pen weren’t running http://tinyurl.com/6t4plcb
T Star lead story: Cash-strapped hospital flies MDs to Florida http://tinyurl.com/78lug6k second batch of today's tweets NYT: Obama Got Letter on Talks, Maybe From Mullah Omar http://tinyurl.com/7elcp4p T Star reports re SUN TV but Globe/Post/Citizsen don’t. Just saying http://tinyurl.com/833z6zk #journalism #media Marsden/Gazette: New oilsands watchdog a victory for science http://tinyurl.com/7v66j9u This just in! (Gazette hed): Census to reveal Canada’s changing demographics The fake citizenship ceremony is what happens when a Minister drives bureaucrats to help network doing TV on the cheap Iran's supreme leader vows to confront 'cancerous tumour' of Israel http://tinyurl.com/79kd46h Don Braid: Oilsands critic goes from zero to hero http://tinyurl.com/7uxnswk first batch of today's tweets The suggestion that Harper is preparing the ground for Canada to intervene in Iran is laughable http://tinyurl.com/7vbtst5 Mulgrew: Old B.C. enemies [Vander Zalm-Hughes] play out grudge match in court http://tinyurl.com/7ehxueq Watson: Chretien/Martin reformed the CPP w/out mentioning it during the 93 election campaign http://tinyurl.com/89ay88x Is the CPP a pyramid scheme? http://tinyurl.com/7a8gaur A future PM? How Mark Carney is screwing millions of Canadians heading toward retirement http://tinyurl.com/7macyow T Star Insight feature (print edition hed): Freedom 67 a global trend http://tinyurl.com/6swvhec Er, Occupy Toronto spokesperson has deep roots in the 1 per cent world http://tinyurl.com/8a645fs Marissal: If Harper & @JamesMoore_org R so concerned about CBC/Radio-Canada content, they should tell us what they think of Don Cherry Good on the Toronto Sun for reporting on an issue others have ignored http://tinyurl.com/6ntwxzw Honest #journalism would have named the host who said of an all-female panel ‘What a hot panel we’ve got tonight’ http://tinyurl.com/6sgxfgr Jean Chretien and Paul Desmarais will be very pleased with this change in direction of the Harper government http://tinyurl.com/87aw8jo Boy, does this stink http://tinyurl.com/6q6u4u6 Hebert: Harper has either become exceptionally fearless or has decided not to run again http://tinyurl.com/7llbtro Simpson’s right about Cdns being ready to give free and unwanted advice in int’l affairs but applies to journos/academics too http://tinyurl.com/7frgmwl Dear @acoyne: What was the point of Caterpillar? To affirm no concessions, as the policy of the labour movement http://tinyurl.com/84dtsn3 sixth batch of today's tweets In the Jerusalem Post, a long interview with John Baird that is definitely worth reading http://tinyurl.com/7g958fg Globe http://tinyurl.com/7rz3elz CP http://tinyurl.com/7z57uav reporters must be at different Vander Zalm trials WSJ: Iran Blocks U.N. Nuclear Team http://tinyurl.com/7dr54tn Star/Globe publishers spar http://tinyurl.com/77zba2l T Star ignores latter on future of (some) newspapers http://tinyurl.com/8882gmc David Ignatius: Is Israel preparing to attack Iran? http://tinyurl.com/7tf2v8g fifth batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer : A case of ‘second cabinet, second guessers’ http://tinyurl.com/8x7bjwv Benoît Aubin: Cyniques, les politiciens ? Oui ! http://tinyurl.com/7jhyvt4 WSJ : U.S. Fears Iran's Links to al Qaeda; Globe hed on same WSJ article? Iran eases al-qaeda detentions, U.S. officials say Calgary Herald: Huge perks for retiring Alberta lawmakers criticized http://tinyurl.com/8yblzgy fourth batch of today's tweets Ibbitson: Jim Flaherty’s budget will also be Tony Clement’s http://tinyurl.com/6svkrcg Globe Public Editor
Say what? At prayer breakfast, Harper, oops Obama says Christian faith guides his policies (W Post) http://tinyurl.com/6o5rnk3 Sun News--as Canadian as hockey and bureaucrats posing as new citizens: @simonhoupt/Globe http://tinyurl.com/7wcszwb third batch of today's tweets W Post lead story (print edition hed): Israeli leaders: Iran must be stopped soon http://tinyurl.com/83mbtpa On the front page http://tinyurl.com/22k56f8 of Le Journal, lots of support for Sen Boisvenu’s rope Heather Mallick says @JamesMoore_org is “fair-minded,” which is not an endorsement he’ll likely welcome! http://tinyurl.com/7sdm4v3 second batch of today's tweets Globe: PetroChina takes stake in Shell gas field in B.C. http://tinyurl.com/7rzg6u4 Star: UN holds private meeting with native youth http://tinyurl.com/7n3xcjc Le Journal : Michael Sabia/famille ont passé une fin de semaine aux frais des Desmarais au domaine de Sagardl’été dernier Re-open abortion? @cselley shd familiarize himself w/ UK 3-line whips 4 election engagements http://tinyurl.com/7l889nx Den Tandt believes Harper gov’t setting stage for Cdn involvement in Israeli mil campaign against Iran http://tinyurl.com/7zsmr6w T Sun calls on PM Harper to fire @JamesMoore_org (which would be incredibly stupid) http://tinyurl.com/6qajwc3 Hey, look! The N Post “obtained” CSIS’s Iran-nukes assessment and put it on the front page! http://tinyurl.com/73vtz3h Citizen: 74% oppose raising OAS eligibility from 65 to 67 http://tinyurl.com/7zeg4vz @dgardner not among them http://tinyurl.com/7tn368x second batch of today's tweets T Star editorial : Sun TV’s fake citizenship ceremony discredits it and Harper government http://tinyurl.com/84f7mjy Carol Goar : Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s high-handed tactics offend Canadians http://tinyurl.com/8343ocm Old Age Security flap at least has us talking about greying demographics: @CraigMcInnes http://tinyurl.com/72afrkr Refinery dreams, pipeline realities : @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/7ygpetg T Star front: Immigration ministry blames bureaucrat for Sun News citizenship ceremony slip-up http://tinyurl.com/7vdsp4x Here’s why we all hate politics: @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/6nfr8uv Ottawa Citizen line story: Clement reins in 'March Madness' http://tinyurl.com/7fswqp7 Winnipeg Free Press: first batch of today's tweets
Journal de Québec: 41 % of Qcers (nearly 50% of francos) support Senator Boisvenu’s rope comments http://tinyurl.com/77kmm8m CP: Minister Kenney blames bureaucrats for misleading citizenship ceremony http://tinyurl.com/7e9wwug Susan Riley: The Opposition needs to show us a better way http://tinyurl.com/6qtf9pu Globe lead story: Statscan numbers highlight concerns about aging and the work force http://tinyurl.com/7akfa77 Star line story: Ontario health ministry was warned of serious problems at ORNGE in 2008 http://tinyurl.com/6ovve2x Tim Harper: #NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp warns against trying to ‘outshout’ Conservatives http://tinyurl.com/7hsb6ng fifth batch of today's tweets Not sure @brianlilley chose right day 2 attack @JamesMoore_org 4 defending #cbc against Quebecor #journalism! http://tinyurl.com/842jt59 In the NYT, Gail Collins on Mitt Romney not being concerned about the poor worth reading http://tinyurl.com/7tet29z Globe: Accuser in B.C. trial pressed on handling of Vander Zalm at 1991 probe http://tinyurl.com/7l9vmms Deciphering an Ottawa Citizen correction http://tinyurl.com/8xflckw : the paper mistakenly placed the city in Hungary #journalism a 2010 Angus Reid survey found that 62% of Canadians endorsed the death penalty for homicide convictions http://tinyurl.com/7xv6qbr Hmm… #CPC MP Brad Trost (who wants to re-open abortion) applauds Senator Boisvenu http://tinyurl.com/84qf3h3 fourth batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer : Clark doubters get more ammunition as her poll numbers sink to Gordon Campbell levels http://tinyurl.com/7xz7pul Washington Post : ACLU sues Obama Administration to force release of drone attack records http://tinyurl.com/772262z Guardian: Could Wales leave the United Kingdom? http://tinyurl.com/7u8sw3x NYT: For G.O.P., Keystone Pipeline Is Central to Campaign against Obama http://tinyurl.com/7wl4ugu http://tinyurl.com/7wl4ugu Postmedia: Canadians support oil exports, but are iffy on pipeline, poll shows http://tinyurl.com/7ttf8b9 third batch of today's tweets N Post front: [Court rules that] Sir John A.'s promise to natives not binding http://tinyurl.com/7kl3my2 Calgary Herald: Gateway pipeline to boost oil, hurt consumers, economy: report http://tinyurl.com/7tpac2n Postmedia: Afghan war injury toll tops 2,000 http://tinyurl.com/6w77nkd Goldstein: Silence of the greens: Media, opposition, too embarrassed to admit they blew it http://tinyurl.com/7gk67e6 CP: Senate begins hearings on omnibus crime bill that Tories say needs amendments http://tinyurl.com/7c5byrd Walkom (print edition hed): Old-age plan about pleasing hard-core right http://tinyurl.com/84en2j6 Elizabeth Payne: Is Canada helping the world's poor, or Canadian companies? http://tinyurl.com/6ueww4m CTV Power Play: Fmr. Chief of Staff to Brian Mulroney, Norman Spector, discusses Cda's stance on Palestine's bid for statehood http://bit.ly/xgkfvT Clark/Globe: On the Middle East, Canadians give Baird room to play his hand http://tinyurl.com/7b6sqm8 Yaffe: Best pension reform would be to take from the rich seniors http://tinyurl.com/88fx2wb Wente: The war against the young http://tinyurl.com/6v63hlo Haroon Siddiqui: Stop harassing Afghans and Muslims for crimes of the Shafia family http://tinyurl.com/6wxfz32 Andrew Coyne: Like global warming, population aging has its share of deniers http://tinyurl.com/77qb3rr Hébert (print edition hed): Opposition [OAS] attack could play into Harper’s hands http://tinyurl.com/72atbf2 Kheiriddin: The pension debate we need to have http://tinyurl.com/7no3dnf second batch of today's tweets Stephen Maher: Harper to 'starve the beast' - he just won't say so http://tinyurl.com/74skost CP: Chinese ambassador before Harper visit: China wants Arctic status http://tinyurl.com/7mbcj9s Postmedia: Foreign competition hurts Canadian refineries http://tinyurl.com/7ht7psr first batch of today's tweets CP: Federal bureaucrats posed as ‘new Canadians’ for Sun News event http://tinyurl.com/7lwg92l Vincent Marissal: La langue bien pendue de Boisvenu http://tinyurl.com/7q3na7x L Martin: The primal passions of our law and order men http://tinyurl.com/7ncow28 Globe: Statscan’s chief economic analyst quits http://tinyurl.com/79keazu Stinson/N Post: #CBC Proving them right http://tinyurl.com/6rsku3q T Sun : Is the #CBC paying for porn? http://tinyurl.com/7akowzt sixth batch of today's tweets Globe: Lawyer for ex-premier Vander Zalm grills former deputy AG Hughes http://tinyurl.com/7zzhxgw #NDP MP howler: any # of #CBC ers making more than $100K wd B making 3/4/5 X as much in private sector http://tinyurl.com/89hw9cl Les Leyne: On the Gateway pipeline BC/Alberta R different worlds http://tinyurl.com/7fl37g7 fifth batch of today's tweets I can recall the T Star fulminating against gathering race-based crime statistics. Just saying http://tinyurl.com/753nvta Hm…(Star) @nathancullen seemed 2 disagree with NDP that Qc wd B able to separate w/ 50% + 1 http://tinyurl.com/7qrnnjf Today’s howler (RCMP Paulson): “I’d just as soon not meet with Senator Kenny, to be honest with you.” http://tinyurl.com/86h4cq3 fourth batch of today's tweets Roseman/T Star front : Why raising OAS to 67 doesn't make sense http://tinyurl.com/7l96g7a Hey, look! Le Journal columnist writes column decrying #CBC not advertising in Péladeau #media http://tinyurl.com/73k3d4q Facal : as if NDP QC voters drank too much/woke up next to someone didn’t recognize/what have i done? http://tinyurl.com/73k3d4q Ibbitson: Why isn’t EI reform on Harper government’s radar? http://tinyurl.com/6qqjcg3 third batch of today's tweets Le Devoir: All MPs 2 B decorated w Jubilee Medal; NDPer Nantel will decline http://tinyurl.com/6rtgqbp Globe: Court scolds Harper ministers over handling of international prison transfers http://tinyurl.com/89lzluy NDP’s @nathancullen at Star editorial board: http://tinyurl.com/6wy9wcg news report http://tinyurl.com/7qrnnjf second batch of today's tweets OAS : Lakritz http://tinyurl.com/7fn5k7v vs Clemens http://tinyurl.com/7tv2tnj Mr. Harper goes to Davos: C Goar http://tinyurl.com/7fvrfev vs L Ian http://tinyurl.com/8xk29od Hutchinson: Where there’s a political will, there’s a constitutional way http://tinyurl.com/6pv995n Walkom: The downside to Ontario’s health-care reforms http://tinyurl.com/7tlp5ba Vinegar and China do mix: @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/75wk57x Globe editorial : PM right to confront need for pension reform http://tinyurl.com/7btgtgx first batch of today's tweets Globe: Economists say budget cuts risk more harm as Canadian economy shrinks http://tinyurl.com/7j8tdlb CP: Pooled pension plan debate cut short amid outcry over unrelated OAS reforms http://tinyurl.com/89g5daf Postmedia: Political battle heats up over national energy strategy http://tinyurl.com/6tf2cyb CP: NDP blasts RCMP boss over silence on federal plan to kill gun registry http://tinyurl.com/6ozq6hb Postmedia: Modest Senate reform results in first female being sworn in http://tinyurl.com/8a6xfod Globe: If Israel is an ally, press them for peace, Abbas urges Canada http://tinyurl.com/6won9jr Ed Journal: Native groups want money, pipeline assurances on environment http://tinyurl.com/7hdsltp Globe: Nearly half Canadians say Ottawa’s policy on Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'strikes right balance' http://tinyurl.com/78xnyne sixth batch of today's tweets La Presse: Duceppe says H of C experts said he cd pay Bloc DG from Parl $ but he’s not released the opinion http://tinyurl.com/758adfz Today’s howler: The iPhone's Siri doesn't seem so smart in Scotland http://tinyurl.com/7l3tlp2 Baron: B.C.’s income gap the second worst in Canada, new report says http://tinyurl.com/7r9emtw George Monbiot/Guardian: With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward's war http://tinyurl.com/88fnsxq John Baird in the Jerusalem Post lead story: ‘Delegitimization of Israel is new anti-Semitism' http://tinyurl.com/79r3nx7 Mulcair : «Je sais reconnaître en [M. Duceppe] une droiture exemplaire» http://tinyurl.com/7h8hfpj Mulcair: “Not seen anything that leads me to believe Duceppe broke rules in paying BQ DG from H of C funds” http://tinyurl.com/7h8hfpj fifth batch of today's tweets Palmer: Ill-conceived $780,000 pamphlet was in the top 10 of BC Liberals’ HST blunders http://tinyurl.com/723hgn8 OAS? Let the debate begin! @acoyne http://tinyurl.com/8xfv5mr vs @JohnIbbitson http://tinyurl.com/6nkun9t Le Journal de Québec: journo at Le Soleil (its competitor) charged for DUI #journalism Hebert: window for sovereignty opened in '90 now closed http://tinyurl.com/8xtl873 PQ peril as bad-news budget looms http://tinyurl.com/7pf8hco Hughes v Vander Zalm: Province http://tinyurl.com/6q56e2h Globe http://tinyurl.com/6oahdoe CP http://tinyurl.com/7abpf8w #bcpoli fourth batch of today's tweets @CdnPress doesn’t report http://tinyurl.com/7ggvr47 that M Gardner was not Bloc DG when he was hired Dear Globe Public Editor @SylviaStead: The Citizen shows how to correct errors honestly and transparently http://tinyurl.com/6lw8daz Globe A1 er, reports “chutzpah of the highest order” by Cdn Ministers in Ramallah (though no burning in effigy!) http://tinyurl.com/7pcub2lthird batch of today's tweets Ed Journal: Former U.S. ambassador to Canada predicts Keystone to be major US election issue http://tinyurl.com/6to3cr7 MP complaining about party discipline wants abortion re-opened, despite specific election commitment http://tinyurl.com/8a9xqg7 Globe: Another Russian diplomat leaves Canada http://tinyurl.com/6mqpmng Peter Worthington disagrees with @ezralevant on Omar Khadr http://tinyurl.com/78ypynb second batch of today's tweets Postmedia: Harper agrees to consult with First Nations on pipeline http://tinyurl.com/6ngrrav Globe: Statscan to abandon no-layoff policy as budget cuts loom http://tinyurl.com/82axj32 iPolitics: Hundreds earn six-figure paycheques, though #CBC won’t say who http://tinyurl.com/74kzqyw McParland http://tinyurl.com/6tj9rms Hébert http://tinyurl.com/7pf8hco Cohen on the Harper government http://tinyurl.com/7btrqeq Globe front: Research belies PM’s warning about OAS http://tinyurl.com/8xa3sha OAS? Yaffe http://tinyurl.com/7guukkh Crowley http://tinyurl.com/76mvyav vs McInnes http://tinyurl.com/7ff2hh3 Citizen: Canadian trainers in Afghanistan to stay until 2014 http://tinyurl.com/6smvrdd Catholic trustees on a collision course with Ontario’s Catholic premier, Dalton McGuinty http://tinyurl.com/7q6dfy8 first batch of today's tweets HT: Toews' office contradicts RCMP on when it received potentially embarrassing report on long-gun registry http://tinyurl.com/8yul466 iPolitics: NDP donation pledge news to Mulcair and his Quebec recruits, he says http://tinyurl.com/76hf2tx L Martin: #NDP could do a lot worse than Mulcair-Cullen combination http://tinyurl.com/88gre4v OAS? @acoyne http://tinyurl.com/8xfv5mr @dgardner http://tinyurl.com/7296hu5 @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/792opgp vs Ott Citizen http://tinyurl.com/7crf357 eighth batch of today's tweets Today’s howler: The UK will still exist after Scottish independence, says Salmond http://tinyurl.com/77uoy34 Errors no longer “appearing” but R being published by Globe according to A2 correction. Good 1st step @SylviaStead HT: NB Lib Sen Pierrette Ringuette, appointed in 2002 by Jean Chrétien, is not set to retire until er, 2030 Beginning of a trend? Hill journo calls out Tom Mulcair for a ridiculous comparison http://tinyurl.com/853apst #journalism Today’s dishonesty : T Star editorial neglects 2 mention 60% support of Cdns for C-10 in same Environics poll http://tinyurl.com/7vj8hm4 Idiocy watch (T Sun editorial): ‘honour’ killings have “become an epidemic” in Canada http://tinyurl.com/775xt7l seventh batch of today's tweets Granatstein: The world according to Harper: It's not Lloyd Axworthy's foreign policy now http://tinyurl.com/7c7k3tu N Post: NDP tops in Quebec despite slippage Le Devoir: NDP/Bloc tied http://tinyurl.com/7j2nano Remember the Brinks affair b4 the 1970 QC election? Here’s the Scottish, er, equivalent! http://tinyurl.com/77lop6z Calgary Herald: Alberta's election laws spark criticism http://tinyurl.com/7ezpxue In the HT, Sheila Copps equates the hit on Duceppe and a “Liberal commentator” promoting info re her zero party donations Van Sun lead story: B.C. Liberals planned to sell HST with iPad giveaway http://tinyurl.com/88hdoeo Colin Kenny responds to Vic Toews in a letter to the T Star http://tinyurl.com/6ltzpnz fifth batch of today's tweets Goar: Canada chops employment insurance staff, leaving jobless in the lurch http://tinyurl.com/7ogctwk W Post: NATO allies grapple with shrinking defense budgets http://tinyurl.com/87ru7q3 LA Times: By any name, it’s lobbying…and they're everywhere http://tinyurl.com/79ab5oa Personally, I can’t think of a single justification for a journo granting this lobbyist anonymity http://tinyurl.com/7wsxkun fourth batch of today's tweets Hebert: Stephen Harper to the PQ’s rescue? http://tinyurl.com/89h2lh2 CP: Nathan Cullen on defence during rare show of sparks at NDP leadership debate http://tinyurl.com/6tkyyns Robson: Clean up budget mess http://tinyurl.com/6whhu9t third batch of today's tweets HT: PM promises pension reform amid calls for an overhaul of Parliament’s own retirement plan http://tinyurl.com/7wfz5r4 Graham Fox: Parliament: heal thy self http://tinyurl.com/76cjggw Tim Harper: An urgent need for an alternative voice http://tinyurl.com/6rj64gu Citizen: Mulcair appears to have breached party rule requiring MPs to contribute $1,100/yr to fed #NDP http://tinyurl.com/79kws2a Yaffe: NDP can rally voters in fight against pension cuts http://tinyurl.com/6pztu4s NDP begins slide back to obscurity: @montesolberg http://tinyurl.com/863mbga second batch of today's tweets Le Devoir: NDP/Bloc tied in QChttp://tinyurl.com/7j2nano CP: New Parti Quebecois policy would allow citizen-led referendums on sovereignty http://tinyurl.com/8x2krns Gagnon: No second-time lucky for Duceppe http://tinyurl.com/7naphfb first batch of today's tweets Harper government condemned by @ezralevant for agreeing to Omar Khadr plea deal http://tinyurl.com/7t46rel CP: Republicans keep up Keystone XL efforts; plan to tie approval to jobs bill http://tinyurl.com/83g2fvy HT: Federal government has no interest in becoming involved in U.S. election: Resources Minister http://tinyurl.com/6vmq3lv fourth batch of today's tweets Mme Paillé got the idea of running for office from Ruth-Ellen Brousseau’s #NDP win! http://tinyurl.com/76boh83 http://tinyurl.com/76boh83 NYT Magazine: Will Israel Attack Iran? http://tinyurl.com/7t364de In the Independent, the world needs more Canada--or at least St. John’s! http://tinyurl.com/74amjnn third batch of today's tweets John Lichfield in the Independent: Is Sarkozy about to throw in the towel? http://tinyurl.com/6qk5h6s Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer Who most wants independence for Scotland? The English… http://tinyurl.com/7jlmsdu Dear @dgardner: Mark Carney not quite an Ike-like figure who’ll save the world in the NY Times! http://tinyurl.com/7xzur3n A ‘great’ moment in lobbying http://tinyurl.com/8xksrqv second batch of today's tweets Geist: Details of Canada’s upcoming 700MHz auction expected this week http://tinyurl.com/7d5596v Star front (print edition hed): 287,000 GTA guns to fall of the radar http://tinyurl.com/87w2qwy Rae criticizes Harper's approach to federalism http://tinyurl.com/6r8a8d4 aboriginals http://tinyurl.com/76wr6vv first batch of today's tweets Siddiqui: PM plays politics with religion http://tinyurl.com/7l8tq7a #CBC taking bite out of ... Apple?!: @ezralevant http://tinyurl.com/7yb7873 Can Health Minister Matthews deliver health sector the fresh remedies it needs?: @reggcohn http://tinyurl.com/72jsqsu Robson: Big project spending isn’t conservative http://tinyurl.com/6u556ss Nanos: #CPC 35.7 (down) #LPC 27.6 (up) #NDP 25.2 (down ON and QC where BQ up) http://tinyurl.com/78gxxkp seventh batch of today's tweets Gail Collins: The Real Legacy of Newt Gingrich http://tinyurl.com/75xu5n6 Harper vetoed int’l job for Charest that had support of Desmarais/Sarkozy http://tinyurl.com/798gbyo Leger: Parmi les électeurs CAQ--41 Oui 47 Non http://tinyurl.com/7s9fzzd NYT editorial: In Defense of Clean Energy http://tinyurl.com/6pku3cc sixth batch of today's tweets Don Braid: Snelgrove: I wasn't pushed out http://tinyurl.com/7m6ef66 T Star line story: Canada’s worst federal employees — and why some still have their jobs http://tinyurl.com/6orry2l T Star: Border guard fired over impaired driving wants job back http://tinyurl.com/6mna2dw NYT: Mitt Romney, the candidate of Goldman, Sachs http://tinyurl.com/7flfseg Golombek: Canadian Romney would pay less tax http://tinyurl.com/83jgqem Hm.. Wonder what T Sun readers/Sun TV viewers wd think of this column by @MacphersonGaz http://tinyurl.com/7eu3xd9 In the T Star, a columnist digs up muck on Canadian officials he’s been fighting http://tinyurl.com/78zo7dv NYT: France, Breaking With NATO, Will Speed Afghan Exit http://tinyurl.com/7w8gsaf fifth batch of today's tweets Leger: QC w/ more powers in Canada preferred 39-30 over sovereignty http://tinyurl.com/7s9fzzd T Star: Canadian security forces spied on constitutional expert Eugene Forsey: declassified documents http://tinyurl.com/85d6hde Graham Thomson: Snelgrove making noise with one-man mutiny http://tinyurl.com/6uprgdn W Post front: France will speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by one year http://tinyurl.com/7qgapyn fourth batch of today's tweets T Star line story: 2000 fed workers dismissed 4 everything from incompetence 2 rape/Ott wants it kept secret Leger: 43% wd vote yes in a referendum, up 7 since August http://tinyurl.com/7s9fzzd Leger: Le oui =43, + 7 depuis août http://tinyurl.com/7s9fzzd third batch of today's tweets Today’s howler (Ottawa Citizen line story): NDP front-runner stingy with party http://tinyurl.com/6ua7jw4 Simpson: Scotland has a clear question, but no clear reason http://tinyurl.com/6n2rehj Postmedia: Aboriginal consent for Gateway iffy proposition in law http://tinyurl.com/7y3sbpy Star editorial: Stephen Harper needs to spell out his plans for changing pensions http://tinyurl.com/7xwkkfe second batch of today's tweets Globe line story: Harper’s message to Canadians: Rethink your retirement http://tinyurl.com/84x8nkd Tories have put Canadians in a hole: @stphnmaher http://tinyurl.com/7xd2zme Fight over the 2012 federal budget will take place on the larger stage of public opinion: @ChantalHbert http://tinyurl.com/7l6qcco Warren: Harper sees what we must do http://tinyurl.com/83nt526 Frum: How our oil became a U.S. campaign issue http://tinyurl.com/7ucun5y Leger: Parmi des francos CAQ 36 (-6) PQ 30 PLC 18 % (chacun +2) depuis la mi-décembre) http://tinyurl.com/7s9fzzd Crowley: Why we don't just refine the bitumen in Canada http://tinyurl.com/7fuy62f first batch of today's tweets Walkom: Stephen Harper’s old-age pension cuts unnecessary http://tinyurl.com/7vc2cby Corbella: Harper must buy the moral authority to change OAS http://tinyurl.com/7n45d8g 'Necessary changes,' but not imminent: @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/6o8zwb9 sixth batch of today's tweets La Presse: More cases of BQ staffers paid out of H of C funds http://tinyurl.com/7zzgk8t Kohut in NYT: Don't Mind the Inequality Gap http://tinyurl.com/88p2zf8 fifth batch of today's tweets Hmm. France asked Mulcair 2 help smooth out differences w/ Canada over electing member of their Natl Assembly? http://tinyurl.com/6lza9g4 Times Colonist front: Secrecy, not urgency, cited on VIHA hire with ties to premier Clark http://tinyurl.com/7je9wob Paul Krugman touches on 1 difference between US Republicans and Harper's Conservatives http://tinyurl.com/7khu334 OAS cuts? @TonyclementCPC: What we're not looking at [in spending review] is transfers to individuals, like OAS http://tinyurl.com/7g77wa5 fourth batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer: Members jostle to lead NDP, boost votes in Chilliwack http://tinyurl.com/6o5x22d Personally I think @dgardner’s scenario of Mark Carney saving the world like Ike is a hoot http://tinyurl.com/6qr8dgk Canada # 10 in world in press freedom, highest in hemisphere, up from #21 last year; the US? # 47 http://tinyurl.com/77eyz9s WSJ/NBC front page poll: Obama losing to generic Rep candidate last month/now leading 47% to 42%, best margin in 7 months third batch of today's tweets WSJ/NBC front page poll: Obama’s approval rating 48%/46% disapprove-1st time positive since June Today’s howler (NYT): Britain Releases Partial List of Those Declining Knighthood http://tinyurl.com/766d8ue Herald: Feds admit to funding foul-up/Calgary denied aid to build rec centres http://tinyurl.com/7km2s8t A ‘great’ moment in polling (and #journalism): Harris-Decima: Cons 32 ND 29 Libs 25; Angus Reid: Cons 39 ND 28 Libs 22 Say what? Prison inmate population growth slower than predicted http://tinyurl.com/85pjezr Ma chronique dans Le Devoir: Réforme de la Constitution http://tinyurl.com/6ltpsfo My column in today’s Globe: Demand for constitutional reform only builds http://tinyurl.com/6vhe4xc Vincent Marissal: Un coup de fil, c'est bien, deux, c'est mieux http://tinyurl.com/7l6t27c second batch of today's tweets Globe lead story: Prime Minister Harper unveils grand plan to reshape Canada http://tinyurl.com/6wygeye N Post front: Canada to France: keep your election to yourself http://tinyurl.com/6lza9g4 Star : Duncan demands Ottawa release censored report showing Ontario shortchanged by equalization http://tinyurl.com/7jsbdw6 CP: 'Radical' federal remarks boost fundraising, support for enviro groups http://tinyurl.com/87jtvxm Star : (Bit of a stench around this one) : ORNGE’s mysterious $6.7 million payment http://tinyurl.com/7a3k74y Citizen: Foreign aid gets down to business http://tinyurl.com/6sbp7x7 HT : Tories postpone long-gun registry 3rd readin, Libs accuse dragging out issue to raise more money http://tinyurl.com/759zr2g first batch of today's tweets Yaffe: Time ripe to rein in cushy pensions for MPs, bureaucrats http://tinyurl.com/6mv3d45 Susan Riley: Harper wins when voters snooze http://tinyurl.com/7mwk3q6 Star ed: Stephen Harper got it right in Davos: businesses aren't investing enough in innovation http://tinyurl.com/84dfm4z Tim Harper: Mulcair knows NDP Quebec support is no “long-term lease.’’ http://tinyurl.com/7tjfzsx eighth batch of today's tweets Times Colonist : Harcourt may testify in Ted Hughes's lawsuit against Vander Zalm http://tinyurl.com/88rajgs Jaccard: Pols lying if they abet expansion of tarsands while promising to prevent imminent climate catastrophe http://tinyurl.com/6opn67p T Star: Mugesera case paves way for more Rwanda deportations, prosecutor says http://tinyurl.com/7hjx46v seventh batch of today's tweets Globe (Ouch!): “Concordia students are famous for rioting over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” http://tinyurl.com/7colwjy The correction on Page A2 of today's dead-tree edition of the Globe corrects this column http://tinyurl.com/79hrq8m T Star knocks Ford 4 Stalin comparison http://tinyurl.com/7hxfp7d but Harper to Stalin is “certainly fair comment” http://tinyurl.com/7l9pbya sixth batch of today's tweets Today’s howler (Calgary Herald): B.C. polygamist leader forgets one of his 22 wives; Loses count testifying in court In response to Colin Kenny column, Vic Toews pens a letter to the Star http://tinyurl.com/799uh2a Ottawa Sun: Ontario puts $5M toward Winnipeg museum http://tinyurl.com/6p93dhb fifth batch of today's tweets André Pratte/La Presse editorial: The Duceppe Affair (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7j66jvs Star: Ontario shortchanged in wealth-sharing system, censored federal report suggests http://tinyurl.com/72mqgud Brian Crowley: Feels like it's 1985 all over again http://tinyurl.com/6vb7cyg fourth batch of today's tweets In an op-ed, @ElizabethMay http://tinyurl.com/6tv38ep responds to Peter Kent http://tinyurl.com/6ljm8dr Edmonton Journal ed: Is election for senators-in-waiting too expensive? http://tinyurl.com/7pldwlt Globe: Ottawa moves to tighten provincial immigration program http://tinyurl.com/7nyrddx third batch of today's tweets Harper’s smarter: @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/6wgvbyj Gilmore: Canada: no longer just friendly and harmless http://tinyurl.com/7mnqwlh Kheiriddin: Don't scapegoat corporate Canada http://tinyurl.com/7se7tr4 second batch of today's tweets Cohn: The Caterpillar crisis is now Ontario’s crisis http://tinyurl.com/87b8g2w In response to a column, @TonyclementCPC pens a letter to the editor http://tinyurl.com/6q327jl Post front: Canada pushing to have Syria off UN board http://tinyurl.com/7zm7j29 T Star front: Ottawa wins appeal against lawsuit by aboriginal children taken from reserves in Ontario http://tinyurl.com/6mpqenw First Nations seek to mine royalty revenue: @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/8x7pu68 first batch of today's tweets HT: CROP poll unsettles #NDP, but Boivin says Libs not making Qc comeback from sponsorships ‘for long, long time’ http://tinyurl.com/8ydxcoq Clark/Globe: EU free trade deal potentially costly for Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/745euyn T Sun: Gilles Duceppe used Commons cash to pay journo to write vanity book http://tinyurl.com/7rkvlfr first batch of today's tweets NYT: Davos Attendees Confront a New Wave of Anger http://tinyurl.com/7agjc4g In a ‘clarification’ the T Star rows back from a serious
allegation against NYT: Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord http://tinyurl.com/7d38x3z fifth batch of today's tweets Hm.. Harper to deliver the keynote address http://tinyurl.com/6pscnmw or a keynote address in Davos? http://tinyurl.com/6v6le8u La Presse: Duceppe adviser used BQ researchers to write book (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7jw9xmr Reid: Tories Lead, Liberals Gain but still 3rd; Rae best momentum/Harper highest approval http://tinyurl.com/7eyo2r9 Les Leyne: That pipeline? BC has little to say http://tinyurl.com/6pb3u9x fourth batch of today's tweets A non-renewed Liberal IRB appointee rejects allegations in Citizen that @kenneyjason pressured her http://tinyurl.com/73ohhd3 USA Today lead story : Taliban leader's grip on insurgency weakens http://tinyurl.com/83oqdjn Er, 35 chiefs from Manitoba in attendance, though only 24 of them will be able to be in the main meeting room http://tinyurl.com/785v7ag third batch of today's tweets Chief (!): "I think Harper knows how to get things done, not so interested in satisfying parliament as in results" http://tinyurl.com/6me5aed Er, NYT: A 2002 poll of Globe and Mail readers named Mr. Lazaridis Canada’s “nation builder of the year.” http://tinyurl.com/83gvab5 If you’re interested in ex-pols who become non-lobbying ‘consultants’ today’s NYT editorial worth reading http://tinyurl.com/8yposyt Globe: Canada needs to reinvent CRTC, outgoing head says http://tinyurl.com/79jngaw N Post front: I fear my homeland: Ocean Lady claimant http://tinyurl.com/7c5htjr Colin Kenny: Muzzling of RCMP commissioner shows that control is out of control http://tinyurl.com/75nodpj Public Editor @SylviaStead cd start by explaining (P2) where incorrect information “appeared” in Friday’s Globe second batch of today's tweets Citizen: Harper--Capitalism works best/to deliver keynote address at World Economic Forum http://tinyurl.com/6pscnmw APTN : Harper tells chiefs they should contact their MPs http://tinyurl.com/7htzdn9 Citizen: Baird pushes for gay rights in Commonwealth http://tinyurl.com/8762gb2 Harper/First Nations meeting--Globe: http://tinyurl.com/7k5fxcp CP: http://tinyurl.com/7lptmvd Ivison : Settling a beef with S. Korea http://tinyurl.com/6p4k7xm CP: NDP to Clement: Turn yourself in to police for G8 legacy cover-up http://tinyurl.com/7z6joll Hebert (print hed): Window for sovereignty has closed http://tinyurl.com/6vf7tgc Michel David: La racine du mal http://tinyurl.com/7ek8v4w Globe: Tom Flanagan to run Wildrose campaign in Alberta election http://tinyurl.com/7vgxq22 #ableg Picard: http://tinyurl.com/6ohfrn4 Yaffe http://tinyurl.com/6trej9c diss the Preems on health care first batch of today's tweets Citizen front: Chief warns of possible native 'uprising' http://tinyurl.com/82zek7f La Presse : Marois not (yet) cooked (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7ptad7p HT: A number of donors give to National Citizens Coalition and Conservatives http://tinyurl.com/7bzb8ys Le Devoir: Duceppe followed the rules (translation) http://tinyurl.com/6muccke sixth batch of today's tweets Agree to Qatar office for Taleban or we will speed up Afghanistan exit, US told Karzai (Times/London) Hmm… a “left-leaning think tank” in the Citizen http://tinyurl.com/84j3jkb unlabelled in the Star http://tinyurl.com/76zzvu6 It’s backfired! Cdns more worried about foreign ownership in oil/gas industry, than about foreign enviro orgs http://tinyurl.com/6of455p Don Drummond laments policies he promoted have done little to make priv sect more productive/compet http://tinyurl.com/7nne485 fifth batch of today's tweets Globe’s new Public Editor http://tinyurl.com/6t5n8kp sounding like this is her model http://tinyurl.com/6logqym not this http://tinyurl.com/8xxknp8 Quite the claim this columnist is making! “Abortion is wrong, and in their hearts everyone knows it” http://tinyurl.com/7d4zf4n Globe says Canadian bilingualism’s a blessing, but they’re not talking about Canada’s official languages! http://tinyurl.com/76kma5e fourth batch of today's tweets FT: Faith in government plummets, international survey shows http://tinyurl.com/7hagnte Public servants worried about cuts http://tinyurl.com/7fa62yb Nycole Turmel 2 Le Devoir: #CBC should be exempt http://tinyurl.com/7hlsoqp Brodbeck : If Stephen Harper proposed same crime policies as Manitoba's #NDP attorney general, he’d be tarred http://tinyurl.com/7zvp5ty T Star front page: Ontario, B.C. residents wait longer for kidney transplants than any other Canadians http://tinyurl.com/83vcavl third batch of today's tweets La Presse: The Bloc itself is paying the salary of its current DG (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7xdacvb CP’s “progressive think-tank” on federal job cuts http://tinyurl.com/7kyjw7u is a “left-leaning” 1 in the Citizen http://tinyurl.com/84j3jkb Leger: Secret Canada: balancing security and civil liberties http://tinyurl.com/88or8pg In March, Bloc demanded resignation of @kenneyjason ass’t cause he used Parliamentary letter-head http://tinyurl.com/77qdbyj second batch of today's tweets Globe: Ottawa summit aims to boost first-nations economies http://tinyurl.com/7x8g3jv Globe: Falcon convinced he can balance B.C. budget http://tinyurl.com/88d7ult Reuters: Republicans may link pipeline to tax bill--Boehner http://tinyurl.com/84tx8bo Post: Alberta Wildrose poised to take official opposition status in spring vote: poll http://tinyurl.com/7oruqld Post: Widespread support for burka ban, @kenneyjason says http://tinyurl.com/7oruqld first batch of today's tweets Bob Plamondon: $100-billion in expenditures that no one notices http://tinyurl.com/7639tak Star editorial: Federal government has no business micromanaging RCMP commissioner http://tinyurl.com/7laaxqa Tim Harper: #NDP vs Republican leadership races — is one method better? http://tinyurl.com/7gmv8jd Un putsch très très raté | Yves Boisvert http://tinyurl.com/77qdbyj Ibbitson: Obama ready to sign extension on softwood http://tinyurl.com/7nyp8mu HT: NDP’s 2003 decision to buy $4-million building ensures party’s ‘financial viability’ http://tinyurl.com/7cv45qv Bernard Landry ne changera «pas un mot». Il l'enverra son texte aux journaux demain matin http://tinyurl.com/8x7j8uc fifth batch of today's tweets Despite this http://tinyurl.com/dewg8b http://tinyurl.com/7kduxqk few public servants resign their positions http://tinyurl.com/6rvhc4j NYT Public Editor on newspapers fact-checking the news they report http://tinyurl.com/79qcxka W Post Ombudsman: The Post needs to spend 2012 scrutinizing Obama’s record http://tinyurl.com/6o6fp44 fourth batch of today's tweets Hmm.. Sen Vern White’s biggest regret is that he had to renege on a newly signed contract with the Ottawa Police http://tinyurl.com/732bepm NYT analysis “Confronting Iran in a Year of Elections” understandably doesn’t mention Canada or Stephen Harper http://tinyurl.com/6qyjqv7 In the NY Times, Ross Douthat, “A Good Candidate Is Hard to Find,” worth reading http://tinyurl.com/6mrol6a third batch of today's tweets Le Monde editorial: The ambiguities of the deadly Afghan army (translation) http://tinyurl.com/753a35j Idiocy watch: Does P Worthington truly believe we’d “unquestionably accept [S Harper] having double citizenship with the US”? http://tinyurl.com/77x26p5 NYT : Karzai Honors Slain Afghan Officials/no mention of French soldiers killed by an Afghan soldier http://tinyurl.com/6pgqzj6 In the T Star, hysteria on Iran http://tinyurl.com/7y35eac in the W Post, some sobriety http://tinyurl.com/6mmkzcg Calgary Herald op-eds: pro-Gateway hearings http://tinyurl.com/774k4mk against official languages http://tinyurl.com/7qsjzsm second batch of today's tweets Bouquet to @steve_rennie CP: Rich U.S. groups that funded environmentalists also gave to Canadian government http://tinyurl.com/7wq837y Postmedia: Scientists fire salvo in Canada's bid to control Arctic seabed http://tinyurl.com/7azaepx Ed Journal: Harper should admit mistake: Martin/but he doesn’t have to say 'I endorse Paul Martin's agenda' http://tinyurl.com/8yjouhh Postmedia NOT in Citizen/Gingrich: an Am pres who can create Chinese-Cdn partnership truly a danger 2 country http://tinyurl.com/7p9tzgc Citizen: Climate change skeptics gain influence in Senate; Tory caucus members question Kyoto science http://tinyurl.com/7yhwcc3 first batch of today's tweets NYT: House speaker John Boehner will be on “Fox News Sunday” to talk about Obama’s Keystone decision http://tinyurl.com/7cg2fdj Attack ad double standards : @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/6pbne8t Stop whining about political impudence and fight back : @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/6q4q679 fifth batch of today's tweets Les Leyne: Better to be right than popular—Premier Clark http://tinyurl.com/87q4hmx One wonders now whether @CBCOmbudsman Kirk Lapointe will review his Mayor Ford decision http://tinyurl.com/7enalav Howler: Preston Manning, has been in to talk to the BC Lib caucus about what it takes to er, win http://tinyurl.com/7uc3jxd Personally, I think the Citizen’s line story is pure speculation http://tinyurl.com/7xu4qsl Peter White: Little Dmitri doesn’t know QC/He’s a child/His Greek friends got jobs/MBM guys frozen out http://tinyurl.com/7u8v8hf Ed Journal: Where did all Alberta's money go? http://tinyurl.com/84rmz8t Walkom: Canada’s swagger rests on a fragile base http://tinyurl.com/7rfhezz Globe (print hed): Tiny ad agency gains Tories’ favour er, 6th graf: “no obvious political connections” http://tinyurl.com/7rtqqmb fourth batch of today's tweets Palmer: Big-spending Alberta irks both neighbours http://tinyurl.com/7jaobfu Don Braid: Redford has many more promises to keep http://tinyurl.com/7l7xjak Washington Post lead story: France threatens early withdrawal from Afghanistan/suspends training http://tinyurl.com/85rbxp8 third batch of today's tweets NYT front: EU Central Bank Unlikely Hero In Euro Crisis http://tinyurl.com/7vrfxy3 Calgary Herald front page: Alberta budget set for Feb. 9 http://tinyurl.com/7n3blb8 Times-Colonist: #CBC reporter's link to BC Premier Clark too close: #CBC ombudsman http://tinyurl.com/6p4rocz second batch of today's tweets Citizen: Citizens group donors also gave to Tories http://tinyurl.com/88p6qsf Star: U.S. opens new Canadian front in war on drugs http://tinyurl.com/86lca5m Aux interventions défavorables à Mme Marois, il s'en ajoutera 1 de l'ancien PM Bernard Landry http://tinyurl.com/7c8b3zp Postmedia: Baird rebuked for `cynical' clemency letter for death-row inmate http://tinyurl.com/6ssara7 Globe: National chief strives to build sense of trust between Harper, first nations http://tinyurl.com/7enoh8n CP: First Nations summit with Harper sets the stage for next budget: chiefs http://tinyurl.com/7jf6le2 Citizen: Canadian government still looks at Russia with deep suspicion and mistrust http://tinyurl.com/78xf8gu CP: Russian diplomats were feted before leaving Canada, not expelled, insiders say http://tinyurl.com/6sxuqga Star: Toews denies muzzling RCMP, blasts Liberal senator’s bid for ‘secret’ access http://tinyurl.com/6ws9tko first batch of today's tweets La Presse: Gilles Duceppe paid $100K salary of BQ Dir Gen out of H of C budget for 7 years (translation) http://tinyurl.com/75bgra8 La Presse: Gilles Duceppe dans l'embarras http://tinyurl.com/7u2x79t Policy for the neuronally challenged: @jandrewpotter http://tinyurl.com/743ypyb Balancing freedom and fairness: @acoyne http://tinyurl.com/6vdhnag Simpson: Amid 'violent' agreement, NDP excitement’s at a premium http://tinyurl.com/7g9trj9 Hébert: Lack of leadership material pushes Quebec into unpredictable terrain http://tinyurl.com/86wxqsg Yaffe : Notoriously fickle Quebec will test NDP's staying power http://tinyurl.com/7khvvgq seventh batch of today's tweets Financial Times: Cameron admits UK has lost faith in capitalism http://tinyurl.com/7sda2vp Don Braid : Public sector wages in Alberta raise eyebrows http://tinyurl.com/7wf4swu Peter Kent in Post: Canada's post-Kyoto plan http://tinyurl.com/8629q7q N Post: Poli Sci prize judge quits over French flap http://tinyurl.com/6m69tcw sixth batch of today's tweets Globe: Out-of-control salaries the stuff of nightmares for health ministers http://tinyurl.com/7je2sdy W Post: Keystone XL oil pipeline battle has only just begun http://tinyurl.com/72z2lyy #ableg #bcpoli Samuelson/W Post: Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity http://tinyurl.com/7bvgtca Krauthammer: Republicans legitimize Obama’s reelection rhetoric http://tinyurl.com/87sfphg Guardian G2 cover story: Leonard Cohen: 'All I've got to put in a song is my own experience' http://tinyurl.com/7xmbh7k fifth batch of today's tweets NY Times lead story: Afghan Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces http://tinyurl.com/7ladrjj Guardian: France suspends all Afghanistan training operations over troop killings http://tinyurl.com/7qxdlf2 La Presse : Un militant conservateur dénonce la «décanadiennisation» du Québec http://tinyurl.com/7au84oy fourth batch of today's tweets Roger Gibbins: Why a Canadian energy strategy makes sense http://tinyurl.com/6rgd2lv Star: Dalton McGuinty and ministers brace for cuts http://tinyurl.com/76qon5p CP’s @hscoffield files the most informative piece on Harper’s upcoming meeting with First Nations http://tinyurl.com/8xrxzcj third batch of today's tweets Maclean’s: Harper’s French disconnection (based on Peter White’s open letter re Quebec posted with article) http://tinyurl.com/6rn5pbj Star editorial: NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair should give up French citizenship http://tinyurl.com/7g3x23l Calgary Herald lead story: Pipeline denial may hit B.C. plan http://tinyurl.com/87yn8y4 Bloomberg: TransCanada May Shorten Keystone XL, Bypass US Review http://tinyurl.com/786txbn second batch of today's tweets HT: NCC slammed for ‘disgusting character assassination’ attack ad against Rae http://tinyurl.com/727ux33 Calgary Herald: Alberta’s public sector wage bill rises 119% in a decade http://tinyurl.com/74enowc Postmedia: Enbridge probes cause of oil pipeline leak in N.W.T. http://tinyurl.com/6sqhach #ableg #bcpoli Goar: Ontario health budget math doesn’t add up http://tinyurl.com/7dh93s7 #onpoli Stinson: United, the NDP falls http://tinyurl.com/8yogh5d BURNEY and HAMPSON: The last thing we need is another foreign policy review http://tinyurl.com/7h3aw3c Citizen: Flaherty's PS pension vow not permanent http://tinyurl.com/859zedh Globe lead story: Ottawa expels Russian diplomats in wake of charges against Canadian http://tinyurl.com/7oyzdlw first batch of today's tweets Citizen: Top court rejects Almalki appeal http://tinyurl.com/823n2th Tim Harper: Pipeline politics in Canada and U.S. a peril for Stephen Harper http://tinyurl.com/7vzazs4 Susan Riley: In defence of old politicians http://tinyurl.com/6un523f seventh batch of today's tweets Behind Le Devoir’s pay-wall, #CBC union leader says $82K is tops for a foreign correspondent (I’m dubious) LAT: fight over Keystone has become battle each side finds useful, and both are likely to prolong it http://tinyurl.com/7r788fc In French NOT English, I read that #NDP MP Megan Leslie is pleased by Obama’s Keystone decision http://tinyurl.com/87bk6t3 Guardian : BP forecasts N America will energy self-sufficient in 2 decades partly due to Cdn oil sands http://tinyurl.com/7uf95uk Globe errs: TCPL revised proposal cd be expedited http://tinyurl.com/6unsnu8; Postmedia: it won’t B http://tinyurl.com/87x5eb7 sixth batch of today's tweets WSJ: House GOP may attach to next tax bill language that Keystone in the national interest http://tinyurl.com/7qtgfov Keystone delay? Nobody in US believes Harper can deliver on China threat, except in longer term http://tinyurl.com/84e5otx Independent : Arab/Palestinian Human Rights orgs accuse Nato of war crimes in Libya http://tinyurl.com/835dezn fifth batch of today's tweets Stephen Hume: B.C. politicians need to take a side on Gateway http://tinyurl.com/7eczmlm Hmm.. The alleged navy spy once worked in the military's nerve-centre at National Defence Headquarters? http://tinyurl.com/6nqatvn Don Braid: Alberta Tories to blame for our friendless status http://tinyurl.com/7mdzxm2 Globe: revised Keystone proposal cd be expedited http://tinyurl.com/6unsnu8 NYT: it won’t B expedited http://tinyurl.com/7x2r9rc fourth batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer: Premiers more interested than taking care of their own than in forming alliances http://tinyurl.com/6nh554o Dear @MacphersonGaz: There are economies of scale in provision of public services http://tinyurl.com/6vpsac4 Maxime Bernier: Pot’s not our priority (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7k52s4z third batch of today's tweets W Post editorial: Obama’s Keystone pipeline rejection is hard to accept http://tinyurl.com/7hejrhf NYT editorial: A Good Call on the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7lxlupc NYT: Rejecting Keystone XL Pipeline Proposal, Obama Blames House Republicans http://tinyurl.com/7x2r9rc second batch of today's tweets W Post lead story (print edition hed): Obama denies permit to build oil pipeline http://tinyurl.com/73r358v WSJ Keystone editorial: The Anti-Jobs President http://tinyurl.com/7rjx2n6 Say what? Dmitri Soudas Montreal’s new DG? And Conservatives on the ground in Québec’s largest city! http://tinyurl.com/7v47ys6 Mulcair's citizenship? @acoyne nails it http://tinyurl.com/6nbw3ub first batch of today's tweets CBC: EI financing agency spends millions doing nothing http://tinyurl.com/7k5rh35 HT: National Citizens Coalition 'never has, never will' work for Conservative Party, says Coleman http://tinyurl.com/7n56jf9 Er, Alberta coy on how new health dollars to be spent (Globe) http://tinyurl.com/83qv763 Le réseau conservateur tente d'accentuer sa mainmise sur l'administration montréalaise http://tinyurl.com/7v47ys6 #polcan #assnat Elizabeth Payne: What is going on at CIDA? http://tinyurl.com/7b4jyse Globe editorial: Liberals show they are serious about re-building http://tinyurl.com/7k4ju4w Ivison: Pragmatists, ideologues in NDP race http://tinyurl.com/6tdfjr7 N Post editorial: Canadian leaders should be Canadian - full stop http://tinyurl.com/6onfwhv Hébert: Ottawa has never been medicare’s best friend http://tinyurl.com/74rnakp Walkom: Will any government stand up for medicare? http://tinyurl.com/7w4wewr L Martin: In control-freak kingdom, Mounties feel the pinch http://tinyurl.com/7s7c2tv Hepburn: If not Bob Rae as Liberal leader, who’s the next best choice? http://tinyurl.com/7jf8p9y Yaffe: Government should butt out of Gateway hearings http://tinyurl.com/7lf7flu Licia Corbella: Too little, too late TransCanada http://tinyurl.com/857fbgm fourth batch of today's tweets Flaherty: "The budget is about economic growth and jobs. If you want to see an austerity budget go to the UK” http://tinyurl.com/6thytjf Dear @dgardner: Interesting, but Bob Rae is not exactly famous for being fiscally responsible! http://tinyurl.com/7cpcb6b Hmm. Mulcair said dual citizenship has never been an issue for QCers, many of whom are also citizens of France http://tinyurl.com/7ua2d2k La Presse: Ottawa’s various pension plans: a $143 B hole (translation) http://tinyurl.com/853692j Remember that UN Security Council seat we lost and they won? http://tinyurl.com/7eoevh9 Les Leyne: After a fuss, premiers say they'll try http://tinyurl.com/7g7e98n Michael Smyth: Premiers won't scare Harper http://tinyurl.com/7pvu9a4 Stanley Hartt praises @acoyne and the Post re Globe’s shoddy same-sex marriage story http://tinyurl.com/8x8lev2 #journalism Brian Mulroney is impressed by Bob Rae’s performance (last grafs) http://tinyurl.com/853gdbs W Post: Electorate sharply divided over Obama http://tinyurl.com/7h5hdpw third batch of today's tweets Vaughn Palmer : Health care ideology under the knife http://tinyurl.com/7r6ajsj USA Today lead story: Coalition limits details on troops killed by Afghans (deadliest year of the war for NATO trainers) http://tinyurl.com/7dsaxyp Oilsands? Ha! Cape Breton’s undersea coal field a vein to energy wealth http://tinyurl.com/724kgap (Reynolds/Globe) Ottawa plans measured response to alleged spying | CTV http://tinyurl.com/7a3jq5e Jack Mintz: What is the premiers' beef? http://tinyurl.com/77b2ufc Star: MP’s journey to adopt leading to national adoption strategy http://tinyurl.com/7nmwag6 Alain Dubuc: La maladie infantile du fédéralisme Gazette editorial: On a key issue of national unity, folly from the NDP http://tinyurl.com/84wxmpp iPolitics: Marketing industry group to probe NDP dirty tricks campaign http://tinyurl.com/6lobgrb Star: Canadian financing of royal yacht as gift to Queen not a sure bet http://tinyurl.com/7swqokb Tim Harper: Are the Conservatives making Northern Gateway pipeline hearings irrelevant? http://tinyurl.com/7zkjlzd Postmedia: Cabinet can’t overturn NEB decision if it rejects N Gateway: academics/wd require legislation http://tinyurl.com/74atpqf second batch of today's tweets Michael Den Tandt : Time for Rae to come clean on The Question http://tinyurl.com/73ytkea HT: Third-party advertising shd be restricted between elections/NCC releases attack ad against Rae-Opp MPs http://tinyurl.com/7ghgh29 Ivison: Harper practical on native problems http://tinyurl.com/73sp948 Akin: Playing politics with passports http://tinyurl.com/88566wj Vincent Marissal: Le psychodrame de la santé http://tinyurl.com/7y7b4mw Simpson: Why Harper is tuning out the premiers http://tinyurl.com/827pkwm first batch of today's tweets Citizen line story: PSAC attacks talk of pension changes http://tinyurl.com/86kyopx Globe lead story (print edition hed): Premiers eye Alberta’s windfall http://tinyurl.com/769k9gh La Presse: PQ leadership: Duceppe is testing his support (translation) http://tinyurl.com/762oqtm fourth batch of today's tweets Graham Thomson : Only premier knows when Alberta vote coming http://tinyurl.com/7ezsa6y Hmm… Nicholson didn't say all same sex marriages performed in Canada are legal-as Globe reported http://tinyurl.com/74kd2pt Globe P2 correction today to Saturday's “Legality of same-sex unions affirmed” (an incorrect adjective appeared!) Hmm.. Tom Mulcair’s a [dual] citizen of France and his wife ran against the French Socialist Party in 2008? http://tinyurl.com/776ykud Globe editorial: An Innovation Fund is not the mother of [health care] invention. Necessity is. http://tinyurl.com/89tx93q Former Globe reporter files terrific piece in the NYT on kerfuffle over new yacht for Queen http://tinyurl.com/7vfex3e Le Droit: Ottawa offering a portrait of the Queen—and it’s free! (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7c4hxtf third batch of today's tweets NYT: New Climate Change Proposal Puts Practicality Ahead of Sacrifice http://tinyurl.com/6ove44y NYT: Carbon Capture and Storage Plans in Europe Face Doubts http://tinyurl.com/7972bxg Globe: Cameron sinks royal yacht 4 Queen Guardian: New royal yacht proposal backed by Cameron (w £10m from Cdns) http://tinyurl.com/7xkhzbr Globe: Harper says Iranian regime ‘frightens’ him http://tinyurl.com/7emucjc Globe front: Intelligence officer charged with passing secrets to foreign interests http://tinyurl.com/7uaueur CTV: foreign entity in spy case is Russia/Delisle was allegedly caught in the act last week http://tinyurl.com/7lhyzg4 second batch of today's tweets Aubin http://tinyurl.com/6t5m9gt vs Gunter http://tinyurl.com/6u58mrz on the Libs and pot The Liberals fear Mulcair will be elected #NDP leader (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7uqku4v PM Harper http://tinyurl.com/75pqg8t vs L McQuaig on foreign investment http://tinyurl.com/7keay8o Palmer http://tinyurl.com/8xacm6q Mason http://tinyurl.com/84qjcgv on the Preems health care meeting first batch of today's tweets Flanagan http://tinyurl.com/6psyynw Gagnon http://tinyurl.com/8yhjwrc on health care and federalism Nanos thinks prospects of #NDP #LPC merger have brightened http://tinyurl.com/6v3xlov Chantal doesn't http://tinyurl.com/7qmyeb3 Ivison http://tinyurl.com/7pln8t3 Yaffe http://tinyurl.com/7ewg546 Kinsella http://tinyurl.com/6tqeazd on Lib leadership L Martin http://tinyurl.com/73c5799 W Watson http://tinyurl.com/7lszawx on the Grits The Andrews Coyne http://tinyurl.com/7h2go7b and Cohen http://tinyurl.com/7ekymum on the #LPC sixth batch of today's tweets Hmm.. Paul Martin shelved the bill to decriminalize pot introduced by Chrétien gov’t? http://tinyurl.com/8x5cd3r Libs fudge on oilsands/N Gateway but R touting pot 2 appeal to BC/Alta? http://tinyurl.com/6oweuyp Premier Clark: Ottawa's transfer to B.C. a 0.5 % increase vs 50% for Alberta after 2017 http://tinyurl.com/6w8mkln fifth batch of today's tweets Hmm.. co-founder of Marijuana Party toking up w/ other delegates at #LPC convention? http://tinyurl.com/6uqvqfu Michael Rachlis: Premiers health mtg all about spin, about who can we blame for problems in the future http://tinyurl.com/8ygppz7 #NDPldr candidates support asymmetrical federalism in health? http://tinyurl.com/7wc9mzw not this @briantopp backer http://tinyurl.com/7z9jafm fourth batch of today's tweets LAT (print edition hed): Oil demand boosts odds for Keystone pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7v8pzxb In Globe @barriemckenna http://tinyurl.com/7z9jafm Krugman in NYT http://tinyurl.com/7dcayaf on Canada-US mobility/income inequality In her Hill Times column, S Copps says J Layton asked her to cross the floor 2 the #NDP 8 yrs ago/Alexa McD was her contact third batch of today's tweets Van Sun line story: Liberals have gone to pot to renew party in the West http://tinyurl.com/7e9y46r Ed Journal front: Canadian energy strategy key to Alberta’s future: Redford http://tinyurl.com/7uv2yxt second batch of today's tweets Dear @Dantheeditor: The sponsorship program was about government corruption, not access to info http://tinyurl.com/83z3nmn Dear #NDP: Roy Romanow says feds must be involved in health; nothing re asymmetrical health deal for QC http://tinyurl.com/7z9jafm Goar: Paul Martin showed how 2 tame deficit http://tinyurl.com/7yomyhs Harper taking a leaf out of his book? http://tinyurl.com/7qh5y48 Two Ipsos healthcare polls in one! Citizen http://tinyurl.com/76lseox iPolitics http://tinyurl.com/87n2arn Journal de Montréal: QCers want an election in 2012/Legault the choice as “best PM” (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7zzqee3 Citizen lead story: DND spends $374,000 on office reno http://tinyurl.com/7xs58c8 first batch of today's tweets @montesolberg http://tinyurl.com/6nyqob9 Tim Harper http://tinyurl.com/7emg45x on new Grits @IvisonJ: http://tinyurl.com/7kp43y8 Hébert (in French): http://tinyurl.com/875m8c6 on the Libs Maher: http://tinyurl.com/7xck47z Den Tandt: http://tinyurl.com/6vjzbd2 on the #LPC sixth batch of today's tweets On LAT front page, a Van immigration lawyer warns that Cda cd soon be sending more car arsonist-types to US http://tinyurl.com/6op2tvf The Mail on Sunday: The world needs [more potatoes from] Canada! http://tinyurl.com/7m7koxk Milbank/W Post: Mitt Romney’s Al Gore problem http://tinyurl.com/7euxzkb Michael Smyth : Christy Clark emerges from Tory cocoon http://tinyurl.com/6s92v8g Cordesman: The US [and its allies] must decide: More money and forces for Afghanistan? http://tinyurl.com/854audu fifth batch of today's tweets Dear Herald: The election results were known before the paper hit Calgary streets this morning http://tinyurl.com/76543jo Douthat/NYT: The Benefits of Bain Capitalism http://tinyurl.com/8yjlfs8 Today’s howler : Hedge funds bet on divorce cases (Sunday Times) W Post anonymice: Obama looking 4 way to reject Keystone w/out foreclosing possibility altogether http://tinyurl.com/6vzoutq fourth batch of today's tweets [As the preems meet in BC], Cherie Blair seeks £65m for private health clinics in UK (Sunday Times lead story) Sunday Telegraph front (!): Scottish voters rejecting independence while English voters supporting it http://tinyurl.com/735lpkj Journal de Montréal: 74% of QCers think things are going badly in the province (vs 15%) http://tinyurl.com/7rca6lh third batch of today's tweets Journal de Montréal front: Legault losing ground in QC (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7rca6lh Observer front: Scottish independence carries huge economic risk, says Alistair Darling http://tinyurl.com/7nl8ucv Shanoff : Helena Guergis’ lawsuit faces an uphill battle http://tinyurl.com/87ubkcc NYT: Republicans will continue to strongly support the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas http://tinyurl.com/6maq5eh second batch of today's tweets Liberals have Kyoto blues: @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/79psow7 @ezralevant http://tinyurl.com/78fpajg Iain Hunter http://tinyurl.com/76s8fzz on Northern Gateway CP: Lone B.C. chief backs Enbridge pipeline amid overwhelming opposition http://tinyurl.com/6sx9qr4 first batch of today's tweets The Liberals: Controlled flight into terrain: @InklessPW http://tinyurl.com/7qadnwl Brace yourself for another round of ‘Rae Days’: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/7m6sa8j Federal Liberal party puts up the 'Welcome' sign for all supporters: @jmbryden http://tinyurl.com/7yb5822 second batch of today's tweets Good on @acoyne: Shoddy reporting and cheap politics create a phony crisis http://tinyurl.com/73ypuao Van Sun hed on @acoyne column(!) Lesbian couple’s lawyer brews mischievous media maelstrom How #journalism works: NYTimes/W Post/WSJ lead w/European downgrades; Globe leads w/ its journo’s Libya story Great hed! Tories support gay marriage ... and divorce (Van Sun) Brian Crowley makes a serious contribution to N Gateway debate http://tinyurl.com/7bctgpw @TabathaSouthey doesn’t http://tinyurl.com/7krpnzc Idiocy watch: Cal Herald says Ralph Klein shd be given the Order of Canada immediately Bcause Gary Doer was appointed ambassador 30 years ago BC was arguing federal health transfers shd be tied to age of Prov population. Failed then, will fail now first batch of today's tweets SNC-Lavalin developed close relationship with Gadhafi son: documents http://tinyurl.com/6lsclmm Good on the T Star’s Public Editor for a forthright dissection of the Harper-Putin hockey ‘exclusive’ that wasn’t http://tinyurl.com/826ljcx N Post editorial (ouch!) Hold the nervous breakdown. Ottawa pledges no change to same-sex marriage http://tinyurl.com/7pdcj9f seventh batch of today's tweets David Brooks, on what makes for a successful Prez (and PM?), worth reading http://tinyurl.com/77oczu2 Jenkins: 'Devo max' would make Scotland fiscally responsible – why does Cameron oppose it? http://tinyurl.com/6rfm5oy Simon Jenkins/Guardian: 'Devo max' would make Scotland fiscally responsible – why does Cameron oppose it? http://tinyurl.com/6rfm5oy N Post front pg hed: A clever lawyer, not a hidden agenda Proof? Ottawa vows to clarify law (Globe hed) Financial Times: [FinMin] Osborne queries currency for independent Scotland http://tinyurl.com/7rm6zkx sixth batch of today's tweets Michael Smyth: Clark hires Tory aide in bid to cut out Cummins http://tinyurl.com/8y2tq3v Under Flaherty plan, fed share of health spending will stay above 9.8% the low point under the Liberal gov’t http://tinyurl.com/88necle #NDPldr candidate Nathan Cullen pens a letter to the editor of the Gazette (scroll down) http://tinyurl.com/88jsbdd In French, I read that Bob Rae’s fiery speech yesterday was attended by fewer than 100 of the 308 riding heads http://tinyurl.com/7cvg3r4fifth batch of today's tweets W Post : Simple measures could reduce global warming, save lives : Study http://tinyurl.com/7mwdtys Hmm... N Post partnering w/ Shell "in association w/ #CBC" to produce energy-related content? http://tinyurl.com/6p4qfea Globe http://tinyurl.com/7tamnva adopts Post http://tinyurl.com/897w9pu take on job #s last week's Globe report-- http://tinyurl.com/7keojw4 Hmm… @briantopp at least as much a Quebecker as Jack Layton was in 2003 (if not more) http://tinyurl.com/7ucj8z6 fourth batch of today's tweets Palmer: Struggling premier [Christy Clark] adds new adviser to her growing ranks http://tinyurl.com/6v4knhv Braid: Redford narrows election dates options http://tinyurl.com/7ke2mjg One thing that can be said in support of Globe's same sex story is that Vladimir Putin was not on skates on front page of Globe Today’s howler : Mitt Romney will say anything to get elected…and he speaks French too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyFaWhygzjQ&feature=player_embedded #CPC anonymouse: many times where Justice lawyers ... don’t do anything like what the gov’t wants them to do http://tinyurl.com/6pzr4h3 NYT blogger watches #CBC French service and concludes that QC has already separated from Canada! http://tinyurl.com/6nd8fzh third batch of today's tweets Postmedia: Nicholson announcement came as a political firestorm erupted after er, international headlines... http://tinyurl.com/6rrkmbj Star: Martha McCarthy wants an exemption to Canada’s one-year residency requirement for divorce http://tinyurl.com/7xfabz7 N Post hed all u need 2 know about yesterday’s Globe same-sex story: A clever lawyer, not a hidden agenda second batch of today's tweets William Watson http://tinyurl.com/6ukpssr vs Carol Goar on Canada’s tax system http://tinyurl.com/78caorc Globe: New Keystone XL route could be proposed within weeks http://tinyurl.com/8a9nw8a Postmedia: Are Liberals seeing a Rae of light? http://tinyurl.com/6q6kzdb #LPC 'deeply damaged' in West http://tinyurl.com/6nukt5j Van Sun: Clark replaces chief of staff with Tory strategist, former Enbridge lobbyist http://tinyurl.com/7snf36z first batch of today's tweets N Gateway: Riley (disaster) http://tinyurl.com/6sthwjy Proussalidis (First Nation funding) http://tinyurl.com/7umc63k Globe line story (print edition hed): Ottawa vows to clarify law http://tinyurl.com/6pzr4h3 Simpson http://tinyurl.com/84fe5vn vs Den Tandt http://tinyurl.com/7785dm6 on the #LPC Ottawa Citizen line story: Enbridge affiliates have had 175 leaks, spills over 10 years in U.S. http://tinyurl.com/85pexks sixth batch of today's tweets Friday Le Monde line story: Nearly 1/3 of French voters support Le Pen’s Front National Mike Smyth: BC taxpayers get hustled in HST deal to pay back feds http://tinyurl.com/6saccjd FT: Japan and Canada warn on Volcker rule impact http://tinyurl.com/7t53arj P Godfrey: “ridiculous” 2 suggest he wants 2 make it easier 2 sell http://tinyurl.com/868uof9 NOT reported by Globe http://tinyurl.com/6qzoher Le Journal reports #CBC CEO H Lacroix is an officer of 2 other companies that paid him $200K last year #media Le Dev: Charest-Redford agree provinces should develop Canadian not nat'l energy strategy w/out Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/88jwozn Hmm…Péladeau’s threatening to sue #CBC over lack of advertising http://tinyurl.com/78gu4jg Graham Thomson: Some of the political practices we see belong in a banana republic, not Alberta http://tinyurl.com/7kkk6wr fifth batch of today's tweets Palmer: HST will stick to Liberals through to next election http://tinyurl.com/7of8jbg Journal dings columnist for embarrassing error http://tinyurl.com/7h67q7u Citizen dings Postmedia http://tinyurl.com/72c925v The Gazette shows other Postmedia papers (and the Globe) how corrections should be done http://tinyurl.com/7bqytyp E J Dionne Jr. in W Post: Mitt Romney and our overdue debate about capitalism http://tinyurl.com/7lrtqrr Dear Globe and Mail: Ontario not telling foreigners about the legality of their marriage is not exactly an about-face by Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/8xrn7ob fourth batch of today's tweets LAT lead story: U.S. intelligence report on Afghanistan sees stalemate http://tinyurl.com/7ezvbro T Star line story (print ed hed): Province cleans house at ORNGE http://tinyurl.com/753gh7d #onpoli Edmonton Journal line story: Pipelines a 'second national dream' er, industry official http://tinyurl.com/7q5bx7c third batch of today's tweets Alex Salmond op-ed: False claims won't deny us our place in the family of nations http://tinyurl.com/8xt4p5t You could sell tickets to a House of Commons debate on when life begins! http://tinyurl.com/7j8kxb3 I guess it’s better to be compared to a nutty Republican than to Mussolini! http://tinyurl.com/83jzno5 second batch of today's tweets Hmm.. Canada’s taking on Karzai on transfer of prison to protect Afghan prisoners http://tinyurl.com/7orr32a L Martin: To boost Tory papers, foreign money wanted http://tinyurl.com/6qy7ooc Globe: B.C. Finance Minister breaks ranks to bash pipeline critics http://tinyurl.com/73774mz Calgary Herald: Regulatory delays hurt our economy: Flaherty http://tinyurl.com/7jkvekl Van Sun: Academics defend PM's promotion of oil pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7mp6tud Van Sun (!): Pipeline backed for jobs, opportunity in Kitimat er, A lone intervener spoke out… http://tinyurl.com/6tsnxsz Globe: B.C. irons out plan to repay Ottawa $1.6-billion in HST funding http://tinyurl.com/7mgjljs Gateway? @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/77oyym6 Terry Glavin http://tinyurl.com/6waba6p CP: RCMP security agents spied on Bob Rae during student days: documents http://tinyurl.com/76u5leh The Grits? CP http://tinyurl.com/7muk5gw Hepburn http://tinyurl.com/74t5cet @acoyne http://tinyurl.com/89pcloy Globe @camrclark http://tinyurl.com/7khuzmz N Post editorial http://tinyurl.com/8y75x96 on Gateway Bob Rae? @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/7bmasnv Walkom http://tinyurl.com/6t3d4nm first batch of today's tweets Citizen: 60 scientists declared surplus http://tinyurl.com/78weefa Spending cuts already deep http://tinyurl.com/7yjxgdc Hébert: Many Quebecers who voted NDP saw dream die with Jack Layton http://tinyurl.com/6tdn89c T Star ed http://tinyurl.com/7andqky Wente http://tinyurl.com/737r6lt on the Grits Mason: Why not end the Northern Gateway in Prince Rupert? http://tinyurl.com/83wf3lz T Star front: Security layoffs at Pearson airport spark worries of longer lines http://tinyurl.com/772yzcl N Gateway: Enbridge embarrassed by Min Oliver http://tinyurl.com/7ftpjcp (La Presse Exclusive!) (transl) http://tinyurl.com/87oe9oe Globe lead story: Ottawa does about-face on same-sex marriage for non-Canadians http://tinyurl.com/8xrn7ob HT: Libs plan $2m war chest to “promote and defend” new perm leader against Conservative attack ads http://tinyurl.com/6qob9ea Star: Brian Topp’s NDP leadership campaign got $50,000 loan from credit union that he chairs http://tinyurl.com/7vkbtmc fourth batch of today's tweets Er, coincidentally, Enbridge reported it was investigating reports of small natural gas leak in Gulf of Mexico, http://tinyurl.com/6ub84bu Att’n Hill journos: V Marissal recalls the St Denis-Chretien meeting aboard a plane returning from Jack Layton’s funeral http://tinyurl.com/6lrpm8n PM David Cameron: Scottish nationalists want 'neverendum' not referendum http://tinyurl.com/82phl4n Facal on Legault: QCers don’t like to admit it, but we’re afraid of another [referendum or constit] failure http://tinyurl.com/6purrtk Finance Minister Jim Flaherty channels @IvisonJ on public sector pensions http://tinyurl.com/6nhyypr third batch of today's tweets Palmer : BC Liberals try to out-conservative the Conservatives for by-election http://tinyurl.com/7nma9k9 In a letter to the Globe editor, Michael Valpy disses Young Liberals (and L Martin) on the monarchy http://tinyurl.com/7tr8nhl Ibbitson worth reading: Defection a reminder that for NDP and Liberals, it’s Quebec or bust http://tinyurl.com/7y9zbqs Art Sterritt, Coastal 1st Nations: "We've got an Alberta PM trying to bully British Columbians" http://tinyurl.com/6ub84bu second batch of today's tweets Butts: Our ecological treasure is the issue with Northern Gateway http://tinyurl.com/7j6qgag Ignatius: The challenge of getting the Taliban to the table http://tinyurl.com/7ubwl2t Braid: Dubious use of taxpayer money or the Alberta way? http://tinyurl.com/8xshse5 Star: Former Liberal MP John Nunziata faces Law Society disciplinary charge http://tinyurl.com/86xu9vg HT: Liberals' best calling card for leader is Rae, say Grits http://tinyurl.com/7xowroz iPolitics: Liberal riding deregistrations symptomatic of party’s problems http://tinyurl.com/6mxaw9l Harris: Stephen Harper is soundproofing our democracy http://tinyurl.com/8a89ewj Globe editorial: Pipeline rhetoric is a radical attack on due process http://tinyurl.com/7gkfqe2 #Alberta Harper's pipeline critics should be ashamed: @sunlorrie http://tinyurl.com/7gmltdo Globe: Foes of Northern Gateway pipeline fear revoking of charitable status http://tinyurl.com/73gg49d Calgary Herald line story: Redford ‘disappointed’ with setup of Gateway pipeline hearing http://tinyurl.com/83u54c6 Tim Harper: NDP defection, looming byelection good news for Stephen Harper http://tinyurl.com/744at4a Scott Stinson: Brian Topp leaves centre open for rivals in NDP leadership race http://tinyurl.com/89w4654 CP’s @jmbryden serves up the best piece on the St-Denis defection http://tinyurl.com/6qsysxb Idiocy watch: @dgardner labels our system of government “the ‘Il Duce’ model” http://tinyurl.com/7espot5 first batch of today's tweets Corbella: Some people slated to speak at Gateway hearings never heard of project http://tinyurl.com/74x3enh Simpson: ‘Foreign money’ is a hypocritical diversion http://tinyurl.com/7dxmtzb Yaffe: Harper shifts the political terrain to turn Conservatives into a new dynasty http://tinyurl.com/7ulf3z6 Grits off to a positive start in new year: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/8a8wuqz Walkom: Stephen Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline parody http://tinyurl.com/6upzv6g Den Tandt: Cullen's opposition to Northern Gateway highlights need for pragmatic politics http://tinyurl.com/7x7yate fourth batch of today's tweets Palmer: Premier Christy Clark likely to find her optimism is misplaced http://tinyurl.com/89pt4h8 Graham Thomson: Year of the Public Hearing is upon us http://tinyurl.com/6rpsmyn Harper a centralizing control-freak? Globe: Health groups call on PMO for action on sodium Times/London: PM Cameron to be called by Leveson Inquiry to testify re links to #media moguls including Murdoch #journalism third batch of today's tweets Hmm.. I see @briantopp is proposing to re-open the Constitution if he becomes #NDP PM http://tinyurl.com/7leqjhs Globe correction(!): P Trudeau was captain of school’s hockey team. column on Jan. 3 suggested that he had hardly any knowledge of hockey Tom Gunton (Prem Off colleague of Adrian Dix): Pipeline, tankers not in B.C.'s best interests http://tinyurl.com/6svuudq Smyth: Environmental fight for the ages is brewing over pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7robvxw Today’s Globe report on Postmedia has it lobbying for foreign investment http://tinyurl.com/7ndzzlw Guardian http://tinyurl.com/6ov9ysy Telegraph editorials on Scottish referendum http://tinyurl.com/84ybudy David Brooks http://tinyurl.com/784nmem in NYT @acoyne in Post http://tinyurl.com/6scpup6 worth reading together Stephen Hume http://tinyurl.com/6vlhy9f @ezralevant http://tinyurl.com/6wxkowz on the pipeline Globe: Flaherty’s tax credits costing billions/last graf: credits make tax system more progressive http://tinyurl.com/79lnyfo Denley: Did you know Big Buck Magazine is getting your bucks? http://tinyurl.com/7p5ovfp McParland: Harper’s Senate idea is really bad http://tinyurl.com/7lkhxbo er @stphnmaher supports it! http://tinyurl.com/7wyawku (New Postmedia columnist) Matthew Fisher: Canada is playing a bigger role on world stage - at last http://tinyurl.com/7o3ze2x second batch of today's tweets CP: Star standing by story of possible hockey match for Harper, Putin http://tinyurl.com/7ja3a4f MP pensions on block: @IvisonJ http://tinyurl.com/886brqe Le Devoir: #NDP MP to defect to #LPC at press conference this morning convened by @DenisCoderre (transl) http://tinyurl.com/6vkvh2p Star ed http://tinyurl.com/6pvm9x7 Ed Journal ed on NEB process http://tinyurl.com/6lwwrdy Cohn: LCBO’s pricing policy doesn’t add up http://tinyurl.com/7jkdl7d HT: Closed-door dinner honouring Allan J sold out to #LPC luminaries, lobbyists, law firms/connected insiders http://tinyurl.com/7zbq75q Van Sun front: Immigration fraudsters exploiting new rules http://tinyurl.com/6rk2652 Edmonton Journal lead story: National panel will hear from few Albertans on pipeline http://tinyurl.com/78ooq38 CP http://tinyurl.com/6ub84bu Van Sun http://tinyurl.com/82rwly9 report on views in Kitimat first batch of today's tweets L Martin http://tinyurl.com/89ydb4m @pmlagasse on the monarchy http://tinyurl.com/7v7k8k7 Hébert: Liberals’ top-down view of federalism out of date http://tinyurl.com/7z9ynoz Post http://tinyurl.com/7um33q9 Star http://tinyurl.com/7g2udr5 Globe http://tinyurl.com/7urhoha N Gateway/foreign $ reports Wente http://tinyurl.com/73rt6p3 Yaffe http://tinyurl.com/7smlsbf on the pipeline eighth batch of today's tweets Dear @jandrewpotter: Has anyone at the Citizen ever written that Islam sanctions ‘honour killings’? http://tinyurl.com/7uj5z6f T Star asks Chief “in an interview if he wd resort to civil disobedience if necessary” http://tinyurl.com/7h7t59q Imagine if the Globe/Star/Post contracted w/ someone who had the independence to write this http://tinyurl.com/7hcdpkq #journalism Guardian: UK Chancellor (FinMin) presses for quick referendum on Scottish independence http://tinyurl.com/6tjuqly Today’s (other) Putin howler: Smear Attempt Against Protest Leader Backfires in Russia (NYT) http://tinyurl.com/7m36rpa Hey, the Parliamentary peanut gallery knock on Harper last week was that he’s running a sleepy gov’t! http://tinyurl.com/7nesznj Marissal: I’m told that Jean Chretien was recently still touting a Lib-NDP merger http://tinyurl.com/6qdnsdn seventh batch of today's tweets USA Today lead story: U.S. debt is now equal to the size of its entire economy http://tinyurl.com/84bqv9b W Post: US about to become first country to impose catch limits for every fish species it manages http://tinyurl.com/7xa34cx The front page of today’s Toronto Star is, er, was an international hockey sight to behold! http://tinyurl.com/djs6j7 Globe says #media ad revenues down but eyes R on Postmedia whose results haven’t yet been released! http://tinyurl.com/7aoseop sixth batch of today's tweets Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post: Obama’s foreign initiatives have been failures http://tinyurl.com/833jcad In case you were wondering, the HT reports that @JamesMoore_org’s wife is « nearly 30 years old » which strikes me as old enough to wed! Dear #CBC http://tinyurl.com/72q4dc4 NYT reports http://tinyurl.com/874lojh investigation was of Afghan NOT America side of prison In case U were wondering, the HT reports @JamesMoore_org’s wife is "nearly 30 years old" which strikes me as adult enough to wed! OMG! PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright has combined the policy and stakeholder units of the PMO, according to the HT front page In this week’s Hill Times column, S Copps re-visits the glories of the Rat Pack. Liberals, don’t say you weren’t warned! Globe editorial: At present, the Conservatives’ economic plan is the best route ahead for Canada http://tinyurl.com/8abntns fifth batch of today's tweets Den Tandt wants Harper 2 shut Catholic schools in ON as part of religious freedom initiative! http://tinyurl.com/89t8pab Today’s Cdn howler (CP hed): A Canada with no health accord? Provinces grapple with the possibilities It’s safe to say that Roy Romanow’s medicare advice wd be better received by a different government! http://tinyurl.com/84du3dt In the HT, Sheila Copps is described as a, er, “storm trooper”--by a #LPC supporter! http://tinyurl.com/6m7mm9c Crawley is the unilingual Turner-Martin guy/Copps the multilingual Trudeau-Chrétien person: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/6m7mm9c fourth batch of today's tweets Postmedia: Group calls for second supervised injection site in Vancouver http://tinyurl.com/7twp3oc
Guardian lead story (print hed): Cameron bets future of UK on Scots vote http://tinyurl.com/8ayqzdo Postmedia: Plan C for western oil? Go east http://tinyurl.com/7xuoob4 Edmonton Journal: Pipeline would add $270B to GDP: Enbridge http://tinyurl.com/7dd2yvy third batch of today's tweets On aboriginal file, @IvisonJ shuffle speculation http://tinyurl.com/6o2xhvk juicier than @JohnIbbitson http://tinyurl.com/83v9ujx
In the Citizen’s line story, more ‘great’ Ottawa moments to chew on http://tinyurl.com/7qh7gvs T Star lead story: Harper, Putin to star in 1972 Summit Series rematch http://tinyurl.com/7necege second batch of today's tweets Globe: Tories say ‘radical groups’ exploiting pipeline review process http://tinyurl.com/7855tmo Globe : An open letter from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver http://tinyurl.com/7ul7mfu Vincent Marissal: Les libéraux se cherchent une âme http://tinyurl.com/6qdnsdn Edmonton Journal lead story: Feds slam 'radical' greens http://tinyurl.com/7f9d3vm first batch of today's tweets Radwanski: Time for McGuinty to reconsider class sizes? http://tinyurl.com/7befbax Post front: Nova Scotia moving to do away with seats reserved for minority groups in 1991 http://tinyurl.com/7fzluct iPolitics: Feds would face ‘open warfare’ for pension scale-back, PSAC warns http://tinyurl.com/845ayeq fifth batch of today's tweets Michael Smyth: Pipe dreams split B.C. politicians http://tinyurl.com/8xb3gp5 Dear @JamesMoore_org: Y isn’t #CBC ombudsman as free/independent as NYT guy who wrote this http://tinyurl.com/7hcdpkq ? Who says feminists can only be leftwing? Gaby Hinsliff in the Observer http://tinyurl.com/7xql52r The Queen’s defending daughter-in-law’s accepting gems from Bahrain royal family during visit? http://tinyurl.com/8xdj9f4 fourth batch of today's tweets US Defense Cuts impact? T Star http://tinyurl.com/82g6rre W Post http://tinyurl.com/8ybzv8n D Ignatius http://tinyurl.com/7t4p797 Inside the T Sun and on the front page http://tinyurl.com/c4d9y8 journos are back onto the hunt for fugitives! Imagine if the T Star contracted w/ someone like this who had the independence to write this http://tinyurl.com/7hcdpkq third batch of today's tweets The Citizen is onto prisoners in Afstan http://tinyurl.com/7lretp9 NYT article on how things may turn out http://tinyurl.com/7erzoqg Chris Cobb’s fine exit interview with Ron Cohen of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council http://tinyurl.com/7f3afy5 #media second batch of today's tweets Edmonton Journal: Western premiers feel pipeline pressure http://tinyurl.com/7fto8rm A non-foreign affair: @ezralevant http://tinyurl.com/75r2lu8 Top 10 reasons why Office of Religious Freedom is a bad idea: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/7o9gnot first batch of today's tweets
CP: Protesters call for the Habs to be more French http://tinyurl.com/7usuxzj gd news in any language! http://tinyurl.com/7r8lk5c T Star lead story: Criminal fraud trial of three ex-Nortel executives begins http://tinyurl.com/88kewas Cohn/Star: The grim reaper punctures Ontario’s fiscal fantasies http://tinyurl.com/886cam2 Robson: Time to take a bite out of spending http://tinyurl.com/7jquqss Edmonton Journal lead story: Pipeline debate a tale of two provinces http://tinyurl.com/7rsca4c seventh batch of today's tweets Charles Moore: Why have a House of Lords if there’s not a single lord left in it? http://tinyurl.com/7pbfpzj Those who worked w/ Gingrich like him least; same can’t be said about @briantopp http://tinyurl.com/75732am http://tinyurl.com/73lukta On the front page of the T Star, a ‘great’ Bell Canada moment! http://tinyurl.com/7ege6vx Le Figaro (!): Peter Mackay is reported to have had a relationship w/ Condoleezza Rice, according to The National Post sixth batch of today's tweets You’d think the Globe and others would turn down this kind of egregious advertising! http://tinyurl.com/7nn8fhr Hmm.. 2 yrs ago Harper asked Bert Brown 2 come up w/ mechanism 2 protect supremacy of House of Commons http://tinyurl.com/7bttx93 One veteran Liberal worried McGuinty gov’t has backed itself into a corner w/ DonDrummond. http://tinyurl.com/88te9d7 fifth batch of today's tweets Unemployment rate as a national http://tinyurl.com/7keojw4 vs a QC http://tinyurl.com/897w9pu http://tinyurl.com/6momnz5 problem An honest Ottawa Cit hed wd not have Harper “dismissing talk of changes to public pensions” http://tinyurl.com/787svkj An honest @CdnPress hed wd read: Fed bureaucrats mused about selling Pellan paintings http://tinyurl.com/6skbvl3 #journalism fourth batch of today's tweets Remember allegations Canadns' xenophobia re foreign-sounding names underlay the Zsusanna Zohar issue? http://tinyurl.com/7oxqdb7 An accountable #CBC? @sunlorrie disembowels @CBCOmbudsman @kirklapointe http://tinyurl.com/7fb3cjl Er, in July, Senator Vern White signed a contract extension to stay on as Ott police chief until 2015 http://tinyurl.com/7drprrq third batch of today's tweets The monarchy? @stphnmaher http://tinyurl.com/6sff7e3 vs @michaeltaube http://tinyurl.com/7gchzjv PM appoints 7 new sen’s, many w/ Tory ties http://tinyurl.com/6urvjat er, 7 up 4 Senate, most w/ Tory ties http://tinyurl.com/7q8kmw5 N Post front: The [abortion] debate that isn't [happening or about to happen] http://tinyurl.com/85qbmmq second batch of today's tweets Van Sun: Risk of oil spill overshadows pipeline's rewards: critics http://tinyurl.com/77n75dq Edmonton Journal: Redford headed to Quebec for meetings with Charest, cabinet http://tinyurl.com/6t6dper Star: Environmentalists, foreign money trying 2 slow down pipeline hearings Harper says http://tinyurl.com/85p72x9 CP: Former Sask premier Calvert endorses @briantopp for national #NDP leader http://tinyurl.com/6vbjvz4 Power shifting from Central Canada to the West: @ChantalHbert http://tinyurl.com/7bkj27m first batch of today's tweets Ed Journal line story: Public hearings next step for controversial [N Gateway] pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7w5ks2q
T Star line story: University research grants scrapped by [Ontario] Liberals http://tinyurl.com/7gh76md #onpoli Confusion over energy strategy appropriate: @acoyne http://tinyurl.com/83y3lvl fifth batch of today's tweets Dear @dgardner : Power for its own sake or to achieve objectives he thinks important 4 Canadians? http://tinyurl.com/895fk3s The NYT gets to work on Rick Santorum http://tinyurl.com/879epm3 Michael Kinsley worth reading on America’s Spoiled Voters, in Iowa and Elsewhere http://tinyurl.com/76t22ll fourth batch of today's tweets Van Sun: Weighing the risk of pipeline spills/Enbridge says it’s using latest tech http://tinyurl.com/82sgyt4 In Le Devoir but NOT @CdnPress Marlene Jennings draws a line in the sand in running for Legault’s CAQ http://tinyurl.com/8ywwlpy Today’s howler: S Africa’s ambassador to Canada is being ‘promoted’ after one year in Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/84nyceq Kudos (again) to the National Post for its scoop on Gadhaffi http://tinyurl.com/7otqe8c third batch of today's tweets W Post front page report from Teheran: Iranians brace for war as feud with West reaches ‘critical point’ http://tinyurl.com/6tzv62s I do wish Harper-hating Hill journos (& others) would decide whether he’s changing Canada radically or not. Just saying NYT: Europe Stands Firm on Airline Emissions, Raising Fears of a Trade Conflict (w/Canada, China too) http://tinyurl.com/6nzuar6 In the Globe on p 3, she’s sultry but in the Sun on p 2 you get Peter MacKay’s Sunshine Girl http://tinyurl.com/7o8amkt second batch of today's tweets Le Devoir: Harper 2 appoint Charest ex-Min/foe Marc Bellemare to Senate 2 carry C-10 msg in QC (transl) http://tinyurl.com/7crj7vh NYT: Afstan Shuts Down Cdn Sec Co http://tinyurl.com/829oqf4 Karzai Calls 4 Control of Afghan Prisoners http://tinyurl.com/7u8lsh9 Globe line story: Experts, public at odds over economy er Canada's top economists see dark clouds ahead http://tinyurl.com/7fs85z7 First Nations, Indian Act high on Harper government agenda for 2012: insiders | iPolitics http://tinyurl.com/6unjy8y Don Drummond’s challenge to McGuinty? N Post http://tinyurl.com/7u2rj9q vs @aradwanski http://tinyurl.com/7ctm53a Calgary Herald: Harper wants more info on Alberta’s call for energy strategy http://tinyurl.com/7kqvwkg Globe: Provinces offered relief on coal phase-out http://tinyurl.com/7gb5tpr If U want to know what’s going on inside Harper government heads, @IvisonJ is a good place to start http://tinyurl.com/7rsnu5w Simpson: What to like and fear about the NDP http://tinyurl.com/7kdtuj2 first batch of today's tweets Susan Riley: 2012 won't be about ideas (unless it is) http://tinyurl.com/7p9uph7 First cut must be deep: @brianlilley http://tinyurl.com/865hpz9 Dalton McGuinty’s fiscal challenge? T Star http://tinyurl.com/6rrspqd T Sun http://tinyurl.com/77hqp7v La Presse: It’s the RCMP that intercepted the Blackberry messages linked to the murder of Mafioso S Montagna http://tinyurl.com/7l2teb4 sixth batch of today's tweets GOP primaries? David Brooks-Gail Collins NY Times dialogue: Apocalypse Iowa http://tinyurl.com/78oa65s The Ottawa Citizen spares its owner Postmedia in correcting a high-profile news story http://tinyurl.com/7h5pt8t W Post front : Iran intensifies efforts to influence policy in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/823vgtv fifth batch of today's tweets Hmm.. @acoyne faces some tough er, competition 4 readers’ attention on N Post front page today! http://tinyurl.com/bogdso W/ all the Canadians pontificating re Iowa, u’d think 1 wd have mentioned that Rick Santorum voted against NAFTA. Just saying N Post dings NCC @stephen_taylor 4 erroneous data in high profile story (scroll to bottom) http://tinyurl.com/6to4gx9 David Ignatius: The danger in a declining middle class http://tinyurl.com/725vzoy fourth batch of today's tweets NYT: Oil Price Would Skyrocket if Iran Closed the Strait of Hormuz http://tinyurl.com/6nh7gh2 Say what? Tom Mulcair wants to build bitumen oil refineries in Alberta? http://tinyurl.com/8y7ll7n Chipeur: Parliament acted legally when it passed Bill C-18 http://tinyurl.com/7ccvm22 third batch of today's tweets NYT: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe http://tinyurl.com/7l8q2rt iPolitics: The original rogue (Kevin) Page promises a vocal 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7zuxx5s L Martin: Stephen Harper and the year of moral bankruptcy http://tinyurl.com/82m7dw4 T Star gushes: Peter MacKay ties knot http://tinyurl.com/7zpwna5 oh & btw @JamesMoore_org weds girlfriend http://tinyurl.com/7zn3sva (Ignore hed, @poneilinOttawa article worth reading): B.Cers support N Gateway pipeline: poll http://tinyurl.com/7hdxtk2 Jack Granatstein is mildly amusing in satirizing the Harper government and some of its critics http://tinyurl.com/7uyusae Have to say that @jandrewpotter does a pretty good job on @allangregg’s politics thesis http://tinyurl.com/7c493ba N Post editorial: #LPC should find way to allow @bobraeMP to run for leader http://tinyurl.com/86dbysl second batch of today's tweets Ontario budget cuts lead story in Globe http://tinyurl.com/84txchz Star http://tinyurl.com/7soweey #onpoli Postmedia: Feds preparing to launch anti-spam centre http://tinyurl.com/85g7zv3 Globe: Tory government hiked ad spending to promote stimulus projects http://tinyurl.com/7nn8fhr Van Sun: Oilsands producers throw support behind pipeline, while B.C. business more tepid http://tinyurl.com/6nxfhrx CP: Grits consider reining in leader's power to impose platform, appoint candidates http://tinyurl.com/6rb84am HT: New Democrats attack Tories’ ‘Republican-style’ assault on unions http://tinyurl.com/7hs7kkl first batch of today's tweets William Watson: A CEO's worth? Ask the board http://tinyurl.com/7l5ac4t Hébert: Thirteen to watch in 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7z2qmqj Yaffe: Northern Gateway pipeline hearings will underline passionate, polarized convictions http://tinyurl.com/7vcpyue sixth batch of today's tweets NY Times op-ed page editor Andrew Rosenthal: Republican Attacks [on Obama] Have Racist Undertones http://tinyurl.com/7jzrrz4 I’m sure, John McCallum, that I met w/ public servants on the round-the-world program under M. Chretien http://tinyurl.com/7eo4rwc Female #NDPldr candidates must present compelling account of foundational work carried out by er, AMcLaughlin? http://tinyurl.com/7dasant I’m sure it’s purely coincidental T Sun doesn’t mention other names, such as M Péladeau’s $4.88M http://tinyurl.com/77apjd7 Péladeau paper omits M Péladeau (#83) from report on 100 highest paid CEO’s http://tinyurl.com/22k56f8 Chiropractors R more trusted than journos by Canadians in Ipsos poll NOT reported by Postmedia http://tinyurl.com/837yl4c Idiocy watch: The prime minister of Canada is NOT accountable to the premiers http://tinyurl.com/6nqxj68 National Post hed: Gingrich readying to attack ‘liar’ Romney er, Ottawa Citizen: Gingrich calls Romney a 'liar' W Post front page: Taliban publicly expresses interest in talks with U.S. http://tinyurl.com/8926uyx fifth batch of today's tweets NYT Iowa analysis (Jim Rutenberg): First Vote in Iowa Reinforces G.O.P.’s Ideological Divide http://tinyurl.com/7pbg64j Today’s federal howler: Identical version of 'unique' vase [with deep connections to Canadian history] found http://tinyurl.com/6n53e4y Er, restraint comes to Conservative Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/7wufx4x Say what? In Ontario, hospital executive perks could include plastic surgery? http://tinyurl.com/83yven8 fourth batch of today's tweets Edmonton Journal editorial: Do we have right rules on foreign investment? http://tinyurl.com/7x739bj Van Sun: Environmentalists turn star power against Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline http://tinyurl.com/7k49gq6 Calgary Herald editorial: U.S. eco-pipeline fuels anti-Gateway movement http://tinyurl.com/75rygww Le Devoir: Kyoto: la cour pourrait annuler le retrait d'Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/7ukhm3l Reynolds: Why Canada’s corporate tax cuts rate a collective cheer http://tinyurl.com/87qpug8 iPolitics: Trade mission contacts helped Brian Tobin keep Bloom Lake afloat and made him Millions http://tinyurl.com/6n5h77n third batch of today's tweets Citizen: After 37 months, still no helicopters/Sikorski hasn't paid $8M penalty http://tinyurl.com/7rttctj Simpson: 2012 will be the year about debt http://tinyurl.com/7ocfm8x Hmm.. Liberals to debate dumping monarchy and legalizing pot http://tinyurl.com/84l22zy Goar: Parliament fails native women http://tinyurl.com/6lnqob9 Yaffe: $600K spent in bid to close injection site underscores Tory stubbornness http://tinyurl.com/6rjapbm The power of political humility: @dgardner http://tinyurl.com/6wjys7r second batch of today's tweets HT: Dewar building formidable campaign machine across country http://tinyurl.com/798eaua L. IAN MACDONALD: A look into the crystal ball on the Liberal and NDP leadership races http://tinyurl.com/7fr8c2h CP: Steep criminal pardon rate dip expected due to feds' tougher rules http://tinyurl.com/8xt8tsz first batch of today's tweets Postmedia: NDP calls for program review of "high-flying bureaucrats" program http://tinyurl.com/7eo4rwc Star editorial: The case for tax reform http://tinyurl.com/7lotplp Globe editorial: Of Beijing, bitumen and Ottawa's foreign-takeover review http://tinyurl.com/85eu88f fourth batch of today's tweets Harper government to re-name Wellington St B of M bldg after Sir John (translation) http://tinyurl.com/7pgt3zm Le Monde print edition: Canada rejects French proposal to elect deputy representing its N American citizens third batch of today's tweets Independent: Funding scandal from Sarkozy’s past returns to haunt him http://tinyurl.com/7y6z7d4 The un-named former editor who opens @acoyne return to the National Post column? Ex-Globe editor in chief William Thorsell NYT: Caterpillar lockout has renewed debate in Canada about the labor impact of foreign ownership http://tinyurl.com/6uwcdtu NYT: Panetta’s chief target for weapons cuts in controlling Pentagon spending is the F-35 http://tinyurl.com/7clrank second batch of today's tweets Guardian: only holdouts in final minutes of Durban were China/India over legally-binding emissions cuts http://tinyurl.com/7yfqd4m Interesting that no Torstar or T Star men appear on the paper's list of Canada’s top-paid CEOs today. Just saying Van Sun: First nations fiercely opposed to Northern Gateway http://tinyurl.com/7wo46kr first batch of today's tweets L Martin: The hockey prime minister http://tinyurl.com/8xbt7mb Bob Plamondon: Look in the mirror, MPs, before reforming pensions http://tinyurl.com/7ntzydt Stephen Harper could be facing an ideologically divided #NDP in 2012: @stphnmaher http://tinyurl.com/829lncd From out here [in the West], Ottawa is the enemy: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/7rzbmgj Robert Bothwell: Quebec sleeps. Or does it? http://tinyurl.com/7axqskt CP: Canada, U.S. in lockstep on defence issues http://tinyurl.com/6q586pc T Star: Highest-paid Canadian CEOs got 27 per cent pay hike http://tinyurl.com/79ua5xr Ed Journal: $72 billion at stake if N Gateway pipeline halted http://tinyurl.com/7xnhklw ninth batch of today's tweets only a fool wd dare predict what’s in store [in QC] in ‘12 http://tinyurl.com/7eztfhk er Sov on its death-bed in QC (Globe 12/17) To round out 2011, 2 more ‘great’ Edmonton moments (Journal lead story): http://tinyurl.com/7os8aya Hey, Ottawa should re-direct social spending from the Maritimes to BC and #Alberta! http://tinyurl.com/892o75y The Vancouver Province issues a ‘clarification’ re @kenneyjason’s citizenship oath and Niqab http://tinyurl.com/6tvnsfk The Toronto Sun supports health care user fees (though, notably, it disguises the fact w/ its wording) http://tinyurl.com/72bgvh4 eighth batch of today's tweets Globe A2 correction informs readers that incorrect information about Barney Danson “appeared” on Saturday (Like magic!) Economic pundit/columnist Robert Samuelson in Washington Post: Why Obama will (won’t) win in 2012 http://tinyurl.com/7tths46 I sometimes think Britain wd B best as the new Cda, w/ enough prosperity/ shrunken profile 2 suit every taste http://tinyurl.com/7x6xyse seventh batch of today's tweets T Star NOT home-town Ottawa Citizen http://tinyurl.com/7vxfgd6 notes Kevin Page calculating PS wage bill up 45% over past 5 years A French paradox: multicultural celebrities are popular, but so is Le Pen (John Lichfield, The Independent) http://tinyurl.com/7bql6b6 Vancouver Sun: Enbridge is a Canadian success story http://tinyurl.com/8yfdjww NYT: New Speculation on Who Leaked Climate-Change E-Mails (Cdn Steve McIntyre quoted) http://tinyurl.com/6lhzrwv sixth batch of today's tweets Say what, @stevenchase? DFAIT resisted gov’t efforts to raise concern about religious persecution abroad? http://tinyurl.com/6vtgnd2 MEDIA’S ANTI-FORD BIAS (T Sun print ed hed): @joe_warmington http://tinyurl.com/89at8j5 W Post lead story: GOP’s battle plan against Obama: Use his own words against him Post http://tinyurl.com/7oabm86 fifth batch of today's tweets In a letter to the Star (2nd down) Mark Collins corrects Michael Byers on Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage http://tinyurl.com/7bas2eg Calgary Herald editorial: Hijabs don't hinder prison guards http://tinyurl.com/7c47hzn NYT editorial: Obama shd nix Keystone/make case 4 alternative energy & clean energy jobs http://tinyurl.com/6ullzdb fourth batch of today's tweets Paul Krugman in the NY Times: Nobody Understands Government Debt http://tinyurl.com/7gg42lm Set MPs free: Let them represent their ridings: @goldyhyder http://tinyurl.com/7p8o72f CP: Pattern of police repression makes prostitution more dangerous, experts say http://tinyurl.com/7pz8mbt third batch of today's tweets CP: Fender benders in government vehicles cost feds millions, analysis shows http://tinyurl.com/738vvau Postmedia: Most Canadians say they had a good 2011: Ipsos Survey http://tinyurl.com/8xvz9bb second batch of today's tweets CP: What’s with Harper and the Royals? Hint: It has nothing to do with history http://tinyurl.com/7jqnplv Now is Harper’s time to change Canada: @montesolberg http://tinyurl.com/7vrof79 Star: Reality jostles with hope in advance of natives’ meeting with Harper http://tinyurl.com/72vgr8t first batch of today's tweets Citizen line story: Dirty bomb alert re-opens CBSA dispute http://tinyurl.com/6na8sfu B.C. politicking will put New Democrats back in power: @kinsellawarren http://tinyurl.com/6rqsylb Den Tandt: My political expectations for the year ahead http://tinyurl.com/7yvgjth fifth batch of today's tweets Dan Balz in W Post: Obama campaign as it also gears up for Iowa--‘We’re ready’ for general election http://tinyurl.com/6vwhhmr LAT: Offshore oil spill makes waves amid Brazil oil boom http://tinyurl.com/6lwfuks NYT editorial disses GOP 4 nixing climate change research http://tinyurl.com/7mehcgw fourth batch of today's tweets The world needs more [music from] Canada: Dan Mangan confirms his position as 1 of most thought-provoking writers of his generat'n (Sunday Times) In Sun @kinsellawarren : If/when Adrian Dix becomes prem, 1st official act shd be 2 declare John Cummins Appreciation Day LAT: Nato/US troop deaths in Afghanistan fell in 2011/Taliban say due to fewer operations http://tinyurl.com/76qh7qv third batch of today's tweets NY Times-man Ross Douthat makes the case for listening to but not electing Ron Paul http://tinyurl.com/6ngbn63 In London’s Observer, the world needs more [music from] Canada http://tinyurl.com/75hfo8c Lead story in both NYT http://tinyurl.com/8xskpta and W Post http://tinyurl.com/864kxzw : Obama to Target Congress in 2012 Campaign second batch of today's tweets In T Star NOT Citizen article, Kevin Page reminds @TonyclementCPC that Pub Serv wage bill grew by 45% in past 5 years. Just Saying Mohammed El-Erian in the Washington Post: The U.S. triple-A credit rating is vulnerable http://tinyurl.com/7llvy6y first batch of today's tweets Observer lead story: Labour turns on BBC over 'pro-coalition coverage' http://tinyurl.com/78en22x In the Sun, @ezralevant disses Calgary Mayor Nenshi http://tinyurl.com/74hudls #Alberta sixth batch of today's tweets Le Journal de QC rates federal pols (translation) http://tinyurl.com/82a9ecy Hmm… Keep an eye on Calgary MP Rempel http://tinyurl.com/7hpwe4l NYT: The US/Obama heavily supporting shale gas fracking around the world http://tinyurl.com/7v2pvyn fifth batch of today's tweets Dear @scott_stinson: Iggy lost and left; journos whose messages he carried R still spewing ‘em out in Ottawa http://tinyurl.com/7e3kz8z CANADA’S HONOUR ROLL in the Globe looks remarkably like an ad purchased by the GG in La Presse. Just wondering Van Sun: Northern Gateway pipeline will fuel plenty of talk http://tinyurl.com/79r4p3d fourth batch of today's tweets A bit of puffery from the PubEd but, in fairness, Star better at correcting errors than Globe http://tinyurl.com/7fr7djw On the front page of the NYT, a first-rate piece on the role of money in US politics http://tinyurl.com/7dtqeq5 Hmm… In La Presse @JamesMoore protecting #CBC http://tinyurl.com/bpxpcey in N Post downsizing/decentralizing it http://tinyurl.com/8y479p2 third batch of today's tweets JustMin Nicholson: Jails won’t be brimming w/ teenagers & college kids who share pot w/ pals http://tinyurl.com/6lzh8c6 Mallick: “Harper finds majority erotic” rivalling Le Dev letter saying Mrs H shd B concerned about festish 4 the Queen In a Toronto newspaper that’s not the Star, Mayor Ford comments on the 911 calls http://tinyurl.com/6rmqjvl second batch of today's tweets The Star attempts to justify not respecting the privacy of Mayor Ford and his family http://tinyurl.com/869j3jo Dear Globe and Mail: @bobraeMP not ruling out running for #LPC leadership is NOT news Hmm…@bobraeMP 2 @SusanDelacourt chief priority as PM wd B 2 dismantle Harper’s “law and order” changes to Crim Code Calgary Herald editorial “We don't need a 'national' energy strategy” worth reading http://tinyurl.com/8xqm5xr first batch of today's tweets Dept of Veteran Affairs: Viagra expenditures down sharply (translation) http://tinyurl.com/8y7orlx Van Sun: B.C. Liberals launch campaign against NDP's 'risky' Dix http://tinyurl.com/75tzbyh Licia Corbella: Federal Grits need to fix their game for nation's good http://tinyurl.com/7fhsupu second batch of today's tweets U'd think fact that one of orgs raided in Cairo is headed by a Canadian wd be noted in our papers today. Just saying If you’re looking for a good investment, Roger Vadim’s Ferrari 250 GT California will be auctioned in Paris on Feb 3. You’re welcome For 2012, I'm predicting that the new Porsche 911 will flop in North America other than among pre-geezers I'd be interested in T Star public editor's view of Ford story if the T Star had an independent pub editor like the NYT An editorialist in the Winnipeg Free Press touts the Human Rights Museum in er, Winnipeg http://tinyurl.com/cj6sawd Watson in the Post http://tinyurl.com/cywqyb5 Reguly in the Globe http://tinyurl.com/dxagw2f worth chewing on The Citizen’s Randall Denley worth reading for pols and journos alike http://tinyurl.com/cye4mbo I doubt many readers wd have the slightest idea what’s being corrected on page 2 of today’s Globe. Just saying Unlike most of our papers, the Wash Post runs 2 very clear corrections on the op-ed page where the errors occurred. Just saying Charles Krauthammer on why politics really, really matters worth reading http://tinyurl.com/6lkcsyx first batch of today's tweets Remind me again, O Mayor Ford, why it was wise to get into a pissing match w the front page of the T Star http://tinyurl.com/6n9e7tx I’m told that Rick Salutin lives in Canada but you wouldn’t know it from the examples in his year-end analysis http://tinyurl.com/7697bhv Kudos to Jeff Simpson for again distinguishing himself with his annual mea culpa http://tinyurl.com/7aujs2o Excellent analysis of that @kinsellawarren will have to chew on http://tinyurl.com/7wpupcl Cut #CBC budget by 10% and be portrayed as a moderate? @JamesMoore_org should pay for this publicity! http://tinyurl.com/bpxpcey Can’t think of a worst messenger for #NDP in opposing government spending restraint http://tinyurl.com/d7bu2l4 Personally I think Brian Topp is raising some serious issues for #NDP and that Tom Mulcair should engage http://tinyurl.com/blczguc I do wish Harper-hating Hill journos (& others) would make up their minds on whether he wants to kill the #LPC or not http://tinyurl.com/bne9npf The #media and the journos they employ cd easily end most of the abuses of polling we’ve been seeing. 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