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How is it that though every news organization thinks that plagiarism at the Conference Board of Canada is news, except for CBC? Technorati: conference board canada plagiarism Powered by Bleezer

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The Ontario provincial government wants to increase sales taxes and hide them from you: The Liberal government is struggling over whether to bury Premier Dalton McGuinty’s new 13 per cent harmonized sales tax in the price tags of goods and services, sources told the Toronto Star. The government wants to switch to a harmonized sales [...]

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Apologies to Don Dodge, but this isn’t exactly going to shift customers from Google to Live Search: This experience matches what I have been seeing for the past 6 to 12 months when comparing search results. Live Search is as good as Google, and in some cases better. Microsoft has been working on this for [...]

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Why are politicians treated differently from regular citizens? Expense claims filed by lawmakers for chandeliers, horse manure, pornography and moat maintenance on country estates, among other items, have enraged voters, many of whom have lost jobs and homes during Britain’s deepening recession. The police and prosecutors have been meeting to decide what action, if any, [...]

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The New York Times nails it: Cap and trade, by contrast, is almost perfectly designed for the buying and selling of political support through the granting of valuable emissions permits to favor specific industries and even specific Congressional districts. That is precisely what is taking place now in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which [...]

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It seems that the predicted sea level rise from melting Antarctic ice was vastly overestimated: According to a study by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, the much-feared collapse of the WAIS could cause a 9-ft. rise in the planet’s seas and oceans, laying waste to coastal lands and immersing [...]

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According to the local paper today, the Region of Waterloo is now proposing to spend $790 million on rapid transit across Kitchener and Waterloo. Hidden in the article is a more complete price tag of $1.3 billion to include Cambridge. We’re talking about an area that is home to about 500,000 people, where pretty much [...]

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Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter site helps you choose which PC is right for you. I guess PC by default means that a Mac can’t possibly be the right choice, since they don’t seem to show any. But I can run Windows on my Mac too. Technorati: microsoft Powered by Bleezer

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The Canadian government has pledged almost $3.8 billion dollars to save Chrysler now that it has declared bankruptcy: Industry sources said there would be no filing for creditor protection in Canada. Instead, Ontario and Ottawa will together spend $1.45-billion in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing to keep Chrysler running, mirroring a proportionate move by U.S. Treasury authorities. [...]

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