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… before pesticide bans. And shockingly, rather than basing those bans on science, it seems that environmentalists may have intentionally misled the public: A group representing dozens of lawn care companies trying to bring charges against Ontario’s environment minister and senior bureaucrats over the province’s controversial pesticide ban is now calling for charges against 23 [...]

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The other day I pushed the "Guide" button on my Rogers digital box remote. It didn’t bring up the program guide; it brought up the "Rogers Quick Menu", an apparent new feature, complete with advertising. I assumed that I had merely hit the wrong button by mistake. But no, it seems that Rogers has reassigned [...]

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Yesterday there was an article in my local paper, The Record, regarding plans to narrow Bearinger Road in Waterloo from four lanes to two. Curiously, this article appears only in the print edition of the paper, and does not appear on the website, keeping the notice of public meetings hidden from anyone who does not [...]

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Though I’m currently in Canada, I can’t help but wish I was back home in Boston, especially on nights like tonight when there’s an election on. Especially on a night when a Massachusetts senate seat, held for almost my entire life by Senator Ted Kennedy, goes Republican: In a victory few thought possible just a [...]

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Debbie Weil comments on Seth Godin’s new book, LINCHPIN: This is great news for those of us who aren’t good at following the rules. Those of us who have, in fact, been fired because we didn’t fit in. Count me in that group. I’ve been fired at least twice – a source of shame for [...]

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A headline on the print edition of today’s New York Times may even be the understatement of the decade: Democrats Fret That the Public is Dissatisfied With the subhead: Race in Massachusetts as Party Referendum But if you don’t get the print edition and go to the web instead you won’t see that. You’ll see [...]

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I just saw an ad on my phone for "Jhonny Carson DVDs". Now for those of you tooo young to remember, Johnny Carson (not Jhonny Carson) was the host of the Tonight Show. He wasn’t the first; that would be Jack Paar I believe, though that was before my time. Though he was the second [...]

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You’ve never seen that acronym before? WIIFM = What’s In It For Me? If you are in the business of selling a product or service, this is what every one of your customers, or potential customers, is thinking.They don’t care what you or your company need. That isn’t meant as an insult. It’s just a [...]

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Martha Coakley, running for the Senate in Massachusetts, did the unthinkable and insulted Fenway Park today: Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive. “As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson notices: For every racially insensitive Trent Lott, Senate party leader, there is a racially insensitive Harry Reid [2], Senate party leader. For every illegitimacy story about Levi Johnston and Sarah Palin’s daughter, there is a John Edwards’ love child. For every supposed Bush fabrication, there is Barack Obama on YouTube swearing he [...]

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