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The Canadians are checking in. Canadians are logging on to the Canada Free Press website in droves, and it’s largely courtesy of Fox News. Liberally quoting Rachel Marsden’s insightful column about Fox News versus the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), I wrote a column, Thursday about what a dramatic improvement the more professional Fox News would be over leftwing slanted, taxpayer-funded CBC in balance-deprived Canada. The letters that poured in within the first day after the column affirm my belief that mainstream Canada wants Fox NOW. So many letters from fellow Canadians also gave me a personal boost. Ever since going...

Talking to Americans not what it used to be MARTIN KNELMAN Hockey Night in Canada may have been snatched away from us, but this country's second favourite spectator sport is enjoying a resurgence. In the wake of the November election, when U.S. voters dared to re-elect a president widely loathed in Canada, bashing Americans has become an even more satisfying feel-good diversion than it used to be. And as the CBC discovered this week, it also happens to be just about the only reliable ratings booster that does not involve shooting pucks down the ice. Here is the astonishing bulletin....

Yet another planeload carrying 201 Jewish immigrants from N. America touched down in Israel today, bringing the number of immigrants from the continent this year to over 2,800 - the most since 1983. "Heveinu Shalom Aleichem ~ We have brought you peace." Today's flight was the first Winter flight of olim [new immigrants] organized by Nefesh b'Nefesh, an organization aiming to "remove or minimize the financial, professional, logistical and social obstacles that potential olim face." Though the average age of this year's North American immigrants is 33, two sisters in their 90s who survived the Holocaust were among those who...

Day denies evading condolences over AIDS rumour CTV.ca News Staff The Conservative Party's foreign affairs critic, Stockwell Day, is denying accusations that he refused to send condolences for Arafat's death because of rumours that the former Palestinian leader died of AIDS. "Some of you have asked why I have not released a statement of condolence or sympathy," Day said in an e-mail to party colleagues obtained by The Canadian Press. "As you know, there are two sides to the Arafat story. You pick." The e-mail attached an article by conservative commentator David Frum in Frontpage Magazine that looks at Arafat's...

"The Americans" - Original Script The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did,...

MONTREAL -- Making it illegal for Canadians to subscribe to foreign television channels via satellite infringes on their freedom of expression, a long-awaited judgment concluded Thursday. The 153-page ruling by Quebec Court Judge Danielle Cote found two sections of the federal Radiocommunication Act dealing with so-called grey-market satellite systems for decoding an encrypted programming signal violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "She had to invalidate the law because the law itself was so infringing," said Jacques D'Argy of Drummondville, Que., who sought the court ruling. D'Argy and his brother-in-law, Richard Theriault, were charged in December 1998 with using...

Tories dismiss 'flake' Layton's talk of a plot 'The accusations are ridiculous. There's nothing to add': Bloc Anne Dawson and Bill Curry CanWest News Service Thursday, October 07, 2004 OTTAWA - Jack Layton yesterday alleged the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois were scheming to vote down the Throne Speech and install Stephen Harper as prime minister, but members of the opposition parties immediately dismissed the NDP leader's accusations as "ridiculous" and "embarrassing." Mr. Layton was angered to learn Mr. Harper had presented amendments to the Throne Speech that the NDP leader had proposed himself when he was negotiating with Mr. Harper...

One Cdn. sailor dies from submarine accident CTV.ca News Staff A Canadian sailor has died of injuries suffered during a fire on the HMCS Chicoutimi, a sombre House of Commons heard. Prime Minister Paul Martin said Lieut. Chris Saunders died after being airlifted from the submarine, adrift in the North Atlantic Ocean between Ireland and Scotland. "We pay him homage and we make known our deep respect to his family," Martin said in the Commons. Saunders, a combat systems engineer, leaves behind his wife Gwen and two children. The news came as a shock, because reports initially indicate any of...

MONTREAL (CP) - The results are enough to make John Kerry wish Canadians could vote in the U.S. presidential election. A Leger Marketing poll conducted Sept. 21-26 indicates 56 per cent of Canadians supported the Democratic candidate, compared with 19 per cent who backed President George W. Bush. The remaining 25 per cent refused to answer or said they didn't know. Kerry's strongest support in Canada came from Quebec, where 69 per cent of respondents said they preferred the challenger, compared with only 11 per cent who favoured Bush. Other regional breakdowns, with Kerry's numbers first and Bush's second, were:...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - This week's Republican convention has given U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) a boost in the polls, a Canadian survey of American voters showed on Thursday. The Leger Marketing survey, published in Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper, gave Bush an edge of 51 percent to 47 percent over Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites). The poll was taken on the first two days of the convention, Aug. 30-31, and company President Jean-Marc Leger said it was the first to emerge based on data during the Republican gathering. "Americans are responding well to the...

Well, it looks like we've gone and offended the Canadians again. This time the United States is trying to get the Canadians to go along with a missile defense (search) program which will defend North America — which includes both the U.S. and Canada. Liberal member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish, who called the Americans “bastards” last year, this time she called Americans “idiots.” The exact phrase she used, by the way, was “coalition of idiots,” as in we're not going to join a “coalition of idiots in this missile defense program.” Canadians like Parrish think they don't have to be...

SEATTLE — Evil — a word usually reserved for the likes of Adolph Hitler or Usama bin Laden — is now being used by more than a third of Canadian teens to describe the United States.

TORONTO - Fifty volunteers who left Canada to join a ''cult-like'' militant group called Mujahedin-e-Khalq are being detained by the U.S. military in Iraq -- more than twice the number previously thought, the National Post has learned.

Here's the summary: Statement 1:"Canada should actively support the Bush Administration's missle defense system even if it may require dedicating military spending to the program or allowing US missile launchers in Canada." 29% Agree/Strongly Agree 69% Disagree/Strongly Disagree 2% No opinion Statement 2: "Canada’s limited military spending should be used to enhance our abilities in peacekeeping and conflict resolution rather than trying to maintain multi-purpose forces intended for heavy combat alongside US military forces." 77% Agree/Strongly Agree 21% Disagree/Strongly Disagree 2% No opinion Statement 3: "Canada should establish an energy policy that provides reliable supplies of oil, gas and electricity...

Edmonton – The Spectatorians have asked me to comment on the outcry against Conan O'Brien here in Canada, and while I wouldn't dream of defending the phony indignation of a handful of socialists, kleptocrats, and race-baiters, there is a genuine cultural issue here. The people who are stamping their feet over the antics of a hand puppet are, I think, genuinely confused as well as politically opportunistic. There is no cultural referent here, you see, for the thing Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is actually parodying, which is the tradition of the insult comic. Canada lived in a British universe,...

-snip- Putting The Spectator to one side (which is always a good idea in this Gilliganista phase), these are certainly strange times in Trudeaupia. The country has chosen to go to war with a puppet — Triumph The Insult Dog. As his name might have forewarned, Triumph has insulted Canada. Nothing unusual about that. He insults people for a living. What’s unique in this case is that both Federal and provincial levels of government paid for him and his master, Conan O’Brien, to come to Canada to insult us; they put him up in the best kennel at the Chateau...

Canada Condemns 'Racist' Conan O'Brien TV Show Fri Feb 13, 3:26 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Canadian Press Photo Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid $760,000 to help O'Brien -- who appears on the NBC television network -- bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS (news - web sites)...

Ottawa – Canada's government has condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid C$1 million (400,000 pounds) to help O'Brien — who appears on the NBC television network — bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS outbreak last year. But the federal government said O'Brien had gone far too far with the show broadcast on Thursday in which he went to Quebec, a province which...

February 9, 2004-Maybe it's that smug little smile. His penchant for fantastically expensive military photo-ops. Or the swaggering, belt-hitching walk that cries out for a pair of swinging saloon doors. And though, God knows, we have too many of our own syntactically challenged politicians to be casting stones, shouldn't the leader of the free world know that "misunderestimate" isn't a word? Yes, we're cavilling, but clearly there is something about George W. Bush that gets under the skin of Canadians. After all, vehemently disagreeing with the policies of American presidents is almost a national pastime. There has to be another...

I am sure everyone is aware of Drudge's recent squabble with www.canadiansforclark.com Drudge had them taken down. But now a new foe has emerged!! Canadians for Dean! Donate! From their Web site... "Why have a Canadian Web network supporting Dr. Howard Dean, a candidate for President of the United States in 2004? Because there are thousands of Americans and dual citizens of Canada and the United States living and working or going to school in Canada. Many of these people don't vote in US elections; many have never registered to vote. It will be our prime mission to get these...