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Summer Refuses To Fall By MERITA ILO The Canadian Press Published Saturday October 6th, 2007 Appeared on page A1 TORONTO - People across Eastern Canada will be adding the unusual warm weather to the list of things they'll be thankful for this Thanksgiving long weekend. With temperatures in some areas in Ontario expected to reach as high as 30 Celsius, holiday travellers are packing up T-shirts and shorts instead of warm jackets and scarves. "This is record-breaking," David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said Friday. "We've never seen it in 150 years of weather keeping, to have it...

What did you make of that poll showing 40% of Canadian teens regard America as “evil”? A little statistical oversampling of various Khadr nephews and nieces in southern Ontario perhaps? But no, these seem to be regular well-adjusted wholesome all-American-hating Canadian teens. And the only sub-group variation I saw in the Dominion Institute’s survey was that, when it comes to francophone teens, the number who regard America as an “evil global force” rises to 64%. Given that, unlike other Yankophobic nations, the Canadian economy has only one customer, our anti-Americanism is, obviously, psychologically unhealthy: we decline to put our money...