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a-ok
Topic: News on News
WOW! Conde Nast Johansens readers voted Wickaninnish Inn as the Most Excellent Romantic Hideaway in North America for 2010 .
Where to Stay to Watch Storms in Western Canada. If you have the coin, this might be the place to go to rejuvenate your senses this year if you are tired of sensory assault from theme park rides.
http://www.wickinn.com/stormwatching.html
This is where they should really have the next G-8 and G-20. The Coast Guard and Navy could just blockade the area , the RCMP could provide road spot checks and the army reserve could mask patrol the forests with Alsatian hounds. Bill? 2-3 million. Anyway! :)))))))))))
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That little preamble brings me to what will surely be the touchstone event memorable for years to come, as a lot of eyes and ears on Toronto this month with the reports of escalating costs and tax money being spent continue to overshadow and drown out anything this lavish expensive endeavour of hobnobbing of nation states hopes to accomplish. Or, pardon moi-,...is that the drub and clamour of noisy protesting I hear?
Meanwhile, I was able to lend my heart and mind to the unfolding of events in Winnipeg, Manitoba earlier this evening to watch the sun shining through deciduous trees, the birds chirping, as CPAC had taped the live ceremonious opening of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
http://www.trc.ca
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Canadas Governor General will be speaking tommorow (saturday) and honoring the work being done there with her presence.
(The Queen and Prince Phillip arrive June 28th.)
The Queen and Prince Philip @ Ascot.
Haida to be honoured when Queen visits this summer
Heard any news about BP other than criminal investigations and lawsuits, whistleblowers, public relations disasters, fired ("let-go") executives, desecrateds birds and beaches, movie star actors with cleanup machines and company supply side economic tinkering?
Let the spin-offs begin. (PS And dont forget New Mexico.)
Meanwhile, huge news in B.C. with far reaching international implications is a scathing report that thoroughly patches together the jigsaw puzzle of events that brought about the use of stun guns to cause the death of a Polish national at Vancouvers International Aeroport.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1815008020100618
A lot of people are concurrent with the thought that it is just totally bewildering and mind-boggling and gasping to think that a non-English speaking person could be , in such a security conscious era, be even ALLOWED to wander about lost, without even a thought towards his well being, let alone an action.
RE: blog entry below, well as it turns out the weather man was , how do you say? Wrong? Or the weather simply changed it's mind.
Posted by mach1231
at 11:23 PM PDT
Updated: Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:03 PM PDT