“I must recognize Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the chair of this year’s G8 and G20 meetings and his health minister, Leona Aglukkaq, for demonstrating, once again, their incredible ability to take credit where none is due."
Read the full story from the Globe & Mail here.- Dr. Julio Montaner, President of the International AIDS Society
Yesterday, during his closing address at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria.
This was the horrific last moment of Capt. Brian Bews' CF-18 Hornet after he had to eject from the jet during a practice run for the Alberta International Airshow in Lethbridge, AB, yesterday afternoon.
Cool skyline, right? It's got the former WTC, the Sears Tower, John Hancock Centre, Chicago Spire, Empire State Building, and those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.
“Ground Zero Mosque supporters, doesn’t it stab you in the heart as it does our throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.”
CTV has announced that Lisa LaFlamme (and not Tom Clark, as C&C predicted) will replace Lloyd Robertson as chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News when he retires in 2011. LaFlamme is current CTV News' national affairs correspondent.
But then again, I watch CBC News. Now, if Diana Swain were to pull a Lloyd and jump over to CTV after Lisa LaFlamme is ousted after half a season as anchor, I could easily be persuaded to jump too.
Lloyd Robertson, the longest-serving news anchor in North America, has announced that he will retire from his position as chief anchor and senior editor of the CTV National News late next year.
No doubt there are many individuals who have been holding their breath for Robertson to retire, leaving his coveted position vacant. CTV plans to announce his replacement later today. Create & Commerce would like to officially put $20 on Tom Clark, the host of CTV News Channel's highly-rated political show Power Play with Tom Clark, replacing Robertson as chief anchor. Clark previously served as CTV's Washington bureau chief, as well as host for W5, CTV's investigative news magazine program.
In case you haven't already heard/live on a remote island in the South Pacific, Lindsay Lohan is going to jail for 90 days for repeatedly violating her parole stemming from her 2007 DUI conviction.
Here, an Iranian official shows off the latest summer styles in men's hair fashion. Well, not quite. He's actually displaying hairstyles that are especially-permissible Islamic styles. That's right, the Iranian government has set out specific guidelines for men's hair in an effort to curb Western influence on the country.
“There are times in one’s life when things get put in perspective, one being when my father passed, and obviously what I’ve been going through lately."
"The Canadian government is not content to merely submit us to the merchant oligarchy and to deliver it our resources, it demands that we enslave other people. Suffering the effects of the dangers of gas exportation is not enough, we have to secure a pipeline route (TAPI) on Afghan territory. The soldiers of the Canadian Army, let it be very clear, they are not 'ours, they belong to the one to whom they foolishly pledge allegiance, Her Majesty Elisabeth II."- Résistance Internationaliste
From a statement sent to La Presse today claiming responsibility for an explosion at a Canadian Forces Recruitment centre in Trois-Rivières.
Read the full story here.
