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O Canada! PM wins no-confidence vote

May 20th, 2005 4:00am
This leaves Conservatives unable to force election.  I highly agree with the sentiment that the real scandal is the complete lack of a credible opposition party in this country. I mean, getting in bed with the BLOC (separatist party whose main aim is to see Quebec secede from Canada) just to defeat the government? "Progressive conservatives" indeed!  And their Pez-head leader has the ...

Hypocrisy: gotta love it!

3:00am
After insisting that East Europeans who may compete for German jobs with willingness to accept lower wages should not be allowed to enter Germany, far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) admits that it prints its monthly newspaper in Poland.

Oops, spoke too soon; China giving in:

1:00am
China says it will raise export tariffs on 74 textile product categories from June, in an apparent effort to calm US and EU fears over cheap Chinese goods. Globalization, free trade, production via comparative advantage, etc.?  What a crock; such fanciful notions obviously belong in textbooks only!  ;)

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