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October 2, 2015 by Robin Rowland

Re-elected Harper government to crack down on dual citizens of Beringian origin

A re-elected Harper government would crack down on dual citizens originally from Beringia, sources are saying. The sources say Harper and his advisors consider many Beringians to be a threat to Canada or at least to Harper’s vision of Canada. According to Statistics Canada there were at least 1,400,685  residents of Beringian origin in Canada […]

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January 24, 2014 by Robin Rowland

Marmite kept my father alive.

Updates with CFIA statement saying Marmite not banned When I was a little kid my father insisted—yes insisted—that I eat my Marmite. This morning I woke up to the news that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has apparently banned Marmite, a yeast extract spread, in this country, along with some other British “comfort foods.” (After […]

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December 2, 2010 by Robin Rowland

Browsing the State Department’s old style analog paper Wiki

A quarter century ago, the US State Department had its own analog, paper-based Wiki that covered almost every diplomatic dispatch going back centuries, millions of three by five inch index cards. And that tells a story  more complicated than the current Wikileaks data dump. My story for CBC News Online Don’t mistake WikiLeaks for how […]

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November 11, 2010 by Robin Rowland

Remembrance Day, Kitimat, BC, Nov. 11, 2010

Snow began falling in Kitimat, BC, for the first time this winter, at about 9 in the morning Pacific Time. and by the time the residents gathered 90 minutes later for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph, it was still snowing. A photo gallery of a small town Remembrance ceremony.  In Kitimat, children lay […]

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July 22, 2010 by Robin Rowland

The real reason Harper wants to kill the census:Wipe out the Jedi

This morning’s Globe and Mail has a real investigative scoop, but apparently they don’t realize it. As most Canadians know by now the government wants to make the census long form voluntary rather than mandatory, which everyone who has any expertise in statistics knows, will destroy the validity of the survey.  The head of Statistics […]

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April 9, 2010 by Robin Rowland

The silver lining in the Canadian prorogues, and a black eye for UK democracy

Here in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has twice prorogued parliament to avoid  political challenges, first the threat of a coalition of the three opposition parties and second a rather unsuccessful attempt to avoid nasty questions about the treatment of Afghan detainees. When Harper porogued  parliament, all the government bills on the order paper died […]