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Canadian satellite images of Australian flooding
Forwarded by Leslie Swartman at MDA (courtesy of the CSA and RADARSAT-2) The first image is a colour composite image derived from RADARSAT-2 collection on…
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Green Foreign Aid
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named former broadcaster Peter Kent to his cabinet and handed him the environment portfolio and an excuse to wear more…
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China’s new stealth fighter?
Pictures alleging to be of a new Chinese fighter jet hit a few aviation forums this Monday. Is this plane China’s new fifth-generation stealth fighter? As the…
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It gets better despite the United Nations
The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui describes how Canada suffered a “humiliating failure” at the United Nations for failing to get that coveted seat on the…
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Should Omar Khadr be charged with High Treason?
According to the Criminal Code of Canada: 46. (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada, (c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces…
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Omar Khadr questions for Jack Layton, Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff
Mr. Layton, now that Omar Khadr is a convicted and sentenced murderer, do you believe that a future Canadian government will owe an official apology to him?…
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Michael Ignatieff silent on Nobel Prize Committee’s “Megaphone Diplomacy” with China
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Xiaobo was arrested in 2008 for being an author of “Charter 08”, a…
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And in non-census-related news…
A 20-year old letter allegedly written by Iranian “Green revolution” leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to Iran’s then-president President Ali Khamenei is causing a…
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CensusLeaks.ca
Sunday at around 5pm, the story hit the blackberries of government staffers and journalists alike in Ottawa that over 200,000 pages of classified documents…