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Columns: What USA thinks about Canadian Trade Relations and NAFTAThere was a link on FARK.com that really caught my eye. It was to a Yahoo News article about Canada looking to trade with China. China has a booming economy and needs a lot of the stuff that we, Canada, export to the USA. This includes minerals, oil, timber, etc.....
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Posted by capebretoner on Monday, October 17 @ 14:51:30 CDT
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Is the American Way of Life Getting in the Way of Life?I know that this site is supposed to be about Canada, but I think that this was just to good of a piece.
Is the American Way of Life Getting in the Way of Life?
By Michael Bresciani
Whether angry American workers who go on killing rampages in the workplace have gone “ballistic” or “postal”, isn’t it terrorism by any other name? While we fear the idea of someone poisoning our water or using lethal chemicals in our public places has anyone been on a college campus lately? There our youth are blending academic pursuits with the kind of alcohol abuse that would make all the combined pubs of Ireland and brew houses of Germany glow with a blush.
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Posted by capebretoner on Friday, August 19 @ 00:00:00 CDT
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Canadian and U.S. research in genetics of hypertension: new hope for millions foMONTREAL, May 5
CNW Telbec - Quebec researchers today announced that they have created a genetic database that offers hope for improved diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension), a condition that affects about five million adult Canadians.
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Posted by capebretoner on Thursday, May 05 @ 13:13:47 CDT
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Draft 2006El-Diablo writes "With Iraq tying up manpower, two analysts raise specter of draft
By Bob Dart
COX NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - If American forces aren't pulling out of Iraq in a year, a draft will be needed to meet manpower requirements, military analysts warned yesterday.
With recruitment lagging and no end in sight for U.S. forces in Iraq, the "breaking point" for the all-volunteer military will be mid-2006, agreed Law-rence-Korb, a draft opponent and assistant defense secretary in the Reagan administration, and Phillip Carter, a conscription advocate and former Army captain. They debated at a symposium on the draft yesterday.
"America's all-volunteer military simply cannot deploy and sustain enough troops to succeed in places like Iraq while still deterring threats elsewhere in the world," Carter concluded in the March issue of Washington Monthly magazine.
While conceding that the Army, Marines, National Guard and Army Reserve -- the branches serving most in Iraq -- face recruitment difficulties, military officials have denied any plans to revive the draft, which in 1973 was replaced by an all-volunteer force.
"The 'D-word' is the farthest thing from my thoughts," Army Secretary Francis Harvey said last week. He said the all-volunteer force has proven its value, and he applauded the performance of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During his re-election campaign, President Bush declared flatly that he would not reinstate the draft. And there is little support on Capitol Hill for conscription.
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