486...Stephen Harper, Three For Three This Week

First he pisses off the gays, then the Roman Catholics and now he lies about Michael Ignatieff.

Peter O'Neil's front page story in the Ottawa Citizen says that Mr. Harper, who is in Italy at the closing news conference at the G8 summit there that the next Prime Minister of Canada, Mikey I., had suggested a new body to replace the G8 might be created that won't include Canada.

Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.

One of his aides, Dimitri Soudas, fed the information to our beloved leader without actually checking who said it.

Stupid facts.

Presumably Mr. Soudas will soon be working at a drive through window near you.

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431...Animal News

In news that will make Lowell Green and the CFRA Nation happy, Tiffany Crawford and Peter O'Neil report in this morning's Montreal Gazette that the World Wildlife Federation ranks Canada eighth out of the eight countries that make up the G8 in terms of reacting to climate change.

"Nowhere else on Earth do fewer people steward more resources, yet Canada now stands dead last among the G8 nations in protecting our shared home from the threat of dangerous climate change," said foundation spokesman Keith Stewart.

The big bugaboo is the ongoing work in northern Alberta on exploiting the tarsands which has dire consequences for the environment according to the 2009 Climate Scorecard.

May be the Green Shift wasn't such a bad idea, eh?

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