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I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service.
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View Article  Speaker Kinsella says the PM ate it

Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella jumps into the surprisingly heated debate about whether or not the prime minister downed the wafer -- otherwise known to many Christians as the body of christ, given for thee, to be washed down with a little wine, known in my church, as "the Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins"-- at Romeo Leblanc's funeral:

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View Article  The Harper Government's long history of funding gay and lesbian activities

The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix was among several papers which ran this story today but SP reporter Jeremy Warren made it better with this little twist:

But in his criticism of his colleague, [Trost] did not mention his government funds Saskatoon's Pride parade. The Saskatoon Diversity Network received $9,000 from Canadian Heritage this year for last June's Pride Festival.

Now, a little birdie helpfully provides the following list of gay and lesbian (and bisexual, etc.) events funded by the Harper government:

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View Article  More fine-tuning of #ottawaspends on Twitter

For a while now, I've been 'tweeting' whenever the government issues a press release announcing that it is spending some money. I'm making a couple of changes to the way I've been going about this ...

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