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RIP Ken Taylor

The Canadian ambassador who helped six American diplomats escape after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Iranian revolutionaries in 1979 has died, his family has said.

Ken Taylor was 81 and died in hospital in New York.

He played a key role in sneaking the diplomats out of Iran using Canadian passports and forged Iranian visas.

The crisis began when revolutionary students stormed the embassy taking about 50 American hostages.
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federal election on Monday!

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and for those who don't know (like me), the symbols across the top represent the national flag (i knew that one :) ), flag of the province of british columbia, flag of the province of ontario and flag of the province of quebec


and going down the side, the top one must be the conservative party (yay!), the second one is the new democrats (boo!), the third is the liberals (boo!), fourth is the green party and i don't care enough to research the fifth
 
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this is the flag of the province of new brunswick:

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a lot of cajuns in louisiana were displaced from new brunswick in the mid-1700s
 
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Black kids are flocking to hockey instead of football and basketball. Blacks will take over the NHL by 2022, especially in Canada.
 
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Is Obama’s Team Targeting Canada’s Conservative Party?

. . . and planning the “fundamental transformation” of Canada?

While most of us have been engrossed in the American election saga, our neighbor to the north is preparing for an Oct. 19th election that may be infused with some imported drama.

As next week’s election draws near, news is that conservative Stephen Harper is going to be replaced with the son a former leftist Prime Minister:


If current polling is to be believed – and recent election upsets in the UK and Israel have taught pundits to take polls with more than a pinch of salt – then Harper will not hold on to government. After languishing in third place for much of the campaign, the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau – son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau – seem set to return to power.

The victory will be particularly sweet here in Ajax, where four-term Liberal MP Mark Holland was routed in 2011 by Chris Alexander, formerly Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan and now a immigration minister in the Conservative government.

True to form, President Obama cannot resist trying to exert some meaningful influence. Since he is apparently unable to do so in the Middle East, where it may actually help our nation, there are reports he is attempting to sway the Canadian vote.



But Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has been documenting how Obama is planning the “fundamental transformation” of Canada by taking down Harper’s government and bringing to power a progressive majority assembled from Canada’s Liberal Party and New Democratic Party (NDP), an affiliate of the Socialist International.

In a dispatch earlier this year, McLeod provided the facts about the interference of Obama campaign operatives in the Canadian elections scheduled for October 19. “In Canada, Obama’s campaign team is guiding the election campaigns of both the Liberals and the NDP,” she wrote. She urged the Harper government to investigate.

She explained why Obama is targeting Canada: “To the U.S., Canada is the country next door, to Obama it’s home of the architects of the maligned Keystone XL Pipeline and home to the world’s Number One elected defender of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Indeed, for the last seven years, Harper has not only been supporting Israel, but functioning as the leader of the Free World in the face of Obama’s deal-making with America’s enemies and adversaries. In 2014, at the summit of G20 nations, Harper famously told Russian President Putin that he needs “to get out of Ukraine.” Putin replied with a lie, saying the Russians weren’t in Ukraine.




The last time Team Obama attempted to direct an election result, it went spectacularly well . . . for Bibi Netanyahu.
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and canada turns its back on the proven excellence of a conservative government to vote in an inexperienced unqualified airy-fairy pretty-boy liberal :(

hey, it worked for america, right?



canada's incoming pm - school teacher justin trudeau - and her outgoing pm, stephen harper

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the conservatives retain some power as the opposition, but harper has resigned as leader of the party

way to go you stupid canucks :doh:
 
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i suspect his first act will be to swing the doors wide open for syrian refugees, something harper had insisted be done in an orderly fashion while screening for potential terrorists

i wonder how many of them will slip across the border to bedevil us?
 
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this got a lot of coverage yesterday:

Ottawa honours soldiers Corporal Nathan Cirillo and Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent killed one year ago

Canadians and their political leaders are coming together today to mark the first anniversary of deadly attacks that left two soldiers dead. On Oct. 22, 2014, Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24, was shot in the back as he stood ceremonial guard at the National War Memorial across the street from Parliament Hill. The incident came 48 hours after Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, 53, was murdered in a hit-and-run by an Islamic-extremist in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.
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Cpl Nathan Cirillo's sister Natasha looks on as his son Marcus puts a fallen yellow maple leaf, which he collected during a ceremony marking the one year....
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and it underscores a theme i have been mulling over about media manipulation of emotion...
 
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