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Canada Post employees, which have been on strike for about 3 weeks in some parts of the country, are the fortunate beneficiaries of some tough back to work legislation passed by the Canadian government Saturday night (Jun 25).

In an age when Canada Post’s services are less needed by the day, their union leadership was still talking and walking the picket lines like they had essential services as bargaining power. A lot of people still only rely on their services because their services were still available, like procrastination or denial for learning new technology. Canada Post union leadership failed to recognize this, and were in total denial that those dinosaurs to the electronic age would not learn if their vital communication lines were severed.

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Wow.

That Canadian election “debate” tonight was pathétique!

Stephen Harper was ahead of the game again by secretly authorizing the leakage of that Auditor-General’s G8 spending abuse report just days ago. You had better believe it! It refocused the other candidates’ talking points  on more of the same old abuse of the PC government, where there’s marginal impact now, rather than discussing some real issues that would have much larger impact on swaying voters.

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Egyptian Dictator Hosni Mubarak

The wealth of Hosni Mubarak has been estimated to be somewhere between $40-70 Billion! That’s Billions, not millions. (CBC, via MSNBC)

That’s an unbelievable number! I mean, I knew the guy wasn’t poor, but having that many billions???

Billions is a big of a difficult number to comprehend besides the actual number, so here is some context as to how much wealth that is.

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