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Canada’s present and former Prime Ministers Travel to South Africa

What do Canada's former  and present Prime Ministers discuss on a long plane trip?  Perhaps they compare how long their noses have grown.

What do Canada’s Prime Ministers, [Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney, Stephen Harper], discuss on a long plane trip? Perhaps they compare how long their noses have grown.

“and as I go, I love to sing, my sealskin on my back”

Canada's Environmental Minister, Leona Aglukkaq heads to Moscow for the Circumpolar Nations' conference on Bear Protection.

Canada’s Environmental Minister, Leona Aglukkaq heads to Moscow for the Circumpolar Nations’ conference on Bear Protection.

Resignation is the last card played

Senator Irving Gerstein, Mayor Rob Ford: both refuse to resign.

Senator Irving Gerstein, Mayor Rob Ford: both refuse to resign.

“You won’t be home for Christmas”

Russian President [Grinch] Putin,  tells the 95,000 workers preparing for the Sochi Olympic Winter Games that they will have no Christmas holiday as they will be expected to work straight through to the March 18th Paralympics Opening

Russian President [Grinch] Putin, tells the 95,000 workers preparing for the Sochi Olympic Winter Games that they will have no Christmas holiday as they will be expected to work straight through to the March 18th Paralympics Opening

Flakes and Nuts

London Mayor Boris proclaims that the "cornflakes" with high IQs are bound to rise to the top when you "shake the box"in a lecture at the Thatcher

London Mayor Boris Johnson proclaims that the “cornflakes” with high IQs are bound to rise to the top when you “shake the box”in a “greed is good” themed lecture at the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Policy Studies.

Love of Money: Tax Fraud Games

Jim Love, Canadian Mint Chairman and advisor to the Federal Finance Department and to former Prime Minister Arthur Meighan, helped several wealthy Canadians transfer 8 million dollars to off-shore accounts in a tax-avoidance scheme

Jim Love, Canadian Mint Chairman and advisor to the Federal Finance Department and to former Prime Minister Arthur Meighan, helped several wealthy Canadians transfer 8 million dollars to off-shore accounts in a tax-avoidance scheme

What would JFK do?

50 years later: Whither Democracy?

50 years later: Whither Democracy?

“Weasel Words!”

Opposition Tom Mulclair's response to Prime Minister Harper's evasive answers in Question Period regarding the "robocall" scandal when thousand s of voters received calls directing them the the wrong polling stations. [Weasels everywhere protest the insult]

Opposition Leader Mulcair’s response to Prime Minister Harper’s evasive answers in Question Period regarding the “robocall” scandal in which thousands of voters received calls directing them to the wrong polling stations.
[Weasels everywhere protest the insult]

Rudolph the black-nosed Reindeer: “Leave it in the ground!”

Thousands gather in Canada-wide protests against Alberta Oilsands and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.

Thousands gather in Canada-wide protests against Alberta Oilsands and the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal.