It is so rare that Canada winds up in the news, but we’ve managed to do it a few times in the past few weeks. First up, the Dalai Lama is in Canada, doing the speaking tour thing, which begs the headline, Hello Dalai
The world’s politicians and the public needs to unite to resolve current international problems through a holistic manner that puts global responsibility at the forefront. That was the message of a speech Sunday delivered by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, to thousands of people gathered at the Ottawa Civic Centre.
The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader told the audience that there is a gap between perception and reality. "We have to look at the whole world as part of (ourselves)," he said. "Destruction of a part of the world is the destruction of yourself." (Source: CTV.CA)
Naturally, some diplomats are bent out of shape that China will be upset over Canada welcoming the Dalai Lama and letting him meet our Prime Minister. Note to China: Nobody cares who meets our Prime Minister and half his cabinet has no idea where Tibet is on a map.
(CBC News) Canada’s military exports have more than tripled over the past seven years, a CBC News investigation has learned. Over the past seven years, Canada has exported $3.6 billion in military goods. Canada now exports more arms and military goods than it imports.
The surge in exports has made Canada the sixth-biggest supplier of military goods to the world, according to the most recent report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. The government’s last annual report to Parliament, for 2002, showed that military exports had climbed to $678 million from $304 million in 1997.
But the full extent of Canada’s military exports is hard to track with precision, because for the past four years the federal government has not released annual reports providing detailed information to Parliament.
Canada is #6 on the Arms Exporter List? We’re up there with the US, Russia, China, France and the UK? What the hell happened to India, the Czech Republic, Israel and Germany? Try harder you guys.
(CTV.CA)The Canadian dollar continued to soar Monday reaching 104.69 cents US, a peak not seen in more than 47 years. The gains by the loonie, often considered a ‘petro-currency,’ come as oil prices also reached a new trading high today.
The Canadian dollar has so far gained three-quarters of a U.S. cent since closing Friday. The last time the loonie traded this high was early 1960 — when John Diefenbaker was prime minister. Since the beginning of the year, the loonie has risen more than 18 cents US.
"In the U.S., they are pondering cutting interest rates (this week) and that has a tendency to weaken your currency," BNN’s Michael Kane said Monday.
This must be one of the Seven Signs of the End of Days. Even Canadians are puzzled why our dollar is worth more than the US Dollar. All we have to do is convince our retailers to actually reflect the change in prices they’re paying.
Naturally, the retail monkeys are complaining about having to lower prices to reflect the new economic reality. The nine American tourists in Canada this week are bitching about how much everything costs up here, just like normal.
(CBC.CA)Award-winning research by Ottawa biochemists into technology that makes dark skin fairer is renewing controversy about a type of cosmetic product worth billions in Asian markets. Two graduate students at Carleton University, Pratik Lodha and Eman Ahmed-Muhsin, have been developing Gloriel, a skin-lightening cream based on Nobel Prize-winning gene-silencing technology.
The product won $5,000 as a finalist in the 2007 Student Technology Venture Challenge, an annual business competition for post-secondary students in eastern Ontario and western Quebec.
The research has also been awarded additional funding from Carleton University and the inventors hope to patent it in two years so they can sell the rights to a cosmetic giant such as L’Oreal.
Please tell me that there is someone in another country trying to come up with a skin-darkening cosmetic. I’m tired of being one of millions of average looking white guys with all the power, money and control over the entire free world.
Wouldn’t it be cool to come to work with a blue or green or purple skin? Not as makeup either: I’m talking gene slicing and making my whole body go mottled orange, like 1974-vintage shag rug or avocado green, like a 1972 Frigidaire stove.
Ultimate retro cool without undergoing full-body tattooing? That’s a fashion statement, not this pasty-ass Caucasian crap.
RoadDave 