Posts Tagged ‘Canada’

‘Open Wide!’ exhibit displays toys kids have cut their teeth on

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By Alexis Korman If your kids need some help remembering to brush their teeth, maybe you can find inspiration in the classics.We’re talking real classics — like a Barbie Dentist behind glass and a Hopalong Cassidy cowboy toothbrush. An exhibit at the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore features these and about 50 other “toothy [...]

Canada has ‘Alice In Wonderland’ attitude on terrorism: Wikileaks

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Public Relations and Communications Firm With No Boundaries By Mitch Potter – Canadians have an “Alice In Wonderland” attitude toward global terrorism, the former head of Canada’s spy service told a U.S. counterpart in 2008, according to a secret American memo disclosed Monday. Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director Jim Judd is also quoted as saying [...]

G20 leaders pledge to slash deficits

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The Group of 20 will adopt deficit- and debt-cutting targets proposed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper but allow governments to attack their fiscal gaps as their own economic dynamics dictate. G20 leaders pledge to “take all necessary steps … fully within agreed timelines,” according to a leaked draft of the summit communiqué. “Measures will need [...]