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This is the human face of this financial crisis. He killed four of his family members before comitting suicide. What was the motive? He lost all his assets very quickly.

Psychologists say that this crisis has a similar effect on an increasing number of persons.

This tragedy puts a human face on this economic downturn. They’re is going to be more of this type of drama in the news. It’s just the beginning. It’s going to be very sad.

I wonder if Mr. Harper heard about this before making his cheap “comments on stock bargains“.

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That’s it folks China is on is way to save our crumbling economy! link

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Posted by Frederic Desjardins in Vancouver

It’s crazy, after weeks of tense anticipation, I sat down in my living room to read about the elections. And by election I mean the Canadian elections , (not the American elections which are, by the way, far more entertaining than our own) and by tense anticipation I mean I was hoping one candidate would accidentally quote Stalin, or perhaps be seen sporting a visible erection. Assuming, of course none, of them suffers from erectile dysfunction. Neither of those things happened (though I am analyzing all the material I can get) because, as it turns out, the election campaign was carefully planned to the letter by operatives on all sides to make sure that, above all, nothing embarrassing would occur. On the Harper side, they figured the best way was to just make sure that virtually no real campaigning and/or occurred, either.

1. Harper doesn’t talk much

Harper called for election saying the Conservatives are better equipped to deal with governing during a downturn. Harper’s depicted himself as a Captain of a boat that will lead us through the storm that is the economic downturn to the shore of prosperity. We are in the F@#$% storm and Captain Harper is mute.

This is the first time I have really paid some attention to those squiggly lines on the independent voter torture table. DARN! The uncommitted voters of Quebec do not like this Stephen Harper character. The only time we’ve seen a real happy response to Harper was when he was talking very generally (and quite well) about his daughter’s piano skills. And then he had to snarl and accuse Dion of “talking down” the economy, and then his own popularity went down . What does it mean?

2. Stephane Dion’s Campaign and Economic Policy are Powered by Some Kind Of Green Shit …ooooops sorry I meant Shift

Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said today that his Green Shift plan featuring a controversial carbon tax is not a major part of his election platform. It’s kind of funny how Liberal pundits or strategists or whatever try incessantly to ease the voter “tax” fear to steal tory votes.

3. Jack Layton still has a moustache … and a … turban!

Seriously, what was up with that super boring Jack Layton guy? He’s suppose to call Harper a Nazi pal, and then Harper was supposed to say “Hey man that is just wrong” and rip off Layton’s moustaches and use them in a salad used to feed Lloyd Robertson on National News, which is precisely how an pro-elite like Harper is supposed to confront a grizzled working class hero in a Town Hall. Instead we got a lot of respectful disagreement, which is dull. Sure, some of the reactions are bad enough. But witness this election’s sad collection of headlines.

4. Alarmist Elizabeth May should resume her environmental activist career

She said, “We are too close to the edge of the global apocalypse,” May said in an interview. “We have got to grab the opportunities we have. And, clearly, the contribution Canadians can make to a global solution is to get rid of Stephen Harper.”

5. Harper drinks pepsi tories’ biker chick Says

It’s not surprising that a hot babe like Julie Couillard, the former girlfriend of the former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier is the talk of our national capital.
Couillard’s new book puts heat on Bernier. Aside revealing to the world that our PM is an avid Pepsi drinker, she’s also revealing that Harper’s best man, Maxime Bernier, asked her “to toss classified NATO briefing notes in the garbage” SHOCKING! That’s a proof that our Tories are not GREEN enough and cannot have a serious environment platform for this election. He should have asked her to put the NATO briefing notes in the recycling bin instead.

The hot babe relives …

“[...] the most momentous times in her life: the happy years spent with Hells Angels sympathizer Gilles Giguère and the cruel aftermath of his 1996 murder; her brief but tumultuous marriage to Stéphane Sirois, a reformed member of the Rockers biker gang, who after their divorce turned police informant; and her close-up view of the corridors of power in the months during which she was romantically linked to Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier.”

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Afghanistan, the economy, and health care. To many voters these are the three biggest issues facing Canada today and Candidate and Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds the exact same positions on these major issues as George W. Bush. An example of this is when in a plagiarized speech Harper supported a Canadian engagement in the war in Iraq, which was proven to be a total failure.

Bush, of course, is one of the most unpopular presidents of all time and many presidential historians claim he is perhaps the biggest failure in White House history. And if elected the Conservatives will just apply the same type of policies as the Bush administration did.

Harper’s in this election is a referendum on George W. Bush. Would Canada really vote for a party that has the same political views as the worst president in the history of the United-States?

We’ll find this out in a few days because that is what Stephen Harper represents. More unneeded wars, more failed economic policies, more overpriced health care that leaves millions of Americans uninsured.

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Gilles Duceppe : 80%
Stéphane Dion : 70%
Stephen Harper : 70%
Jack Layton : 50%
Elizabeth May : 1%

Here is a word about that type of debate. First there is no way to have an intelligent and enlightening debate. Especially when 3 of the party leaders are English speaking.  A debate with 2 or 3 persons that’s good. But when it reaches 4 party leaders it starts to look like a family thanksgiving dinner, absent the turkey. With 5 participants it’s like an attempt to dance the Tango with a group. There is no sensuality.

The Canadian public could learn a lot more if you put each party leader before 3 journalists for an hour. But of course no politician would accept that. They know they would probably lose a lot of credit by taking the risk to look like Sarah Palin in her last interview. That does not happen in a debate with 5 participants. Because in such a debate, the game is not about winning, it’s about not losing.

Elizabeth May Was a Disturbance

Let’s start with Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green party. It was a shame, an authentic shame. She does not speak French at all. She just memorized some French lines.

Her French is like my Spanish and I would not have my place in a Mexican debate. She has not her place in a French debate. Furthermore, Dion beat her on the Environment issue, which is by the way the reason why her party exists.

The worst thing is that she was slowing down the conversation with her interventions in a language that sounded like French and that no one understood.

May is an activist not a politician. Dion knew how to articulate his ideas in a realistic political frame. Elizabeth May is Captain Watson (Greenpeace) dress as a woman. By the way she was poorly dressed.

Surprise!

Stephane Dion is boring but he knows what he is talking about. His Ministerial experience helped him last night. Whether he spoke about the Afghan war or the  Environment he was making sense. I think he scored some points last night. But today he has to start campaigning again and that is when he screws things up!

Duceppe is overcoming a big challenge in this political era. We are in an era in which leaders are promising goodies such as tax deductions on a new pool filter and GST reduction. The Bloc Quebecois has nothing to offer except his indignation and his promises to follow on the heels of the government. And it works. Last night we almost forgot that his impact over states affairs is minimal. He successfully dodged Harper’s attack on the “Quebec Nation” resolution.

Harper’s was not showing any emotion under attack. He did not feel an urgency to respond when he was attacked. Impossible to make him lose his cool. Duceppe tried many times but it was unsuccessful.

I do not feel anything about Layton. He loses is flavor in French.

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