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"News is what (certain) people want to keep hidden. Everything else is just publicity."
— PBS journalist Bill Moyers.
Your support makes it possible for True North to clear the fog of "publicity" — and keep you informed on what's really happening in the world today. Please send your donations to:
Carl Dow, True North, Station E, P.O. Box 4814, Ottawa ON Canada K1S 5H9.
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I have an acquaintance, a late twenties graduate student, who says she will not date anyone who doesn’t watch Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report. “We’d have nothing to talk about,” she says. — 486 words.
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‘Just the facts, ma’am’— 96 words .
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A highly publicized European study published in 2006 said that “100 percent” juices protect against cancer and heart disease as effectively as whole fruits and vegetables. But you're still better off with the real thing, say consultants to Consumer Reports. — 150 words.
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According to the Montreal Gazette the Quebec government has announced that it will be the first province in Canada to introduce a carbon tax on gasoline. — 119 words.
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U.S. refineries have managed to resolve some of their early 2007 production woes, and the more plentiful gasoline supplies again helped drive retail prices lower in California and around the nation in the last week, an Energy Department report showed Monday. — 447 words,
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Some of the reasons why the Chinese stock market continues to defy both gravity and the half-hearted efforts of the government to cool it are normal and obvious. But there is another reason that says a lot about a particularly Chinese situation: the relationship between Communist party power and wealth accumulation. — 801 words.
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Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., for threatening military force against Iran. — 272 words.
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The Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, was bombed for the second time in more than a year on Wednesday, its minarets reduced to rubble. News reports described the mosque as one of the four most-revered Shiite shrines in Iraq. How do the holiest sites in Islam get ranked? — 401 words.
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The Russian government has approved a range of counterterrorism provisions, including one that allows hijacked planes to be shot down without warning. — 230 words.
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‘By declaring that British jobs supersede British laws, Blair gives his countrymen a lesson in cynicism that all the vile hacks of Fleet Street typing nonstop for a century could never match.’ — 881 words.
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Wall Street's investment banks just got another one step closer to making defrauding investors an accepted line of business. And Enron's employees who lost their pensions and the small investors who got fleeced in the Enron frauds just got shafted again - this time at the urging of President George W. Bush. — 870 words.
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Dan Rather isn't being alarmist when he wonders what will happen to a nation addicted to fake news, celebrity gossip and pop-star prattle — when people abandon the very virtue of being informed and instead insist on constant titillation from TV, cable and little gadgets they carry around in their hands. — 1,659 words.
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To disappear became a transitive verb in Latin America. Military dictatorships "disappeared" their opponents. That is to say, they kidnapped, tortured, murdered and disposed of them, leaving only an inconsolable absence in the place of a human being. — 778 words.
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Now they may truly be the most trusted names in news. — 5,194 words.
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Singer Anne Murray of “Snowbird” and “Can I Have This Dance” fame has more Juno Awards than anyone — 25. Add in a couple of Grammys and countless other awards she’s won and you’ve got a lot of hardware.
Trivia compiled by Randy Ray and Mark Kearney. Visit their Web site at: www.triviaguys.com
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Mark Kearney and Randy Ray, prolific writers of Canadian best sellers, have produced a perfect book for the beach blanket season. Entertaining and informative, it will make you feel good about being a Canadian.
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Carl Dow, Editor and Publisher
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