Tag Archives: Canada

SOTD

By m3t00 | Published: 09-02-13
Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek (“Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” 7 Feb ’09): Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1—compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1 and European banks at a frightening 61 to 1. (drum)
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O really?

By m3t00 | Published: 08-09-26
“Olympic Mottoes Borrow Lines from O Canada,” CBC, 25 Sep ’08: Two phrases borrowed from Canada’s national anthem have been chosen as the mottoes for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and organizers have already moved to protect the commercial rights to the lines. The lines “With glowing hearts” from the English version and [...]
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The Future

By m3t00 | Published: 08-07-06
School officials who report suspected sexual abuse of a child based on a psychic‘s claim to an educational assistant that “a little girl by the name of ‘V’ … is being sexually abused by a man between the ages of 23 and 26” versus a mother who, “dissatisfied with the treatment her daughter had received [...]
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