Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA

Dion said his party's platform could be summed up in six simple words: cut income taxes, shift to pollution. He challenged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to use the same number of words to summarize his climate change plan. Dion then said maybe Harper could do it in 10 words or, if not with that number, 30.

"I will help him in two words: no plan," Dion said receiving laughter and applause from the crowd.

Chuckling himself, Dion said, "Yes, I laugh at the beginning of this campaign. The fun is in the Liberal party. The party is back in the Liberal party."

The Great Gadfly - News - Nashville Scenepage 1

But Johnson's greatest claim to fame was uncovering Al Gore's electric bills, revealing that the global warming warrior wastes a lot of kilowatts at his Belle Meade mansion. The day that press release went out, the center's website was inundated with 2 million hits. Johnson and Seibert did 120 radio interviews and 12 on national TV. Johnson then teamed up with another gang of wiseacres to sail a hot-air balloon over Gore's house.

Canadians buy record number of U.S. homes (but won't they all get heat stroke, kidney stones, malaria, dengue fever, poison ivy rashes, etc etc?)

The combination of three factors prompted twice as many Canadians to purchase a residence south of the border in the 12 months ending May 2008, when compared to the previous 12 months: (1) a stronger Canadian dollar versus the U.S. currency; (2) a drop in U.S. house prices; and (3) last winter’s record snowfall.
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Seeking sun, sand and sea, Canadians bought an estimated 7,200 homes in Florida between June 2007 and May 2008, more than double the 3,500 homes they purchased in the previous 12 months.

After Florida, Arizona was the next favourite home-buying locale for Canadians. In 2007-2008, Canadians acquired an estimated 752 homes in the Grand Canyon State, almost twice the number they purchased in 2006-2007.
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However, over the longer term, an increasing number of retiring baby-boomers seeking relief from the winter chill will ensure that Canadians continue to be major foreign buyers of U.S. residential property for the foreseeable future.