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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 11, 2008
My husband and his partners are depressed. Their honey harvest was a bust. Usually, they can count on their bees to produce at least 250 pounds of honey. This year, they only got a quarter of that.
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 9, 2008
Five weeks ago, this election was about nothing. I liked it that way. The stakes were low, and we could laugh over pooping puffins.Then the U.S. financial system collapsed. The giant bailout didn't seem to help …
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 7, 2008
Stephen Harper's reaction to the world financial meltdown reminds me of a cop at the scene of a monumental crack-up. ''Move it right along, folks. Nothing to see here.''
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 4, 2008
Flipping back and forth between the two political debates the other night, I felt a weird sense of dislocation. Don't these people know what's going on? Stock markets are in turmoil. Banks are failing. The Western …
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 4, 2008
The most sacred shrine in all of Vietnam contains not a single Buddha, incense stick or offering. It is the ugliest shrine in the country. In fact, it doesn't look remotely Vietnamese.
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Oct 2, 2008
I should have learned one thing in life by now. Whenever I start gloating over my piggy bank, the end is nigh.''Honey,'' I said to my husband just a few weeks ago. ''Our RSPs have gone up. Our house has gone up. We're …
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Sep 30, 2008
It's fun to bash Sarah Palin. I should know. I've been doing it for weeks. But nobody has bashed her quite as viciously as a semi-obscure columnist named Heather Mallick.
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Sep 27, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. The situation is under control, and help is on the way. Please remain calm. We will keep you up to date on further developments. Please keep your seatbelts fastened
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Sep 25, 2008
Stephen Harper's got a new enemy in his sights. No, it's not the Taliban, a recession or foreigners who want to claim a piece of our Arctic. It's worse. It's the ivory-tower elites.
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Margaret Wente Columns - Sep 23, 2008
How unpopular is Stephane Dion?He's so unpopular that in a recent poll asking Canadians who they think would make the best prime minister, he got a mere 9 per cent.
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