It will cost Ontarians $46 billion to whip the province's troubled electricity system into shape to keep lights, air conditioners and factories running for the next 20 years.
On the 153rd anniversary of Confederation, Canada goes through the motions yet again. Under sweltering skies, the prime minister still insists that Canada is "a young country," as he and his untutored predecessors have done since it really was a young country.
Looking back at Canada in 2006. Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan drinking Tim Hortons and getting killed (36 in 2006). Stephen Harper shook hands with a terrorist warlord by accident in March 2006. The Canadian Dollar climbs almost to par and more.
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometres away picked up tremors from it. Over the next few years this ice island will drift into populated shipping routes. George W Bush puts polar bears on endangered species list.
Photos of Stephen Harper (Canada's Prime Minister) shaking hands with terrorist warlord Mullah Naqib in Afghanistan during a state visit. The warlord and his men were behind a suicide blast that injured three Canadian soldiers and killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry, the 59-year-old political director of the local reconstruction team.
The Reform Party of Canada is gone and its been replaced by a penny-pinching Conservative Party that can't even win a majority government and is losing in the polls to the Liberals. Whatever happened to Reform Party? Stephen Harper betrayed them.
