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“We all know that if a dozen people were being laid off in those, or any other plants, it would be headline material. But when a major hiring, or some similar positive event takes place, it rarely gets top billing.”

“Regular readers of this column know that I have an ongoing frustration. It’s the national media’s apparent ‘commitment’ to maximize the negative and minimize the positive.”

“One of the key reasons is that the amount of our national debt is a lot lower than Japan’s (and lower than most other countries’ debt by the way).”

“Talking about gold, the next day the Minister of Finance unveiled about 270 Billion dollars of it in his Budget. Yes, that’s a big number. Here’s what it looks like in bite size pieces.”

“They didn’t expect that this time we had no intention whatsoever to ’share the podium’. We were out to own it.”

“The people of Haiti are going through a whole world of hurt in a human saga of unthinkable agonies. Here’s where Canadians are definitely in first place, in the act of giving.”

“I told a group of people that a couple of days ago. They hadn’t heard. Don’t you find that a bit strange? They hadn’t heard? Not their fault. It just hadn’t been that broadly reported.”