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This last week of the year (and decade) has been very enjoyable and relaxing for myself as I’ve just returned home from a visit to my families house in Northwestern Ontario but it appears that it was not the ideal week to check out of blogging. Alot of pretty big news stories these past few days have been unfolding (or continuing to unfold.) In Iran the first week’s anniversary of the death of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri coincided with the Day of Ashura and we saw people from all walks of life (not just the priviledged elite of Tehran) come out and protest what is in essence a military junta leading the country. Closer to home the Prime Minister (ever the tactician) has prorogued parliament for the second year in a row. And overseas, deadly attacks continued apace as yesterday brought the deaths of 4 Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist, as well as the deaths of at least 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan. If only there was some sort of online, published tool that would be ideally suited to unpacking all of this news. Glory, glory, Halleluja there is and it’s called a ‘blog’. I just happen to have one of those. How convenient.

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