Someone gussied up to look like a giant sunflower stopped Madeleine Albright's limousine dead in its tracks. For that is precisely what is at stake in the Battle of Seattle. As such, it is a criminal conspiracy and must be politely but firmly shut down. Just as the minions of King George III were surprised and routed by the rebels of the Boston Tea Party, so the would-be global economic planners were caught unawares and embarrassed by their own inability to even make it out of their hotel rooms.
Canadian city rejects domestic role for military Thanks, but no tanks.
Winnipeg has refused Ottawa's offer to send in military troops armed with fire extinguishers and water bombers to fight the arson chaos. Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy's offer of the Canadian Army was met with laughter at the Public Safety Building. It's a joke, right. We prefer not to have the army here. We don't need armoured personnel carriers rumbling down the streets of Winnipeg.