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Nearly 100 people sang and danced in a flash mob round dance at West Edmonton Mall on Wednesday afternoon, the latest action in the Idle No More movement.  It’s a short limo drive, maybe five minutes, from Parliament Hill to Victoria Island in the middle of the Ottawa River. Heck, you could walk it in 10. So would it kill Stephen Harper to get out of his office and go meet the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation who is staging a hunger strike on the island to get attention for her community’s plight?Mail Chief Theresa Spence of the remote Attawapiskat First Nation launched her protest with a vow to “die” unless the Conservative government starts showing more respect to First Nations concerns and aboriginal treaties.

Dr. Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the first specifically African-American holiday.The name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning first fruits of the harvest. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, as follows:Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in God, our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Saint Nicholas traditionally appeared in bishop's attire, accompanied by helpers, inquiring about the behaviour of children during the past year before deciding whether they deserved a gift or not. By the 13th century, Saint Nicholas was well known in the Netherlands, and the practice of gift-giving in his name spread to other parts of central and southern Europe. At the Reformation in 16th–17th century Europe, many Protestants changed the gift bringer to the Christ Child or Christkindl, corrupted in English to Kris Kringle, and the date of giving gifts changed from December 6 to Christmas Eve

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event.the Oxford Dictionary.

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more.

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

A gambit (from ancient Italiangambetto, meaning tripping) is a chess opening in which a player, most often White, sacrificesmaterial, usually a pawn,(the American People) with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.

The  fiscal cliff is the chess board.

It is undeniably easy to obtain a firearm in the US, either legally or otherwise. The sheer number of gun-related incidents make it folly to present a case otherwise. However, here is a clearly educated man quoting a Supreme Court decision from 117 years ago to “stand your ground” in the face of provocation. America is paying for this wild west mentality with the lives of its youth. Providing legal and routine access to the means to take another’s life, and to support the right to carry such means through statute, should be regarded as an affront to a civilised society. "America paying price of wild west mentality" Mr David Gowans

Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, who went to Washington at the birth of his state in 1959, dominated public life in the Hawaiian islands for more than 50 years and became a quiet voice of national conscience during the Watergate scandal and the Iran-contra affair, died on Monday in Bethesda, Md. He was 88. New York Times

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event.the Oxford Dictionary.

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows.