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Getting inside Harper's headspace - Macleans.ca
I asked a source close to Harper (what, you expect these people to have names?) and was promptly and forcefully discouraged in all this talk of a New Year's Throne Speech. “Even at the current clip the government will not be able to get its legislation ...
November 11, 2011


How will we repel an imaginary Russian invasion? - Macleans.ca
The F-35 Lightning will eventually have the ability to communicate with satellites, but the software will not be available in the initial production run, said a senior Lockheed Martin official, who spoke on background. It is expected to be added to the ...
October 24, 2011


Israel alone - Macleans.ca
An Israeli official, who asked not to be named, told Maclean's Israel “is still active behind the scenes, working with the Americans and others to see if it is possible to cut losses, to prevent an even more negative deterioration in the relationship. ...
September 23, 2011


Russian jets could top F-35s: report - Macleans.ca
The story, based on an anonymous source who claims to have seen a presentation to an unnamed NATO country, says the F-35 “would be consistently defeated by the Russian-made SU-35 fighter aircraft.” Canada has already committed to buying $9 billion ...
September 7, 2011


Can RIM recover? - Macleans.ca
... have to do all this marketing and we're the leader in the smartphone segment, so they will just be paying all this money to push us to the top,' ” said an executive of a rival company and a former RIM employee who asked that his name not be used. ...
July 6, 2011


The first major foreign policy challenge of the Baird era - Macleans.ca
“If the two parties are of the view that this is a starting point, that is fine for them,” said the federal official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg appears to have this particular dispute extensively covered.
May 20, 2011


Your tax dollars at work - Macleans.ca
"Well if we can't use ten percenters", a huffy Conservative MP (who of course refused to be named) said, "of course we have to take a taxi to everybody's house to tell them how great we are and how Michael Ignatieff isn'ta Canadian. ...
February 24, 2011


How public health failed - Macleans.ca
But when we sat down and talked in Nairobi, John, who is 32 years old and asked not to be identified by his full name, admitted something astonishing: ...
November 30, 2010


Motion sensors to prevent gay sex? - Macleans.ca
The article cites anecdotal evidence from an anonymous source at the university, who says he was questioned by campus police about gay sex happening in mens ...
October 27, 2010


The Vaughan referendum - Macleans.ca
... and it says a lot about our party that we are able to attract such a strong candidate,†a Conservative spokesperson said, speaking on background. ...
October 22, 2010


What goes on here - Macleans.ca
To quote an anonymous source to malign the GG indirectly is unconscionable. I want Sun TV News to report politics differently in Canada. ...
July 7, 2010


MacKay says navy won't be cut in half - Macleans.ca
However, the National Post reports that navy officers speaking off the record say the orders are already being followed. The letter, which was sent to navy ...
May 14, 2010


Defence minister denies that orders sent out by Vice-Admiral have been implemented - Macleans.ca
However, the National Post reports that navy officers speaking off the record say the orders are already being followed. The letter, which was sent to navy ...
May 14, 2010


McKay says navy won't be cut in half - Macleans.ca
However, the National Post reports that navy officers speaking off the record say the orders are already being followed. The letter, which was sent to navy ...
May 14, 2010


A whale of an idea - Macleans.ca
“Yes, there's a moratorium, but only in concept,” says one close observer, who asked not to be named. “Whaling hasn't ended. This is commercial whaling. ...
May 6, 2010


Disgraced former base commander ends his hunger strike, is said to have ... - Macleans.ca
... Ontatrio courtroom today comes news from an anonymous source the accused murderer is planning to sign a deal with prosecutors and plead guilty to all of ...
April 29, 2010


Boiling the budget down to the number that matters most - Macleans.ca
In a recent budget briefing, a senior government official said therate of growth of transfer payments to provinces for health and education will be ...
March 2, 2010


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