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How exactly would a Canadian Watergate work?

Nothing improves confidence like paranoid secrecy

The Conservative government’s detailed plans to slash federal spending may not be revealed until months after the much-anticipated budget expected in the first week of April, CBC News has learned.

So it could be some time before we find out if e.g. their plans for changing public pensions involves grinding the poorer geezers into a nutritious pet food or merely allowing them to starve to death in the streets.

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

For the more elderly out there, Poul Anderson's Terran Empire was just about twice as wide as the volume human radio waves have reached (ignoring issues of fading into simple noise):
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A poll

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A poll

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Inspiration fail

Are there any books (non-fiction or fiction) I should put on my birthday list?

From the misty past of rec.arts.sf.written

The missing section that makes Tom Godwin's "The Cold Equations" make sense:
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