Canadian Social Research Newsletter
December 21, 2008
Welcome to the weekly Canadian Social Research Newsletter,
a listing of the new links added to the Canadian Social Research
Links website in the past week.
The e-mail version of this week's
issue of the newsletter is going out to 1941 subscribers.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Canadian content
1. Advancing the
Inclusion of People with Disabilities (Human Resources and Skills
Development Canada) - December 2008
2. Welfare Incomes report is a "blunt message
about welfare" (Toronto Star) - December 19
3. Federal Budget 2009 Consultations PART DEUX (Finance Canada) -
December 11
4. [Ontario] An End to the
Countdown: The Beginning of a 25 in 5 Poverty Reduction Strategy (Social Planning Network of Ontario)
- December 16
5. What's New in The Daily (Statistics Canada):
--- Consumer Price Index, November 2008 - December 19
--- Canada's population estimates, third quarter 2008 -
December 19
--- Employment Insurance, October 2008 - December 19
--- National balance sheet accounts, third quarter 2008 -
December 16
--- Juristat - December 2008 - December 15
6. Social Policy in Ontario (SPON) -
Laurentian University
7. What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research
Unit (Toronto) - December 19
International content
8. Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social
issues and programs (Institute for Research on Poverty - University of
Wisconsin-Madison)
9. [U.S.] Welfare Rolls See First Climb in Years (Washington Post) - December 17
10. Australian Policy Online Weekly Briefing -
selected recent content:
--- Who is missing out? Hardship among low income Australians -
Posted 18-12-2008
--- Families in Australia: 2008 - Posted 17-12-2008
--- National disability discussion paper - Posted 15-12-2008
11. CRINMAIL (December 2008) - (Child Rights Information Network - CRIN)
---
EXTRA:
FIREFOX 3.0.5 CRASH - December 20
Have a great week!
Gilles Séguin
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1. Advancing the
Inclusion of People with Disabilities - December 2008 |
Advancing the Inclusion of People with Disabilities
December 2008
Table of Contents (incl. links to individual chapters)
Chapter 1: Human Rights, the Justice System and Canada’s International
Leadership
Chapter 2: Accessibility and Disability Supports
Chapter 3: Income Support, Benefits and Service Delivery
Chapter 4: Learning, Skills and Employment
Chapter 5: Well-Being: Health, Safety and Identity
Chapter 6: Aboriginal People with Disabilities
Chapter 7: Research
Chapter 8: Tax Measures
Appendix A – Principal Disability-Related Benefits and Programs for
2006/07 and 2007/08 Fiscal Years
Appendix B – Acronyms Used in this Report
Index by Department/Program
Index by Topic
Endnotes
Complete report:
2008
Federal Disability Report (PDF - 3.2MB, 144 pages)
December 2008
Source:
Human Resources and
Skills Development Canada
NOTE: the name of the Dept. is officially "...and Skills Development". (See the Minister's title
and profile), but the website still says "...and Social
Development". The site will be updated "soon", I'm sure --- likely just
in time for the *next* Cabinet shakeup or the next election.
- Go to the Disability Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/disbkmrk.htm
- Go to the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/hrsdc.htm
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2. Welfare Incomes report
is a "blunt message about welfare" - December 19 |
Blunt message about welfare
December 19, 2008
By Carol Goar
They don't go in for euphemisms at the National Welfare Council, a
panel of 16 citizens appointed by the government to speak for poor
Canadians. They use the term "poverty line," despite attempts by
federal statisticians to substitute anodyne phrases such as "low income
measure." They use the word "welfare," despite attempts by provincial
bureaucrats to replace it with gentler phrases such as "social
assistance" or "income support." Their message is blunt. Canada strips
welfare recipients of so much – their pride, their privacy, their
savings, their ability to provide basic necessities for their children
– that many will never escape poverty. (...) The central thrust of the
report – a point the council made to Brian Mulroney seven times; Jean
Chrétien 10 times; Paul Martin once and Stephen Harper once
before – is that welfare, Canada's safety net of last resort, doesn't
provide a basic subsistence income.
Source:
Toronto Star
Related link:
Welfare
Incomes, 2006 and 2007
- table of contents with links to smaller PDF files for each chapter
Source:
National
Council of Welfare
- Go to the Key Provincial/Territorial Welfare Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/welfare.htm
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3. Federal Budget 2009
Consultations PART DEUX - December 11 |
Ottawa, December 11, 2008
Government
Launches National Consultation on Budget Actions to Protect Canada’s
Economy
Related documents:
Federal
Budget 2009 Consultations PART DEUX*
December 11, 2008
"The following ideas have been proposed as ways of providing stimulus
in Budget 2009. Please rank them according to the priority they should
have in the Government’s plan. If you’ve got another idea, rank that
one as well. You will have the opportunity to spell out your ideas on
the next screen."
Here are the six ideas you are asked to rank:
* Expedite Infrastructure Spending
* Invest in Housing
* Build strong sustainable labour markets and training incentives
* Support traditional and emerging industrial sectors
* Improve Access to Credit
* Your Idea: If you believe Budget 2009 should have a different
stimulus priority, assign a ranking to this box. You will be able to
explain this priority on the next screen
Fiscal
Stimulus - Budget 2009 Consultations
Powerpoint-type presentation
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
<*Begin government consultation
supporter rant.>
December 20, 2008
Hey, Finance Canada website team ---
here's a tip to make it easier for ordinary Canadians to participate in
your pre-budget consultations:
QUIT CHANGING THE FRIKKIN' URL FOR THE CONSULTATIONS PAGE!!
On December 11, when Finance Canada
launched its pre-budget consultation, the link was called:
Online Pre-Budget Consultations for Budget 2009
(I copied the link name and URL directly from the Finance Canada
website)
Today (December 19), I received a friendly email from a visitor to my
site to inform me that "my" link to the federal pre-budget
consultation website was broken.
I clicked the link to see for myself (as you can, by clicking the link
above) --- the click took me to a Finance Canada error page with two
options : the Finance Dept. website search engine and the sitemap of
the departmental website .
I selected the Finance
Canada search engine option, entered "2009 budget consultation" in
the search box and hit "Search Now". On the results page, I had to
scroll down to the 14th link to find the "Fiscal Stimulus"
presentation, and there was no other link (among the "best 63
results") to the 2009 budget consultation. PLEASE Fix your search
engine so that it returns relevant results.
The sitemap
of Finance Canada's website is the second option offered on the
error page, and it's about as useful as the search engine. It offers
links to federal budgets for 2005 to 2008 - not one word about the 2009
budget consultations.
Bottom Line:
If you *must* change your URLs after you've sent out emails to everyone
on your list (which is not very swift in the first place), don't give
people two options that are equally useless. Either TEST the options to
ensure that they lead visitors to the correct information, or just tell
people in your error message that they should start from the home page of the departmental
website, where there is a clear link to the 2009 budget
consultation page.
</End government consultation supporter rant.>
Source:
Department of Finance Canada
- Go to the Canadian Government Budgets Links
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Agriculture to
Finance) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk.htm
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4.
[Ontario] An End to the
Countdown: The Beginning of a 25 in 5 Poverty Reduction Strategy - December 16 |
Ontario:
An End to the Countdown: The Beginning of a 25 in 5 Poverty
Reduction Strategy
December 16, 2008
1. Ontario turns corner on more than a decade of
poor bashing, says Pat Capponi
2. Poverty Plan Lays Foundation for Action, Budget investments must be
next step
3. TAKE ACTION: Investments key in the 2009 Ontario budget
4. Regulating Temp Agencies - Good News for Temp Workers, says Workers
Action Centre
5. Hardship of welfare getting harder, Ontario’s welfare incomes
falling behind
6. Red letter day for poverty reduction: selected media and partner
links
7. Thank you: More than 1,500 endorse 25 in 5 Declaration for Poverty
Reduction
Source:
Social Planning Network of Ontario
- Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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5. What's New in The Daily
(Statistics Canada): |
What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
December 19, 2008
Consumer
Price Index, November 2008
Consumer prices rose 2.0% in the 12 months to November 2008, down from
the 2.6% increase recorded in October. On a seasonally adjusted monthly
basis, consumer prices fell 0.3% from October to November.
[ The
Consumer Price Index November 2008 - complete report ]
December 19, 2008
Canada's
population estimates, third quarter 2008
Canada's population grew by 0.39% in the third quarter of 2008, its
highest quarterly growth rate since 1990. Population growth remained
faster in the western part of the country.
[ Quarterly
Demographic Estimates July to September 2008 - report ]
December 19, 2008
Employment
Insurance, October 2008
- includes two tables : * Employment Insurance statistics * Number of
beneficiaries receiving regular benefits
December 16, 2008
National
balance sheet accounts, third quarter 2008
Canadian stock prices fell significantly during the third quarter of
2008, resulting in a 3.2% drop in household net worth, equivalent to a
decline of $191 billion.
December 15, 2008
Juristat
- December 2008
The December issue of Juristat contains four articles.
* The changing profile of adults in custody * Motor vehicle theft in
Canada, 2007 * Private security and public policing * An international
perspective on criminal victimization
[ direct
link to Dec/08 issue of Juristat ]
The Daily Archives - select a month from the drop-down menu to view releases for that month in chronological order
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
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6. Social Policy
in Ontario (SPON) |
Social Policy in
Ontario (SPON)
This site is designed as a tool for public reporting about social
programs in Ontario. Initiated with the help of SSHRC funding, and
support from the Ontario Social Development Council, the Online Guide
to Social Policy in Ontario combines the resources of faculty and
students at Laurentian University to generate a 'macro' view of the
human service system. It is intended to facilitate access to
information and analysis, and to encourage debate about the adequacy of
social programs in Ontario.
NOTE : click the "Policy Sectors" links in the left column of the SPON
home page for links to resources in the following areas:
* Child & Family * Education * Employment * Equality * Health *
Participation * Social Security * Standard of Living
- includes links to Provincial Social Planning Councils and
Organizations in Ontario and to other social planning and research
links (national/international).
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental Sites (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk3.htm
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7. What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (Toronto) - December 19 |
From the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU):
December 19, 2008
Open
letter to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of
Canada;
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition; and Jack Layton, Leader of
the New Democratic Party
17 Dec 08
- Open letter from a group of prominent Canadians in response to the
UNICEF Report Card on ECEC.
The
new federal Liberal leader on early childhood education and care
17 Dec 08
- A selection of quotes from Michael Ignatieff about child care, human
rights, and federal policy.
Expanding
early childhood education and care programming:
Highlights of a literature review, and public policy implications for
British Columbia
17 Dec 08
- Report by HELP for the BC government says research suggests BC should
invest more public funds into accessible, high quality ECEC programs.
Child
care and the economic crisis
17 Dec 08
- Setting the Record Straight #6 from the BC Child Care Advocacy Forum
addresses why child care should be considered vital to any economic
stimulus package.
The
impact of global migration on the education of young children
17 Dec 08
- Policy brief from UNESCO focusing on issues related to the effects of
global migration on the education of young migrants.
more
WHAT'S NEW ONLINE »
child care in the news
· Getting
better child care: It’s the policy, stupid [CA]
18 Dec 08
· Merry
Xmas, your child's care centre is up for sale [NZ]
18 Dec 08
· Budget
support linked to housing, child care: Layton [CA]
17 Dec 08
· Obama
pledge stirs hope in early education [US]
16 Dec 08
· UN
daycare wake-up call [CA]
12 Dec 08
·
Canada tied for last in UNICEF child care ranking [CA]
11 Dec 08
· Prime
the pump with education spending [US]
26 Nov 08
more
CC IN THE NEWS »
Related Links:
Subscribe
to the CRRU email announcements list
Sign up to receive email notices of updates and new postings on
the CRRU website which will inform you of policy developments in early
childhood care and education, new research and resources for policy,
newly released CRRU publications, and upcoming events of interest to
the child care and broader community.
Links to child care sites in Canada and elsewhere
CRRU Publications
- briefing notes, factsheets, occasional papers and other publications
ISSUE files
- theme pages, each filled with contextual information and links to
further info
Source:
Childcare Resource and
Research Unit (CRRU)
- Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
| 8. Poverty
Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs (Institute for Research on Poverty - University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Poverty
Dispatch (U.S). ===> the content of this link
changes twice a week
IRP compiles and distributes Poverty Dispatches twice a week. Each
issue of the dispatch provides links to U.S. web-based news items
dealing with topics such as poverty, welfare reform, child welfare,
education, health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.
Each Dispatch lists links to current news in popular print media.
December
18, 2008
* Increased TANF Enrollment
* Trends in Poverty Rates
* Homelessness and Housing
* Housing Subsidies - Washington, D.C.
* Medicaid Coverage, Costs, and Funding
* Healthy Families Program - California
* Food Assistance Programs
* Home Energy Assistance Programs
* Report: Basic Needs - Rhode Island
* Home Foreclosures and Renters
* The Economy and State Budgets
* Commentary: Poverty Measurement
* Opinions: TANF Assistance Amounts - New York, Illinois
December
15, 2008
* Unemployment and Joblessness
* States and Medicaid Funding
* Homelessness and Housing
* Food Assistance Programs and Increasing Need
* Kids Count Report - Texas
* Children and Families Post-Hurricane Katrina
* Home Foreclosures and Renters
* State and Local Budget Cuts
* The Uninsured and Emergency Room Use
* Access to Bank Accounts - California
* Access to Higher Education
Past
Poverty Dispatches
- links to two dispatches a week back to June 2006
If you wish to receive Poverty Dispatches by e-mail,
please send a request to rsnell@ssc.wisc.edu
Source:
Institute for Research on Poverty
(IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison ]
- Go to the Links to American Government
Social Research page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (A-J)
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us2.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (M-Z)
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us3.htm
- Go to the Poverty Measures - International Resources page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/poverty2.htm
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9. [U.S.] Welfare Rolls See First Climb in Years -
December 17 |
[U.S.] Welfare Rolls See First
Climb in Years
Job Losses Bring Applicants From Middle Class, Test New Focus on
Finding Work
December 17, 2008
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- For the first time since welfare was redefined a
dozen years ago, weaning millions of poor Americans from monthly
government checks, the deteriorating economy is causing a surge in
welfare rolls in a growing number of states. The swelling caseloads
pose the first hard test of the premise behind transforming the old
system of welfare, once considered an open-ended right, into a finite
program built to provide short-term cash assistance and steer people
quickly into jobs. (...) With the welfare law scheduled to be renewed
in 2010, the Democratic majorities in Congress almost certainly will
rethink whether the program should put more emphasis on education and
child care and less on quickly finding a job, the experts say.
Source:
Washington Post
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (M-Z) Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us3.htm
| 10. Australian
Policy Online Weekly Briefing - selected recent content: --- Who is missing out? Hardship among low income Australians - Posted 18-12-2008 --- Families in Australia: 2008 - Posted 17-12-2008 --- National disability discussion paper - Posted 15-12-2008 |
APO Weekly Briefing
The content of this page changes each week, and it includes links to a
few book/report reviews, about two dozen new reports, a few job ads and
60 events (mostly conferences) of interest to social researchers...
Source:
Australian Policy Online (APO)
- home page
With nearly 120 member centres and institutes, Australian Policy Online
offers easy access to much of the best Australian social, economic,
cultural and political research available online.
NOTE: the APO home page includes links to the five most popular reports
on the APO website, and this list is updated each week.
Recent APO Weekly Briefing content:
Who
is missing out? Hardship among low income Australians
Posted 18-12-2008
Peter Davidson / Australian Council
of Social Service
New research from ACOSS shows many low income Australians go without
the basic necessities like a decent and secure home, access to dental
treatment and new schoolbooks and clothes for their children.
Families
in Australia: 2008
Posted 17-12-2008
Office of Work and Family, Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
This report provides a summary of the key issues and trends facing
Australian families. It examines a selection of key topics, including
fertility, caring responsibilities, economic wellbeing of families,
health of family relationships and how Australians are balancing work
and family responsibilities.
National
disability discussion paper
Posted 15-12-2008
Consumers' Telecommunications Network
(Australia)
The issue of accessibility, affordability and equality of access to
telecommunications technology and services impacts daily on the lives
of people with disabilities.
APO Archive
The APO archive is grouped into 23 subject areas, with entries
appearing in reverse chronological order.
* Ageing *Asia and the pacific * Citizenship and the law * Disability *
Economics and trade * Education * Employment and workplace relations *
The environment * Foreign policy and defence * Gender and sexuality *
Health * Housing * Families and households * Immigration and refugees *
Income, poverty and wealth * Indigenous * Media, communications and
cultural policy * Politics and government * Population,
multiculturalism and ethnicity * Religion and faith * Rural and
regional * Science and technology * Social policy * Urban and regional
planning * Youth
- Go to the Social Research Links in Other Countries (Non-Government) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/internatngo.htm
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11. CRINMAIL - December 2008 |
From the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN):
18
December 2008 - CRINMAIL 1043
* EUROPEAN UNION: Secure legal protection from age discrimination
for children - lobby your government now! [news]
* CHILD RIGHTS: Committee election results [news]
* DARFUR: Abductions, Sexual Slavery and Forced Labour [publication]
* SRI LANKA: Forced child conscription stepped up [news]
* DR CONGO: Protect Children From Rape and Recruitment [news]
* ARGENTINA: Relaf child rights seminar [event]
* AWARD: Brazilian wins children's peace prize [news]
16
December 2008 - CRINMAIL 1042
* KENYA: A Question of Life or Death - Treatment Access for
Children Living With HIV in Kenya [publication]
* INDIA: Right to education bill introduced [news]
* LEBANON: Citizenship rules lead children to jail [news]
* FRANCE: Report on young offenders spurs controversy [news]
* EXPLOITATION: Vatican to be sued over sex abuse claims [news]
* UNITED KINGDOM: Government misses opportunity to protect children in
custody [news]
* EMPLOYMENT: Save the Children Finland
**NEWS IN BRIEF**
Earlier
issues of CRINMAIL
- links to 300+ earlier weekly issues, many of which are special
editions focusing on special themes, such as the 45th Session of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights
of the Child.
Source:
CRINMAIL(incl. subscription
info)
[ Child Rights Information
Network (CRIN) ]
- Go to the Children's Rights Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnrights.htm
Depends on your point of view...
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* FIREFOX 3.0.5 CRASH - December 20 |
* FIREFOX 3.0.5 CRASH - December 20
NOTE : see the December 21 update below.
On December 20, I discovered that my Firefox browser wouldn't open - it
kept crashing when I'd click on the icon to start the browser.
I searched the Firefox forums to see what was going down, and I ended
up downgrading to version 3.0.4 just so I could keep using my primary
browser until Firebox fixed the problem. That appears to be the case as
I write this on Sunday morning. However, I've decided to leave my
original December 20 blurb about the situation as is, below, in case
someone is still having a Firefox problem.
December 20:
If your Firefox browser is suddenly crashing
instead of opening, welcome to the club!
The latest version of Firefox (3.0.5) has some sort of firewall-related
flaw that makes it crash or hang up on many machines. If you're
thinking, "But it worked fine yesterday!", you may not be aware that
Firefox is set by default to check for and automatically install
updates and upgrades all by itself.
For the "official fix" from Firefox, see:
Cannot
connect after upgrading Firefox"- from the Firefox
Knowledge Base
As I see it, you have three viable options:
1. change your computer's firewall settings as instructed in the link
above (if you have admin rights on your machine)
[Bonne chance!]
2. Use Internet Explorer until Firefox is patched/upgraded/debugged.
[Yuck.]
3. "Retrograde" your Firefox browser to version 3.0.4 - follow this
link to the Firefox Support Forum
thread that tells you how to do it (on page 4 of the thread.). I
did, and my browser is totally stable (i.e., my bookmarks, cookies and
preferences are all intact) with version 3.0.4.
Oh yeah - here's a FOURTH option:
Switch to Google Chrome.
[Personally, I'm getting pretty frustrated with the latest Firefox
upgrades - it's now taking over 30 seconds to open on my computer, and
it uses up such a large chunk of my system resources (RAM) that I'm
just about ready to jump over to Chrome for good.]
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Dec. 21 update: FIXED!
Firefox
appears to have resolved the issue. I've just downloaded version 3.0.5
again and everything is working as it
shouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshouldasitshould.
(:-)
If you're running Firefox on a Mac, you must be using the latest
version of Mac OS as your operating system or else Firefox 3.0.5 can
cause problems (or so I read in the Firefox Forum).
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Ottawa's Finest?
As a rule, I don't post links to local issues on my
site and in my newsletter because I'd quickly be swamped with requests
to link to special local causes from all over Canada.
Sometimes, however, I have to break the rules, even my own.
Even it if doesn't have anything apparently related to Canadian social
policy issues.
Yesterday (Dec. 15) afternoon, My friend Zoom was
"asked" to delete the photos she'd just taken of 3-4 Ottawa police
officers standing over an unconscious, bloodied, handcuffed woman on
Bank Street in Ottawa. They were waiting for an ambulance to take the
woman away, and Zoom heard a few bystanders speaking about the
excessive force that one of the officers had apparently used to bring
the small woman down to the sidewalk, so she (Z.) snapped a few photos
of the scene for her blog. Upon
noticing the camera, one of the officers came over to her and
aggressively demanded that she not only stop taking photos, but also
that she delete those she'd taken, because “I work undercover and I
don’t want my picture anywhere.”
She refused.
My two reasons for doing this:
1. I support Citizen
journalism.
* Good on you, Zoom!
2. I want to share what I just learned about
My/Your
rights as a Canadian photographer
December 18, 2008
Bank Street Bully Update -
from Zoom
Police
wanted photos erased, blogger claims
By Neco Cockburn
December 17, 2008
Source:
Ottawa Citizen
Bank Street Bully (Zoom's
original post (Dec. 15)
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And, in closing...
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Season's Greetings from Me
to Thee!
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/XMAS/noel.htm
My second-favourite version
of White Christmas (after Bing Crosby) - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA