More than 80,000 people dropped by this blog at least once last month — a thank you to each and every one for your attention — and viewed more than 210,000 pages. Here's a list of the posts that were viewed most often last month (with date of original posting):
- Excuse me for being impertinent but China has no right to be rude to our PM (Thu 03 Dec 2009 12:48 PM EST)
- Chinese premier rebukes Harper: Transcript and audio (Thu 03 Dec 2009 08:15 AM EST)
- Huh? "We cannot allow the pen to be mightier than the sword" (Fri 18 Dec 2009 12:12 AM EST)
- Harper's holiday to-do list? Appoint senators, prorogue Parliament, throne speech, budget, Olympics (Wed 16 Dec 2009 12:52 AM EST)
- Full text: China-Canada Joint Statement (Thu 03 Dec 2009 06:14 AM EST)
- Chinooks and Globemasters: Boeing wins nearly $4 billion from Ottawa (Fri 11 Aug 2006 09:38 PM EDT)
- More anecdotal evidence of Conservative pork barrelling (Wed 16 Dec 2009 02:36 PM EST)
- The 4th Quarter Economic Update at 40,000 feet over Siberia (Wed 02 Dec 2009 09:23 AM EST)
- "Liberty is the better way": Some thoughts on Canada, China and human rights (Tue 01 Dec 2009 04:33 PM EST)
- The cost (tono you and I) of saying goodbye in politics: Nearly $7 million (Mon 14 Dec 2009 06:10 PM EST)
- PMO communications now doing its own audio and video releases (Wed 02 Dec 2009 07:39 PM EST)
- Wheat Board politics: Ritz vs Goodale (Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:50 PM EDT)
- Stephen Harper goes shopping for tea in Shanghai (Sat 05 Dec 2009 08:54 AM EST)
- Afghan detainees and the release of sensitive documents (Thu 10 Dec 2009 09:37 AM EST)
- Senate appointments and proroguing: Some background (Wed 16 Dec 2009 12:12 PM EST)
- Ignatieff: "I’m going to be looking at the unemployment numbers first and deficit second." (Fri 18 Dec 2009 06:12 PM EST)
- $10 million to renovate 24 Sussex? My buddy'll do it for a casino license … (Mon 21 Dec 2009 11:29 AM EST)
- Kick Canada out of the Commonwealth for climate change inaction, greenies urge (Thu 26 Nov 2009 03:29 PM EST)
- Pork barrel politics on Salt Spring Island? (Tue 15 Dec 2009 03:54 PM EST)
- F-35 – Test Flight (Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:07 PM EST)
And now, just for fun, here's the same list from five years ago, for December, 2004. Five years ago, this blog drew about 36,000 unique visitors for the month and served up 57,000 page views. I draw your attention to number two, the five-year anniversary of iTunes in Canada!:
- Air Canada and a new Celine Dion video — right here! (Mon 01 Nov 2004 10:33 PM EST)
- (Finally!) Apple launches iTunes in Canada (Thu 02 Dec 2004 09:16 AM EST)
- CIBC attacks scrapyard operator; Finance Minister launches investigation (Tue 30 Nov 2004 11:08 AM EST)
- New paint for Air Canada's planes (Mon 01 Nov 2004 10:55 PM EST)
- A place to sleep in the sky (Mon 01 Nov 2004 10:58 PM EST)
- Finally!! Airport Extreme and my LinkSys router are talking! (Sat 13 Dec 2003 08:26 AM EST)
- International Donut Wars: Tim Horton's vs Krispy Kreme (Fri 17 Dec 2004 12:15 PM EST)
- Ontario commits major privacy gaffe (Sat 04 Dec 2004 08:40 AM EST)
- Wade Peer (Tue 07 Dec 2004 04:23 PM EST)
- More on FOX News comes to Canada (Thu 18 Nov 2004 03:29 PM EST)
- Who pays for this blog? Some disclaimers (Fri 13 Aug 2004 08:09 AM EDT)
- Sabia on BCE (Wed 15 Dec 2004 08:38 AM EST)
- Yet more errant CIBC faxes, plus TD Bank and Scotia also implicated in privacy breach (Fri 10 Dec 2004 10:44 AM EST)
- [What they said] Apple calculator a bad joke (Tue 10 Aug 2004 07:44 AM EDT)
- Inside Reagan National in Washington (Tue 07 Dec 2004 04:11 PM EST)
- The Canadian Gate at Washington Reagan (Tue 07 Dec 2004 04:08 PM EST)
- No blogging from Olympic village (?) (Sun 08 Aug 2004 08:55 PM EDT)
- CIBC bans faxes; privacy commissioner investigates; more leaks (Mon 29 Nov 2004 04:57 PM EST)
- CIBC CEO updates fax apology (Fri 17 Dec 2004 11:26 AM EST)
- Fitch picks up Toronto's Algorithmics for $175 Million (Fri 17 Dec 2004 11:20 AM EST)
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