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The United States is having a devil of a time honouring its heroes these days. Just six months ago a monument to Martin Luther King was unveiled on the Washington Mall amid concern that its size and attitude — a 30-foot, scowling King emerging from a giant block of granite– didn’t capture the real spirit ...
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Here’s a story about abortion and the Liberal party, reported by the Canadian Press. The story itself is only marginally interesting, the bias it displays more so. Here’s how it starts: Some federal Liberals fear single-issue pro-lifers are trying to hijack their weakened party. Their fears have been stoked by the apparent re-emergence of ...
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When Sheila Nabb was viciously beaten while vacationing at a luxury Mexican resort, we were treated to a campaign of reassurance about what a great place it is. Two million Canadians vacation there every year, and relatively few of them end up dead or beaten to a pulp. The crime rate is worse in other ...
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One of Iran’s seemingly endless supply of semi-hysterical government leaders made a threat the other day about the price of oil. The European Union (EU) embargo on oil imports from Iran may push world oil prices to $150 per barrel, the head of Iran’s state oil company has said. “It seems that we will witness ...
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If it was possible to measure the surreal, I suspect we’d find there had been a record output of the stuff ever since the Canadian Medical Association raised the issue of sex selection as it relates to abortion. The arguments since have been fast and furious. What’s remarkable is how they keep to the perimeter ...
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The Toronto Star has a secret memo from two big labour unions in which they concede they could go the way of the dinosaurs unless they reinvent themselves. The paper, titled “A Moment of Truth for Canadian Labour,” says the economic pressures of globalization, growing employer aggression, hostile government policy and public cynicism have weakened ...
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Whatever the knock on Dalton McGuinty, no one can deny the man’s an optimist. The centre of Canadian gravity may be shifting west so fast that Preston Manning is worried about “eastern alienation.” Don Drummond, the man appointed by Mr. McGuinty to suss out ways to improve the economy has delivered a report suggesting radical ...
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I got an email from Nycole Turmel the other day. It was timely, because I’d been wondering what she does with herself these days. Keep your eye on the usual Canadian politics sites and you see Bob Rae this and Bob Rae that; Harper ruins Canada and Harper ruins Canada some more; but you don’t ...
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“@TonyclementCPC: Coach's Corner gave me a lot to think about tonite…” Tonight* …if you can't spell how can you run Canada's treasury?— Keith Pettinger (@KeithPettinger) January 08, 2012 After years as a political geek, I am finally beginning to understand the reason politicians often travel with aides tasked with slapping their hand over the politico’s ...
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The new divide opened up by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his take-it-or-leave-it deal on healthcare funding is reflected in the reaction of two Saskatchewan politicians: former premier Roy Romanow, and current premier Brad Wall. Mr. Romanow, an old school politician who headed a royal commission into healthcare in 2002, thinks it’s potentially dangerous to ...
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