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Bill C-3 is sexist, racist, and fatally flawed
Bill C-3 was introduced by the Conservatives on March 11, 2010, ostensibly to “fix” the sex discrimination in the status registration provisions of the Indian Act pursuant to the BC Court of Appeal decision in the November 2009 McIvor case, which held that the status provisions of the Indian Act violate the equality guarantees of the Charter. If it is passed, Canada will continue to discriminate against Aboriginal women in legislation.
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Are Aboriginal women and women of colour benchwarmers?
Years ago Mohawk woman Kahentinetha Horn was to be a secondary speaker to a keynote named AngryArab. Little did organizers know that Horn does not believe in being second to anyone, she stole the show.
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Rebuttal to CJC attacks on Independent Jewish Voices and Diana Ralph
The National Post published seven prominent articles defaming me and Independent Jewish Voices, between September 17 and 30. Now that these malicious allegations are resurfacing to undermine IJV’s and my own credibility, it is time to set the record straight.
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Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues
On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh.
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The Debt that Obama and Clinton Owe to the Haitian Poor
Under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson, who would subsequently be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the United States pursued the established policy of “stabilizing” the Caribbean under American control. In 1912, since neither Wilson nor his Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, knew anything about Haiti, they asked John H Allen, the American manager of the Banque nationale in Port-au-Prince, to brief them. Bryan’s reaction to Allen’s description of Haiti was, “Dear me, think of it! Niggers speaking French.”
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Universal disorientation
Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17), and you’d swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief workers must be risking their necks just to venture out into the streets…
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Hypocrisy Over Haiti
Much like the ‘dog that didn’t bark’ in the famed Sherlock Holmes’ story, the conspicuous media silence surrounding Haiti’s political past points straight to the heart of the mystery of Haiti’s shocking poverty. Unlocking, then, the rich, if tragic, chest of Haiti’s past is a necessary prerequisite if we have any pretensions to helping Haiti in the future.
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Canwest latest ‘media giant’ to exploit news operations
The long-anticipated collapse of the Asper family’s Canwest Global media empire — which included 11 daily newspapers, the Global TV network of 11 stations, 13 specialty TV channels and more than 80 websites — in October 2009 was the latest development in the shameful history of corporate-owned media in Canada.
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The wrongs of the immigration system!
Some believe that the Canadian immigration system is fair and generous. It isn’t. And Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney are swiftly making it even worse.
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CSI: Honduras
It’s now been just over six months since the new US Administration took office, enough time for the underlying ruse to have become crystal clear. In place of the old Bush-era bellicose vocabulary has been substituted the soothing rhetoric of conciliation, this whilst the actual substance of America’s foreign and domestic policies have been altered not one iota. Not one atom
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