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Canadian Nightmare: Fox News North
If things go according to right-wing Quebec millionaire Pierre Peladeau’s plans the Republicanization of Canada will, in the near future, take another giant leap. Peladeau is planning to launch an all news channel which has been dubbed ‘Fox news north.’
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Jack Layton’s leadership test
Today, Tuesday June 15, is a day the NDP‘s Jack Layton will face a leadership test. He is poised to make a decision to punish one of his MPs and it could stain his leadership for a long time to come.
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Fire the Managers
Where are the leaders? Canadians, I think, are desperately looking for someone who can demonstrate that they have done some serious and thoughtful thinking about what kind of country we want to build. But political leadership of that kind seems to be a thing of the past.
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Human rights—1; Christian right—0
A Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision on Friday reinforced the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms just as Stephen Harper is doing his best to erase the whole notion from the political map.
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Let the (coalition) games begin
After falling in the polls for weeks the leader of the Liberal Party seems finally to have received a reality check about his and his party’s future. He is actually talking about the possibility of a coalition. Mind you, it took a rumour of a merger of the parties to get things really out there.
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A response to the Bankers’ Association
When is a bank bail-out not a bailout? When the Canadian bankers’ Association President, Nancy Hughes Anthony says so. In her letter to the Vancouver Sun (which published my blog on the issue) Hughes Anthony points out that not a single bank went bankrupt and therefore did not require a bail out.
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Why Israeli soldiers shot the activists
A friend of mine — not as preoccupied with the history of Israel and Palestine as I am — asked me why the Israelis soldiers opened fire with deadly force, killing 9 and wounding at least 30. The answer is as simple as it is disturbing.
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Israeli murder on the high seas
More people murdered by Israel. It is so commonplace now that hearing it takes you to the place you were the last time you heard of such an outrage. And you know that there will be no justice. The impunity and the casual excuses for the action follow on like night follows day — with a terrible certainty.
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Do Harper Conservatives hate women?
The alarm being expressed around the world about Canada’s stunning decision to exclude abortion from its global maternal health commitment is totally appropriate. It represents a return — however symbolic in Canada — to barbarism. The whole notion that women, who fought for basic human rights for decades and then moved on to focus on other goals, could suddenly find themselves time-traveling over thirty years into the past is appalling.
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The Canadian ‘good banks’ myth
The sorry spectacle of Conservative cabinet ministers flying around the world defending banks from a tax to cover their next, inevitable, meltdown is bad enough. What is perhaps worse is that it is being largely justified by the perpetuation of the myth that Canada did not have to bail out its banks.
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