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US Administrations have been blighted since 9/11 by a deadly cocktail of arrogance and ignorance with a twist of the strong desire for revenge. But before you take aim and fire you have to know your enemy, and the scattergun policies of the Bush and now the Obama regimes have served only to create hatred and mistrust against the US in areas where it was never present.
During the 1980s I was privileged to contribute to Malaysia's ambitious plan to become a world class center for microchip design and manufacturing.
There are challenges to maintaining self-esteem as we age. That is the issue which Montreal social worker Norma Gilbert addressed in a video conference given recently by Quebec's Community Health and Social Services Network.
Human beings consist of material elements, comprising body and brain, and the non-material components of mind and spirit.
Last week, a year after being shot in the head by the Taliban, Pakistani native, 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai was given an honorary Canadian Citizenship as Canada gave the same honor to such icons like Nelson Mandela. She was also the favorite by millions around the world to become the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tutankhamun has fascinated Egyptologists since his mummy and treasures, hidden in an intact tomb, were discovered in 1922. Perhaps the greatest source of fascination is why this boy, who ascended the throne of Egypt at age nine, died 10 years later.
In an interview with The Canadian Charger Dr. George Heckman said that common health problems for older people such as diabetes, kidney and heart trouble, memory loss, disabilities, and depression often collide and, without intervention, lead to people ending up in hospitals or nursing homes.
The Interparliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism was holding their convention on Parliament Hill on November 8, but they had competition. Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) booked a room for a press conference.
Eva Bartlett, who earned her reputation as "Canada's Rachel Corrie" from about three years as an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer in Gaza, said that because the corporate media throughout the western world almost exclusively propagates the Israeli position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this same media turns around and asks: "Where are the Palestinian Gandhis?"
In her column on November 30, Margaret Wente, of Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper, praised Australia for telling immigrants that "if they miss their elderly parents, they should buy a plane ticket home," instead of allowing them - as the case in Canada - to use "a family reunification program." She praised Australia again by saying that "language competence is so essential to immigrant success that if you can't speak English, you can't get in."
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