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The first indication that there was something fundamentally wrong with the level of the playing field at the 2011 World Rugby Cup currently unfolding throughout New Zealand was a seemingly innocuous complaint about the scheduling from the coach of the Canadian national team, former All Black back Kieran Crowley.
When I heard on the news that King Abdulla of Saudi Arabia met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, I was nearly certain that the latter would return to Sanaa. Why else would the potentate of the Middle East meet with such a relatively insignificant leader, under attack by most of his people?
The Ontario election on Thursday will not be decided by party policies nor by leaders' appeal. It will be determined by the party machines - the ability to get committed supporters out to the polls.
On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that Palestine, which was under a British Mandate since 1922, be divided into two new independent states - one Arab and one Jewish.
Though dating back to the 1700s, rugby originates with the industrial working class formed during the industrial revolution in Britain, whose collective spirit and organization is reflected athletically in its offensive and defensive mass formations such as the scrum, the fluid teamwork and sacrifice demanded instantaneously of players on the fly, and its community base. This is not a sport where every play is dictated by a coach on the sidelines such as North American football, which derives from rugby.
Last week I signed an international appeal regarding the dire situation in Yemen; a forgotten country where a brutal regime is killing its people for the last 8 months:
The Palestinians won't get a state this week. But they will prove - if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of US-Israeli power - that they are worthy of statehood.
At the start of the Jewish New Year I have some questions for Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks. They are for him in particular because of what he said in a recorded message of preparation for the New Year, but they are also questions that could and should be asked of rabbis everywhere.
Canadian journalist Barry Zwicker was recently interviewed on the CBC radio program Sunday Edition, hosted by Michael Enright.
When the United States sneezes, Canada gets pneumonia. The U.S. is our largest trading partner. We sell more to them than to anyone else in the world, and they are also our biggest source of imports. As a result, we are heavily reliant on the U.S. market.
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In early 2023, months before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians, renowned French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd opined that World War III had begun.