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The City of Ottawa is seeing some changes. Jim Watson's mayoralty has been quite a shift in style from the days of Larry O'Brien, whom he defeated. And the comparison is not just to O'Brien.
One legacy of the decade since 9/11 has been the growing fear of Muslims and Islam.
Pretty River Academy in Collingwood, Ontario, a private school with 150 students attending kindergarten to Grade 12, is the first Ontario school to remove Wi-Fi wireless system from campus.
The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and US soldiers abroad.
It has been six months since the people of Syria went to the streets. Like those in Egypt before them, they were and still are peacefully calling for dignity, freedom, democracy and social justice. They have been denied these rights by the ruling Assad's family for over 40 years, first by the father Hafez and then since July 2000 by the son Bashar following his father's death.
The situation leading up to the UN Palestine vote is fascinatingly indeterminate.
Former Ontario Premier Ernie Eves is miffed. Some of the old Tory gang in Ontario is being ousted by brash, populist, extreme right-wingers. When Norm Sterling, a sitting MPP, was ousted in a primary by Jack MacLaren, what happened to Stirling "was not very polite, was not fair, it was not loyal, it was not compassionate, it was not even and it was not honest." Wow!
Ezra Levant is a Zionist who believes that every Jew has a birthright to settle in Israel; an apartheid state created for Jews only at the expense of native Palestinians. To serve his ideology Levant regularly smears Islam and Muslims.
There has been and always will be a struggle between those that lack understanding and tolerance, and those who seek to live by the golden rule. The golden rule being to treat people the way that you would like to be treated or the way they want to be treated.
The U.S. Embassy recently sponsored a talk in Ottawa by Dr. Garry Slutkin, an epidemiologist who heads an anti-violence project in Chicago called Cease Fire. The program has been replicated in 14 other American cities and five other countries. While the program has garnered attention as the new tool in the struggle to end violence in low-income areas, in fact the approach is not new.
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