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Last week on CBC TV, University of Calgary political science professor Dr. Tom Flanagan called for the assassination of WikiLeaks director Julian Assange.
(December 2, 2010) One may fairly conclude that Barack Obama's over-hyped alleged efforts to "reach out" to the Arab and Muslim worlds ended today when he responded, with a breathtaking lack of grace, to Qatar's defeat of the United States (as well as Australia, Japan and South Korea) in the competition to stage the 2022 World Cup by branding the decision by the FIFA executive committee a "bad decision."
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."
(Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 11:00PM) Disaster in the North of Israel, at least 40 dead as fire rages across the Carmel Mountains. A mass evacuation has begun.
In a speech before the Interparliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delighted the delegates in talking about "Jewish students under attack," apparently referring to Israel Apartheid Week. He also took aim at "a hateful ideology. . . which targets the Jewish homeland as a scapegoat," tying this "ideology" to the slaughter in Mumbai.
Dear Olivia Chow: It was a pleasure meeting you and Jack at the Palais Royale on Saturday November 27 and discussing with you issues of mutual interest. I will be frank with you and tell you that our community is quite disappointed with the NDP's participation in the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat anti-Semitism (CPCCA).
In the Western media, sub-Saharan Africa is frequently portrayed as a place of violence, family breakdown, AIDS, and impoverishment. Yet Canadians who go there to visit or to help come back with impressions of deep and abiding strength and joy and astonishing hospitality.
After being introduced as the next Prime Minister of Canada, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff took the stage, during a standing ovation, at The Annual Peel Red Leaf Dinner - a fundraising event held in Mississauga recently.
In Canada and the US most politicians are lawyers. But engineers are wealth generators, problem solvers and civilization builders; we need more of them in politics.
Sarah Palin (or her publisher) chose a title for her latest book with three "F" words - America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and the Flag. But surely there's something missing. Another "F" word. One with four letters. What could it be? (My answer in a moment).
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