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When a candidate for a political party in a developed country such as Australia has no choice but to resign, after being widely ridiculed, as a result of mistaking Islam for a country, in a television interview and, saying Jews follow Jesus Christ, in the same interview, one has to wonder if this is just "one lone nut", or is she expressing the views of a significant portion of the electorate.
Last May, Tory MP Devinder Shorey introduced a private member's bill, C-425. It is now before the House. There are three elements in the bill.
Gander has been a way-station for CIA rendition flights secretly headed for Guantánamo and to overseas destinations. British academics from Kent and Kingston Universities have put together a detailed account of flights, identifying the specific airplanes used, their trajectories, names of companies involved (in many cases shell companies belonging to the CIA), dates of departure from Gander and return, starting points, and destinations.
The British critic Charles Shaar Murray once described the central drive of American popular music as "the need to separate black music (which, by and large, white Americans love) from black people (who, by and large, they don't)."
"Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees." Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, Globe and Mail, July 7, 2012.
A recently uncovered government document confirms that Ottawa has delivered millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority in a bid to advance Israel's interests. The internal memorandum also sheds light on Canada's efforts to build a security apparatus to protect the Palestinian Authority from popular disgust over its compliance in the face of ongoing Israeli settlement building.
Helen Thomas, a peerless journalist who challenged presidents fearlessly for fifty years, stuck to the truth even when almost everyone she had counted as friends fled from her side like scared rabbits headed for high grass. She died Saturday at 92, broken in body but not in spirit.
Helen Thomas (1920 - 2013)
The last month hasn't been a good one for religious tolerance.
"Fifteen years ago I witnessed a massive boiling, exploding ball of gas that had just leveled a building, killing 11 people, most of them teenagers. I thought I had learned how dangerous natural gas can be. I was wrong." Those were the introductory words by Jennifer Burke, from a sermon recently delivered at Ottawa's First Unitarian Congregation. In university, she studied biology and ecology, and she has lived in places where fracking is going on.
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