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Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened far from Washington.
There is a bit of a gambler in all of us.
Premier Kathleen Wynne's retreaded Liberal government will bring down its budget on Thursday - her first since taking over at Queen's Park in February - and it's anyone's guess what will happen. We may not know until Wednesday or even Thursday. As of today, there's probably a 35-40 per cent chance that Wynne's negotiations with NDP leader Andrea Horwath will fail. If they do, the minority Liberal government will fall within days, and Ontarians will be sent to the polls in June.
As Kwitsel Tatel's case for illegal possession of fish, contrary to provisions in Canada's Fisheries Act is now in its ninth year, the Aboriginal women from the Fraser Valley in British Columbia said the people of Canada should see how the government of Canada is operating systematically to see that Aboriginal people are overrepresented in Canada's penal system.
While western democracies - including Canada - clamour to do business with the quasi civilian government that took power in Myanmar in March 2011, the slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the country continues unabated.
Just after the Boston bombing, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told CBC interviewer Peter Mansbridge that "Over the coming days we have to look at the root cause…. But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded, completely at war with innocents, at war with society."
Last weekend brought another knot in the string of controversies that has surrounded Justin Bieber of late. Currently on a European tour, the Canadian teen heartthrob had a guided tour of the Amsterdam house where Dutch Jewish teenager, Anne Frank, hid from the Nazis until her arrest in 1944. She later died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months before the end of World War II. While in hiding, she wrote a diary, which was a sharp-eyed window into life during wartime.
With so much negativity in the news about Muslims and Islam, it's not surprising that members of the Canadian Muslim community are experiencing the backlash, often expressed in the form of hate crimes.
Alternative views via independent not-for-profit media are so important today as ever. Dr. Kathy Bullock, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, is the keynote speaker at the Canadian Charger's fundraising dinner on Saturday June 15 in Waterloo, Ontario. On the awake of the arrest of two Muslims in Canada on terror charges, she will speak on "Political Participation Of Canadian Muslims Especially The Youth."
I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, and the following is an explanation of why.
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