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Sluggish progress may be one reason why Canada abruptly pulled out of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) last week, making it the only country in the world not party to the agreement.
In accordance with the mandate of the Canadian government's Office of Religious Freedom to promote Canadian values of religious freedom, human rights and the rule of law worldwide, the Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS) is calling on the Canadian government to investigate the restrictions and denial of access for thousands of Palestinian Christians to their mother city of Jerusalem for worship during the Easter week.
Off to the Middle East to bolster a non-existent peace process. One wonders why Obama bothered.
There will never be a Palestinian state. That was the opinion expressed by the distinguished international journalist Robert Fisk at a packed lecture hall at Carleton University on January 22.
The news of the death of Britain's Iron Lady, Baroness Thatcher, promoted me to recall my favourite story about her. In 1980, in the first of her three terms as prime minister, she said in a speech to her Conservative Party's Conference: "You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning." Because I was personally engaged with her at the time, I know that she performed her first U turn in her first 48 hours of being prime minister.
If you're a consumer who wants to know what farmers think, stay tuned.
A week from now Justin Trudeau will slip on his father's old shoes (sandals perhaps) as the new national leader of the Liberal party. Everything will change. Or will it?
In life, you meet few people for brief times but you wish you had known them for years. At the top of my list is the late Sheikah Ghanima Al-Marzouq of Kuwait. Although she was not from the royal family, everyone called her Sheikah as she was a great philanthropist.
In politics as in physics there are basic laws, if a political leader respects and follows them he will succeed but if not he will fail, often with a high price paid by the people. Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is a classic example of a failed political leader and the 92 million Egyptians are now paying a heavy price.
In a recent lecture at Toronto’s Ryerson University, as part of five-city Canadian tour, Afif Safieh, the most senior Ambassador of the Palestinian Diplomatic Corps, stressed the need for the international community to respect international law, even when Israel is the violator of this law.
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