http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq5-gLkIzFc
Must-reads: James Travers, Don Martin and Margaret Wente on the residential schools apology; Lawrence Martin on the carbon tax; Rosie DiManno on following the money in Afghanistan; Terence Corcoran on the Great Tomato Crisis of 2008.
I don’t get no respect.
Must-reads: Christie Blatchford on the National Day of Action; Lawrence Martin on Maxime Bernier; Greg Weston on the Olympic boycott fizzle.
Must-reads: Jonathan Kay on racist child services policies; Rosie DiManno on opium-addicted Afghan children.
We have agonized over this editorial cartoon from Saturday’s Globe and Mail (click to enlarge), and we have no idea what it’s supposed to mean. Is this Quebec’s present? Its future? By what mischance did this friendly merchant find himself with his multiethnic panoply-on-wheels in Hérouxville, of all places? What has this unimpressed-looking man been served, and why did he order it if he didn’t want it?
Here’s L. Ian MacDonald in today’s Gazette on the Bouchard-Taylor commission’s recommendation to take the crucifix out of the National Assembly (and why Charest was right to reject it):
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As promised, I’ve got something on the Bouchard-Taylor report here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_T_zT6lr0
Cartoon by Garnotte, Le Devoir