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‘Just how stupid do they think Canadians are?’
The Ottawa Citizen editorial board considers the Harper government’s new position on cap-and-trade.
The National Post and Ottawa Citizen on Iran’s outreach efforts in Canada
Last month I wrote about Iranian efforts to reach out to ex-pat Iranians and other Muslims in Canada, through its embassy, front organizations, student group, and funding a lavish “student conference” for those who belong to approved “cultural communities.”
Better late than never
Maclean’s, June 20, 2012.
Troubling news on attention-deficit medication for young people
Doctors are resorting to drugs to treat conditions for which they are not even approved by Health Canada
[Updated] More on the oil industry’s hand in a federal museum’s energy show
CBC has an interesting story (from its French service Radio-Canada) on the Imperial Oil Foundation’s involvement in the Canada Science and Technology Museum’s current exhibition “Energy: Power to Choose.”
Self respect
The Ottawa Citizen editorial board challenges MPs to save themselves.
In and out and settled?
(This post last updated at 8:24pm.)
Islamists, Iran, and a “Just and Sustainable Peace” — media response
The National Post and the Ottawa Citizen have editorials. (The Post acknowledged that Maclean’s broke the story; the Citizen did not.)
Hookers, hacks, and Himel
The Citizen‘s Dan Gardner is impatient with the columnists cawing against Justice Susan Himel’s prostitution ruling. This morning he exasperatedly tweeted at them that “You don’t have to agree. You do have to read”—that is, read what Himel wrote. I’m on Dan’s side in this debate, but, hey, isn’t he being a little unfair and obnoxious? Surely respectable writers like Daphne Bramham wouldn’t denounce the Himel decision in such strong terms without examining the evidence:
Mitchel Raphael on senator Frum, princess Di’s lawyer and new lyrics for ‘o canada’
Mitchel Raphael on senator Frum, princess Di’s lawyer and new lyrics for ‘o canada’
How about “Somewhat benign, but sort of an a-hole”?
Historian Michael Behiels commences his Citizen op-ed on the present constitutional emergency by describing the prime minister as “our not-so-benign dictator”. Kind of a remarkable rhetorical ploy, that. I’m from the tribe of Westerners who used to gripe about the Liberal “benign dictatorship”, but I realized how and silly overwrought this sort of language was on the day the B.D. Himself was ousted by his own caucus without so much as a “Thanks for the customized golf balls”. Ever since then, my Zen answer to every kerfuffle, foofaraw, and flibberty-floo about Parliament and its powers has been the same, no matter who was in power. Parliament has just as much power as its members care to take. No more, no less.
A blight on the beautiful game
A Canadian journalist uncovers soccer’s dark world of match-fixing