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ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
There has been a little storm in a teacup over the itinerary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent visit to India in the pages of the National Post . Some people have expressed unhappiness with Harper for his journey to Amritsar in Punjab, the sacred city of the Sikhs, and in visiting the Golden Temple for political mileage with Canada’s Sikh community. Others were put off by the prime...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the last three years, various politicians and commentators have highlighted a letter I sent to the National Post in October, 2006. I would like to set the record straight about what I wrote. At the time, Michael Ignatieff made a statement criticizing Israel’s action vis-à-vis the bombing of Kfar Qana during the 2006 Lebanon conflict, which Stephen Harper made a statement recognizing...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at Spanky's Sandbox and Pillow Fort, The Politic 's Charles Anthony postulates about a public torture inquiry rather puzzlingly : That attitude is unsatisfactory. An inquiry is only as good as it satisfies the level of scrutiny of all the left-wing and right-wing wack-jobs involved. In other words, you will spend more of my taxes to subsidize professional arguers on both sides of the fences who...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What do Uganda, Burundi, Sudan and Djibouti have in common? They are on the list of 49 countries that would receive billions of dollars every year from Canadian families as part of a new global-warming agreement proposed by the United Nations. The UN also wants to impose new taxes on industry that would increase energy costs and kill jobs. Stephen Harper should demonstrate global leadership by rejecting...
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Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Shorter Canadian wingnuts: "As drooling yokels who immediately embraced every ridiculous fable and fairy tale from a low-level Canadian consulate peon regarding Suaad Hagi Mohamud, it's obvious that intelligence officer and ex-diplomat Richard Colvin is full of shit . I mean, really, what a liar." CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE : Over at the Li'l Rascals Cardboard Tree Fort and No-Girls-Allowed...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Canada wants to sell CANDU nuclear reactors to India. A better idea is to sell India the whole company By Ron Banerjee W ith Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent trip to India, a lot of attention has been focused on the possibility of saving AECL, a federally owned crown corporation, by selling CANDU nuclear reactors to India. Considerable evidence suggests that this scenario is unlikely....
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OTTAWA — In an organized smackdown rarely seen in Ottawa, the government turned inward on Thursday to attack a new enemy in its Afghanistan conflict — senior Washington embassy intelligence officer Richard Colvin. After 15 years of steadily rising through the foreign service ranks, Mr. Colvin now stands accused of being a Taliban stooge, someone so easily duped by torture complaints that...
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Jewschool (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Canada might have a federal election soon. How soon remains to be seen, though that hasn’t stopped the Conservatives, who are currently running their second consecutive minority government, under leadership of Stephen Harper, to start planning for a win. And they want to form a majority government this next time around. It seems their early tactics [...]
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured," said Colvin, the former political director of the provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar city. "For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard operating procedure." He also said that when the Red Cross wanted to look into the treatment of detainees turned over by the Canadian...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Another inquiry into vanishing stocks A MYSTERIOUS decline in the numbers of spawning salmon has become one of the rites of autumn in British Columbia, bringing worries of financial and job losses, threats of extinction and a perplexing lack of answers. This season only 1.7m of the 10.4m sockeye salmon that were forecast to return to the Fraser river in fact made it—a 50-year low. That prompted...
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has expressed confidence about concluding a civil nuclear deal with India within weeks, asserting that prejudices of the past would not be allowed to come in the way. "We were anxious to conclude the agreement. But there is still some amount of work to be done," Harper, who held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, told television channel...
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Impolitical (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On why Canadians should care about these allegations that Afghan detainees turned over by Canadian military were tortured by Afghans : According to a very authoritative source, many of the Afghans we detained had no connection to the insurgency whatsoever. From an intelligence point of view, they had little or no value. Frankly, the NDS (Afghan intelligence service) did not want them. Some of these...
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Impolitical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
They do with advertising on our dollar that pursues a vile form of politics, accusing Liberals of anti-Semitism. Part of the Conservatives' ongoing effort to corner the Jewish vote, some of the most offensive ten percenter flyers to date have been sent out : The "scandalous" flyers, endorsed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and which target ridings with large Jewish communities, accuse the...
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Punjab deputy chief minister, Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday met Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada to explore the possibility of transfer of technical know-how from...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
G7 finance ministers are gung-ho enough to weather a meeting in Nunavut in February, where the temperature is reliably reported to average 7 zillion below zero. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Top finance officials from the G7 countries will meet in the remote Arctic town of Iqaluit on Feb 5-6 but may not issue a communique [editors note: because it's too frickin cold], Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday....
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