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Children, courts at risk from parents

Even after decades of evidence that the children of separated or divorced couples are damaged when used as pawns in a continuing battle, some people fail their children's interests first


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It's up to the enablers

It is increasingly clear that the junta that rules Myanmar is not able, or willing, to save its own people


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Penknife alert

The taser has edged out other possible approaches because of the unproven belief that the taser is risk-free. That belief is reinforced by the manufacturer's steps that frighten the medical community.


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Vive le Canada uni

Mr. Sarkozy has now given a very welcome confirmation to those who predicted that he would set aside the equivocal attitude shown by recent French presidents toward Québécois sovereignism and Canadian federalism.

Commentary

It's time we all paid attention to Gordon Campbell

The Premier is doing what people always claim they want from politicians: leading, on a big file, with bold action


Commentary

Hillary: bloodied but unbowed

The world has seen the Clintons project their dramas before


Commentary

Travels with my Happy Buddha

My husband is a dead ringer for one of Vietnam's most beloved deities

 

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A minefield to navigate with care

Carbon taxes can play a useful role in encouraging consumers to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the federal Liberals are taking risks with their latest proposal on the subject.

Nothing mixed about the findings on Insite

Nobody who looks with an open mind at any of the available research could argue against a future for Insite. But there is little evidence Mr. Clement's mind has ever been anything but closed.

Where's the urgency at Public Health Agency?

How can governments co-operate if they don't know what is happening? Ottawa should move faster. This could be a matter of life or death.

A call to courage in Israel

Yossi Harel, the captain of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus 1947, who died last month at the age of 90, symbolized as much as any man could the hope, courage and resilience that is the story of Israel.

Those missing illegal immigrants

'If people can come into the country and stay here illegally, why would they go through a very long and complicated process to become a resident in Canada?' Auditor-General Sheila Fraser asks. That's a good question.

Brenda Martin is no VIP

$82,767? That is the mind-boggling tab for flying her from Mexico to a women's prison in Ontario because the Canadian government decided Ms. Martin needed a leased Challenger jet, complete with her own personal crew.

Making a natural disaster worse

Myanmar's battered people also have the burden of an uncaring and incompetent regime hampering humanitarian assistance.

Quebec leads among the 'haves' on education

First in reading in Canada on a new test of 13-year-olds. First in math. Second in science. If there are educators anywhere in the country who have not yet booked a flight to Quebec, they should be asked to justify themselves.

The ducks' legacy

If Syncrude had planned to cause damage to its own image, and to that of the Alberta energy sector, the company could not have done a better job of it.

Oil prices & consumers

Economic common sense is needed. Today's oil prices are saving North Americans from themselves. Politicians should stop interfering, and let the markets do their job.


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Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson: Illegal immigrants

Getting to the heart of the matter

Rick Salutin: There's more to Jews than Israel

But sometimes you wouldn't know it

Karen Connelly: The prison that is Myanmar

The truth frightens and destabilizes a dictatorship

George Elliott Clarke: Canada's minorities must look to Obama

Only a treasonous Canadian could deny the American Republic's blood-soaked history of racism. There's an element of hypocrisy here.

Lawrence Martin: Political minds mired in that old-time religion

It's a new century. Somebody ought to tell Ottawa.

Margaret Wente: Wanna buy my SUV?

Ouch! Gas prices are getting painful.

Timothy Garton Ash: A tale of two revolutions

'68 and '89 both left a stronger, socially liberal capitalism

Ramesh Thakur: The 'responsibility to protect'

There would be no better way to damage R2P beyond repair in Asia and the developing world than to have humanitarian assistance delivered into Myanmar backed by Western soldiers fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia again.

Jeffrey Simpson: Alberta & emissions

It's a mission far from 'accomplished'

Gordon Gibson: The lack of human rights on reserves

Let's be honest in this discussion


The Saturday Globe essay 

Patrick Martin: There can't be Mideast peace without Syria

The makings of a deal have been in place for more than a decade.

Tom Kent: Canada is much more than a hotel

If they are not ready to commit to a citizenship that has real consequences, immigrants should move on


The U.S. election 

Globe editorial: Put the party first, Hillary

Sen. Clinton has more than proven her tenacity. Now, it is time to prove her selflessness by putting her party's interests above her own ambitions.

Jeffrey Simpson: Hillary and Obama

She's trying to turn him into today's Adlai Stevenson

Lorna Dueck: What Rev. Wright did wrong

The American phenomenon of religious theatre

Rick Salutin: Obama's beautiful experiment

What's intriguing about the Obama candidacy isn't how different it is but how conventional. The Senator was never an aberration who recently 'fell to earth,' as David Brooks wrote in The New York Times.

John O'Sullivan: Try sounding a patriotic theme

The key to Barack Obama's 'Rev. Wright problem' is not race as such


Afghanistan 

Globe editorial: Posturing on the Taliban

Blame the rigid ideological terms of the debate in Ottawa for the confusion over how and when Canada is talking to the enemy.

Fraser Clark: Sticks-and-stones diplomacy at work

Could our soldiers in Afghanistan be more quintessentially Canadian?


More Web-exclusive comment 

David Boyd: Product of Canada? Don't be so sure

It's time to fix our food labelling fiasco

Stanley Zlotkin: Imagine how it feels to be chronically hungry

Now imagine 100 million people feeling this way

David Schindler: An uncomfortable truth about Alberta & water

Alberta could easily sink to water have-not status

Ken Boessenkool: Ontario's penury is much exaggerated

Rumours of the province's penury are much exaggerated

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