Friday July 25, 2008
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Intel: Oddly, it's 'never even'
Published: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page A17
With both U.S. presidential wannabes competing over who will send more troops to Afghanistan, it puts increased pressure on our forces to stay, even though prospects are bleak. Our new military chief, ''General Denial,'' admits things have got worse rather than, as he initially said, better.
Khadr and the politics of fear
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Online Edition: Friday, July 18, 2008 08:09 AM
Fear is a recurring political theme in our time, like the musical catchphrase in Indiana Jones films: DUNduhDUNDUN
Khadr and the politics of fear
Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
The Obama cover on this week's New Yorker has a title: The Politics of Fear. It's on the contents page, not on the cover itself. Too bad. It might have aided clarity had it been there, on a little gold plaque like the ones in museums. It's a good term; it applies to far more than the Obama campaign. Fear is a recurring political theme in our time, like the musical catchphrase in Indiana Jones films: DUNduhDUNDUN.
Harper Sahib at the G8
Published: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
Stephen Harper's performance at the G8 this week in Japan emitted a bracing whiff of Canadian imperialism. Did you know there once was such a thing back in the days of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII? It doesn't mean that Canada had its own empire but that it identified with the British Empire and its rulers, along with other ''white dominions'' such as Australia and New Zealand, rather than with the rebellious colonials in places such as India. This led us into the Boer War to expand the Empire in Africa.
Harper Sahib at the G8
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Online Edition: Thursday, July 10, 2008 08:11 PM
The PM's performance at the this week's conference in Japan emitted a bracing whiff of Canadian imperialism
Choosing Henry Morgentaler
Published: Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
This year, July 1 was Order of Canada Day. What a racket. Louder than fireworks. It can't go to anyone controversial, some howled. Or it ought to be a symbol of unity. And what does this say about Canadian democracy?
Choosing Henry Morgentaler
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Online Edition: Thursday, July 3, 2008 09:56 PM
Calm down. It's an award. I thought democracy was when we're unified even though we don't agree
Leave terror to the cops and courts
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Online Edition: Friday, June 27, 2008 07:57 AM
The first Canadian anti-terror trials are finally under way, in Ottawa and Brampton. It's about time.
Leave terror to the cops and courts
Published: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:00 AM Page A19
The first Canadian anti-terror trials are finally under way, in Ottawa and Brampton. It's about time. What can we learn, so far?Well, it isn't all about ''global Islamic jihad'' (Christie Blatchford's term). Boys will also be boys. They go camping, bond and play at combat. They're full of bravado and imitate lingo that seems hip (''nigga,'' ''bro''), but they're also dogmatic and idealistic. I knew people like that in the United States in the 1960s, some of whom joined the Weather Underground, built bombs and went to prison for it. They, too, felt part of a global movement with a destiny, and not one was a Muslim, although some black Muslims were among their heroes.
The man they called Tim
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Online Edition: Friday, June 20, 2008 08:37 AM
Wednesday's service for NBC's Tim Russert was the closest to a state funeral since Ronald Reagan died.
