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Green Foreign Aid
This week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named former broadcaster Peter Kent to his cabinet and handed him the environment portfolio and an excuse to wear more
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China’s new stealth fighter?
Pictures alleging to be of a new Chinese fighter jet hit a few aviation forums this Monday. Is this plane China’s new fifth-generation stealth fighter? As the U
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It gets better despite the United Nations
The Toronto Star’s Haroon Siddiqui describes how Canada suffered a “humiliating failure” at the United Nations for failing to get that coveted seat on the Secur
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Should Omar Khadr be charged with High Treason?
According to the Criminal Code of Canada: 46. (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada, (c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces ag
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Omar Khadr questions for Jack Layton, Stephen Harper and Michael Ignatieff
Mr. Layton, now that Omar Khadr is a convicted and sentenced murderer, do you believe that a future Canadian government will owe an official apology to him? And
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Michael Ignatieff silent on Nobel Prize Committee’s “Megaphone Diplomacy” with China
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Xiaobo was arrested in 2008 for being an author of “Charter 08”, a manife
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CensusLeaks.ca
Sunday at around 5pm, the story hit the blackberries of government staffers and journalists alike in Ottawa that over 200,000 pages of classified documents desc
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The politics of paternalism
The big news this week was the bombshell interview given by CSIS director Richard Fadden to CBC’s Peter Mansbridge on The National where Canada’s spy chief alle