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A candidate for Mayor of Toronto found out the hard way that the law has been changed in the interests of security at the G20 in Toronto.
Very few Canadian journalists aspire to foreign work to that fraction of the Canadian public who want to know, about world events, according to Maclean's blogger and senior columnist Paul Wells.
Despite Prime Minister Harper's assertions that the G20 leaders have agreed on measures to enhance the nascent global economic recovery, disagreements remain. At a press conference to wrap up the G20 Summit in Toronto, Mr. Harper tried to gloss over the disagreements between G20 leaders.
We need a media that's the fourth estate, not the state, according to American author and political activist Amy Goodman.
A July 1st Toronto Star letter to the editor, by Dimitri N. Soudas, Director of Communications, Office of the Prime Minister, is entitled "No role in keeping media away - Re Harper helps Hu keep critics away, June 25" (Toronto Star), but this may not be the whole story. My attempt to gain access to Prime Minister Harper, at the G20, Saturday, June 26, indicates that there is a lot more to it than Mr. Soudas is letting on.
Despite witnessing death and unspeakable suffering aboard the Mavi Marmara - the lead ship in the Gaza Flotilla - two Canadian activists said breaking the nearly three-year-old blockade of Gaza remains their primary goal.
"I left my bat and brick at home and brought my voice. Now you're really going to get it," read one of the signs at the march protesting police conduct at the G20, Saturday afternoon.
Shortly after being elected Prime Minister in 2006, Stephen Harper made Afghanistan a priority as it was one of his first stops as Prime Minister.
Although U.S. Government officials are doing their best to downplay the leaking of 90,000 pages of raw intelligence by WikiLeaks website, the real impact is going to be felt in the details.
As the case against Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri seems to be unravelling, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said that "there is enough evidence pointing to Israel."
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Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the author of several books focussing on the Middle East including 'The Hundred Years' War On Palestine'. He explains some of the basic facts of the struggle for Palestinian independence and the creation of the Zionist project of Israel.