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In what is supposed to be a secular democracy, with a clear separation of church and state, one has to wonder how a Canadian evangelical Christian leader named Charles McVety has come to have such influence with the Harper government.
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared, in front of young members of her Christian Democratic Union party, that multiculturalism is dead in Germany, it fit a pattern whereby extremist views are becoming more commonplace and more acceptable in the mainstream of European society.
Unlike the boycott of South Africa, which took 25 years to have a significant effect, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, which began in the Occupied West Bank in 2005, is already having an effect, according to Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Palestinian academic and cultural boycott of Israel (PACIB).
In a presentation sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CPME), at the University of Toronto recently, American scholar Dr. Norman Finkelstein said there was no war in Gaza: the so-called War in Gaza was a massacre. He also said the 2008-2009 devastation of Gaza may be but a prelude of what's to come in Lebanon.
After two packages from Yemen containing explosives were discovered recently, racial profiling of Muslims has reared its ugly head once again.
In the Western media, sub-Saharan Africa is frequently portrayed as a place of violence, family breakdown, AIDS, and impoverishment. Yet Canadians who go there to visit or to help come back with impressions of deep and abiding strength and joy and astonishing hospitality.
Globalization's modern era really began with Columbus in 1492 - the year he inaugurated a New World Order, that continues to this day, with the constant invention and reinvention of the Americas as a promised land for immigrants and their descendants - according to Dr. Anthony Hall, Globalization Studies professor at the University of Lethbridge.
In 1998 Conrad Black - who was convicted in 2008 in the US for defrauding shareholders - handpicked a few extreme right wing writers to help him launch his Canadian newspaper the National Post. One of them - just out of university - was Jonathan Kay. Canadians rejected the paper and the National Post lost millions and still does. But Mr. Kay was promoted. Most of Mr. Kay's writings since 9/11 have been to defend the US official conspiracy theory regarding 9/11 and fiercely attack every academic who raises questions about its validity.
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Last week on CBC TV, University of Calgary political science professor Dr. Tom Flanagan called for the assassination of WikiLeaks director Julian Assange.
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