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This is a tale of two political scandals. Both strike at the heart of our democracy.
Looking dazed and with bright orange dyed hair, the man accused of killing 12 and wounding 58 in a shooting...
Whenever federal and provincial heads of government gather, the seating at the head of the table is the same. The prime minister sits in the centre with the premier of Ontario on his right and the premier of Quebec on his left.
The NDP victory in the Kitchener-Waterloo byelection Thursday sends a message to all three Ontario parties and their leaders.
A week from now Justin Trudeau will slip on his father's old shoes (sandals perhaps) as the new national leader of the Liberal party. Everything will change. Or will it?
Premier Kathleen Wynne's retreaded Liberal government will bring down its budget on Thursday - her first since taking over at Queen's Park in February - and it's anyone's guess what will happen. We may not know until Wednesday or even Thursday. As of today, there's probably a 35-40 per cent chance that Wynne's negotiations with NDP leader Andrea Horwath will fail. If they do, the minority Liberal government will fall within days, and Ontarians will be sent to the polls in June.
Harper seeks to calm Duffy affair.
It may seem like yesterday, but it was 40 years ago this summer that the notorious Watergate scandal burst on our consciousness.
In the early days of the American union, thoughtful commentators, from James Madison to Alexis de Tocqueville, worried about the extremes of democracy. Might the U.S. system evolve into a tyranny of the majority?
Let's talk today about "plausible deniability." The term apparently originated in the 1960s and referred at that time to CIA "black" operations.
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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.