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Over the years I have had the occasional client suffering from fibromyalgia. I have one right now. I am a social worker in private practice who assists people in appealing disability applications rejected under such programs as the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), CPP, and Régie des rentes du Québec. That is how I come to encounter them.
"Syria is a problem for nations in and out of the region. No one really knows how things will pan out." That was the dour assessment by Brian Davis at a session in Ottawa on April 16, sponsored by the National Council on Canada Arab Relations. Davis was Canadian ambassador to Syria.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said Monday, "there is no doubt that the (Syrian) government used artillery and tanks (in Houla)." But then he added: "There is also no doubt that many bodies have been found with injuries from firearms received at point-blank range. We are dealing with a situation where both sides participated in the killings of innocent civilians."
The recent developments and media leaks from Syria/Lebanon/Israel indicate a potential imminent storming by the Syrian forces of Northern Lebanon.
It has been six months since the people of Syria went to the streets. Like those in Egypt before them, they were and still are peacefully calling for dignity, freedom, democracy and social justice. They have been denied these rights by the ruling Assad's family for over 40 years, first by the father Hafez and then since July 2000 by the son Bashar following his father's death.
(Damascus) As many of us observe the great Arab and Islamic awakening of 2011 in stunned amazement, as it rapidly spreads across the region, this observer agrees with those who declare, "well it's about time-Godspeed to the rebels and goodbye to the despots."
Recalling the massacres and destruction during the 1820's Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, then Victor Hugo wrote, "the Turks have passed by here - All is in ruins and mourning."
Western military action in Syria would be a "satanic intervention against a satanic regime," a leading Syrian opposition figure has warned.
(Damascus) It seems that the Syrian authorities still believe that a security based solution offers the best chance of ending the wave of protests that has hit the country over the past two months, becoming apparent when tanks raided other Syrian towns and cities besides Daraa in the south, which throughout has been the cradle of the protests.
Which Syrians should be uppermost in diplomats' minds?
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