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"Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees." Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate, Globe and Mail, July 7, 2012.
A recently uncovered government document confirms that Ottawa has delivered millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority in a bid to advance Israel's interests. The internal memorandum also sheds light on Canada's efforts to build a security apparatus to protect the Palestinian Authority from popular disgust over its compliance in the face of ongoing Israeli settlement building.
Helen Thomas, a peerless journalist who challenged presidents fearlessly for fifty years, stuck to the truth even when almost everyone she had counted as friends fled from her side like scared rabbits headed for high grass. She died Saturday at 92, broken in body but not in spirit.
Helen Thomas (1920 - 2013)
The last month hasn't been a good one for religious tolerance.
"Fifteen years ago I witnessed a massive boiling, exploding ball of gas that had just leveled a building, killing 11 people, most of them teenagers. I thought I had learned how dangerous natural gas can be. I was wrong." Those were the introductory words by Jennifer Burke, from a sermon recently delivered at Ottawa's First Unitarian Congregation. In university, she studied biology and ecology, and she has lived in places where fracking is going on.
Hanan Awad, an environmental studies graduate teaching assistant at the University of Waterloo, describes herself as a modational Muslim woman. She said she actually invented the word modational to describe a modern lady with a traditional twist.
Alex Colville's biographies will read born August 24, 1920 and died July 16, 2013. It is hard to believe that this great energy has left us. These biographies will also describe Alex Colville as a significant Canadian painter of the late 20th century, whose work has been as important as that of the Group of Seven to Canada and to the world, and as familiar.
During the one year of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi's rule, Christians, Shi'a, moderate Muslims, judges, media, business people, artists and any Egyptian critical of Morsi and his Brotherhood rule have been demonized and called "infidels" in the public square, in mosques, in the Brotherhood print and TV and above all at official functions where Morsi was attending.
In the days when Stephen Harper was a trusted lieutenant of Reform Party leader Preston Manning and an influential ideologue, trusted with vetting Reform Party political strategy, Mr. Manning was often characterized as paranoid but Mr. Harper himself escaped this label; until now that is.
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