@ July 10, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Global Exchange Plans to Host At Least 28 Independent Monitors to Observe U.S. Elections In an oped set to be published Thursday, July 8 in Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, The Irish Independent and Mexico City's La Jornada, the U.S. based human rights group Global Exchange will appeal to the international community to come and monitor the [...]
@ July 6, 2004 # No Comment Yet
HEALTH CARE IN CRISIS: A GNN Special Report In one of the most memorable scenes in Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore travels to Canada where walks up to people’s houses, opens their unlocked front doors without knocking and rambles into their living rooms. The Canadians greet the controversial director with little more than polite, if [...]
@ July 6, 2004 # No Comment Yet
A DEAFENING SILENCE OF MEANING By John Chuckman July 6, 2004 Recently, John Kerry and his wife held a barbecue at the Pennsylvania White House. Never heard of the Pennsylvania White House? It’s actually the homestead of Kerry’s wife, a white-columned mansion on a tailored estate outside Pittsburgh built from the proceeds of a billion [...]
@ July 5, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Two of every three Canadians oppose laws that would prevent students in public schools from wearing symbols or clothing, such as the Islamic veil, that visibly display their religious affiliation. A small majority of Canadians (51%) agree that they wished that they knew more about the religion of Islam, and a significant minority (45%) say [...]
@ July 2, 2004 # No Comment Yet
WHY STEPHEN HARPER LOST Reflections on an Interesting Canadian Election John Chuckman July 2, 2004 Hubris played an important role in the recent Canadian election. Paul Martin’s assumption of power, after pushing aside a popular and successful, though aging, Liberal leader, was disconcerting to many. Then, despite Martin’s reputation as an able technocrat in Jean [...]