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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Missile Defence Needs Parliamentary Debate |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 12:27 pm
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| <P>No, Doc I'm not assuming that it's a new idea; it's a tired old one with dubious merit from the beginning. This is where the Avro Arrow went, right? <P>The sad truth is that the debate about missile defence does not arise from some internal dynamic in the Canadian public discourse abo... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Missile Defence Needs Parliamentary Debate |
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 1:28 am
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| <P><I>...why don't we use the money from land leases they will need to build it on to fund our military. It'll get both birds, more funding for the military and a better relationship with the US.</I> <P>Interesting concept of sovereignty, Doc. Let me see if I've got this righ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Economics of Canadian Trade with America |
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 9:31 pm
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| <P>In the MapleLeaf.com article, Scott Fogden reckons that "between 1988 and 1994, 17% of Canadian manufacturing jobs disappeared." He compares this to the phenomenon of Canadian hockey teams having to pay players in small Canadian dollars, which implies that the jobs, like the players, are go... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Missile Defence Needs Parliamentary Debate |
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:25 pm
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| <strong>Written By:</strong> earthling <strong>Date:</strong> 2003-12-19 13:25:03 <a href="/article/132503239-missile-defence-needs-parliamentary-debate">Article Link</a> <P><A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Right Hon. Paul Martin</A>, Prime Minister ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Saddam Hussein Captured |
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:43 pm
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| <P>To begin with, "blame" is probably an inadequate model for thinking about the arms trade if what we seek is solutions and actions. So is the soup metaphor. <P>Of course, the Soviets were major suppliers of conventional weapons to Iraq. I mentioned them twice. Where DocCaleb or any of ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Saddam Hussein Captured |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:57 pm
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| <I> why don`t they just call the place Israel-Palestine, or Palestine-Israel, and make sure ALL citizens have equal rights</I> <P>Seems obvious doesn't it? The answer is that then Israel would no longer be a "Jewish state," i.e., in a few years non-Jewish Arabs would be a majority.... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Saddam Hussein Captured |
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:25 pm
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| <I>Who armed them to the teeth?</I> <P>The Soviets? Nice try, Doc, but thin soup.</P> <P>John Ralston Saul's book <I>Voltaire's Bastards</I> (1999) is a good source on this subject because he uses the international arms trade throughout as an example of his ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: US will continue to deport Canadians to third countries |
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:05 pm
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| What\'s not clear is why Cellucci believes that cases like Arar\'s enhance US security. Or how deporting anyone--innocent or not--to a third country--for the purpose of torture or not--makes American citizens safer. Too bad the reporters didn\'t ask more probing questions and get Cellucci to elabora... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: CPP Landmine Investments: Are we Breaking the Global Ban/Tre |
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:10 pm
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| CPP certainly makes a lot of investments that I find personally offensive, in addition to those in simple arms manufacture--petrochemical companies with imperialistic projects in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere; GMO producers; companies that are the subjects of important international bo... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: For Better or Worse |
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 7:20 pm
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| I have to admit that I don\'t usually read the last page to see how the novel turns out. I read the last page to help me decide whether or not to go on reading. In the case of NAFTA, the last page is my favourite: NAFTA Chapter 22: Final Provisions Article 2204: Withdrawal A Party may withdraw from ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Is it "anti-American" to dissent? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2003 6:21 pm
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| Granatstein says that Canada \"chose to refuse its neighbour political and military support,\" but things are hardly ever that black-and-white. I was pleased when Chretien decided against joining the coalition. I would have been happier if he had called Bush and Colin Powell on their outra... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Call for Mass Nonviolent Direct Action Against the FTAA |
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:01 am
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| <strong>Written By:</strong> earthling <strong>Date:</strong> 2003-10-29 09:01:12 <a href="/article/90112450-call-for-mass-nonviolent-direct-action-against-the-ftaa">Article Link</a> To endorse this call to action, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/endorseftaa -... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Open Letter to British Columbians |
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:12 pm
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| <strong>Written By:</strong> earthling <strong>Date:</strong> 2003-10-21 20:12:13 <a href="/article/22121372-open-letter-to-british-columbians">Article Link</a> The response to the government\'s agenda has been clear and powerful. Tens of thousands of British Colu... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Kellogg's Response to Hurtig, Laxer, and Mathews |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:00 pm
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| Thanks for the website. Information was what I really wanted. I see there is a bit of a conceptual problem here. It\'s not about \"copyrighting a police force.\" That is absurd because who would want or be able to make copies of a police force? The agreement is about \"safeguarding th... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: 'No longer dinner': African activists speak on Cancun |
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:15 pm
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| The reason I posted this admittedly very long article on a subject that may not appear to have obvious relevance to this website is best stated toward the end by Moussa Faye, the Senegalese Programme Coordinator for ActionAid: \"MOUSSA: Africans need to strengthen themselves by connecting more ... |
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