Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Airport Scanner Safety.. B.C. Battle.. Quebec Chaos

Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The Conservatives have placed the health and safety of Canadians in jeopardy by failing to independently test 'naked' body scanners deployed at Canada's airports, says the NDP.
On Her Way Out?
EI Rules To Change: No Such Thing As Bad Job, Says Flaherty
Shriners Donation Accidentally Addressed To Conservative Party?
CONFIRMED: Tories Cut Agency's Funding Due To Carbon Tax Research
Quebec Education Minister Steps Down
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Supriya Dwivedi: Line Beauchamp Acts Like a Grown-Up. Why Won't the Students?
On Wednesday, Quebec's education minister resigned claiming she was no longer helping to solve the problems. Her admission is honest, introspective and poignant, but above all, it is something an adult would do. The students, however, some of whom have been protesting for over four months, have not mitigated their original position of maintaining a tuition freeze in any way. Conversely, as the protests continue, violence and vandalism has become increasingly commonplace as protesters become ever more uncompromising and antagonistic.
David Frum: Think the U.S. Election Is About the Economy? Not.
Barack Obama is foreign. Oh yeah? Mitt Romney is a bully. Think the U.S. presidential election will be about the economy? Think again. We'd like to imagine that elections are decided on the issues, by voters responding rationally to competing policy proposals. But myth and narrative are stronger than reason -- and strongest of all when, as now in the U.S., times are hard and solutions are lacking.
Bernie Farber: No Dogs and Jews Allowed
In cottage country, and even on Toronto's beaches up to the mid 1950s, it was common to see signs that read "No Dogs or Jews Allowed." Though we, as a nation, have made great strides in the name of human rights for all, we cannot be complacent. There cannot be justice for Jews if there is not justice for everyone.
Christopher Sands: Will Canada French Kiss Harper Goodbye?
In Canada's next election, which isn't due until 2014, the country could follow France, choosing a socialist over a conservative to captain the ship of state -- in Canada's case, perhaps a canoe of state -- through rough seas ahead.
Tony Blair: Why Inter-Faith Understanding Is More Important Than Ever in Leadership
I am a Christian and will remain so. This means that there are certain beliefs I hold dear. But I can, without reducing my Christian commitment, surely accept that someone else, brought up in a different tradition, holds a different set of beliefs, holds them as strongly as I hold mine, and I can respect that person and his/her right to believe as he/she does.

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