Category Archives: Constitution

Looking back to the future

Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration …   Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I’m thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada.
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B.C. NDP playing dangerous politics with oil

Oil pipelines arouse strong passions. Unfortunately in B.C. they may also be about to arouse bad policy on a major scale.
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Less freedoms isn’t safer

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told a press conference Monday that Americans have to give up some freedom to be safe from terrorism. Because some Canadians make the same argument it’s important to see why it couldn’t be more … Continue reading

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MPs need the elusive quiet

For Christians Easter Sunday is an eerie pause between Good Friday’s tumult and the even greater upheaval of Easter Monday, so quiet, C.S. Lewis says in the Narnia Chronicles, “you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” … Continue reading

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Metis ruling only confuses matters more

If you believe in the rule of law it is painful to contemplate how the Canadian government broke its solemn 1870 promise to give land to Métis children in Manitoba. And almost as painful to read the Supreme Court’s effort … Continue reading

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