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Discussion of politics in Alberta, Canada.
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Harper and O'Connor can't escape torture scandal
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Harper and O'Connor can't escape torture scandal By Derrick O'Keefe | April 27, 2007 Is this Canada's Abu Ghraib? There are, to be sure, significant differences between the torture scandal currently engulfing Ottawa and the one that rocked the Bush administration three years ago. There are no gruesome photos and,... more »
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Court challenge to torture in Afghanistan
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Court challenge to torture in Afghanistan By Stefan Christoff | November 19, 2007 In Canada, Amnesty International has filed a landmark lawsuit directed at the Canadian government, on the basis that Canada is violating the constitution by handing over prisoners to Afghan authorities in the context of NATO military operations in the country and accusations of... more »
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All Canadians must unite against the evils of racism and White Male privilege
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In critical race theory, white privilege is a set of advantages that are believed to be enjoyed by white people beyond those commonly experienced by people of color in the same social, political, and economic spaces (nation, community, workplace, income, etc.). Theorists differentiate it from racism or prejudice because, they say,... more »
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What standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel really means
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Let’s start with what it doesn’t mean. It doesn’t mean sending erroneous, inflammatory and divisive flyers into Jewish neighbourhoods as a partisan wedge. Stephen Harper should be ashamed to have his image on these Conservative brochures. It tarnishes the office of the Prime Minister. Nor does it mean hurling drive-by accusations of anti-Semitism, as one... more »
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Protestant Fundamentalist Redneck Stephen Harper's Christian Zionism is a heresy
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Statement by the Patriarch and Local Heads of Churches In Jerusalem The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism 22 August 2006 "Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9) Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby... more »
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Food For Thought
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From: "Bob Bennett" rbenn...@columbus.rr.com To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: Food for thought Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:56:47 -0500 Food for thought........... It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from... more »
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Is Stephen Harper guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes?
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Canadian diplomats ordered to hold back information on Afghan prison torture: sources THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian diplomats in Afghanistan were ordered in 2007 to hold back information in their reports to Ottawa about the handling of the prisoners, say defence and foreign affairs sources.... more »
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