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Message from Calgary Bishop Fred Henry: Christmas presents and Christmas presence
We should not neglect works of imagination that attempt to infuse the popular mind with the Christmas spirit. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, he intended to redeem the bleak work ethic...
The Editorial Page
By funding an observational trial into a controversial
treatment for MS suffers, the Alberta government has taken an
important but cautious first step.
"Is the oilsands industry the most environmentally
destructive project on earth, as has been suggested by some media
and declared critics of the industry?" asks the Royal Society of
Canada. "Based on our review of the publicly accessible evidence, a
claim of such global magnitude is not accurate."
Letters
For now, the fate of Syrian blogger Tal al-Mallohi remains
uncertain. She has been held without charge since December 2009
following her arrest in Damascus. If charged with espionage, she
faces execution. Little is known about her captivity, but human
rights activist and blogger, Ahed al-Hendi, has a guess. I reached
him by phone at his home in Washington, D.C., recently.
That sound you hear on top of the holiday music in all the
malls is the satisfied murmurs of women who have settled down with
eggnog and a good book.
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Governments should keep fewer secrets
WikiLeaks has the power to do to governments what Napster did to the music industry. That's why the website, which has garnered daily headlines and increasing notoriety, is facing a defamation campaign that seeks to equate leaking government documents to terrorism, that easy catch-all word for evil.
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Plea to finance ministers: Don't derail needed CPP reform
Today, Alberta will be centre stage at what has the potential to become a key moment in Canadian history.
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No more paying Olson
Extreme cases make bad laws but they can sometimes accentuate bad ones already on the books.
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Liberals waking up to the Trudeau hangover
Last week, an Angus Reid survey revealed a majority of Canadians want Michael Ignatieff replaced as Liberal leader. He has been on the job for 20 months and has yet to face a general election. Before him, Stephane Dion held the fort for 24 months, taking over from Paul Martin who served 28 months before going down to defeat at the hands of Stephen Harper in 2006. For 136 years after Confederation, the Liberal Party had nine leaders. Over the last seven years, they have had three.
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Sweden pays for kindness to Muslim refugees
In my Canadian home, Sweden is almost on a pedestal. My parents grew up on the sweet, perfect-pop music of Abba in the '70s and consequently so did I.
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We're not lovin' lawsuit
McDonald's deserves a break today -- from the lawsuit being filed against it by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, on behalf of a mom who wants a court to put an end to Happy Meals.
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Demarketing Alberta
Last week, Michael Ignatieff and 142 other Members of Parliament voted in favour of a motion to ban oil tanker traffic on the north coast of British Columbia. This week, Liberal MP Joyce Murray from Vancouver Quadra introduced Bill C-606 to put that motion into law by amending the Canada Shipping Act to prohibit oil tanker traffic on the north and central coast of British Columbia.
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Piano politics
By challenging Stephen Harper to a piano duel, Bob Rae is asking for treble. We know this after conducting extensive research on YouTube, where videos of both can be found.
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Todd: Don Cherry? Nothing but a phony
There he is in Toronna, old Sour Grapes himself, invited to the inauguration of that Chris Farley reincarnation Rob Ford, decked out in a jacket of Liberace pink, dripping sarcasm and hatred with all his soul.
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Ships as polluters
If the shipping industry were a country, it would be the sixth-biggest industrial carbon emitter in the world. Whereas big countries have plans for cutting emissions, shipping does not. The United Nations climate talks in Cancun are unlikely to change that. But customers, who indirectly pay for shipping fuel, might be better placed to put pressure on the industry.
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Society has a right to try to limit prostitution
Those who theorize that striking down laws surrounding prostitution will make Canada a safer place to sell sex overlook a crucial countervailing truth.
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Born Canadians are still winding up stateless
Exactly 62 years ago today, the United Nations adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- dubbed by Eleanor Roosevelt to be the "International magna carta of all mankind." The principal author was none other than Canadian human rights activist John Peters Humphrey. It was one of Canada's proudest moments, from one of its finest citizens. In a sense, it helped define Canada to the rest of the world as a country which not just respected human rights, but advocated for them.
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Stampeder coaches are staying put
D ave Dickenson and Chris Jones are officially off the market.
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Bowal: Double standard on free speech at U of C
Last week, University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan proposed on national TV that a named individual "should be assassinated" and then suggested a method of doing so. He was referring to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.
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The loneliest man, the field goal kicker
In the mass of muscle and testosterone that is the NFL locker-room sits an incongruous-looking white man of average height and build who, in many cases, could leave the stadium without being noticed by fans.
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Graham Thomson
Premier Stelmach's 'annus horribilis'
For Premier Ed Stelmach, 2010 has been -- to borrow a term used by the Queen in 1992 -- an "annus horribilis."
Susan Martinuk
Christmas is a choice that leads to reconciliation
1914. The world was at war, awash in the violence and horror of men slaughtering each other in a desperate search for peace.
Bishop Fred Henry
Message from Calgary Bishop Fred Henry: Christmas presents and Christmas presence
We should not neglect works of imagination that attempt to infuse the popular mind with the Christmas spirit. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, he intended to redeem the bleak work ethic of Victorian England with a renewal of Christian charity, just as in the wake of the Great Depression Frank Capra sought with It's a Wonderful Life to revive a sense of community and the common good. Transforming imaginations is integral to incarnation. We who are the church -- especially artists, writers, filmmakers, advertisers and broadcasters -- need to do today what Dickens and Capra did for their times.
