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Daniel D. Veniez

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Why Liberals Need Bob Rae

Daniel D. Veniez | Posted June 9, 2012

This week's echo chamber conversation among political and media "insiders" is about whether the Liberal Party executive will clarify rules which may allow interim leader Bob Rae to run for the permanent job, should he choose to.

Some have written in sanctimonious and self-righteous terms...

Mark Crowley

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Elizabeth May: Exposing the Fauxmnibus Bill

Mark Crowley | Posted June 8, 2012

Maybe I'm starting to sound like a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy but that's only because...I'm a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy! How can you not be when she gets up in the House, as she did Monday, and makes an epic speech like this?

The main point of her "point...

Justin Beach

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Catholic Schools Are Not Free to Bully Gays

Justin Beach | Posted June 9, 2012

The Ontario Legislature recently passed its controversial anti-bullying law. The law, among many other things, forces Ontario's Catholic schools to allow Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) and allow them to be called GSAs. Response from religious conservatives was swift, they claimed that the bill infringes on religious...

Robert Reich

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Why the Public's Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help Obamacare

Robert Reich | Posted June 8, 2012

The public's growing disdain of the Supreme Court increases the odds that a majority will uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare.

The latest New York Times/CBS poll shows just 44 percent of Americans approve the job the Supreme Court is doing. Fully three-quarters say justices' decisions are sometimes influenced...

Sheryl Saperia

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Omar Khadr Doesn't Deserve a Dime

Sheryl Saperia | Posted June 10, 2012

The UN Committee Against Torture recently recommended that Omar Khadr receive redress for any human rights violations he may have experienced during his imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay.

Khadr himself has already filed a $10-million civil lawsuit against the Canadian government, while advocates like Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada...

Don Tapscott

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What's Louder Than a Formula One Engine? Quebec Protesters

Don Tapscott | Posted June 8, 2012

That deafening noise that Formula One fans in Montreal and viewers around the world hear this weekend might not be just the supercharged cars screaming past the grandstands in quest of the checkered flag. It will likely also be the banging of pots and pans by the tens of thousands...