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The wrath of the right
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
June 9, 2010
just as Harper patterned his strategy after the electoral successes of George W. Bush, so too might we glance south of the border for a glimpse of where such policies might lead. Looking at America today — a country deeply polarized by social issues, its politics poisoned by vitriol — most Canadians would not rush to duplicate the results
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How Canada’s Christian right was built
Monday, May 10th, 2010
May 07 2010
…the movement focuses on taking over the “gateways of influence,” one of the portals within its sights is the mainstream media itself. Where once social conservatives regarded the fourth estate as hostile territory from which they had been sidelined, now the heads of religious-right think tanks… have become regular spinmeisters for the social conservative point of view… Aggressive and insistent, they are driven by a fierce imperative to reconstruct Canada in a biblical mould. …their agenda—while outwardly inclusive and multi-racial — is ultimately exclusionary.
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