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Canada: World’s second friendliest country for top-level income groups with expense accounts
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment
Posted: January 29, 2010. Kelly McParland
Forbes has a story about one of those lists that is guaranteed to get plenty of media attention, without much explanation or context.
This one indicates that Canada is the second friendliest country on Earth.
Bahrain is friendlier. Yes, Bahrain. Which is a bit strange, since the United Arab Emirates, which is located right near by, got one of the lower scores on the survey. Maybe all the friendly people in the UAE get fed up and move to Bahrain, where they can be cheerful without getting groused at.
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For affordable justice
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial
Published On Wed Jan 27 2010
The provincial government’s decision to raise hourly fees for legal aid lawyers demonstrates its “commitment to providing a strong, stable legal aid system,” Attorney General Chris Bentley said this week. The Criminal Lawyers’ Association – whose boycott of the most serious cases forced Bentley’s hand – have called it “an historic agreement on the future of legal aid in Ontario.”
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It’s always about money [Aboriginal Protest of Olympics]
TheGlobeandMail.com – It’s always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. Dependency spending doesn’t work, as some native leaders understand
Published on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Last updated on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Gary Mason
From the day organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics began their planning, the role that Canada’s aboriginal communities would play in the Games was interwoven into virtually every discussion.
Tags: Indigenous
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The hurdle to leap in the next election [representation of Women]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Editorial – The hurdle to leap in the next election: For a country that prides itself on its inclusiveness and diversity, Canadians are doing a poor job of reflecting their society in their political ranks, especially women
Published on Jan. 11, 2010 12:07AM EST Last updated on Jan. 12, 2010.
Tags: women
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Remote aboriginal reserves generate tales of tragedy
NationalPost.com – Opinions/Editorial – Remote aboriginal reserves generate tales of tragedy
Published: Friday, January 08, 2010
Aboriginal reserves generate tales of unspeakable childhood tragedy with sickening regularity. Yet this week’s instalment seems more lurid than most — like something plucked out of the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. It leads us to ask, once again, why Canadians are spending their billions to subsidize life in such remote, God-forsaken communities.
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A new approach [to settling Aboriginal land claims]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – A new approach
Published: Monday, January 04, 2010
By last count — a federal government estimate from 2003 — Ottawa has spent over $8-billion just on researching aboriginal land claims and arguing them in court, largely because it funds the lawyers and consultants for both sides: its own and those of the First Nations bringing the claims. Yet to date, only a few of the outstanding claims have been resolved. Most remain mired far from settlement.
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Wanted: A place to call home for disabled-child family
TheStar.com – News/GTA – Wanted: A place to call home for disabled-child family: Accessible, affordable housing years away
Published On Mon Jan 04 2010. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter
Bihn Lu strains as she climbs the basement steps with 5-year-old Alan in her arms.
Her son, who was born with cerebral palsy and has limited use of his arms and legs, sleeps in the basement to be near the only bathroom in the family’s cramped, three-room apartment that spans two floors of a row house in Toronto’s east end.
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It’s simple, really. Enforce the law [Caledonia]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial – It’s simple, really. Enforce the law.
Posted: January 02, 2010.
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Recognizing aboriginal rights without violating the Constitution
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Recognizing aboriginal rights without violating the Constitution
Wednesday, December 30, 2009. John Carpay and Jeffrey Rustand, National Post
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The end of the gender wars
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – The end of the gender wars
Posted: December 30, 2009. Barbara Kay
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