NationalPost.com – news – Ottawa using intervention to extinguish extremism: Muslim Outreach
Saturday, January 31, 2009. Stewart Bell
The government has been using “counter-radicalization techniques” to steer Canadian Muslims away from extremism, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post.
The document outlines a little-known, government-wide, counter-radicalization strategy that aims to prevent al-Qaedainspired terrorists such as the London transit bombers from emerging within Canada.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – Tax cuts: Why the opposition should have insisted on changes: Largest windfall goes to the top 8% of tax filers instead of the neediest
January 30, 2009. Lisa Philipps
Our new federal budget unveiled Tuesday has a split personality.
On the spending side it is fiscally liberal, claiming a large role for governments in fixing markets and sheltering the vulnerable. But the tax side was different.
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
TheStar.com – Ontario – Premier’s persistence pays off
Jan 30, 2009. Jim Coyle
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Aggressive bid to tackle Toronto’s diversity ‘deficit’: Program taps into talent pool of immigrants to boost number of qualified minorities on public and non-profit agencies
January 27, 2009. JENNIFER LEWINGTON
Robin Cardozo’s credentials – current CEO of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and a former top executive of the United Way of Greater Toronto – would seem to make him a good catch for a public-sector board of directors.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinion – Human rights trump property rights
January 26, 2009. Carol Goar
Community organizing is a term that conjures up images of Chicago’s south side, Harlem in the 1970s and ’80s and U.S. President Barack Obama’s early career. But Canadians – especially here in Toronto – know how to get people working for change in their community, their city and their country.
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
TheStar.com – living/disabilities – New deadline means RDSPs could actually help
January 17, 2009. Helen Henderson
Families coping with disabilities are used to fighting through thick and thin. So they are unlikely to be surprised by the irony that a move to help them build a more secure future kicks in during the thinnest economic times Canadians have seen in many years.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
TheGlobeandMail.com – Politics – Despite warnings, PM touts fixes for short term
January 16, 2009. JOHN PARTRIDGE AND STEVEN CHASE
TORONTO/OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned that Ottawa will be forced to run “very significant deficits” in the next few years to pull Canada out of a severe downturn — but a group of leading economists is warning him against wasting borrowed money on short-term measures to spur consumer spending or prop up struggling industries.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Connect2Canada – Canada Watch – Canadian Aboriginal Policy Built on False Assumptions
January 16, 2009.
The standard model for thinking about Aboriginal policy in Canada is fundamentally wrong, declares Gordon Gibson. In A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy, recently published by the Fraser Institute, he urges a paradigm shift in which less weight is given to Aboriginals as a collective, and more emphasis is put on Aboriginals as individuals.
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/commerce.web/product_files/NewLookCanadianIndianPolicy.pdf
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