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Support for Tory immigration plan
National Post – opinion/letters
Published: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Re: Good Policy, Risky Politics; Voters Could Penalize Tories For Immigration Plan, John Ivison, March 14.
Imagine being highly skilled, but losing your job because government-implemented draconian affirmative action policies. At the same time, the countries that can use your skills prevent you from emigrating because they don’t want to poach from developing countries. It’s a Catch-22.
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Multiculturalism’s nemesis
TheStar.com – Ideas – Multiculturalism’s nemesis: Meet Trevor Phillips, the man charged with shaking Britain’s view of diversity
March 15, 2008
Lynda Hurst, Feature Writer
Trevor Phillips has just been asked what he thinks of Africentric schools, like the one Toronto is planning in an optimistic bid to cut the 40 per cent dropout rate of black students.
The question is not unexpected.
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Immigration changes pose risk, critics say
TheStar.com – Canada – Immigration changes pose risk, critics say
March 15, 2008
Richard Brennan
OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA–The Conservative government has introduced changes that would give sweeping powers to the federal immigration minister, which critics fear would slam the door on many would-be Canadians.
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Canada’s other two solitudes
TheStar.com – comment/letters – Canada’s other two solitudes
March 12, 2008
Re:Reserve won’t get new school, despite YouTube campaign – March 10
A long list of schools needs to be built on First Nations reserves, and Attawapiskat, on James Bay, just got bumped off the list because needs are greater elsewhere. The children here have been promised a real school instead of makeshift portables for eight years. They are in portables because a diesel spill left their environment toxic.
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Misplaced priorities
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – Misplaced priorities
March 11, 2008
For eight years, children in Attawapiskat have been going to school in cramped portable classrooms after health concerns over decades-old diesel fuel contamination closed the local school.
In most parts of Canada, such appalling conditions would spark public outcry and quick government action. But in Attawapiskat, a remote First Nations reserve on Ontario’s James Bay coast, parents and children are being told they will just have to wait for a new school.
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Liberty – hostage to medicare
National Post – opinion/editorial
Published: Monday, March 10, 2008
The Ontario Superior Court on Thursday rejected a Sikh man’s claim to a religious-freedom exemption from the province’s law on mandatory motorcycle helmets. Supporters of safety as the holiest of political principles upheld the ruling as a triumph of reason; Sikh organizations denounced it as an act of naked discrimination against their faith. Few stepped forward to defend the idea that an adult in a free society should be able to wear what he wants and take the risks he wants where only his own body is concerned.
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Rights on reserves
National Post – opinion/editorial
Published: Saturday, March 08, 2008
We have long advocated an end to the treatment of Canadian aboriginals as members of tribal collectives rather than as individual citizens. In that vein, we welcome the introduction on Tuesday of legislation that would help on-reserve families gain clearer title to their homes, and give aboriginal women matrimonial property rights when marriages break down.
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Constitutional canaries: The wrong way to fight terrorism
Special to Globe and Mail Update – Web-exclusive comment
March 6, 2008 at 7:26 PM EST
RENE PROVOST AND MAUREEN DUFFY
Canada has long enjoyed a reputation around the world as a champion of human rights. A new law, approved last month by Parliament, may undermine that reputation. It should also be cause for concern for all Canadians.
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Caledonia + 2
National Post – opinion/editorial
Published: Tuesday, March 04, 2008
It was two years ago last week that aboriginal squatters from the Six Nations reserve south of Brantford, Ont., began their occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates development, halting work on the new subdivision and disrupting life and commerce in the nearby town of Caledonia. It is long past time, then, for both the provincial and federal governments to put an end to this shameful flouting of the law and all the ancillary crime it has spawned.
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To save a lot, you must earn a lot
TheStar.com – comment/letters – To save a lot, you must earn a lot
March 05, 2008
Re:Flaherty’s tax-saving plan – Comment, March 4
Michael Mendelson is right. High-income families will benefit the most from Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s tax-free savings plan. Only the financially well-off will be able to take full advantage of the $5,000 per year/per person tax-free accounts. Low- and middle-income families generally will not have that luxury.
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