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An historic opportunity to put Canada ahead of partisanship
TheStar.com – Opinion – An historic opportunity to put Canada ahead of partisanship: In nation’s moment of need, Harper displays combination of blind ambition, incompetence
December 01, 2008. Gregory Sorbara
At a time of great national economic challenge, Stephen Harper has chosen an ideologically driven high-wire act of political vengeance over non-partisan, thoughtful national progress. His latest attempts at retreat reveal a devastating combination of blind ambition and incompetence at a time when our nation needs the opposite.
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Closing the gender health gap [Women’s Health]
TheStar.com – Opinion – Closing the gender health gap
December 01, 2008. Carol Goar
It typically takes eight years for a medical discovery to work its way into patient care. That time lag can be costly, even fatal.
For years, women suffering heart attacks were sent home from emergency wards because they didn’t report chest pains. Medical researchers knew – but many practitioners and women didn’t – that the most common symptoms of cardiac arrest in women are nausea, vomiting, intense fatigue and shortness of breath.
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Islands Of Repression [Freedom of speech at universities]
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment – Islands Of Repression
Posted: November 27, 2008. Ian Hunter
Universities serve many purposes and different communities but, first and foremost, a university should always be a bastion of free speech. How sad then, how in a macabre sort of way funny, that they have become instead (in William Bennett’s elegant phrase) “islands of repression in a sea of freedom.”
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Better off in the city [Aboriginal Canadians]
NationalPost.com – Opinion – Better off in the city
Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008. Mark Milke
Digging through census data is hardly a fun way to spend a few days. But if you think, as I do, that raw numbers might reveal much about people and communities, then mining recently released data from the 2006 census is at least productive. I did just that recently to get a numerical grasp on Canada’s aboriginal population, including those who prosper and those who fail, and with possible clues as to why.
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Women bear brunt of downturn
TheStar.com – living – Women bear brunt of downturn
November 26, 2008. Antonia Zerbisias
We may all be tightening our belts, but women are feeling the biggest pinch.
They will soon be pounding the pavement, many starting in January, when you can bet that their jobs in retail will disappear.
The sale signs are already grim. Consumer confidence is the lowest it’s been since 1982.
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