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Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 22:33 in General, New Jersey Nets, eminent domain, property rights, atlantic yards, kelo, war museum, phizer, richard albert, alex tabbarak, lebreton flats, thomas merrill
The other day, I wrote about the most recent development in what can best be described as the Kelo Affair – about how the government decided to take people’s homes not because of blight or because the buildings were fit to be condemned, b...
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Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 20:24 in war on terror, afghanistan, torture, prisoner abuse, legal & justice, foreign policy & military, war & terrorism, richard colvin, david mulroney
ThePolitic’s favourite Ordinary Gentleman, Scott H. Payne, has decided he’s had enough of just writing about the Afghan torture/Richard Colvin affair. He doesn’t like what’s going on, and he wants to see a public inquiry int...
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Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 21:45 in economy & industry, legal & justice
(Full disclosure: I own an iPhone, which is both amazing and meh. If you own one you know what I mean.) If you own any Apple products and subject them to tobacco smoke on a regular basis, you may be interested to learn that according to this site Ste...
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Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 07:33 in environmentalism, environment & nature, bernard bigras
If you can, read this — probably the single most concise display of comprehensive environmental illness: «Le Canada devrait s’engager à proposer: une diminution de 25% en cible absolue des émissions de gaz à effet de serre des pays ...
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Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 23:02 in afghanistan, gay rights, u.s. army, don't ask don't tell, legal & justice, citizenship & immigration, war resister, bethany smith, skylar green, war resisters supprt campaign, refugee board
It’s not a final decision, but a federal court has ordered the Refugee Board re-consider the case of Skyler James (previously known as Pte. Bethany Smith). Ms. James is a U.S. war resister, who was to have been deployed to Afghanistan as a me...
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Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 07:07 in citizenship & immigration
Despite the contraction in the title, I like this National Post editorial: Don’t go to Cuba. Finally, some Canadians have the courage to publicly ostracize this vacation destination. I have never been to Cuba and I have never wanted to go p...
S. Winter
Interesting !
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