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Turkey: a threat to the West?12 Jun 2010 Financial Post A radical regime in Turkey will be well positioned in future to defend the faith at home and — in the Imperial traditions of Islam — to defend the faith abroad as well. Full story » Obama and Raul24 Apr 2009 National Post Without doubt, the half-century-old U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba failed to democratize Cuba's regime and liberate its citizens. Also without doubt, trading with Cuba over that half century, as Canada, European nations, and more than 100 other countries have done, has likewise failed. Full story » False hope for global unity31 Oct 2008 National Post My American friends believe that, after Barack Obama becomes president, America will once again be loved around the world. They are wishful thinkers. Anti-Americanism didn’t begin with George Bush and it won’t end with an Obama presidency. With rare exceptions, America has always inspired hatred and contempt, and for reasons that aren’t about to go away. Those who expect America’s haters to convert on November 4 need to get out more. Full story » Harper, patriot20 Jan 2006 National Post Stephen Harper is a separatist. Stephen Harper is unpatriotic. Stephen Harper can't even bring himself to say he loves his country. Full story » The rich have always been inviting targets9 Mar 2004 National Post Some are appalled that Martha Stewart could be prosecuted for covering up a crime she didn't commit, especially when prosecutors would never have bothered pursuing an ordinary person. Yet double standards against the rich are nothing new. Prosecutors and others have long made their careers by going after this very visible minority. Full story » Paul Martin's other deficit problem8 Jan 2004 National Post Patronage, ethics and other corruption-related issues loomed large in the last federal election. They didn't stop Jean Chretien and the Liberals from being re-elected with an increased majority but they did cast a pall over the country.
A poll taken in 2002 by EKOS Research Associates Inc. showed 51% believed Paul Martin would be better able to deal with ethics and corruption issues than Mr. Chretien, who received the nod of just 21% of those polled. Full story » Options for Ontario's free-market Tories17 Sep 2003 National Post Ontario's Tories are disillusioned. The party of Mike Harris has become, under Harris's successor, Ernie Eves, a party of Big Government. Many plan to sit out Ontario's election Oct. 2. Free-market Tories are right to be revulsed by Eves. He has turned on the spending taps and turned his back on tax cuts. He has trashed an open market in electricity and, if returned to power, promises to trash the auto insurance industry. Full story » An urban coup12 Jun 2003 National Post
Sources: America's 51st and 52nd states5 Jun 2003 National Post
Sources: Rural separatism30 May 2003 National Post Two clashing cultures cause most of the discord that characterizes our country. Until we reconcile the two, large parts of our economy will continue as cripples, large parts of our environment will continue to be destroyed, and regional movements – some of them separatist – will threaten to tear us apart. Full story » |
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The great majority of Canadians – 70%, according to an Ipsos-Reid poll released earlier this week – favour NAFTA, Canada's free trade pact with the United States and Mexico. Supporters of the major national political parties show even greater support: Tory voters come in at 75%, Liberal voters at 77%, Canadian Alliance voters at 79%. 
George Bush wants Alberta's oil but, if it were up for grabs, he'd want Alberta even more. With Alberta as America's 51st state, the U.S. would secure 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves, more than exist in Saudi Arabia. U.S. oil imports would plummet and America's great dependence on foreign oil would vanish. 
