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October 2, 2007
- The majority's interests had to prevail There's no doubt the innocent teenager ensnarled in the case of a so-called drug dog entering a local high school has endured a prolonged and painful ordeal.
September 27, 2007
- Stephen Harper has failed to get the job done 'You can't build a reputation on what you will do, but on what you have actually done!' I have no political attachments, belong to no political parties.
- Segregation creates anger, mistrust and hate On a recent trip to the United States, I had a chance to watch an American news program on television and saw that moderate Muslims in one city had held a demonstration for peace.
- Sierra Leone: a good news story On Sept.18, the new president of Sierra Leone was sworn in, and the citizens of that country breathed a collective sigh of relief and pride that the elections had taken place without major fraud or violence... a rare event in recent African history.
- A determined action that's fit for the times In the rough-and-tumble school yard environments of generations gone by, the spectre of students being penalized for simply watching a fight would have been ridiculed as absurd.
September 25, 2007
- You have to tell them when you'll listen DAWSON CITY Did the Yukon government deliberately stack the deck against opposition by doing a sloppy job of promoting the recent tour of the Select Committee on Anti-smoking Legislation?
- GWYNNE DYER Iran's nuclear aspirations are overstated LONDON Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's two speeches in New York this week, at Columbia University and then at the United Nations General Assembly, have stirred up the usual storm of outrage in the Western media.
September 20, 2007
- Young people deserve a safe place to work 'We need to look very seriously at it because there will be a severe injury or a fatality involving a young person in this territory.'
September 19, 2007
- GWYNNE DYER Japan: The decline of the LDP? LONDON It is 62 years since Japan surrendered to the United States at the end of the Second World War.
- Bruce Whitestone There's a big shift toward unretiring' There is more to retirement nowadays than cruises or playing golf or cards.
September 17, 2007
- Gwynne Dyer The great Greenspan swallowed a fallacy LONDON Australia's defence minister, Brendan Nelson, is not the sharpest tool in the box.