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September 13, 2007
- Why must we be so politically correct? On July 19, 2007, the Taliban in Afghanistan stopped a bus en route from Kabul to Kandahar and took 23 Korean civilians hostage.
- Rolling on the river in fine style The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Queen II cruise that day.
- A proposed bylaw that begs for reflection It's easy to see why the city's officials and council have been swept up by the community's dogged determination to shut down most of the drug dealers and crack shacks that prey on terrible addictions.
September 12, 2007
- BRUCE WHITESTONE Gold is undervalued over the long term Gold's price is a key barometer of the state of the economy. Enthusiasm for gold is not just a foolish mania of a small minority of so-called goldbugs.
September 11, 2007
- Gwynne Dyer Troops will leave after lame duck' does LONDON The thing to remember about General David Petraeus's report to Congress on the progress made by the U.S. military 'surge' in Iraq is that he is basically reporting on his own performance.
September 9, 2007
- Indeed, what were they thinking? DAWSON CITY So a judge in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, has decided that Dawson City is just the place to send a convicted P.E.I. sex offender now that he's served his complete 14-year sentence.
September 6, 2007
- Foisting a time bomb upon the Klondike Sometimes, digesting the more bizarre edicts from Canada's problematic justice system can be a ghastly, emotionally-searing proposition.
September 5, 2007
- GWYNNE DYER Extreme climate and extreme politics LONDON 'How are our children going to survive in a land that is dead?' asked a survivor of the wildfires that seared much of southern Greece during the last week of August.