Archive for January, 2005
Strippergate gets ugly
Revelations that immigration officials made special exemptions for dancers lead to charges that Canada is aiding the white slave trade
It may have started off as a slightly amusing scandal: an exotic dancer, who worked on federal Immigration Minister Judy Sgro’s re-election campaign, ends up fast-tracked through the immigration system. Sgro defends herself by revealing that, […]
The postpartum defense
Excusing Canada’s murderous mothers
When Andrea Labbe walked through her west-end Toronto house in December and stabbed her husband and her three-year-old daughter and her two-year-old daughter before turning the knife on herself, it didn’t take the average journalist long to conclude what was going on. “Postpartum symptoms can be overwhelming,” ran one headline in the […]
Strong-arm of the law
Edmonton launches an investigation into allegations that its cops are using stings to silence their critics
A few days before the Alberta provincial election, 50 politicians and journalists converged on the Overtime Broiler and Taproom in downtown Edmonton for a mixer thrown by the Canadian Association of Journalists. Among others at the party were Edmonton […]
Question Period: Rod Love
Born Aug. 5, 1953. Yorkton, Sask. Alberta Premier Ralph Klein’s chief of staff. Former political consultant, Rod Love Consulting Inc., Klein’s chief of staff from 1992 to 1998, executive assistant to Klein as environment minister and as mayor of Calgary, waiter at The Keg.
Kevin Steel: What went wrong for the Tories in the recent Alberta […]
Revenue Canada vs. Bishop Henry
No one said curtailing religious freedoms would be easy
Regulating religion can be a tricky business. Maybe that’s why most modern liberal democracies, including our own, are careful to constitutionally entrench the separation of church and state. Mixing the two isn’t only typically seen as an assault on freedom, but it can be downright difficult to […]
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