Archive for February, 2007
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What really happened to Maher Arar?
Maher Arar received the largest government settlement in Canadian history. Even after an inquiry, the public should ask, why?
Torture is the heart of darkness at the centre of the Maher Arar story. Back in 2002, when the U.S. deported Arar as a suspected terrorist to Syria, a country with an appalling human rights record, everyone […]
An evening at the pops
One of my favourite vinyl records within my reach when I was little–besides the one I mention here–was a Living Stereo recording of Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops playing Rossini’s Overture to William Tell on one side, and Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March on the other (here’s a CD reissue). As children of the time, my […]
Tolerating intolerance
Canada’s federal broadcasting watchdog proves strangely accepting of state oppression
As if they were taking lessons from the Maoists, when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission decreed that Rogers Cable can market nine Chinese state TV channels, they announced it on the last working day before Christmas. That pretty much guaranteed the decision was ignored, as […]
Europe a.k.a “civil war”
There are so many areas in France where the government has lost control, it could be argued that its national sovereignty is compromised. The last tally was 751 of the euphemistically named Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS) or Sensitive Urban Zones, making a map of France look like Swiss cheese. Since 2002, they’ve officially stopped counting. […]
No exception to the rule
Someone just posted this on YouTube, a live version of “Everybody Plays the Fool,” a 1972 hit by the original group, The Main Ingredient. I was a little boy when it came out, and I believe it wasn’t too long after this song hit the charts that I proved for the first–but certainly not for […]
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