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Sleight-of-hand at the Supreme Court

Seldom in recent years has a constitutional decision seemed so conjured out of thin air


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Message in spray paint

While Toronto goes through the motions of combatting the problem of graffiti vandalism, it is clearly losing the battle


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The CFL doesn't need this

Lberal Senator Larry Campbell's attempt to protect the league from NFL encroachment is not so much grandstanding as a well-intentioned effort to defend one of this country's valued institutions


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A psychologist speaks out on the RCMP and taser use

'I'm embarrassed to be associated with organizations that taser sick old men in hospital beds and confused immigrants who are arriving in the country.' Well said.

Commentary

A half-empty cup of Canadiana

People don't feel the loyalty they once did


commentary

Why this Victoria Day should be our last

Let's grow up Canada and take pride in what is Canadian, rather than glorifying an English monarch who died in 1901


commentary

Australia has the jump on us

Immigration reforms introduced in 1999, such as testing for language proficiency, paid off right away

 

More Globe editorials 

Globe editorial: Enforcement could forestall racism

Sadly, we can look forward to more free-floating allegations and fishing expeditions from the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Jeffrey Simpson: Harper's philistines hang Canada's portraits

The National Portrait Gallery's home should be in Ottawa, not in a far-flung condo.

GM's insincere demands

Dalton McGuinty's Ontario Liberals have said this week they will not be deterred from continuing to invest in the auto sector. They should maintain their resolve.

Burying our heads in the snow

The U.S. decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species because of anticipated ice loss from global warming is of major significance and should raise alarms in Canada.

Let's be players on the world stage

Despite Mr. Harper's strong words of 2006 about a stronger Canadian presence internationally, his government is spending too much time sitting on the sidelines to be a real player.

Behind Dallaire's rhetoric on child soldiers

Beneath the Liberal Senator's hyperbole about Canada's supposed moral equivalence with terrorists is an important principle: Democracies need to hold themselves to a higher standard than that of the terrorists who oppose them.

No need to hide money well spent

The secret is out: The United States paid a bounty hunter in Pakistan $500,000 to capture a Canadian suspected terrorist, and Canada knew about it. Is anyone shocked?

The army forsakes its duty in Lebanon

Peace and stability can never truly exist so long as Hezbollah, a radical, Iranian-supported terrorist organization, remains heavily armed and ready to run amok.

A child can't weigh life and death

Adult would have right to choose natural remedies over chemotherapy, but children dying of cancer do not, and should not, have right to reject potentially life-saving medical care

A wise change of course on ethanol

The NDP and the Bloc Québécois, with some healthy skepticism toward the ethanol fad, have set an example that the Conservatives and Liberals would do well to follow.


More Globe commentary 

Commentary: Stéphane Dion

Don't count out a man who's been counted out so many times before.

Commentary: U.S. race hasn't been a class act

Are there glimmers of hope in this cynicism-inducing mire?

Commentary: A binational Israel?

That's a pointless proposition

Lawrence Martin: A plan to muzzle the RCMP?

This demands an explanation

Margaret Wente: What's that fishy smell?

Maybe it's human rights empire-building

Clifford Orwin: A responsibility to protect — unshouldered

R2P is nothing more than a cover for global inaction

Rayyan Al-Shawaf: Lebanon's military may have a greater role

Although granting the army a greater role in mediation could seriously disfigure the country's political process, it might be the only way to prevent a political struggle from degenerating into sectarian conflict and another civil war.

Jeffrey Simpson: Distinguished public servants

They serve us well

Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary set a new low for women

She smashed myth of female moral superiority in worst way

Michael Wyman: Let the market choose our alternative fuels

Governments, lobbyists should not decide


The Saturday Globe essay 

Globe essay: The broken chain of answerability

Proliferating officers of Parliament and layers upon layers of rules threaten our democracy.

Konrad Yakabuski: Appearances in Quebec are misleading

The underlying trends in Quebec favour Mario Dumont and the ADQ, in spite of their current nadir

Patrick Martin: There can't be Mideast peace without Syria

The makings of a deal have been in place for more than a decade.

Tom Kent: Canada is much more than a hotel

If they are not ready to commit to a citizenship that has real consequences, immigrants should move on


The Mulroney inquiry 

Globe editorial: Name a Mulroney probe chair

Opposition MPs have long speculated that Mr. Harper was never serious about holding the promised inquiry before the next election. He runs the risk of proving them right.

William Kaplan: The ethics commissioner goes too far

Her ruling could create 'libel chill' in Parliament


The U.S. election 

Globe editorial: Put the party first, Hillary

Sen. Clinton has more than proven her tenacity. Now, it is time to prove her selflessness by putting her party's interests above her own ambitions.

Jeffrey Simpson: Hillary and Obama

She's trying to turn him into today's Adlai Stevenson

Lorna Dueck: What Rev. Wright did wrong

The American phenomenon of religious theatre


China & the Olympics 

Roméo Dallaire: Don't coddle Beijing

Many consider it taboo to link the genocide in Darfur and the Beijing Olympics


More Web-exclusive comment 

Les Horswill: Harper should let Dion's carbon tax breathe

There are four reasons the PM should promote, rather than stifle, debate on the climate-change measure

Rula Odeh: Birth of a nation in exile

For Palestinians, May 14 marks the day many were turned out of their homes

Pablo Heidrich: Canada's unwitting role in Colombia

What are the true connections between trade, democracy and human rights in Latin America?

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