By Alison@Creekside Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced in Question Period Friday that the government will comply with, rather than appeal, the Federal Court decision ordering it to repatriate Abousfian Abdelrazik, stranded in Sudan since 2003. Good. As Chris Selley writes: “It’s all over but the thousands of unanswered questions”Here’s one. How much did this July […]
Supernatural! Downtown Eastside!
By guest blogger Alison@Creekside United Nations envoy Miloon Kothari, on a tour of Canada to examine homelessness, said he visited Vancouver specifically to assess whether the Olympic bid’s pledges “are being kept.” “Vancouver said, ‘If we get the Games, we commit to leaving a positive legacy,’ and we [at the UN] are taking that at […]
Oh Canada, grow up
Canada’s international reputation will sink into the slime that was once the Arctic Ocean if we don’t stop two monumental hypocrisies: refusing to cap carbon emissions unless China and India do, and, secondly, lecturing Iran on human rights violations when we routinely oppress our own citizens. In both instances, Canadians cannot point the finger at […]
Instead of threats, how about offering Iran some dignity?
At this point in the episode, the political oneupmanship almost concluded, we should take note of what the Iranian regime was looking for when they arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel and held them for 13 days. An international incident? A war? Probably not. Instead, they were likely looking to be recognized as a regime that […]
