The choice: 400 Quebec jobs or thousands of Indian lives
JEFFREY SIMPSON Billions of dollars will be spent over the next two decades to repair the Parliament Buildings. One reason for the repair: The buildings are full of asbestos, a cancer-causing substance that Canadians no longer use. But we mine asbestos, we ship it, we make money from it, and we’ll use every diplomatic trick [...]
Who monitors the religious freedom monitor?
Sheema Khan In the recent Throne Speech, the Conservatives in Canada made good on their campaign pledge to create an Office of Religious Freedom to monitor treatment of believers worldwide and promote religious freedom as a key objective of Canadian foreign policy. While the election pledge was seen as a carrot in the Conservatives’ plan [...]
Baba Ramdev fast: Just cause or blackmail?
In this open season of hunger strikes, India is bracing for another one, beginning this weekend. After activist Anna Hazare brought the government to its knees with his 96-hour fast in April demanding tough anti-corruption laws, the government is now debating a contentious law for a corruption ombudsman with Mr Hazare’s “civil society” representatives. Now [...]