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Editorial

March of the control freaks

A troubling pattern is materializing in Ottawa. In committee meetings, federal auditor general Sheila Fraser announced there were newly drafted rules that would require her public statements to be vetted by the Privy...

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Letters to the Editor

The innocent don’t need civil liberties It is a sad day in Canada when the rights of criminals are protected over the safety and well-being of our society. We need drug-sniffing dogs.

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Columns

When the ‘good guys’ behave like ‘bad guys’

In 2002, a 15-year-old Canadian boy, Omar Khadr, committed the crime of being discovered alive in an Afghanistan building that had been attacked by American troops. The compound was thought to be an al-Qaida base, and...

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Suffer the children

Many small feet had pounded the dirt floor smooth and hard. Benches allowed more kids to crowd in and find a seat than individual chairs would have. Long wooden planks served as common writing surfaces.

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Fiscal responsibility, Flaherty style

When the Ontario voters threw Mike Harris’s Conservatives out of office in 2003, finance minister Jim Flaherty left the province with a hefty $5.6-billion deficit. Today, Flaherty is in the process of doing the...

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