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• Canadian Politics In Review: While Parliament Away Prime Minister Continues To Play

  Steven Harper has done nothing to dispel the opposition's mistrust in the two weeks since he suspended Parliament.

  News by Richard Marcus — on Dec 23, 2008

• Canadian Politics: Canadians Don't Know How Their Government Works

  Fifty-one percent of Canadians believe that the Prime Minister of Canada is elected by direct vote.

  News by Richard Marcus — on Dec 17, 2008

• Canadian Politics: A New Leader For The Liberal Party

  Bob Rae steps aside to allow Michael Ignatieff assume the leadership of Canada's federal Liberal party.

  News by Richard Marcus — on Dec 10, 2008

• Canadian Politics: Prime Minister Cancels Parliament To Preserve Government

  Prime Minister Steven Harper has received permission from the Governor-General to suspend Parliament until January 26th

  News by Richard Marcus — on Dec 06, 2008

• Canadian Politics: We're Having An Election Too (Not That Anybody's Noticed)

  Steven Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada could very well have a majority government by October 15th.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Sep 30, 2008

• Canada's Safe Injection Site Given Reprieve By Courts

  British Columbia's Supreme Court declared that allowing addicts to inject drugs in a safe, medically supervised environment is a matter of sensible health care.

  News by Richard Marcus — on May 29, 2008

• Just Say Yes: To Safe Injection Sites

  Isn't it time to stop saying no, and start saying yes to safe injection sites?

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on May 25, 2008

• Logic And Reason: The Latest Victims Of HIV/AIDS

  It seems that logic, reason, and statistical evidence mean nothing to people like the Prime Minister of Canada and his fellow travellers.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on May 19, 2008

• What Do Canada's Native Residential Schools And Barack Obama Have In Common?

  You can't just wish away history or whisk it under the rug as if it never happened.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Apr 30, 2008

• Multiculturalism And The Melting Pot: Immigration In Canada And The United States, Part One

  Through the 1960s it was easy to portray Canada as a happy, multicultural paradise.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Nov 28, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Intolerance Rising

  Fear of something because you don't understand it is the behaviour of a coward, and intolerance is the coward's defence against fear.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Oct 26, 2007

• The Politics Of Fear

  Politicians don't even like themselves enough to give people reasons to vote for them.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Oct 10, 2007

• Book Review: Rick Mercer Report - The Book by Rick Mercer

  If Rick Mercer Report can make an iconoclast like me think seriously about why I love my country, think what it can do for you.

  Review by Richard Marcus — on Sep 25, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Military Spending Part 2

  Sixteen billion dollars is a fair chunk of change and I think I'd like to know how they made their decisions, wouldn't you?

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Jul 29, 2007

• Canadian Politics: New Military Spending Part 1

  If the government was serious about wanting to protect our country they would defend our Arctic territories and coastal waters.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Jul 29, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Military Denies Access To Information About Afghan Detainees

  Ensure eveyone believes what you tell them...suppress any evidence that contradicts you.

  News by Richard Marcus — on Jul 11, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Native Treaty Rights And Land Claims

  the grass has gotten pretty brown and the running water has slowed to a trickle.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Jun 13, 2007

• Canadian Politics: It's Time For A National Drug Treatment Program

  The "War On Drugs" has proven to be a failure, isn’t it time we tried a different approach?

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on May 26, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Child Poverty - Our Shame

  there is no reason that any child in Canada should be going to bed hungry at night or without a roof over their head.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on May 14, 2007

• Canadian Politics: Support Our Troops! When It's Suits Us.

  a government who cared about the people it sent overseas would treat their families with respect and compassion.

  Opinion by Richard Marcus — on Apr 26, 2007