The Chinese government, feeling threatened by the flow and exchange of information among its 100 million Internet users, announced yesterday the imposition of new regulations intended to limit access to news and commentary not pre-approved by the government’s Propaganda Department. The new rules will allow only the posting of “healthy …
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Sir Ian Blair: A Dangerous Man?
A police chief, it appears, has a tenuous grasp of "innocent until proven guilty", and the rule of law.
Read More »Our History Of Violence
The fact that I'm forced to even consider using a weapon is disturbing, that I have no choice in the matter is only slightly mitigating.
Read More »China’s Bourgeois Bandwagon
The bourgeois bandwagon is steaming along at full speed in China, as, spurred by government efforts to further boost average per-capita living space and private home ownership, residential building construction activity will advance at an estimated 8.8 percent annual pace in real terms through 2009, greatly outperforming other major national …
Read More »Paying For The Past: Canadian Compensation
It is an extremely difficult yet essential task ... finding the balance between compensation and preferred treatment.
Read More »Seven Out Of 159 ‘World Leaders’ Are Women
Today's picture of all of the world leaders at the UN summit makes a depressing sight.
Read More »Sharia Law In Ontario: Part Two
When we allow religion to dictate policy we have limited our options to one narrow view.
Read More »Anti-SUV Campaign: a Lot of Hot Air is Repaid With a Loss of Air
Owners are behaving in an anti-social manner. The Deflators provide time to reflect on the error of their ways.
Read More »Orange Lodge Perpetuates Hatred And Violence
Orange ... in Northern Ireland it means business as usual: violence and death.
Read More »Free Speech
...the idea of free speech has to be relieved of its iconic status.
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