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John Robson: In Our Hearts We’re All Heroes, but in the Real World Speaking Up Takes Courage

August 15, 2022
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Commentary Would you appear on a platform next to Salman Rushdie? Inside our heads, I suppose, we’re all heroes. We’d have been anti-Nazi in the 1930s, anti-Communist in the 1970s, anti-slavery in the 1850s, anti-Nero in ancient Rome, anti-Nazgul in Middle Earth, and so forth. But in the real world it takes commitment and courage…

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Invocation of Emergencies Act Will Go Down in History as a Political Embarrassment

June 21, 2022
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Commentary The federal government proclaimed a national state of emergency and invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 of this year. We are now dealing with the aftermath. There are demands that the minister of public safety resign for misleading the House of Commons. I will only mention one of the worst abuses, which was…

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Trudeau to Meet NATO Leader in Latvia After Pledging Support to Baltic Leaders

March 8, 2022
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived Tuesday at one of NATO’s military bases on the Russian border after telling three Baltic leaders that Canada will stand with them to fight the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and its cyberattacks on their countries. “You are literally on the front lines of this challenge with Russia,” he said earlier…

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