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If we want to introduce the death penalty for terrorists or attach CCTV cameras at every intersection to film all public spaces, by all means. If we want to legalize concealed or open carry of weapons, I'm for that too. But we should never sacrifice a person's right to be presumed innocent...

Regardless of the religion, people can easily be manipulated into accepting a violent corruption of a religion by being presented quotes our of context, and we never know who will convert to what religion as an adult. Is it time to promote 'religious literacy' in school by having students read...

With Canadian nationalists and universalists being more polarized than ever, we can imagine a foreseeable future of extreme pendulum shifts in immigration policy every four or five years, each feeding reactively on the other, with no certainty as to where this polarization is bound to lead in...

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Some terrorist groups have successfully been either crushed or at least sufficiently controlled to limit their spread. Among them: FLQ ETA IRA PIRA Red Army Faction Among others. What were the policies that helped to either destroy these organizations or at least restrict their spread?

When we consider that, aside from collaborators, innocent friends and family members are the ones most likely to know about a person's crimes or at least harbour suspicions, but may hesitate to report the crime or suspicion thereof to the police to protect the person from imprisonment, and that...

British mother had abortion 'because of visa rules' - BBC News I found that this article presents an interesting moral dilemma. If a married woman's choice to abort her child is motivated by visa rules relating to her foreign husband, then on the one hand she, her husband, or both are morally...

Maybe there some isolated parts of Canada where few Canadians want to go. Have a resource company set up a mine there for example, start building the housing around that mine, train the refugees and get them to work there. Bingo. They're all self- supporting the moment they arrive. If they get...

Refugees struggle to cope with their traumatic memories - World - CBC News

If I understand correctly, Trudeau is not particularly keen, at least for this mandate, to open the Constitution unless he has to, yet everyone knows our flawed Constitution will need to be opened sooner or later. What we can do in the meantime though is collect information on the matter that...

What makes murder morally wrong?

When it was announced that Russell Williams was charged and later convicted of rapes, murders, breakins, etc., though there was much speculation as to how the high-ranking officials around him from the Queen to the Prime Minister whose aircraft he'd piloted, to his superior officers and his...

Time for a truce between nationalist and internationalist Canadians? On the one hand we have the nationalists. They oppose immigration and free trade and want to assimilate everyone or at least give the dominant ethnic groups an advantage (Indian Act, Official Lannguages Act, separate school...

Should we make reserves ASAR's? We often read or hear of the need to provide more funding for educational and other services on indigenous reserves. While I agree with that, I think it would also be wise to give them the tools to help themselves too. To make an analogy, imagine that your...

Quite often we think of promoting private enterprise and helping the poor as being incompatible. But are they really? Hong Kong has one of the lowest tax rates in the world yet one of the best social safety nets in the world and still maintains a policy of fiscal conservatism. How does it do...

It would seem that the NDP will find itself in a tight spot in this mandate. Mulcair had run to the right of Trudeau, promising a balanced budget, probably resulting in many on the left voting for Trudeau and those on the Centre voting for Mulcair. If Mulcair now applaud's Trudeau's...

For example, the Qur'án and ahadith prohibit the consumption of alcool but not the serving of alcohol. They teach cleanliness and that dogs are dirty but never explicitly prohibit the touching of a dog. They also don't explicitly prohibit covering the face. So the question is, should religious...

I believe that most Canadians are more libéral-conservative at heart, but still expect a competent leader of a character that is compatible with theirs. On the economic front, the Conservatives had it on the bag. Had the Conservatives run a campaign that was even close in quality to the Liberal...

Reid survives tight battle in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston | News and Features | Ca Of the CPC members I know, Reid might make a good Conservative Party leader from what I know of him. http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/canada-election-2015-chris-hall-harper-succession-1.3278943

For me, it's the Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act. I can say from personal observation of someone close to me having been falsely accused under the Act that the biggest problems relate to due process. First, I would add the following to the Act straight from the UDHR: 1. No one shall be...