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Why the soft wood lumber deal was done behind closed doors? This razes the questions if this deal was in favour of Canadians or not. Especially when the Americans have collected some $5B from the softwood going south and the settlement was approximately $4B. To forfeit $1B money that belongs...

Here is a bit of Michael Ignatieff's version of Liberalism; it has a warm beam of light in it. I think the Liberal Party of Canada could prosper under this type of Liberalism. Michael Ignatieff also ignited the crowd by lauding the Prime Minister and the party for its commitment to the...

Bring back the men and women from Afghanistan. More than 50% of Canadians are starting to realise that this war is a stupid war with human lose that will never be justified. The war in Afghanistan is not about protecting Afghani women and children; this war is about defending the American way of...

The church of Christianity is slowly losing support from its membership. Attendance is down more than ever. The reason this is so, is because back in the Sodom and Gomorra days, the same thing did happened. The people at that time found them self’s doing completely the opposite of what was...

Many drink and drive and could not care less if they kill anyone else or them self’s. People from all walks of life are affected with this difficult problem. Yet Alcohol is the number one revenue producer for the Government. The person who is dependent on alcohol on a daily bases is welcomed by...

A Father and a Mother at odds with each other, while the poor innocent children pay the price. It is a despicable act when a man wants to have his opinion prevail with in his family unit and violence is the only way in maintaining such control, while the poor innocent children again pay a price...

Direct participation was the key to Athenian democracy. In the Assembly, every male citizen was not only entitled to attend as often as he pleased but also had the right to debate, offer amendments, and vote on proposals. Every man had a say in whether to declare war or stay in peace. Basically...

Use of the dialogue as a literary device made it easy for Plato not only to present his own position (in the voice of Socrates) but also to consider (in the voices of other characters) significant objections that might be raised against it. This doesn't mean that philosophy is merely an idle...

Remember that the basic plan of the Republic is to draw a systematic analogy between the operation of society as a whole and the life of any individual human being. So Plato supposed that people exhibit the same features, perform the same functions, and embody the same virtues that city-states...

Branch of philosophy concerned with the evaluation of human conduct. Philosophers commonly distinguish: * descriptive ethics, the factual study of the ethical standards or principles of a group or tradition; * normative ethics, the development of theories that systematically...

{Gk. areth [aretê]; Lat. virtus} Excellence, skill, or art. In classical thought, virtues are admirable human characteristics or dispositions that distinguish good people from bad. Socrates sought a singular virtue for human life, while Plato identified four central virtues present in the ideal...

The vote with Emerson, the flag not to be lowered, the media restriction, the removal of the ethics commissioner sends Democracy to the Lions on Harpers political report card. The bleded tax is another monky reng in the mix. Wait till the end of the 18 months Harper will have every one thinking...

May your souls forever be in comfort in a life only experienced by you the fallen soldier. May the rest of the world stop killing each other in order to drive the massage across. Humanity to day as we speak is fighting 60 different wars on the face of our planet. 95% of these wars are fought on...

It is a disgrace for Harper to dictate the method of morning for the Canadian soldiers. To place the Canadian flag on half mast has always been the tradition in order to show the out most respect for a country that is in the process of saying good buy to fallen young man and women while serving...

The real reason why Harper is taking the ass kissing supportive root to Afghanistan is because Harper is out to impress W Bush and other world war loving leaders like Tony Blear and others. When Politics put a spear through the hart of Democracy that is Hypocrisy! Harper is a cartoon in real...

Book I of The Republic appears to be a Socratic dialogue on the nature of justice (Gk. dikaiwsunh [dikaiôsunê]). As always, the goal of the discussion is to discover the genuine nature of the subject at hand, but the process involves the proposal, criticism, and rejection of several inadequate...

My fellow Canadians here is the biger picture other than politics. The deep of your minds! Apology: The Examined Life Because of his political associations with an earlier regime, the Athenian democracy put Socrates on trial, charging him with undermining state religion and corrupting young...

Here is some food for thought. Just today the Cons announced that they will offer a formal apology to all the Chinese Canadians who had been wrongfully charged the infamous head tax. The catch her is that, (money talks and garbage walk), and I am sure you know what I mean. The manipulation is...

Socrates argues that the best ruler must always be someone who knows how to rule, someone who understands ruling as a craft. But since crafts of any sort invariably aim to produce some external goal (Gk. teloV [télos]), good practitioners of each craft always act for the sake of that goal, never...

Harper has introduced a policy of restricting reporters' access to the third floor hallway where Cabinet meetings are held, and where reporters traditionally ask questions of ministers as they left the meetings. The Parliamentary Press Gallery is also increasingly up in arms over the Prime...