As evening approaches in Iraq, there is no word on the fate of 2 Canadians, a British citizen and an American. The demands of the kidnappers were that prisoners of US and Iraqi forces be freed. A deadline set Thursday had been extended to today. Norman Kember, 74, of London, Tom Fox, 54, of Clearbrook, [...]
Published 2 years, 9 months ago 1 commentKevin Sites has an article about what he learned at a journalism conference, “Covering the Other: Intolerance and Bigotry in The American and Arab Media,” sponsored by the nonprofit Aspen Institute and held in the Middle East.
We discussed how important it is to be fair, but how in some cases overriding objectivity prevents us from [...]
Published 2 years, 9 months ago
If you are going to espouse tolerance, it might help if you showed some. This is the second time in the past couple of months I’ve run across this fish symbol thing going on.
The fish symbol is obstensively a symbol of a Christian. Any symbol is probably going to be hijacked, and this time it’s [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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