Recently added articles from Inroads: A Journal of Opinion:
Introducing Inroads 23.
Jun 22, 2008; Chodos, Bob ... Inroads has become a quarterly. Well, sort of. Feeling that six months between issues is too long, in March we put together a 34-page package that we made available only through email and our website. Its main feature was an exchange on Pakistan between Doug McArthur, whose ...
The return of God--and what to do about it.(OPINION)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Whitaker, Reg ... Who would have thought that the new millennium would begin with jihads, holy wars, fatwas, inquisitions and slaughter of the innocents in the name of God? Almost four centuries since the Catholic Church condemned Galileo for heresy; a century and a half after Darwin's Origin of ...
Trust on a street corner, approaching midnight.(OPINION)
Jun 22, 2008; Poschmann, Finn ... A few blocks north and slightly to the east of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., there is a post office. Around a quarter to midnight on April 15 this year, I happened to be walking by (don't ask why). One thing, then another, grabbed my attention. The first was that traffic was heavy as I ...
Did the Israel lobby kill Rachel Carrie?(OPINION)
Jun 22, 2008; Milner, Arthur ... Rachel Corrie, an idealistic 23-year-old American from Olympia, Washington, was crushed to death by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier in Gaza on March 16, 2003. She was protesting collective punishment and the destruction of Palestinian homes. British actor Alan Rickman and Guardian ...
Polygamy, impunity and human rights.(OPINION)
Jun 22, 2008; Bramham, Daphne ... Polygamy has been illegal in Canada since 1890. It was criminalized soon after Charles O. Card, a fugitive escaping prosecution in Utah for having more than one wife, settled in Alberta. Card and several senior members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints went to ...
Enfranchising immigrants: should noncitizen residents have the right to vote?(FRONT MATTER)
Jun 22, 2008; Munro, Daniel ... In an interview with the Toronto Star's editorial board, Toronto Mayor David Miller indicated his support for a policy that would extend municipal voting rights to landed immigrants in Toronto. According to Miller, people should have "a real say in the decisions that are affecting them" ...
Stephen Harper, Canadian: a personality at a distance profile.(Case study)
Jun 22, 2008; Carter, Neal ... Stephen Harper presents a serious puzzle to students of Canadian politics. Often portrayed as a radically conservative ideologue, his policies on both the domestic and international fronts have been less dogmatic than most observers expected. In his column in the Winter/Spring 2008 issue ...
Politically correct and lovin' it.
Jun 22, 2008; Marcus, Willa ... One of my first jobs in journalism, back in the 1970s, was as researcher on CBC radio's Cross Country Checkup, the national phone-in show. Generally it was serious political stuff, but around April Fool's Day we decided to go light. In the era before the top ten list, we hit on a novel ...
Dr. Dion, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Minority Government.(FRONT MATTER)
Jun 22, 2008; Milner, Henry ... When the Liberals announced that they would not vote down the 2008 budget, Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson wrote, "The recent, silly, occasionally frenzied speculation about an election will end, for which Canadians can only be grateful." Indeed we were grateful, but exactly who ...
The Prairie NDP's uncertain future: a realistic Aboriginal agenda is nowhere to be found.(POLITICAL CHANGE ON THE PRAIRIES)
Jun 22, 2008; Richards, John ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2007, Manitoba voters reelected their NDP government, while Saskatchewan voters defeated theirs. Two elections, opposite results. What do they mean? In the following pages, Chris Adams examines polling data that cast light on the election outcomes, ...
Diverging paths? Why Manitoba still likes the NDP, and Saskatchewan doesn't.(POLITICAL CHANGE ON THE PRAIRIES)
Jun 22, 2008; Adams, Christopher ... In 2007, New Democratic Party governments in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan faced their electorates, and the two elections produced different outcomes. The results in the party's historical heartland have much to say about where the NDP has come from, and where it might be going. ...
The de Tocqueville of Saskatchewan: an appreciation of Seymour Martin Lipset.(POLITICAL CHANGE ON THE PRAIRIES)
Jun 22, 2008; Richards, John ... In his youth, the author of Agrarian Socialism was a Trotskyist; in his mature years, he figured prominently among neoconservative intellectuals, a group whose ideas and debates played an important role in shaping American public policy over the second half of the 20th century. It is an ...
Language: how well are we doing?(LANGUAGE POLICY)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; Richards, John ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A country's census tells us something about its concerns. The U.S. census affords much data on black/white and Hispanic/white trends in per capita income, education levels, rates of single parenthood and incarceration. Canada's census affords detailed data ...
Linguistic peace: a time to take stock: the language situation in Canada and Quebec.(LANGUAGE POLICY)
Jun 22, 2008; Cardinal, Linda ... Statistics Canada's release of 2006 census data on language brought forth a number of reactions, particularly in Quebec. English-speaking Canada seems less given to linguistic anguish than French-speaking Canada, but it would be a mistake to underestimate its diversity of existing ...
Francophone immigration beyond the Bilingual Belt: wasting a precious resource.(LANGUAGE POLICY)
Jun 22, 2008; Castonguay, Charles ... As a journalist, Graham Fraser could be fairly critical of Canada's language policy, but he did find bright spots. One of them was the idea of attracting francophone immigrants to bolster the francophone minorities outside Quebec. * He observed with satisfaction that the target set for ...
Belgium: less than the sum of its parts?(LANGUAGE POLICY)
Jun 22, 2008; Poirier, Johanne ... Apart from chocolate and beer, one of the major products exported from Belgium over the last two decades has been its constitutional model. It has not been copied elsewhere, at least not in its entirety ("Thank God," some would say), but it has been studied in nearly every international ...
Thinking North America.(NORTH AMERICA)
Jun 22, 2008; Resnick, Philip ... It was the Spanish part of the invention of America that liberated Western man from the fetters of a prison-like conception of his physical world, and it was the English part that liberated him from subordination to a Europe-centred conception of his historical world. In these two great ...
Scenes of hope and horror.(AFRICA)(Cover story)
Jun 22, 2008; Chodos, Bob ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the following pages we present three extraordinary observations by Canadians abroad. The primary focus is Africa, although Don Cayo's travels took him to Cambodia and Poland as well as Rwanda. Robert Cohen tells the most hopeful of the three ...
A work in progress: the new South Africa's first fifteen years.(AFRICA)(Company overview)
Jun 22, 2008; Cohen, Robert ... It is almost 15 years since the African National Congress took power in South Africa--a good time to assess what has been accomplished, what has not been accomplished and what just might be accomplished. Here I follow these paths through several territories: political reform; economic ...
Northern Uganda: the human face of atrocity.(AFRICA)
Jun 22, 2008; Klassen, Dave ... In early April, the stage was set for the signing of a peace treaty between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The treaty was to mark the formal end of one of Africa's longest and most brutal wars, in which the LRA, formed largely of abducted child soldiers, had ...
