Recently added articles from Western Standard:
China's syndrome: in the building of a modern nation, staggering economic growth and rampant consumerism are no substitute for real freedom and accountability.(FROM THE DESK of Ezra Levant)
Jul 02, 2007; Levant, Ezra ... THREE WEEKS TRAVELLING IN CHINA ISN'T enough to fully know that large and complex country, but it's enough to learn a few obvious things. Like the fact that next year's Olympic summer games, held in Beijing, won't set any records in the marathon--it will be an Olympian effort just to ...
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Jul 02, 2007; Watson, Lori ... MY HUSBAND HAS BEEN RECEIVING YOUR magazine and always looks forward to getting it. There are some very interesting articles that inform us of stuff we don't always hear about from the media. But I was wondering if you could leave out the bad language and the women in bikinis that leave ...
A kinder, gentler rodeo?(ANIMAL RIGHTS)
Jul 02, 2007; Smith, Jordan Michael ... There's nothing quite like a celebrity to capture the public's attention. And when the cause is the welfare of little critters with doleful eyes, well, it's that much more powerful. That being the case, once Canadian star-cum-activist Pamela Anderson of Baywatch fame got in on the ...
But do they get a ring?(SATELLITE DISH)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... THE MIDDLE EAST TIMES REPORTS (June 2) that Iran's interior minister has come out strongly in favour of a traditional Persian/Shiite solution to adultery and prostitution within the country's young population. Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi told an Iranian daily that scholars should repopularize ...
No veil, no wedding.(SATELLITE DISH)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... IN LESS WHIMSICAL MUSLIM-world news, it seems that the secular constitution of Malaysia is being subverted by sharia. Lina Joy, 43, who made world headlines with her quest to renounce official Muslim status and marry a Catholic, suffered a cataclysmic loss before the country's Federal ...
Stayin' alive.(SATELLITE DISH)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... IN RECENT YEARS, COPYRIGHT owners in the western world have seen the duration of their intellectual property rights increase to the point of absurdity. In the EU, one group has been left behind: recording artists, who receive royalties for 50 years and may, unlike songwriters, outlive ...
The wisdom of Solomon.(SATELLITE DISH)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... GERMANY HAS SOLVED A tricky policy dilemma, reports the Deutsche Welle radio service June 4. The country's culture ministry had approved a plan for a concrete structure to be built in Berlin's Tiergarten Park to commemorate gay victims of Nazi persecution. The concept called for a ...
Thumbs up for heroic medicine.(SATELLITE DISH)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... FROM SPAIN COMES A MEDICAL baffler for aspiring House MDs. A one-handed man suffers a stroke and becomes totally paralyzed on the "useful" side of his body: what do you do? Valencia-based surgeon Pedro Cavadas, a limb-transplant pioneer, has devised an answer by transforming a right hand ...
Poison pen.(WESTERN Front)(Cartoon)
Jul 02, 2007 ... WHERE PARIS HILTON SHOULD REALLY SERVE HER ...
Is the world really losing three species an hour?(WHADDYA KNOW?)
Jul 02, 2007; Stuart, Matthew ... According to Ahmed Djoghlaf, head of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the answer is yes, but he is unable to offer any concrete proof of this. Djoghlaf actually quoted two rates of extinction other than the three-per-hour that captured headlines around the ...
Buzzwords.(WESTERN Front)
Jul 02, 2007 ... <Pre> "Of course I am an absolute, pure democrat. But you know the problem? It's not even a problem, it's a real tragedy. The thing is that I am the only one; there just aren't any others in the world." --Russian President Vladimir Putin, criticizing the U.S. and Britain during an ...
Is Canada ready for sharia mortgages?(NOTEBOOK)
Jul 02, 2007; Cosh, Colby ... On May 25, The Globe and Mail's Tavia Grant reported that the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Toronto-Dominion Bank sent representatives to a Toronto conference on worldwide "Islamic finance," a rapidly growing field that seeks to recreate the money apparatus of capitalism in forms that comply ...
Narrowing the gap: with rising rents, Alberta is finally joining the rest of the world. Shifting the blame: why the Alberta government has failed to protect tenants and what it can do about it.(REAL ESTATE REPORT)
Jul 02, 2007; Beyer, Thomas ... Driving through Edmonton, Calgary or Kamloops over the last few days I realized: no one is building rental units. You can see new hotels everywhere, you can see new shopping malls and you can see new sub-divisions, but what you can't see is new rental accommodation. Why is that? ...
Alpine Realty: Canmore real estate market update; Who's driving demand for Canmore real estate and why?
Jul 02, 2007 ... Buying real estate is not only exciting, but a solid investment in Alberta today. With markets moving fast and competition fierce to get the right property, it is easy to forget that good research is still the key to making good decisions. Canmore may seem like just another real ...
"The key to your financial success": tired of lacklustre returns on mutual funds? Shire International offers affordable, RRSP-eligible real estate investments.
Jul 02, 2007 ... You've read the headlines--real estate is booming. But what does this mean for you? Opportunity--an opportunity to make money. If this interests you, it's time you got acquainted with Shire International Real Estate Investments. With development projects as far away as Maui, ...
The promised land: are land claim settlements the magic bullet that will solve native problems?(FACEOFF)
Jul 02, 2007 ... From: Michael Coren <mcoren@westernstandard.ca> To: Karen Selick <kselick@westernstandard.ca> Date: June 18, 2007 8:33 AM Subject: Is land the key issue in the plight of aboriginals? The enormously costly report from the Ipperwash Inquiry takes ...
Indian summer: if the natives are restless, the non-natives are, too. More Caledonias and demands for compensation won't help.(THE COLONIES)
Jul 02, 2007; Dolphin, Ric ... Spring is here, summer's nigh, and our Indian brethren are on the warpath again. Sigh. Idle hands make the devil's work and with a good number of those living on Canada's 633 reserves unemployed, the manpower is certainly available. Assembly of First Nations' grand poobah Phil Fontaine, ...
Renewed faith: folks are beginning to rediscover that answers to the really important questions don't come from science or government.(SECULAR DEMISE)
Jul 02, 2007; Byfielo, Ted ... YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MANY OF NORTH AMERICA'S metropolitan newspapers or literary periodicals these days to discover that religion has suddenly come into unaccustomed vogue. We're getting page-length articles on everything from atheism to Catholicism, plus exhaustive explanations of ...
Cool it, already: Prime Minister Harper's new green frenzy couldn't be more misplaced.(CLIMATE CHANGE)
Jul 02, 2007; Warren, David ... ACCORDING TO STEPHEN HARPER, "THE FIGHT AGAINST climate change" has become "perhaps the biggest threat to confront the future of humanity today." This was an unintentionally ambiguous remark, addressed to the recent G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. I could agree that it is at least ...
Feel-good foliage: will planting more trees in Canada help reduce global warming? Actually, it might warm us up even more.(ENVIRONMENT)
Jul 02, 2007; Stuart, Matthew ... You might say the United Nations can't see the trees for the forest. Unmindful of Canada's vast tracks of forested wilderness, the UN, a group called Our World Clean Air Forest Initiative and activist actress Daryl Hannah all insist this country doesn't have enough trees. This surprising ...
