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G20 summit: showdown in Seoul | Editorial | Guardian

China's stiff upper hand (Samuelsohn)

Environment Minister Jim Prentice bows out gracefully (MACDONALD)

Goar: Canada’s promise to Africa hangs by a thread

Hébert: Despite quitting, Prentice on short list of potential successors to PM-

Big ideas not Ignatieff's cup of tea | Monte Solberg 

Eyes on the world  (Jones)

Don't welcome back Khadr (Adler)

Khadr deserves rehabilitation (Kielburgers)

Don't welcome back Khadr  (Adler)

The illogic of PQ internal dissent   (Gagnon)

Yea or nay, the legislature should tackle the HST to end uncertainty (McInnes)

The Fed - Doing It Again  (KRUGMAN)

So journalists at the BBC went on strike? That's news to me (Johnson)

Flagged in the past week’s daily nuggets

Potash bid is not a new NEP (Milke)

Sometimes we have to say no to foreign investment – the star

Khadr deal with only antagonize traditional Tory voter base | Ezra Levant

Why blue berets don't work | Mercedes Stephenson

Tony Clements thrives on being the Teflon man (Ibbitson)

Ignatieff's challenge (Citizen)

Harper's G20 baggage (Corcoran)

When ideological purity goes out the window (Simpson)

PM's new chief of staff needs to cut business ties (Gazette)

Economic chauvinism in 2010? Barking mad!  (Bliss)

The potash decision: Two and a half cheers for Tony Clement (Newman)

‘Crime and security’ in a rough-and-tumble riding  (Simpson)

Repelling the best and the brightest (National Post)

It is broken, so fix it (Robson)

Goar: Health-care system due for a checkup

Harper loses his best political fixer (Martin)

Sidelined by PM, Prentice moves on (Ivison)

Quitting could be step toward leadership bid for Prentice

Banking on his future | L Ian MacDonald

Potash is an emotional issue in Saskatchewan (MACDONALD)

Hebert: Unrest among provinces hits new heights under Harper

Potash and the misbegotten fear of recolonization (Globe)

Ivison: Opposition sharpening their pitchforks for much-smarter Nigel Wright 

Goar: Private medicine comes to Parliament Hill

A tempest in Toronto's teapot  (Simpson)

What Ford can teach Harper (Gunter)

Mallick: War crimes trials — from tragedy to farce

The anti-potash coalition: undermining investment - Globe and Mail

Travers: Khadr case hands terrorists unearned victory

Khadr fight was thrown | Ezra Levant

 

A party of one (MACPHERSON)

Charest dogged by ethics issues (LEGAULT)

Lame-duck premier should quit now  (Smyth)

Coyle: Campbell departure ripples through Queen’s Park

Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change in Afstan is gone | Malalai Joya

Reaction of Marois to PQ critics smells of overkill (MACPHERSON)

Campbell's departure doesn't solve dilemma of what to do with HST (McInnes)

Province will need 6,000 years to spend $2B carbon-capture money  (Thomson)

 

Walkom: Politics of anger? Not in Canada (yet)

Bad news for Obama might not be so bad for Canada (Yaffe)

But what does it mean for Canada? (Frum)

Walkom: Political gridlock in the U.S. threatens us too

Barack Obama, Phone Home  (RICH)

Republicans won the midterm elections. Now can they survive? (Luntz)

Our Banana Republic  (KRISTOF)

Barack Obama becomes the Relevant Progressive President  (Harnden)

President Obama hasn't changed. We have. (Meacham)

The Cost of a Vote Goes Up  (PORTER)

George F. Will - Congress can keep Obama in check

Long Live Lady Luck  (FRIEDMAN)

David Ignatius - Obama's game of nuclear chicken with Iran

Any hope I had in the ballot box bringing change in Afstan is gone | Malalai Joya

Kathleen Parker - Goldman Sachs program raises up women worldwide

Compounding a Conflict of Interest  (Brisbane)

Dana Milbank - Would we be better off under a President Hillary Clinton?

The Grizzly Manifesto (COLLINS)

Andrew Grice: Miliband is preparing for the Coalition's end. He's in for a long wait

Mr. Obama, It’s Time for Some Poetry  (KRISTOF)

Broder - Goals worth fighting for

The day after the 'shellacking' (W Post)

Sorting Out the Election – NY Times

Karl Rove: Time for Republicans to Deliver

Finish Yitzhak Rabin’s Work  (B CLINTON)

New Energy Outfoxes Old in California – NY Times

The Focus Hocus-Pocus  (KRUGMAN)

A return to the norm (Krauthammer)

Republican Party Time (DOWD)

Crowing at Fox News (Milbank)

The next one matters more (Dionne)

The Four-Year Majority - WSJ

What now? (W Post)

Dorothy Rabinowitz: Why Obama Is No Roosevelt

Michael Gerson - Political blips, disguised as 'eras'

Eugene Robinson - What's behind the Tea Party's ire?

Richard Cohen - Sarah Palin: Ms. Conspiracy for president?

Lessons of Reagan's Rebound (Seib)

The Second Marriage  (BROOKS)

Get Bold, Barack  (COHEN)

NOVEMBER 1-8 EDITION

Hébert: PQ looking for a saviour for itself

La version 2.0 du messie? | Le Devoir (Hebert)

Grits didn’t learn anything from Ford win | Monte Solberg

Canada’s spy watchers ring alarm many years too late  (Mitrovica)

The wrongful prosecution of Omar Khadr - Globe and Mail

Stick with the F-35s  (Post)

G20 summit: Public inquiry still required – the star

Propagande Inc. (Martineau)

The real truth is just a matter of reaching out  (Lakritz)

The Potash tax grab (Corcoran)

Critics don’t want refugee system fixed | Lorrie Goldstein 

Cabinet left on sidelines as Campbell overhauls resource management (Palmer)

 

Scott Rasmussen: A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP

How We Got Here  (DOUTHAT)

E.J. Dionne Jr. - Victories that are hardly mandates

McRae: Whatever battering Obama takes, he must rein in the US deficit

Wikileaks's leaks mostly confirm earlier Iraq reporting (W Post) 

Flagged in the past week’s daily nuggets

Newspaper coverage matters, but not for swaying voters  (Kinsella)

Rob Ford and the media: Goldstein 

Ford’s win proves the smart guys are dumb: Snobelen 

Don’t welcome back Khadr | Ezra Levant 

Tories use terror plot as ammunition in fighter-jet battle  (Ibbitson)

Flying off the handle | Mercedes Stephenson

Lack of census data will imperil policy-making  (Sheikh)

Campbell is the problem and he doesn't get it (Smyth)

David Broder - How Obama might recover

Can the Dude Abide?  (DOWD)

Give Obama a Break (KRISTOF)

Sharing Secrets at Arm’s Length (BRISBANE)

 

Travers: Obama gets blame while Harper takes credit

Don Martin: Liberal senator shreds Ignatieff’s position on F-35s 

There’s good reason the masses are revolting  (Wente)

Dana Milbank - The Republican Party could use some adults

Global warming as a partisan issue  (Rutten)

Walkom: Omar Khadr's Guantanamo show trial

Omar Khadr -- not your typical rock star (Martinuk)

Cane mutiny (MACPHERSON)

Ed's Tories rise to peak of false optimism (Braid)

Stelmach happily revving up election engine (Thomson)

 

Hébert: A perfect storm in Quebec could bring Duceppe home

Ignatieff can’t find his way to Ford fever: Den Tandt 

Stop the studies, start the cleanup (Martin)

Why Harper will deny the Potash takeover bid  (Simpson)

Time out is needed on $16B jet deal (Ivison)

Un scandale orphelin | Yves Boisvert

Ethical mining: What’s Ignatieff’s view? – the star

Better to cut income tax or the HST? (Cayo)

Too bad ER wait victims are not ducks (Braid)

Michael Gerson - The wars we've left behind

The Next Two Years (BROOKS)

Divided We Fail (Krugman)

A Little Lady Predicts a Big Win (Noonan)

 

Multiculturalism has been Canada’s solution, not its problem (Bloemraad)

Liberals show they're the control freaks (D Martin)

Liberals strafe fighter-jet contract in bid to change their fortunes (Yaffe)

The corner-office door is closing for Mr. Kloppers (Reguly)

Liberals, Conservatives both failed Omar Khadr  (Hirst)

DiManno: No excuses for Khadr’s crimes

Voter verdict? More uncertainty (Broder)

Shelby Steele: A Referendum on the Redeemer

On the Daily Show, Obama is the last laugh (Milbank)

Good news from Kandahar (W Post) 

 

Cut question period or fix it (Watson)

Cohn: Persecution of Bahai’is exposes Iranian cruelty

The premier shuffles his team out of sheer desperation (Palmer)

No Second Thoughts  (Brooks)

Michael Gerson - What Election Day will bring 

 

New refugee legislation misses the mark (Waldman)

The peril of refugees (Showler)

Getting tough on human smuggling (Bissett)

 

Siddiqui: Civilian carnage incited terrorists, leaks show

A cautionary tale for the liberal interventionist (Wente)

 

Energy superpower -- policy midget (Barber/Lang)

Province can't duck new round of bad news (Thomson)

 

Khadr trial: A travesty of justice

Travers: Open borders kept prison doors closed on Khadr

Coddled Khadr | Ezra Levant  

There’s no justice for Omar Khadr: Worthington | Peter Worthington

Torture and Omar Khadr (Gardner)

 

Microscopic distinctions  (Riley)

Liberals pointless in plan to ground F-35s | L Ian MacDonald 

Premier eyes projected windfall for political purposes (Palmer)

Jim Hoagland - The G-20's tough task in Seoul

Restore sanity? Too late for Tea Party candidates. (Robinson)

OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 1 EDITION

PM defends trade talks with Ukraine despite Kiev’s strong-arm tactics  (Ibbitson)

Saskatchewan’s bluster is all about getting more money (McKenna)

Hébert: Where are the big-city women mayors?

Whiff of smoke, no sign of fire (D Martin)

Travers: Failure to Fix RCMP haunts Harper

Byelections tempt Tory popularity  (D Martin)

If Bernier can speak out, why can’t they?  (L. Martin)

Tories' bumpy ride on UAE airlines (Martin)

Travers: Damned lies and future deficits stalk election politics

Ignatieff can safely show he cares about pay equity (Ivison)

R&D follies continue (Foster)

It's next time or never for Canada's federal party leaders (MACDONALD)

Goar: Welcome signs of flexibility from Flaherty

PM not ready to run  (Kinsella)

Conservatives have a reason to be rattled (D. Martin)

Liberals offer thin gruel on deficit reduction - Globe and Mail

La dérive de Stephen Harper | Le Devoir (Hebert)

Hébert: Vaughan by-election a likely momentum-killer for Ignatieff

Persichilli: Obsession with Liberals is hurting Harper

The true confessions of a Quebec basher  (MAHER)

Politics at core of Potash deal | L Ian MacDonald

The subsidiary death knell  (Reguly)

No-win bind for Harper's Tories (D Martin) 

 

Two tales of abuse (Gardner)

Walkom: Khadr’s only hope is U.S. embarrassment

Omar Khadr's bleeding-hearts club (McParland)

Like most children, Omar Khadr is a product of his environment (Kielburger)

Religion and suicide attacks  (Pape)

Gen David Petraeus: We regarded Linda Norgrove as one of us  (Coughlin)

Tea in Kabul  (KRISTOF)

The Wars That America Forgot About  (BROKAW)

Salvaging the Afghan mission (Riley)

Walkom: What was point of the Afghan war?

Dr. Greg and Afghanistan  (KRISTOF)

Time to Talk to the Taliban  (BARRETT)

David Ignatius - Petraeus rewrites the playbook in Afghanistan

Get Tough on Pakistan  (KHALILZAD)

Afghanistan Today – NY Times

What About Afghan Women?  (KRISTOF)

Why We Honored Liu Xiaobo  (JAGLAND)

Sign of our decline (Cohen)

Ottawa should reverse 'downgraded' relations (Austin)

McQuaig: UN snub could haunt Conservatives

The right choice doesn't need excuses (Kheiriddin)

Must be a secret to Portugal's UN success | Monte Solberg | Columnists | Comment | Ottawa Sun

Canada's foreign policy: Snubbed | The Economist

Who Cares? (Murphy)

 

DiManno: The enigma of Mrs. Russell Williams

English: Why the Star ran Russell Williams photo

To hell with Williams | Michael Harris | Columnists | Comment | Ottawa Sun

Mallick: Good guys nabbed Russell Williams

Mallick: Brave women tried to prevent their murders

  

Coyle: Everything a bit off at McGuinty’s annual speech-fest

Liberal government to blame for corruption (Smyth)

Man at centre of Basi-Virk case speaks out (Kieran)

McGuinty wears his mistakes, and there’s the rub (Radwanski)

Deal to let Basi, Virk off hook for legal costs needs hard look (Palmer)

Harper Tories still don't get that potash takeover is a really big deal (Mandryk)

A peek at future politics (Finch)

Guess who's not coming to dinner -- at least not just yet? (Thomson)

Answers needed on Basi-Virk fee break (Leyne)

SFU's gain is Liberal's loss as Carole Taylor opts for the ivory tower (Palmer)

Coyle: Lobbyists thrive in climate of inaccessibility

Untangling our Gordian knot (Mendelsohn)

Try as he might, Charest can't change the subject (MACPHERSON)

Legal costs no object at tax-dollars-fuelled BC Rail trial (McInnes)

It's unfair to pin the Obama button on Nenshi (Lakritz)

Why the OECD tore a strip off Alberta  (Simpson)

It’s time to come clean on BC Rail plea deal  (Mason)

James concedes NDP insiders are trying to topple her (Palmer)

Purple Reign (Calgary Herald)

In the end, the B.C. Rail scandal fizzled (Leyne)

Basi-Virk affair enough to make you weep (Mulgrew)

Bidding process for BC Rail was tainted from the start (Palmer)

NDP caucus chairman quits over matter of principle (Smyth)

Expect municipalities to endorse Mounties (Mulgrew)

Better than most, Sihota knows the political game (Palmer)

Smith's choice of Okotoks riding raises intriguing memories (Thomson) 

 

Falling Into the Economic Chasm (KRUGMAN)

Robert J. Samuelson - The dysfunction of American politics

David Ignatius - Will China keep rising or succumb to its paranoia?

Can Democrats Still Win?  (GREENBERG/CARVILLE)

Making Ignorance Chic  (DOWD)

Just Knock It Off  (FRIEDMAN)

Michael Gerson - Obama the snob

Karl Rove: Obama's Incoherent Closing Argument

David Ignatius - In China, it's all about prosperity, not freedom

E.J. Dionne Jr. - GOP's election strategy lets others do its dirty work

Editorial - In Climate Denial, Again – NY Times

Rare and Foolish  (KRUGMAN)

Tales of the Tea Party  (DOUTHAT)

Obama's tougher-than-expected road to reelection  (McManus)

 

McRae: What happened in the Eighties shows cuts were right and we’ll recover

British Fashion Victims  (KRUGMAN)

Comprehensive spending review: A false prospectus | Editorial

The Chancellor has made the right call

Osborne will escape public wrath if Labour lets him win blame game |  Freedland

To choose austerity is to bet it all on the confidence fairy | Joseph Stiglitz

Grice: Osborne has placed a series of landmines on the road to re-election

Wake up and smell the burning rubber, Mr Cable and Mr Clegg| Rawnsley 

 

Lichfield: Sarkozy came to power on a mission to change a nation. He has failed

Khodorkovsky: Reform must, and will, come to Russia

OCTOBER 9-15, 2010 EDITION

Pique, principle, politics (Riley)

Harper needed 2008 recession (Martin)

Tory fumbles pile up on Harper's bad day | L Ian MacDonald 

When guilt by association wasn’t the Canadian way (L Martin)

Travers: Rifle wrath puts Conservatives at risk

Harperland isn't such a scary place (Plamondon)

What's wrong with a business background? (Daifallah)

Corrupt Canada? We’re small-time compared with U.S. (McKENNA)

They will keep coming (Collacott)

Nordiques plan skating on unrealistic ice | Monte Solberg 

Criminal manipulation | Lorrie Goldstein

 

Say 'No' to close the gap (Watson)

Goar: Ignatieff offers overstretched families a break

Walkom: Recession and the failure of the left

Ignatieff's serious plan for home care - Globe and Mail

Mr. Wen confesses (W Post)

Wage cuts hurt, but we need them (PEARLSTEIN)

Robert J. Samuelson - The age of austerity

Steve Richards: Osborne won't get his 25 per cent

Cutting from rich, clobbering the middle, Cameron looks like a lefty | Jenkins

 

Ottawa right not to bow to UAE blackmail | Michael Den Tandt 

Canada no longer leads on human rights (Roth)

Siddiqui: World passes judgment on Harper’s foreign policy

Stuffing the UN's ballot box (Frum)

Different party, same mistakes  (Harris)

Walkom: UN vote a rebuff to Harper’s approach to the world

PM HAS ONLY HIMSELF TO BLAME AT UN (Ivison)

Security Council failure was of Canada's own making (Heinbecker)

Good side of UN snub | Lorrie Goldstein

At the UN, there’s no need to play the blame game - Globe and Mail

Making us look bad (Citizen)

 

What the military won't talk about (Bagnall)

The disgrace at Veterans Affairs Canada  (Granatstein)

Mallick: Col. Russell Williams, the souvenir hound

Don’t Try Terrorists, Lock Them Up (Goldsmith)

Editorial - Lethal Force Under Law – NY Times

Jack Devine - Top U.S. goal in Afghanistan ought to be capturing bin Laden

Laura W. Bush - Afghanistan must embrace women's rights

Michael Gerson - In Afghanistan, the first hints of success

Marc Thiessen - Holder's terror trial catastrophe

An End to Israel’s Invisibility  (Oren)

Iran, the Paper Tiger  (COHEN)

How radical Islam seduced the academics | Nick Cohen

Supporters of Liu Xiaobo should be wary of his Nobel Peace Prize (Krebs)

Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon sends a menacing message  (Coughlin)

 

Persichilli: A Ford win could help McGuinty

Parliament Building scandals rooted in Quebec an Ottawa tradition (MAHER)

La corruption et les Québécois: un journal de Halifax en remet

Making us look bad (Citizen)

Vote-buying spree doesn't pay off for Charest (MACPHERSON)

The sins of David Miller (Fulford)

Julian Fantino: A politician in police uniform (Radwanski)

B. C Tories a principled alternative--ask this responsibility-ducking MP  (Palmer)

James and Campbell political odd couple (Leyne)

A wake-up call for Marois (LEGAULT)

HST stirs a revolt in Ontario with election looming next year (Palmer)

 

Eugene Robinson - 2010: The year of politicking insanely

Broder - As the gulf between GOP and Democrats widens, the center is lost

David Ignatius - Bank, auto rescues aren't getting the credit they deserve

Richard Cohen - Obama's Carter problem

Political Target Practice - WSJ

Build ’Em and They’ll Come  (FRIEDMAN)

Eugene Robinson - Can Obama deliver the black vote?

Anne Applebaum - The rise of the 'ordinary' elite

An X-Ray of Dysfunction (FRIEDMAN)

Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends (Rich)

Jackson Diehl - Obama administration relies on diplomacy by timetable

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1

Editorial - Civil Justice, Military Injustice – NY Times (Khadr)

Anger a potent political weapon (Ivison)

Walkom: Expect more economic trouble; just don’t expect Ottawa to help

Dare we dream of serious debate? (Stinson)

 

Looking for Nixon-like tendencies in Harperland (Simpson)

Clash of the tokens (Riley)

Liberals line up as kinder, gentler party | L Ian MacDonald 

Harper facing dogfight over fighter jet deal (Martin)

Harper fails to transcend his core values [Russell]

Harper’s hatred surprised author  (MAHER)

Travers: Liberals finally offer voters choice

The NDP: Not your father's socialism (Ivison)

The Wright stuff: the Onex guy and the PMO  (Simpson)

Togneri just following direction from the top  (MAHER)

 

A few frank words about immigration  (Wente)

CRA soft on tax cheaters (Francis)

The Liberal life and times of Denis Coderre  (Gagnon)

 

Military owes it to fallen soldier to launch rape investigations (BAGNALL)

Semrau verdict will only hurt our soldiers’ morale: Worthington

Fareed Zakaria - Even 'winning' in Afghanistan would include some failures

Obama and the Afghan war: What he wants is withdrawal  (McManus)

DiManno: George Galloway not a terrorist, just a holy terror

 

Truth is no defence (Frum)

MPs should stand up against FLQ coverage | Eric Duhaime |

Rick Salutin: An unpredictable leftist (Fulford)

We can't keep ignoring the horrors sex workers face (Gardner)

Stockwell Day 1, media 0: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein

Sun TV News and the future of media in Canada  (PELADEAU)

 

Bombardier deal the antithesis of free trade (Gazette)

The Wildrose shot heard ’round Alberta – and Ottawa (Pennings)

Un véritable parti national | André Pratte

Legault-Facal 'movement' won't likely morph into a party (LEGAULT)

Ousted NDP MLA elicits toughness from Carole James (Palmer)

Another James takes a peek at oilsands (Thomson)

Who's on first -- the province or the feds? (Thomson)

Oil Sands Hero (Murphy)

Liberals secretly eye Charest's job (MACPHERSON)

Quebec's entitlement society (Kheiriddin)

The caving of three provincial Grit fortresses  (L Martin)

Busting the common myths about the October Crisis (AMYOT)

 

The Terminator vs. Big Oil (FRIEDMAN)

Trifecta of Torment (KRISTOF)

David Ignatius - The unknowns behind the terror alerts

Karl Rove: Democrats and 'Poisoned' Politics

 

Thomas Chatterton Williams: President Obama's 'Rap Palate'

Gary Schmitt: The Demilitarization of Europe

The Soft Side  (BROOKS)

E.J. Dionne Jr. - Health reform's reality vs. its parody

 

The Terrible Election Race Race  (COLLINS)

The Public Editor - Scholarly Work, Without All the Footnotes

The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell  (RICH)

The 'anomalies’ of Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s charity accounts (Booker)

 

The Tories are still struggling to come to terms with the new order | Rawnsley

Where's the growth strategy, George? - Telegraph (Warner)

David Cameron is taking a big gamble with his own party (Jenkins)

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1

Setting the context for Canada's serious public policy debate (Manley)

BHP bid: It’s time Ottawa plays hardball with ‘net benefit’ (Reguly)

Welcome, David Johnston. And thanks, Michaëlle Jean (Simpson)

Ignatieff's cognitive miscues part of a pattern (Sibley)

Inside Harperland (Riley)

Hookers have right to be safe (BAGNALL)

Stealth jets, brought to you by a spin machine on steroids  (Simpson)

Prepare for a game of Budget Chicken (Kheiriddin)

That bang? It could’ve been Harper shooting himself in the foot  (Simpson)

Hébert: Polls suggest volatility in Ontario federal landscape - thestar.com

A call for better Canadian political invective  (Reynolds) 

 

Hébert: Where would Maclean’s have Quebecers turn?

Ottawa's response hysterical to 'hateful' Maclean's article (Martin)

Shooting the messenger (Citizen)

The charge of 'Quebec-bashing' has a long history (MACPHERSON)

Le Bonhomme Carnaval enfin expliqué | Yves Boisvert

Maclean's failed to make its case (Gazette)

Maclean's corruption article is a journalistic embarrassment (AUBIN)

Quebec corruption claims no revelation (Duhaime)

An inside view of how things work (MACPHERSON)

Extremist makeover -the FLQ edition (MACPHERSON)

 

James takes chance to distance herself from anti-HST organizers (Palmer)

Anger against Campbell clouds B.C.'s future (McInnes)

Avatar's Cameron doesn't slag oilsands (Thomson)

Vander Zalm's recall campaigns serve no useful purpose (Van Sun)

Courts take giant step for sex workers' safety (Paterson)

Take a walk down memory lane before jumping on Zalm's bandwagon (Palmer)

Trail of deceit and no apology (reprint of 1991 Vancouver Sun editorial)

 

Olive: Carney is a game-changing central banker - thestar.com

Cancun climate talks hopeless: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein

 

 

Eugene Robinson - Afghanistan: A war without end, or rationale

David Ignatius - The U.S. and Pakistan: An alliance too crucial to fail

Eliot Cohen - 'Obama's Wars': The gang that couldn't shoot straight -- or shut up

Birth Control Over Baldness - NYTimes.com (KRISTOF)

David Ignatius - In flood-ravaged Pakistan, no sign of American aid

 

Robert J. Samuelson - The makings of a trade war with China

Taking On China - NYTimes.com (KRUGMAN)

Editorial - A Message for China - NYTimes.com

China's growing military clout and East Asia's future - latimes.com (McManus)

Their Moon Shot and Ours - NYTimes.com (FRIEDMAN)

 

Karl Rove: Democrats and the Health-Reform Albatross - WSJ.com

Editorial - Shady Secrets - NYTimes.com

George F. Will - Without a defendable record, Democrats try pounding the table

E.J. Dionne Jr. - Belatedly, Obama remembers his organizing roots

Tom Joad Gave Up - NYTimes.com (Brooks)

The Great Depression that wasn't (W Post)

 

Forget about Ed's redness. The economy is the only game in town | Jenkins

You thought fighting your brother was tough. That was the easy bit | Rawnsley

Labour's new leader: Ed Miliband's moment | Editorial | The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 19-24

Vote for the maple leaf in the Big Apple - Globe and Mail

Harper at UN: Canada’s case for a top seat – the star

Hébert: Why a fall election could work for Stephen Harper

Layton keeps calm and carries on (Riley)

The lower side of politics (Robson)

Michael Ignatieff sauvé des eaux? | Le Devoir (Hebert)

Delacourt: Gun vote could mean Liberals are getting their act together

Stop the coalition fear mongering (Post)

The Tories are running on empty, so don’t expect much progress - (Simpson)

Don Martin: Flaherty’s rant signals Tories keen on an election 

Goar: Recession exposes fallacies behind EI funding

Registry vote shows cynicism, political opportunism: Worthington

Pressure on NDP doomed bill  (MAHER)

Tories eye a steal | David Akin

Off target vote (Calgary Herald)

Gun registry’s price was not as advertised - Globe and Mail

Guns and grow-ops: Conservatives should be consistent  (Flanagan)

Battles over trifles resume in Ottawa (Edmonton Journal)

A backlash against the know-it-alls (Kheiriddin)

La vérité sur la Crise d'octobre | William Tetley

Pierre Curzi's words speak for themselves (MACPHERSON)

Club de hockey Canadien - Pas assez francophones, les Glorieux!  (Fournier)

 

Smiling Charest in court of public opinion | L Ian MacDonald 

Why judges' politics matter (Morton)

Another way to resolve the HST debate  (Kesselman)

Jean Charest has the reverse Midas touch (Macpherson) 

Gouvernement Charest - Les retours d'ascenseur (Descoteaux)

 

Walkom: Trying to deal with U.S. deserters

Editorial - Missed Goals - NYTimes

Obama and Afghanistan: Credibility gap | Editorial | The Guardian

Obama’s Civil Wars | The Times

Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. Now it's dead | Monbiot  

David Ignatius - On red alert and perilously uninformed

Millennium development goals in an age of fear and loathing | Jeffery Sachs |

‘Downhill With the G.O.P. ‘ (KRUGMAN)

‘The Responsibility Deficit ‘ (BROOKS)

From 'party of no' to 'party of stop'? (Balz)

The GOP's 'Pledge to America': Deficits can rest easy (W Post)

Charles Krauthammer - Visigoths at the gate?

Eugene Robinson - The GOP's Hooey to America

‘Boast, Build and Sell ‘ (KRISTOF)

E.J. Dionne Jr. - The Tea Party: Tempest in a very small teapot

Too Many Hamburgers? ‘ (Friedman)

John Fund: The Carter-Obama Comparisons Grow - WSJ.com

‘The Angry Rich and Taxes ‘ (KRUGMAN)

A Tale of Two Recoveries - WSJ

Mary Ann Sieghart: This Coalition is going to last and last

Tick, tick, tick: voting reform is a time bomb | The Times (Emmott)

John Rentoul: Nick Clegg could yet be proved right

They love the power, but they're not sure about the responsibility | Rawnsley 

Steve Richards: Comrade Cable does No 10 a favour

Andrew Grice: Members fear Clegg could drive away the left that gave him power

The challenge will come when it's time to split the Coalition apart (Brogan)

SEPTEMBER 11-18

Editorial - The Administration’s Press Censorship  (NYT on Khadr trial)

Travers: Liberals see bright future in dark Conservative past

Siddiqui: Time for a vote in the dominion of King Stephen

Politique fédérale - L'affrontement (Descoteaux)

LES 'FLYING FEDERALISTS' (PRATTE/Gazette)

Kent candid on Israel support  (Ivison)

HST party divides right (Watson)

'Premier Dad' doesn't know best (Ivison)

‘If the coalition fails, Lib Dems will share the blame’  (Hurst)

Op-Ed Columnist - Harvest of Anger (Cohen)

Tariq Ramadan: Even now, Muslims must have faith in America

David Ignatius - A dubious battle for Afghan hearts and minds

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010

Editorial - The Administration’s Press Censorship  (NYT on Khadr trial)

First, a few questions for Ignatieff and the Liberals (KENT)

Hébert: Why medicare is a national icon

Mary Dejevsky: So what's Clegg done wrong?

Our sovereignty up in the air (Edmonton Journal)

Canadians overhead (Citizen)

We need Canadians to stand up and be counted (Gazette)

 

Look at us now | Michael Den Tandt   

Why the Queen cuffed me: Worthington 

 

Two heads not better than one on national security file  (Borovoy)

Reality check on Afghan war – the star

Andrew Grice: How the Government's Afghan wires have become crossed

This is no Nato game but Pakistan's proxy war with its brother | Dalrymple

Krauthammer - Terror -- and candor in describing the Islamist ideology behind it

Martin Indyk - A quiet diplomacy on the Mideast peace path

 

Myths of Austerity  (KRUGMAN)

Provincial debt loads taint our fiscal record (Gazette)

A win-win for Canada & India (National Post)

Squandered gains (Veldhuis/Clemens) 

 

G20 prisoner #0106: Sa 

A timeline on the G20 five-metre rule that didn’t exist (Radwanski)

Who's that brave man? | Joe Warmington 

Goar: Housing or just castles in the air?

 

Chrystia Freeland - Why aren't there more women at capitalism's heights?

Looks shouldn't matter (BAGNALL)

   

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