from Al Jazeera
The assault on Gaza does not constitute, as Israel claims, "retaliation" for an anti-tank missile fired by Palestinians.
Nov 172012
Nov 172012
from The Ottawa Citizen
Three days before the May, 2011 federal election, Elections Canada confronted the Conservatives with concerns about calls misdirecting voters.
Nov 162012
from the Hamilton Spectator
VANCOUVER –A letter from municipal employees in Montreal says they understand residents' anger over recent revelations of corruption.
Nov 162012
from The Nation
Remember when Joe Walsh, the Republican congressman from Illinois, claimed a ban on abortion needs no exception to save the life of the woman? “With modern science and technology, you can’t find one instance,” he said, in which a woman’s life could have been saved by abortion. Well, how about this instance: In Ireland, where abortion is strictly forbidden, doctors allowed 32-year-old Savita Halapannavar to die of septicemia after days of horrendous suffering, because her 17-week-old fetus, which she was in the process of miscarrying, still had a heartbeat. Never mind that there was no way this fetus could have survived. Never mind that technically, Ireland’s abortion ban permits an exception when there is a “real and substantial risk to the life of the mother.” The doctors let Savita die, as she and her husband pleaded for them to end the pregnancy. “This is a Catholic country,” one doctor explained. The always cogent and knowledgeable Jodi Jacobson explains it all here and here.
Nov 162012
from the Edmonton Journal
Environment Canada research that indicates contaminants from Alberta’s oilsands projects are travelling further than expected should be a wake-up call for the province to act immediately to impose tougher air quality standards, the NDP’s environment critic said Wednesday…
Nov 142012
from Al Jazeera
Palestinians fear they will lose their homes as illegal settlements swallow the occupied territory…
Nov 142012
from The Independent
A series of strikes and protests are getting under way across Europe as workers demonstrate against austerity measures and economic reforms…
Nov 142012
from Mother Jones
Americans didn't intend to elect a Republican majority to the House of Representatives. Thanks to GOP-engineered redistricting, they did.
Nov 122012
from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
TOLEDO — Whether Ohio's blue-collar workers were motivated by the auto bailout or lingering bitterness over a Republican-led attempt to limit collective bargaining, it's clear that the state's labor unions remain a political force when united…
Nov 102012
Millions of Pakistan's poor children become eligible for school support.
by Katharine Houreld
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistan will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared to mark "Malala Day" on Saturday in support of a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban.
UN officials declared Malala Day one month after 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai and two of her classmates were shot by the Pakistan Taliban. She had been targeted for speaking out against the insurgency.
In the days following the shooting, Yousufzai became an international icon and world leaders pledged to support her campaign for girls' education. She is now recovering in a British hospital.
On Friday, Pakistani president Asif Zardari added his signature to petitions signed by more than a million people urging Pakistan to pay stipends to families who put their girls in school in honor of Malala….