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Diversity and immigration are not the problem. Political courage is… | Kenan Malik | Comment is free | The Guardian
The idea that Muslims as a group are poorly integrated is not borne out by the facts. Numerous polls have shown that Muslims tend to identify with Britain to a greater degree than the population at large. In a 2009 Gallup poll, 77% of Muslims said that they identified "very strongly" with Britain, compared with 50% of the population at large. Similarly, a 2011 Demos poll found 83% of Muslims were "proud to be British".
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Thursday, 2 April 2015
TransCanada Corp.’s Energy East scraps plans for a Quebec port: report | Montreal Gazette
The Parti Québécois opposition welcomed news that TransCanada Corp. will not build an oil port in Quebec as part of its cross-country Energy East pipeline project.
The company originally planned to pump Western Canadian oil, at a rate of up to 1.1 million barrels per day, through to terminals in Cacouna and Saint John's, N.B.. The choice of Cacouna, the site of a beluga nursery, was met with a public outcry in Quebec.
TransCanada reportedly considered other locations—Lévis, Bécancour and Baie-des-Sables, near Matane—before ruling out a Quebec port, according to a La Presse exclusive citing unnamed sources.
"It's a beautiful victory for the preservation and sustainability of the belugas we have in the St. Lawrence River," the PQ's natural resources critic, Bernard Drainville, said in a news conference on Wednesday
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/transcanada-corp-s-energy-east-pipeline-will-bypass-quebec-reportTuesday, 31 March 2015
If this is what an anti-war presidency looks like to you, you're detached from reality | Trevor Timm | Comment is free | The Guardian
Like a finger trap, the harder one pulls to get out, the tighter the grip and the more savage the pain ...
All roads seem to lead to greater and greater violence, which is bad, bad, bad news ....
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/30/obama-anti-war-presidency-detached-from-reality
All roads seem to lead to greater and greater violence, which is bad, bad, bad news ....
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/30/obama-anti-war-presidency-detached-from-reality
Monday, 30 March 2015
Lawrie McFarlane: Alberta’s Prentice still not accepting reality
Mentions Quebec balancing its budget ... but why would Quebec do that unless it is rolling in funding ...
Prentice has plenty of room to cut. He leads the most extravagant, lavish, feckless government in Canada's history, by far.
And with Pierre Trudeau in the mix, that's quite an accomplishment.
Alberta spends $1,300 more, per person, than the national average. Budget tables show it spending 22 per cent more than B.C., per capita.
Indeed, forget per capita. Despite their smaller population, they outspend B.C., period.
Another inflection point? You know you're in trouble when Quebec leaves you in the dust.
La belle province just brought down a balanced budget, courtesy of, of all things, a Liberal administration. And in Quebec, "Liberal" actually means liberal, not conservative like B.C.'s governing party.
- See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/columnists/lawrie-mcfarlane-alberta-s-prentice-still-not-accepting-reality-1.1807267#sthash.ueRT9sbz.dpufSunday, 29 March 2015
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