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7 Votes
Marois right on gas
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Here's something we don't say very often: Pauline Marois is right.
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10 Votes
Getting beyond emotion on long-gun registry
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But not all gun-control law is good, and some of it doesn't even provide control. Canada's long-gun registry proves that. This month, MPs will vote on the fate of the registry. They should vote to close it, once and for all.
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15 Votes
How should we judge our judges?
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On the other hand, today only cranks would quarrel with the idea of an interracial couple. Few of us would object to almost any bedroom adventures, provided they're truly voluntary for everyone involved, however many that might be. And after countless media warnings about the loss of privacy in the Internet era, the idea that an embarrassing photo might turn up on some website is not exactly Eart
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13 Votes
Car-surfing is not an offence to be taken lightly
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A teenager's death -or anyone's -in a car-surfing accident is heartbreaking. And yet it's becoming too common. There are laws against this kind of harebrained bravado, and they should be enforced vigorously.
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8 Votes
Climate panel needs some fine tuning
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Over the 20-plus years since it was created, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has become a high priesthood of climate science, as susceptible to hubris as any elite group. Now an august review panel has called for "fundamental reforms" to the IPCC's management and operations. The stakes are high, so the proposals demand serious attention.
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15 Votes
There's something fishy about all those salmon
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The current bonanza of sockeye salmon on British Columbia's Fraser River is a powerful reminder that we still haven't got Mother Nature all figured out.
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10 Votes
Caution, baby, caution on natural gas
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The Quebec cabinet has finally invited the Bureau d'audiences publiques sur l'environnement to get involved in the fast-growing debate about shale gas. It's bad news, however, that the government has foreclosed the debate before it really starts.
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14 Votes
Legally clear and clearly absurd
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We will defer to the learned wisdomof JusticePierreJ. Dalphond of the Quebec Court of Appeal: The government does indeed have the right to force a certain 10 private-school students into French school. But the case's rigorous legal framework serves only to demonstrate the rigid irrationality behind Quebec's coercive school-language laws.
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