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An op-ed in CNN this week has called on NATO to expel Turkey if it doesn’t agree to admit new applicants Finland and Sweden into the Western military alliance. Ankara has so far appeared to slam the door on the prospect, calling the Scandinavian nations “terror supporters” over the outlawed Kurdish PKK issue. The piece by David Andelman, a member of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), begins by lashing out at both Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has just enough allies in just enough places to throw a wrench in the...

Barack Obama waited nine months before replacing the last U.S. ambassador to Canada. The post was empty, and Obama just didn’t care. He doesn’t much like Stephen Harper – compare Obama’s icy body language towards Harper, to Obama’s deep bow when he met the Saudi king, or his high fives with the Hugo Chavez, the late ruler of Venezuela. Don’t feel singled out. That’s how Obama treats many of America’s traditional allies. He spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cellphone. The White House's bust of Winston Churchill was returned to the United Kingdom when Obama became president. Get used to...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper got it right in his speech to the Israeli Knesset on Monday. In his first trip to the region, Harper described Israel and Canada as "the greatest of friends." This is not simply because there are almost 350,000 Jewish Canadians. It's not just, as Harper noted, because of our longstanding free trade agreement. It's because of "shared values." As the prime minister said, "Israel is the only country in the Middle East, which has long anchored itself in the ideals of freedom, democracy and the rule of law." They are quite simply the only country like...

JERUSALEM — In a historic speech here, Prime Minister Stephen Harper rolled out a new definition of anti-Semitism — name-calling that will be controversial at home and on the global diplomatic circuit but which will make him into a mega-star in Israel. Two Arab-Israeli members of the 120-seat Knesset thought Harper's speech was objectionable enough even before he got around to this controversial re-definition. They walked out on his speech, loudly hollering at the Canadian prime minister about injustices to their communities. Harper's speech was historic because it was the first ever by a Canadian prime minister to the Knesset....

The politically-incorrect British writer Melanie Phillips was recently defamed for opposing leftwing groupthink (my guess) on the 2011 Norway massacre. But some welcome news arrives: A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik.” The column made reference to Ms. Phillips’ writings in an entirely misleading and inappropriate manner. The...

Would they have dared equate to a female leftwing politican as a 'dog'? Of course not. Could you imagine the outcry from women's rights groups if a rightwing publication printed a picture of New Democrat Olivia Chow, calling her a dog? The walls would be on fire over that.

Toronto Sun Columnist Trots out Usual Phony Abortion Slogans in Attack on Catholic Church Silent No More Awareness spokesman dispute columnist's support for Amnesty International By Hilary White TORONTO, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It appears that the campaigners for legalised abortion did their work well back in the 1970's when they invented a set of standard propaganda slogans to be disseminated through the media. For forty years, the same five or six grossly false assertions, familiar to pro-life people everywhere, have manipulated the discussion on abortion and all related issues. These slogans are so solidly entrenched in the public...

OTTAWA -- If the Conservatives triumph at the polls tomorrow, Stephen Harper's victory celebration will come to an abrupt end with a tricky bit of business known affectionately in the political biz as every prime minister's first nightmare -- building a cabinet. The one cabinet seat Harper has promised is to Lawrence Cannon who is running in the Quebec riding of Pontiac, north of Ottawa. (It's a no-brainer anyway -- the former provincial minister, if he wins, is infinitely qualified, and would likely be one of only a handful of Conservative MPs elected in the province.) Other than that, Harper...

Sat, June 26, 2004 [Ten Good Reasons To Vote Liberal June 28th] By Michael Coren -- For the Toronto Sun THE BIG day approaches. I don't usually tell people how to vote, but on this occasion I feel I have to do so. It's so important. There are simply too many reasons why we all have to vote Liberal and why Paul Martin has to remain prime minister of this great nation. First, legions of bureaucrats will not lose their jobs. Men and women all over Canada, but particularly in Ottawa, will continue to move paper around -- in both...

Following the perceptive and brave comments made by the esteemed and honourable Lebanese ambassador to Canada about Jews owning the Canadian media, herewith a previously top secret document discovered by our fearless agents. Do remember, good men died to retrieve this. It was left behind by one of the participants in a Zionist Elders meeting that took place in a Polish graveyard in the middle of the night on the eve of midsummer. Our sources tell us that all present were dressed as cast members of Fiddler on the Roof, with the exception of the Grand Bagel himself. He was...