Citizens Centre Report Magazine articles from May 2003

Citizens Centre Report Magazine archives from May 2003

UpFront.
May 1, 2003... By: Colby Cosh 21st-century trebuchet The U.S. war in Iraq has degenerated into a mop-up operation--and, depending on what happens between now and press time for this magazine, a manhunt for Saddam Hussein and his clan. After thousands...

Letters to the Editor.(letter from Chris Delaney, Unity Party of British Columbia)(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2003... Time to wake up Re: "Chretien, Canada's uncrowned monarch," (March 3). Every Canadian should question just how much more stress this confederation can absorb before the country disintegrates into bureaucratic chaos. Canadians,...

Out of physical weakness: inner strength.
May 1, 2003... By: Myriam L'Abbee Heidi Janz, a "crip," refers to healthy people as "TABs"--temporarily abled bodies. Death and disability are very familiar to this 36-year-old university lecturer and playwright, who has spent her life belted to a...

Desperately seeking credibility: Too proud to co-operate with the Alliance, the Tories hope a new leader will give them life.(Progressive Conservative party)
May 1, 2003... BY RIC DOLPHIN At last August's federal Progressive Conservative convention in Edmonton, David Scrimgeour, the PC's sleek little national director, was doing a lot of talking about "re-branding" the grand old party of Confederation....

Opening Shots: If Ottawa won't protect Canada, maybe we should privatize defence.
May 1, 2003... By: Paul Bunner It is too late for Canada to contribute to the liberation of Iraq, but we ought to be thinking about how or if we're going to participate in the next phase of the war against Islamofascism. Should we continue with our...

Justice winks at pepper spray: Police and prosecutors stand accused of having a double standard in a controversial assault case.
May 1, 2003... BY JOANNE BYFIELD Over the past decade-and-a-half, hundreds of Canadians have been arrested, charged, convicted and jailed for staging peaceful pro-life protests. Indeed, few illegal actions elicit such immediate and efficient police and...

Democracy.
May 1, 2003... By: Peter Stock Steve Harper goes to war Opposition Leader Stephen Harper can occasionally lose that rock-solid equilibrium, it turns out. The Canadian Alliance party chief called Defence Minister John McCallum an "idiot" for evading...

The Right Eye.(Canadian politics)
May 1, 2003... By: Ian Hunter Positively raving about government policy I beseech you brethren in the bowels of Christ think it possible that ye may be mistaken." So wrote Oliver Cromwell to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in the year...

How the left won Canada: By promoting a series of visionary ideas, socialists secured dominance within government bureaucracies, universities, co-ops, churches and the economy.
May 1, 2003... By: Paul Stanway A century ago, Canada as a nation consisted of individuals in voluntary associations. Almost everyone believed that their prosperity, both material and spiritual, depended on their own characters, their faith, their...

An oilsands mega-project goes on stream.
May 1, 2003... By: Joanne Byfield Sam Spanglet threw a staff barbecue on April 11. The general manager of Shell Canada's massive Scotford complex near Edmonton was celebrating the arrival of the first barrel of bitumen from the Muskeg River Mine, 75...

Why the English fled Quebec -The untold story: Francophones continue driving English-speakers from Quebec while expanding French usage across Canada.
May 1, 2003... BY PETER STOCK Gloria McCullough used to work as a clerk in the claims section at Chubb and Sons, a national insurance company. In 1977, French-language police entered her office in Montreal. "I was told that I had to be tested. If I...

Tanks for the memories: An Albertan pays homage to the past with his unique collection of military hardware.
May 1, 2003... BY ELI BYFIELD AT THE END OF A WINDING DIRT ROAD ACROSS THE CLEARWATER RIVER, some 16 kilometres east of Fort McMurray, Alta., lives a man named Jack Cross. A member of an established family, his parents owned the old theatre and taxi...

Thanks, Ottawa, but no thanks: The Citizens Centre Report declines $360,000 in federal magazine subsidies.
May 1, 2003... BY RICK HIEBERT If it moves, tax it, goes the old joke about Canadian government; and if it still moves, subsidize it. From agriculture to film to transport and technology, there are few if any Canadian industries free of federal...

SPECIAL REPORT: Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy.
May 1, 2003... Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy Refederation points the way to a better Canada Stronger provinces are at the core of the Citizens Centre's plan to renew the country A province could act independently...

There are real right and wrong answers-: the trick is figuring out which is which.(politics)
May 1, 2003... By: Kevin Avram Pitman Tom has helped me understand something. For quite a while, I tried to figure out why there seems to be a growing number of Canadians drawn to the idea that politicians shouldn't disagree or argue with each...

Repairing North America: Countering a Liberal blitz of anti-U.S. insults, the Canadian right rallies for continental unity.
May 1, 2003... BY KEVIN STEEL As the first bombs fell on Iraq in late March, Norman Spector was among the billions of viewers transfixed by televised plumes of smoke rising over Baghdad. "This is a major watershed," remarked the former Canadian...

Editor's Analysis: An American-led, English-speaking global empire has begun to take shape.
May 1, 2003... By: Mike Byfield The Iraqi conflict has generated an alliance of the United States, Britain and Australia. The English tribe is at war. Already, some analysts--former British prime minister Maggie Thatcher, among others--advocate a...

Old disease, new peril: Forearmed by bioterror fears, Canadian officials have done a remarkable job of staring down SARS.
May 1, 2003... BY COLBY COSH Call it "the uncommon cold." On April 10, mere weeks after the mysterious new illness SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) broke out of China and Hong Kong and commanded the attention of a nervous world, the New England...

THE FREEDOM FILE.
May 1, 2003... COMPILED BY JOANNE BYFIELD A lesson in free markets and free people Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 and authored many books and essays. "I, Pencil," his most famous essay,...

Business Digest.(Effect of military engagements on stock market)
May 1, 2003... By: Murray and Tessa Lytle Investors prefer quick wins to military quagmires Jonathan Hartman, an analyst with RBC Investments, has analyzed the stock market's performance following 16 American military engagements and four other...

Numbers.(Statistics)
May 1, 2003... By: Myriam L'Abbee HEALTH More than 200 diseases are labelled as cancer. About one in three people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. Statistics Canada reports that 218,062...

Inside Straight.(Satanic hand sign )
May 1, 2003... By: Terry O'Neill The inimitable Alfred E. Neuman, that ageless, gap-toothed sage of Mad Magazine, once observed, "Today's 'non-conformists' are getting harder and harder to tell apart." As usual, the esteemed Mr. Neuman's insight into...

Orthodoxy: How feminism hastens the march of Islam while the baffled media ignore this fact.
May 1, 2003... BY: TED & VIRGINIA BYFIELD The senior spokesman for the Islamic faith in Ottawa created headlines across Canada last month by urging Muslims all across the Middle East to take up arms against the Americans in Iraq. When a foreign nation...

Brave New World.
May 1, 2003... By: Celeste McGovern No more cloning around? Humans can't be copied? To clone or not to clone? That is the question lawmakers worldwide have been wrestling with for the last couple of years. And they haven't answered it. While...

The Record.(Obituary)
May 1, 2003... COMPILED BY VICTOR OLIVIER AND RICK HIEBERT DIED: Roman Catholic cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter, 91; in his sleep, in Toronto, April 6. The son of an Irish Catholic typesetter, he was born in Montreal and attended the University of Montreal...

Westview: Ontarians may be about to pay a high price for their infatuation with Jean Chretien.
May 1, 2003... By: Ted Byfield It would be amusing, if it weren't so pitiful, to watch the rising alarm as Ontarians painfully discover what they have brought upon themselves by voting so loyally for Jean Chretien. In the last three general elections,...