Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from June 2004

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from June 2004

Introducing Inroads 15.
June 22, 2004... DESPITE THE GROWING NUMBER OF CANADIANS WHO HAVE ROOTS in Asia, Africa and Latin America, Canada's connection with Europe--on economic, political, cultural, intellectual and kinship levels--remains strong. This is especially true of the Inroads...

Inroads European painting series.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2004... Advocates of European federalism talk of "an ever greater union." If there is a domain where- despite conflicts over language, religion and territory--a shared European sensibility exists, it is the domain of art. An educated Spaniard, like an...

No more negotiations: a modest proposal to resolve the Israel-Palestine impasse.(Editorial)(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... IN 1947, THE UNITED NATIONS CALLED for the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into "Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem." Resolution 181 divided the Mandate into...

Remembering Claude Ryan.(Editorial)(Obituary)
June 22, 2004... WITH CLAUDE RYAN'S DEATH ON FEBRUARY 9, Quebecers--and all Canadians--lost a man of great lucidity, stamina and generosity. As well as, if not better than, Rend Levesque, Ryan articulated the goals of the Quiet Revolution. If any one document...

I leave this world with regret ...: an excerpt from Claude Ryan's final testament read by his son Andre Ryan at his funeral on February 13.(Excerpt)(Transcript)
June 22, 2004... I LEAVE THIS WORLD WITH REGRET, FOR I liked very much living in it. I leave it with sincere gratitude for those whose friendship, support and advice allowed me to lead a full and generally happy life. I beg the indulgence of those to whom I...

Haitian wheels continue to spin.(Guest Editorial)(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... IN THE ARTICLE I WROTE LAST YEAR FOR Inroads ("Haiti: The Island's Wounded Wing," Inroads 13, Summer/Fall 2003), I concluded that "Haiti is mired in the worst kind of poverty, spinning its wheels." By contrast, the neighbouring Dominican...

Who invented multiculturalism?(Inroads listserv)
June 22, 2004... HE NEW YEAR WAS ONLY A FEW DAYS OLD WHEN VANCOUVER'S Philip Resnick sent the Inroads listserv an article with what he said were intelligent reflections on the challenge of Islam, the clash of civilizations, and multiculturalism and its limits...

Introduction: Europe's three crises.(Europe)
June 22, 2004... THE DEADLY BOMBING OF MADRID TRAINS ON MARCH 11 IS THE MOST VISIBLE symbol thus far of several crises that have converged to shake European self-confidence. Foremost among these crises is the eruption in the lives of bourgeois Europeans of...

The Europe factor: how the EU influenced changes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.(Europe)
June 22, 2004... IN 1998, TWO SETS OF POLITICAL EVENTS OCCURRED IN THE UNITED Kingdom that would have seemed improbable, even impossible, 20 years before. First, the Good Friday Agreement was reached in Belfast following negotiations among most of the...

Devolution five years later: Britain's far-reaching constitutional reform brings mixed results.(Europe)
June 22, 2004... PEOPLE SELDOM LOOK TO BRITAIN FOR MODELS OF POWER-SHARING--yet perhaps they should. For the United Kingdom has undergone an institutional revolution the past few years. Centralization of power in Westminster, still very much the coin of the...

Populism: polder and prairie: the rapid rise and fall of Pim Fortuyn.(Europe)(Biography)
June 22, 2004... DUTCH POLITICS HAS A REPUTATION FOR DULLNESS AND STABILITY. But that was hardly the case in 2002, when Pim Fortuyn entered politics. His party came in second in that year's election, although it had not yet been formally founded and Fortuyn...

France's veil affair: national institutions and transnational identities.(Europe)
June 22, 2004... FEW SOCIAL ISSUES HAVE AROUSED AS MUCH PASSION AS THE "VEIL affair" in France. On both a rational and an emotional level, its implications are felt beyond national boundaries--indeed, in all countries where immigration, the integration of...

France's search for a new compromise.(France's Veil Affair)
June 22, 2004... A CONSENSUS SEEMS TO BE EMERGING IN the international media that the French law to ban the wearing of the veil and the displaying of conspicuous religious symbols at school is a mistake. Writing in Le Monde on January 15, 2004, the British...

Republicanism, multiculturalism and liberalism.(France's Veil Affair)
June 22, 2004... RIVA KASTORYANOS ARTICLE ON THE French veil debate is an excellent introduction to the topic. It provides an incisive summary of the historical background for this debate and of the ways in which questions of secularism, citizenship,...

Reasons, reasonableness and reason.(France's Veil Affair)
June 22, 2004... THE FRENCH REPUBLICAN CLAIM THAT Enlightenment Reason is on the side of banning the veil in schools is a strong one, although in due course I want to challenge it. Ultimately, reasonableness must prevail. From that standpoint I feel close to...

Sweden's welfare state: trouble ahead.(Europe)
June 22, 2004... SWEDEN IS RENOWNED FOR THE GENEROSITY OF ITS WELFARE STATE. Swedes enjoy free public schooling and university training; health care at nominal fees; free medicines after the first C$150 annual expenditure; generous pensions, unemployment...

Breaking up is hard to do: merger and demerger in the Montreal megacity.(Montreal)
June 22, 2004... In NOVEMBER 2000, PREMIER LUCIEN BOUCHARD'S PARTI QUEBECOIS government introduced Bill 170 to merge a number of Quebec municipalities. The PQ forced the bill through the National Assembly over angry opposition. There were large and noisy (but...

German immigrants and the Nazi past: how memory has shaped intercultural relations.(Germans)
June 22, 2004... SEPTEMBER 2000, CHUCK CADMAN, A MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN Alliance, spoke in Parliament in favour of Bill C-334, which would permit relatives of deceased veterans to wear their war decorations. To support his case he made public the following...

From "United we Stand" to "Divided We Are".(U.S. Election)
June 22, 2004... They stole the election of 2000. They would like to steal it once more, using corruptible electronic voting machines." Ruth Pleva is chair of the Committee to Defeat Bush in Palm Beach and Broward counties in south Florida. She is rallying...

Political ambition and corporate-friendly liberalism: three perspectives on Paul Martin.(Juggernaut: Paul Martin's Campaign for Chretien's Crown)(Paul Martin: CEO for Canada?)(Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Susan Delacourt, Juggernaut: Paul Martin's Campaign for Chretien's Crown. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. 354 pages. Murray Dobbin, Paul Martin: CEO for Canada? Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 2003. 194 pages. John Gray, Paul...

Hero, eyewitness and accountant of the Rwandan slaughter.(Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, with Maj. Brent Beardsley, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003. 562 + xxi pages. Lt. GEN. ROMEO DALLAIRE STARES OUT FROM THE COVER OF SHAKE HANDS with...