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Petitions, Signatures and Recalls

Campbell safe in B.C., but Davis might still be ousted in California.
Mario Canseco Recalls have become fashionable in the West Coast of North America.
May 09, 2003

Wave the flag or be silenced

The sight of TV networks trading impartiality for gung-ho patriotism serves as a warning for Canadians.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun Now that the anesthetic of the mind-numbing 24/7 coverage of the Iraq War is starting to wear off, it's becoming increasingly clear that, despite the hoopla over satellite cameras and embedded journalists, the invasion of Iraq saw American broadcasters enter a new and disturbing phase in which the lines between reporting and propaganda are blurred more than ever.
May 03, 2003

Bureaucrats reelect Red Party in Paraguay

Corruption scandals were not enough to end long governing streak.
Mario Canseco For 56 consecutive years, the Partido Colorado (ANR—Red Party) has ruled Paraguay, electing leaders and backing military dictators with the same ease.
May 02, 2003

A dunce cap for Liberal education policy-makers

B.C. Education minister Christy Clark's numerous attempts to repair the system are ignoring the real problem.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun With the midpoint of Gordon Campbell's four-year term less than a month away, the merry British Columbia premier and his party continue to practise their fetish for all things performance-measured and bean-counted.
April 26, 2003

Three trends spell death of separatism

It's all in the demographics of Quebec, Western Canada and Hispanic Americans.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun Quebec politics remind me of one of those horror movies where, at the end of the flick, just when everyone's breathing a sigh of relief that the monster is dead, there's a little movement in a pile of ashes to prepare the viewer for yet another sequel.
April 19, 2003

An inalienable right to disagree

Canadian tourists cower in shame because the media have over-reacted to a minor U.S. backlash.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun I've just returned from a week in northern Florida where I was embedded with a group of tourists to learn more about the wave of anti-Canadian feeling supposedly sweeping America.
April 12, 2003

The Menem Factor in Argentina

The former president is back. Will voters unite for or against him?
Mario Canseco When Carlos Menem stepped down as president of Argentina in 1999, posters with his name, picture and the year "2003" were plastered all over Buenos Aires.
April 08, 2003

Costa Rica Chooses Re-election

In a political gamble, citizens want a Nobel laureate to return to power.
Mario Canseco Re-election.
April 05, 2003

Much hinges on the Iraqi people

If Americans need a quick out from Iraq after the war, they will learn the value of Canadian friendship.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun This past week was punctuated by two shock-and-awe events in the world of public opinion: one in Iraq and the other at a posh Toronto luncheon club.
March 29, 2003

Rebuilding battered alliances

Canada can liaise between U.S. and its erstwhile friends.
Angus Reid Vancouver Sun What will Canada lose and what can it hope to gain as a result of prime minister Jean Chrétien's decision not to join president George W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" backing the invasion of Iraq? Business groups in France and Germany are already nervous about what they see as a backlash building in the United States against their products—including the $7 billion
March 22, 2003

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