U.S. Presidential Elections Loom Over the Iranian Rial
Tehran’s inflation troubles present a critical vulnerability for the clerical regime.
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Canada’s Parliament Rejects Diplomatic Relations with Iran
Liberal MPs from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party joined conservative lawmakers in the House of Commons last week to vote against the re-establishment of diplomatic relations...
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Muslim father whose son was killed with Israelis in Burgas seeks legal help
The latest judicial chapter of the over four-year effort to obtain justice for the victims of a Hezbollah terrorism attack that, killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver, played out on...
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Obama Failing to Check Russian Imperialism, Former CIA Head Says
In the eyes of former CIA director James Woolsey, Russian President Vladimir Putin is like the farmer Abraham Lincoln once recalled, who said he wasn’t greedy for land, he only wanted what...
Op-eds
A Shocking Exposé of the Power Behind North Korea’s Kim Dictatorship
The great dystopian science fiction novels of the 20th Century were written from the perspective of elite totalitarian functionaries who become hunt...
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William Schabas’ Casual Anti-Israeli Bias Makes Him a Perfect Fit For a UN ‘Fact-Finding’ Inquiry
Not too long ago, Canadians would have been beaming with pride at the news that one of their own — renowned international human-rights law expert William Schabas — had been ap...
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This War Was Supposed to ‘isolate’ Israel. Instead, the opposite happened
“The world stands disgraced” was the banner headline that Britain’s Guardian newspaper put on ...
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Hamas’ Tunnel Network Could Have Been a Game-Changing Strategic Asset for the Terrorists
A photo posted to Twitter by the Israel Defence Forces on Friday, July 18, 20...
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Twenty-five years later, our democratic reveries about Tiananmen Square seem ridiculous
Here in the West, everyone knows Tank Man — the brave Chinese protestor (pictured above) who stood alone in front of a column of tanks on Changan Avenue in Beijing, just outside Tiananmen S...
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The Murder Of Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar Symbolizes Pakistan’s Descent Into Self-Annihilation
Tomorrow, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar — the Canadian/American doctor who was assassinated last month in front of his wife and child, while he was performing a humanitarian mission in Pakistan &mdas...
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Analysis: The Benefits Of Canadian Parliament’s ‘Adopt Iranian Political Prisoner’ Campaign
There is no shortage of political prisoners incarcerated in Iran’s penitentiaries. The plight of persecuted Iranians rarely reaches the level of audible background music in Western...
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The Politics of Genocide
Spring is a season for black memories. April 24 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. April 27 was Yom HaShoah, a day for Holocaust remembrance. The Rwandan Genocide, in which Hu...
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The Troubling Rise of American ‘Withdrawalism’
Eastern Ukraine is falling to pieces. Suicide bombings remain epidemic in Iraq. Much of eastern Syria now is controlled by an al-Qaeda spin-off group that calls itself “Islamic State of Ira...
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Shariah with a Jewish Face
Since 9/11, all Western societies have been wrestling with the problem of how to prevent the emergence of insular ethno-religious ghettos that breed poverty, religious extremism and regressive so...
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The Case for Revoking Citizenship
An op-ed recently appeared in the National Post criticizing Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act. The legislation would revoke the Canadian citizenship of dual...
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Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die
It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...
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Hail to the French
This coming spring will mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, when as many as a million innocent civilians were butchered to death by Hutu tribal extremists in an orgy of bloodshed th...
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Sketching North Korea’s Sadism
Earlier this month, North Korea publicly executed as many as 80 citizens for such “crimes” as owning a Bible and watching Western movies. According to the South Korean newspaper ...
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Canadian Activists are Finally Learning that Israel Isn’t the Middle East’s True Villain
At the time of their release from Egyptian custody this past weekend, filmmaker and pro-Palestinian activist John Greyson and his traveling companion Tarek Loubani were just ...
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The Real Lessons of Munich
On Oct. 10, 1938, 75 years ago today, Nazi Germany formally took control of the Sudetenland, the iron-rich portion of Czechoslovakia containing most of that country’s ethnic German populati...