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Father Raymond J. De SouzaNational Post |
A peculiarly Canadian approach to policy-making outside of the partisan political framework You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...
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Painful years may be ahead if diplomacy cannot restore pre-war hope On Sept. 22, a New York Times headline read: A Visit to the U.S. Revives an...
If the Jewish people are weak, they are despised for being weak, but if they become strong or successful, they are resented as such The alarming...
75 years later, it's hard to imagine such a consensus emerging in the modern age The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was...
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Secretary of state to Nixon and Ford, the scholar-diplomat loomed larger than the policies he implemented and even the men he served You may be...
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Imagining a 'dialogue beyond death' between JFK, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley The 60th anniversary of the assassination of president John F. Kennedy...
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The CIA fought ferociously to hide what it had done in the aftermath of 9/11, but the senator would not be intimidated On Thursday the Democratic...
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The G20 summit in Delhi this weekend will be nothing if not inclusive. Yet not as inclusive as it should have been; an important religious initiative...