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Nearly two years ago, some four hundred heavily-armed police officers arrested eighteen individuals in a series of raids in the Toronto area on suspicion of being part of a jihadist plot to wreak havoc on Canada. The arrested were said to have attended training camps north of Toronto, where radical Islamist philosophy was preached, and to have planned terrorist attacks that shocked the imagination. Thus far, what the public knew of the plans of the “Toronto 18,” as they have come to be known,... Read more »

“Protests mar Olympic torch lighting,” reads a headline in today’s edition of the Star, which is mirrored in the body of an article in the Citizen: “Protests in Greece … marred the lighting of the torch for the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.” The papers are referring to yesterday’s traditional Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Athens, which was disrupted by a group of protesters who, waving flags depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs, ran out onto the stadium field during a speech by... Read more »

It is the grimmest of anniversary celebrations: Five years ago today, US bombs turned the skies over Baghdad black, heralding a long war that turned out to be far costlier and deadlier than its planners anticipated. Despite the long struggle, it is unclear that the world is a better place for all the violence, and those that have been covering the war from the start still report that there is no end in sight. Still, the US president is sticking to his guns, bombs, and tanks, saying to a friendly... Read more »

Calculating the relative right of peoples to nationhood is a messy and inconsistent process, but one that has become seemingly necessary ever since Woodrow Wilson enchanted Europe with his vision of a liberal international order at the peace conference in Versailles in 1919. What seemed at the time to be a brave and forthright vision now looks like an inchoate attempt to weld the then-recent triumph of the nation-state to the existing system of state sovereignty, and the high-minded liberal principles... Read more »

If someone had claimed in 1995, as then-Ontario Premier Bob Rae prepared to leave office, that the New Democrat would re-emerge thirteen years later as a possible future Liberal prime minister, MediaScout would have laughed the notion straight out of town. After all, besides the unlikely political apostasy, Rae’s premiership, widely regarded as a disaster, left the province in financial ruin and his political stock in the basement. It’s a good thing for MediaScout’s reputation, then, that no... Read more »

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10:56PM EST | Toronto | Daniel Tencer reporting: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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12:45 am | May 4, 2008

on this thing

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superpower, not supermodel.

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