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Ontario Elections: Liberals Prevail
Khushwant Toor
THE Liberals under the energetic leadership of premier Dalton McGuinty won a second majority government in Ontario last fortnight. It is rare for the Ontarians to vote the same party twice in succession. Earlier predictions of the Liberals falling to a minority status were also belied. In fact, the Liberals managed to increase their seat count form 67 to 71 out of the total province's 107 seats. More

Canada bans Indian made toothpaste
Canadian health authorities have issued a second warning on the use of toothpaste made in India. Health Canada's on August 24 issued an advisory along with the original July 26 warning about an ingredient also found in antifreeze: More

Who owns the Arctic?
Countering Russian moves, the Canadian government has announced a series of scientific projects designed to assert Canada's claim of sovereignty over the Arctic. Prime Minister Stephen Harper feels, “Scientific inquiry and development are absolutely essential to Canada's defense of its North, as they enhance our knowledge of, and presence in, the region. More

ANALYSIS

The Blinding Curtain
Gobind Thukral
Sixty years after we achieved independence, we are still haunted by archaic laws, many draconian in nature. One such law is official Secrets Act of 1923. Its very existence in a much touted democracy of ours is a matter of shame. More

Impose Arms Embargo
THE United Nations Security Council should impose and enforce a mandatory arms embargo on Burma because of continuing massive violations of human rights. Human Rights Watch wanted India, China, Russia, and other nations which are supplying Burma with weapons. More

Myanmar: Foreign Investment Finances Regime
WHO is helping the ruthless military junta in Myanmar or Burma survive these long nearly five decades and indulge in worst carnages of killing thousands and jails many more. These are first the neighbouring countries like China, India and South East Asian countries. More

IT is like a long yawn. An anguished Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on August 11 had maintained that a civil nuclear agreement with America was final and the Left could do whatever it wanted. “If they wanted to withdraw support, so be it…” After two months of heated arguments, public flare-up and slogan mongering, besides wasting a full session of the parliament, the prime minister declared on October 12: “If the deal does not come through, that is not the end of life… we are not one issue government.” The government shall continue to do business with the communists as usual. In parliament there was neither any significant debate on the nuclear deal, nor other serious issues were deliberated. Does he or his party realise that they have kept the nation on tenterhooks and a mid term election had looked a certainty? More

Pakistan under a ‘civilian’ dictator
The Mediaeval way to power
Gobind Thukral
President General Pervez Musharraf has maneuvered with the active connivance of the Bush Administration to get elected from an electoral college whose term ends within a month of his reelection. America hailed this travesty of any election as victory for democracy in Pakistan. Some 30 per cent of the members had resigned in protest and there were vociferous demonstrations in several parts of Pakistan. Pakistan’s People’s Party and its leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who had struck a deal with Musharraf too faced ire of the people. More

A Season of Politics
Ishtiaq Ahmed
IF President Pervez Musharraf had announced that he will take off his military uniform and contest election for the post of president of Pakistan after new elections in the national and provincial assemblies had taken place, provided the two-year restriction on a government official contesting public office be removed, I think such an arrangement would have enjoyed greater legitimacy than the route to the presidency that was adopted on October 2, 2007. Now, of course the situation is rather strange. How can assemblies which have once before validated the election of Pervez Musharraf as president do it a second time, and that too just before the legislators themselves have to seek mandate from the people to represent them? One US study has shown that Musharraf is one of the most popular leaders in Pakistan. It would be infinitely better if that had been ascertained in a genuinely free and fair election after he had become a civilian and the Electoral College itself was elected freshly. More

Musharraf’s popularity at all-time low: US survey
IF you tell an average Pakistani that a high profile survey has revealed that majority of people think that the country is heading in a wrong direction and the present government does not deserve to be there for its poor performance, he will not be surprised. In fact, he would marvel at the need of any such survey at the first place. Nevertheless, the survey conducted by the International Republican Institute [IRP] of the ruling US Republican Party found last fortnight that 56 per cent of the people felt their economic condition had worsened over the past one year and 65 per cent said they felt less secure today. More
 

'Long Live Revolution': Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his Compatriots
"We are not the originators of this cry. The same cry had been used in Russian revolutionary movement. Upton Sinclair, the well known socialist writer, has, in his recent novels Boston and Oil, used this cry through some of the anarchist revolutionary characters. The phrase never means that the sanguinary strife should ever continue, or that nothing should ever be stationary even for a short while. By long usage this cry achieves a significance which may not be quite justifiable from the grammatical or the etymological point of view, but nevertheless we cannot abstract from that the association of ideas connected with that. All such shouts denote a general sense which is partly acquired and partly inherent in them. More
 

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