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Canadian housing market under U.S. shadow
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
NOT only the analysts now, but all the professionals connected with the
Canadian housing market are feeling concerned over constantly slowing
real estate market in Canada.
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Remembering victims of Kanishka bombing
Gobind Thukral
23 years ago, on June 23, 1985 Air-India's Boeing-747 Kanishka jet was
blown up in midair off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people on board. More
Filmmaker reclaims Air India 182 tragedy as part of Canadian history
Director Sturla
Gunnarsson, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005,
used documentary footage and dramatic re-enactment to tell the Air India
story. More
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Capitalist economy: food shortages, rising oil prices and credit crunch
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Pritam Singh
AS global capital moves East, developing economies need to understand
the importance of not aping the entrenched lifestyles of the West.
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Punjabi renaissance
Ishtiaq Ahmed
MY essay last week "Punjabis without Punjabi" (May 24) evoked very
strong emotions – mostly full of enthusiasm to do something to ascribe
respectability to the Punjabi language. More
Preventing a ‘1962’ in our seas
Randeep Wadehra & Amar Nath Wadehra
Remember Diego Garcia?
This fleck of an island in the Indian Ocean had sent the Indian
political as well as military establishment into a convulsive rage,
screaming blue murder.
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Jail for asylum-seekers
David Cronin of IPS writes from
Brussels
IN what has been described as one of the European Union's "darkest
days", the European parliament has voted to allow rejected
asylum-seekers be detained for up to 18 months before being deported.
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Politics of pilgrimage |
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Communal divide
constantly and consistently nurtured by major Indian political parties
this week brought blood and gore to the valley of Kashmir. A retiring
governor amply contributed to the sharpening of communal cleavages to an
issue that has been harbinger of harmony for over 150 years. In fact,
S.K.Sinha, a former Indian army general, who demitted office of the
governor a week back, played cool mischief that offers political benefit
to BJP that broadly represents right wing Hindus. Congress Chief
Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, his coalition partner PDP which has now
withdrawn support and even the National Conference added to this
mischief by their inept handling and playing to the governor’s tunes. More
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Center state fiscal relations in mess
Gobind Thukral
Recently Punjab along
with other states raised a small banner of revolt. They asked the Centre
to pay them Rs 4,000 crore for the revenue loss due to duty cuts on
petrol, diesel and cooking gas during the remaining part of 2008-09.
Various states have reduced sales tax on fuel products to lower the
impact of a hike in petrol, diesel and LPG. According to Asim Dasgupta,
West Bengal Finance Minister who heads state finance ministers committee
on Value Added Tax, “These duty reductions are likely to result in a
revenue loss of Rs 8,000 crore during the remaining part of 2008-09. More
Karzai’s threat of war triggers outrage in Pakistan
Ashfaq Yusufzai of IPS reports
from Peshawar
 AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai’s
threat to send troops across the border to crush pro-Taliban forces,
which sparked angry protests in Pakistan’s border areas this week, has
led to calls for restraint from moderate politicians in the North West
Frontier Province. "Pakhtun blood is being shed on both sides of the
border," observed Afrasiab Khattak, president of the NWFP’s ruling Awami
National Party (ANP). Describing the situation as "extremely alarming",
Khattak blamed "foreign powers" for turning the region into a
battlefield.
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IMF sees slow, risky U.S. recovery
ABID Aslam IPS Correspondent reports from Washington that the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its expectations of the
world's largest economy, saying the U.S. will end this year with no
economic growth before starting a gradual recovery in 2009. Soaring
commodity prices cloud the outlook, however, even as rising unemployment
and budget pressures undermine U.S. policymakers' ability to respond to
upsets.
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ART & LITERATURE |
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Book Reviews
Gulzar: a kaleidoscopic view
Randeep Wadehra
 THE Art of Biography/Is different from Geography/Geography is about
Maps/ But Biography is about Chaps. ‘But what sort of chaps?’ one might well
ask while recalling this ditty penned by the late British writer Edmund Clerihew
Bentley. Certainly not ordinary ones, and Sampooran Singh Kalra aka Gulzar is a
remarkable man in more than one sense. He is a poet of fine sensibility capable
of conjuring up strong graphic imagery. He is a filmmaker whose movies stir up
our souls and effervesce our emotions like only he can. He is reclusive and
enigmatic but his works are eloquent. More
"Seeds of destruction"
 ONE reviewer aptly summed up F. William Engdahl's Book Seeds of
Destruction: “This cabal is one of many interconnected ones with fearsome power
and ruthless intent to use it - Big Banks controlling the Federal Reserve and
our money, Big Oil our world energy resources, Big Media our information, Big
Pharma our health, Big Technology our state-of-the-art everything and watching
us, Big Defense our wars, Big Pentagon waging them, and other corporate
predators exploiting our lives for profit. Engdahl's book focuses brilliantly on
one of them.” More
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 Time to pause
Ishtiaq Ahmed
FOR quite some time now, I had been
contemplating a long pause in writing weekly columns, but lacked the
determination to take a firm decision because of the constant inflow of emails
encouraging one to go on and take up some particular issue or topic.
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The love stories are gone
Ali al-Fadhily
AS statistics go, at least 655,000 Iraqis have
died as a result of the occupation, now in its fifth year. Every one of them has
left behind once loved ones to mourn the loss and to think of what might have
been. This is the land of the Arabian Nights, and of love stories that became
fables far and wide. More
The war on teen terror
“WHEN Mohammed Jawad took the stand in a courtroom
at the U.S. Naval base here late last week, he described a litany of abuse he
has endured while detained at Guantánamo, including a sleep deprivation regime
known colloquially as the "frequent flyer" program. More
Pandering to big oil
President
Bush, "reversing a longstanding position," has called for an end to the
federal ban on offshore oil drilling and reaffirmed his call to drill in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. More
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Compulsory expropriation of land
Joginder Singh Toor from Toronto
 BRITAIN
experienced a railway boom in mid 19th century and railway promoters pressed the
houses of parliament for the power to compulsorily acquire land by way of
private bills. This gave rise to the concept of compulsory acquisition of land
belonging to private owners for public purposes.
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New Zealand: an apology and shameful history of injustice
Indigenous tribes who lost the fight for rights t by breaches of 1840
treaty with Britain have no a cuse to celebrate. New Zealand has taken
a momentous step to address the historic grievances of its original
Maori inhabitants on june 25 yesterday, handing back nearly half a
million acres of Crown forestry land in a settlement worth £160m. More
No justice for the poor
THERE was near agreement among scholars and even one parliamentarian
from the ruling coalition in India, the UPA agreed that the justice for
the poor was a far cry. The International Commission for Justice (ICJ)
Section (Punjab, Haryana & Chandigarh) and Ambedkar Centre, Panjab
University jointly joined hands to raise their voice at a Seminar on
'Justice for the Poor'. More
India is neck deep in corruption
CORRUPTION in India is so deep-rooted that even those under the below
poverty line (BPL) have to bribe to avail of basic and need-based public
services. This painful fact was all known to even most ordinary citizen
of this great republic. But now a study puts its stamp on it. More
MEDIA
Media's pro-business bias
Washington based The
Center for American Progress recently discovered what has been known for
years in America that media has a definite bias while covering business.
A report, "Journalists Give Workers Business," finds that "the media
ignores ordinary workers and instead covers economic issues from the
perspective of business." The analysis by David Madland, Director of
CAP's American Worker Project, looked at newspaper and television
coverage of unemployment , minimum wage, trade. More
IPS has new Chairman
THE IPS International Association has chosen Federico Mayor as new chair
of its Board of Directors. He replaces Mario Soares, former President of
Portugal (1986-1996), who has been guiding the IPS Board since 2002. IPS also
elected its Board of Trustees, which includes two former U.N. secretaries
general, Kofi Annan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali; two former presidents, Mario
Soares (Portugal) and Martti Ahtisaari (Finland); two former prime ministers,
Toshiki Kaifu (Japan) and Inder Kumar Gujral (India); and IPS founder Roberto
Savio. More
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