Showing posts with label linda mcquaig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linda mcquaig. Show all posts

March 17, 2008

From Linda McQuaig's computer ..

Greens seek a breakthrough in Vancouver Quadra
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Canada is just playing, as Linda McQuaig puts it, holding the bully’s coat. That is not our role in the world. We have May, the former executive director of ...
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MPs to vote on extending mission of torture
Straight Goods - Golden Lake,ON,Canada
by Linda McQuaig Later this week, our two leading political parties are expected to join forces and commit Canada to another three years of military ...
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January 29, 2008

Holding The Bully's Coat

Canadians are deeply divided about participation in the war in Afghanistan and the larger U.S. war on terror. Journalist Linda McQuaig says Canada has moved from being an honest broker in the world to "Holding the Bully's Coat".

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November 19, 2007

As the Conservative spin doctors do their work, keep the image of what went on in those hotel rooms front and centre in your mind, and wait for an explanation. Because Mulroney hasn't given one. The lack of this keeps us distracted from the central image in the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.

By Linda McQuaig


*snip*

But there's much more at stake here than money. What's at stake is the most basic public interest – whether Canadians can have confidence in the integrity of our political system.

As the inquiry proceeds, the Conservatives will attempt to muddy the waters with a barrage of partisan counterattacks. Mulroney will suck up precious air time casting himself as the injured party.

All this sound and fury is designed to distract us. Ignore it. What matters is what happened in those hotel rooms: a former prime minister, a lobbyist and $300,000 in cash.



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