Prime Minister Trudeau is pushing for increased immigration next year despite a poll finding only 17% of Canadians favour such a step. Bradly Betters argues that in Canada as in other Western nations, rational thinking about immigration has been clouded by a universalist hyper-moralism that conflates a nation’s interests with racism.
North Korea has just successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying its nuclear warheads to North America. If that’s not enough to give you nightmares, here’s more: Kim Jong Un’s nukes could be used as electromagnetic pulse weapons which could take out the energy infrastructure that powers all our electronic technologies. The impacts would be potentially fatal for millions. SunMedia columnist Anthony Furey details this dangerously underestimated threat in a new book, reviewed for C2C by Shal Marriott.
The quickest way through security for everyone is if airport staff are allowed to practice quick detective work. Profiling is a reality. We might as well admit it, collectively lighten up a bit, and thus get through security quicker.
Anybody who has spent any time reading or watching media coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict and is in any way objective soon realizes that some notable exceptions, journalists are increasingly one-sided in their reporting. Where will this put media coverage of Israel in 2010?