Co-signed by Jean Crowde, MP, Nanaimo-Cowichan

Dear Minister John Duncan,

Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?
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The Federal Court said today in a judicial review that it was "unreasonable" for the federal government to appoint a third-party manager in Attawapiskat last fall as the Ontario community was dealing with a housing crisis.

Attawapiskat First Nation had applied to the court for a judicial review of the decision by Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan to have a third-party manager take control of the community's finances.

BY SHEILA PRATT, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM JULY 16, 2012

Official international development assistance for the world's poorest countries has become a precarious business in recent years. If the first five years of the last decade were seen as a time of foreign aid and development renaissance -- debt relief, Millennial Development Goals, movement towards more aid accountability -- the last five years became the decline of most of these important activities.

See http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/dna-tests-reveal-hitler-s-jewish-and...

By the time Jason Kenney began his speech yesterday morning in Surrey, the Citizenship and Immigration minister had been confronted at least four times during his short B.C. visit -- lambasted by critics he retorted were "extremists" and "anarchists."

Conservative minister Jason Kenney is to receive an award for "diversity" from the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in London, Ontario this Sunday. It is hard to say which does more harm to the true values of diversity: the "honouring" organization or the politician being "honoured."

It was a visit to the dentist that convinced Parisa Rezaiefar she might have a chance in Canada after all.

Elections Canada is investigating misleading 'robocalls' made to voters in Guelph, Ont., during the last federal election.