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‘One law for all Ontarians’

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Harvey Simmons - Sep. 14 (News Analysis) - Five years ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced, “There will be no sharia law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians.” The premier was referring to the fact that since 1991, arbitration decisions made according to religious laws were enforceable in Ontario courts, and he was now going to rescind the law that made this possible.

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Oil Sands Threaten Our Survival, Al Gore Warns

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Oakland Ross - Nov. 24 (News Report) - "Gas from the tar sands gives a Prius the same carbon footprint as a Hummer," the former U.S. vice-president told the Star in an interview prior to a Toronto speaking engagement scheduled for Tuesday evening.

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High stakes in Appalachia as greens battle Big Coal

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Mitch Potter - Nov. 17 (News Report) - The plan was painfully simple: save a mountain, turn a country, cool the Earth. And for the longest time, it seemed to be working here on Coal River Mountain, ground zero in the American debate over climate change.

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A fresh approach in American war on drugs

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Mitch Potter - Mar. 22 (News Analysis) - Wars rarely end at the first hint of truce. But when the Obama administration quietly announced this week it will halt federal raids against dispensers of medical marijuana, advocates of drug policy reform found themselves in a tickertape mood.

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Meet the Canadian whose big idea felled Wall Street

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Cathal Kelly - Mar. 18 (Special Report) - Li's model sidestepped the problem of trying to correlate all the variables that determine risk. Instead, it based its assumptions on the historical dips and swells of the market itself. In essence, Li used the past to map the future.

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Tar sands smog seen worsening

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Allan Woods - Jan. 21 (Special Report) - , "there are emissions of CO2 and air contaminants resulting from the generation of the energy required by (carbon capture and storage) facilities. The CO2 emissions offset the volumes captured by the facilities, while the air contaminant emissions add to the load on the environment." The June 2008 study predicts emissions of sulphur dioxide, the main ingredient in acid rain, will rise by up to 34 per cent by 2017. Nitrous oxides – responsible for ozone layer depletion – will rise by up to 24 per cent. Ozone depletion is linked to higher rates of skin cancer, among other health problems. Tiny particulate matter is set to jump by more than 60 per cent in the oil sands and could lead to hazy skies and aggravate existing lung and heart problems.

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McCain's gaffes: Fatigue or old age?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Tim Harper - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - When John McCain last week inadvertently labelled voters in western Pennsylvania a bunch of redneck racists, it could have been dismissed as one of those missteps that fatigued candidates make late in campaigns. Except he is 72. It was one in a series of recent McCain flubs and references to bygone eras that have highlighted a paradox of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. While Democrat Barack Obama's race and potentially hidden racism among American voters has been carefully analyzed, it may turn out his Republican rival's age proves to be a deal-breaker Tuesday. McCain, seeking to become the oldest person ever elected to a first term in the White House, has aged perceptibly in the past year. Obama, after a major address on racial relations in Philadelphia last March, has never let race define his campaign.

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Ten worst countries for women

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Olivia Ward - Mar. 08 (Special Report) - After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women [in Afghanistan] are illiterate. ...In the eastern [Republic of the Congo], ...rapes are ...brutal...While Sudanese women have made strides under reformed laws, the plight of those in Darfur, in western Sudan, has worsened. Abduction, rape or forced displacement have destroyed more than 1 million women's lives... [In] Guatemala, where an impoverished female underclass faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. ...In Mali...few women escape the torture of genital mutilation, many are forced into early marriages, and one in 10 dies in pregnancy or childbirth.In the tribal border areas of Pakistan, women are gang-raped as punishment for men's crimes. ...In oil-rich Saudi Arabia, women are treated as lifelong dependents, under the guardianship of a male relative. ...In the Somali capital, Mogadishu...women are exposed daily to rape, dangerously poor health care for pregnancy, and attack by armed gangs.

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Diverse voices are lost with big media mergers

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:51:45 -0700

Toronto Star - By Steve Anderson - Aug. 09 (Opinion) - Several major media mergers are threatening to make the Canadian media scene an even more concentrated affair.

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Lithium surge lacks staying power

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:01:38 -0800

Toronto Star - By Tyler Hamilton - Jan. 29 (Special Report) - Exploding lithium-ion batteries in laptop computers captured the headlines in 2006, but so far the big splash in 2007 appears to be lithium-ion batteries for electric cars. ... The fact that GM has embraced the plug-in hybrid concept, when only a year ago it more or less ignored the idea, has energized a new generation of battery innovators and, perhaps prematurely, crowned lithium-ion technology as the winning approach.

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