Category Archives: Politics

When your member of Parliament goes AWOL

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Larry Cornies

When London insurance broker Ed Holder decided to run under the Conservative banner my riding, London West, in 2008, I was thrilled. I happen to be a big believer in the importance of integrity in local candidates, no matter their … Continue reading →

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Newspaper companies and elections: a modest proposal

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Larry Cornies

Back in the mid-2000s, as federal lawmakers and bureaucrats were working out the details and regulations for the National Do Not Call List, the Canadian newspaper industry was in a bit of a tizzy. Telemarketing, after all, lay at the … Continue reading →

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Egypt earns headlines around the globe

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Larry Cornies

It was Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post from 1946 until his death in 1963, who coined the phrase that has since almost become cliché in the world of journalism and beyond. In a speech to Newsweek’s correspondents in … Continue reading →

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Obama’s eloquent defence of religious freedom

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Larry Cornies

During an iftar dinner last night with American Muslim leaders at the White House to mark the start of Ramadan, U.S. President Barack Obama made an eloquent case for religious freedom. The immediate context was the controversy in New York … Continue reading →

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Politics, journalism and Toronto’s G20 weekend

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Larry Cornies

Quite the weekend in Toronto. As anyone who has followed the history of multinational summits and anarchical protest over the past two decades could have predicted (and did), millions of dollars worth of damage and hundreds of arrests accompanied the … Continue reading →

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