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Canada and Other Matters of Opinion

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ISBN-10: 0385667264

ISBN-13: 9780385667265

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rex Murphy

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A cornucopia of comment from Canada's most opinionated man a man seen, read, and listened to by millions of Canadians each week. Canada's most distinctive commentator presents his fearless and thought-provoking views on a head-spinning range of subjects, from Dr. Johnson's greatness to Bono's gratingness, from doubts about Obama to utter belief in Don Cherry, from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's outstanding oeuvre to well, Pamela Anderson. The topics are as eclectic and wide ranging as the intelligence that put them together. The perspective is thoroughly Canadian, and so are many of the recurring topics and themes: of our domestic politics and our military involvements abroad, of our national…    
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Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Carol LaCourte immigrated to Canada from the U.S. in 1976 after having lived and taught in Finland, France and Venezuela. She received a master's degree in library science at the Universit� de Montr�al, and worked for several companies before joining CPR in 1989. She is in charge of CPR's business intelligence function as well as the CPR Archives. Carol has made it her goal to share CPR's archival treasures with the Canadian public.

Introduction: Inclusive Me Out
Eminent Canadians
Don Cherry: The People's GG
A Boswell's Life
Micha&eumlet;lle Shines by Default
The Complete Soldier
Celebrity
Let Us Excori8 Live 8
A Saint Sorely Taxed
Ego Warriors
There's Something About Cassandra
Cartoon Crisis
Under the Cover of Faith
The Case of Salman Rushdie Is Fresh Again
Coming to a Human Rights Commission Near You
Obama Rising
Power of Speech
Only Words
Canada Could Learn from Obama
She Came to Praise Him
A Dream Divided
He's Not God, But He Is America
Barackwatch
A Clich�d Dud
Bad English
Nothing Is Sacred
Silly Bitching
The Evil That Men Do
Saudi Hospitality
Because They Were Jews
Castro's Useful Idiots
Eichmann in Tehran
A Ferocious Parable
Literature
Image of a Poet
Pamela Anderson's Outstanding Oeuvre
Sanity Takes a Holiday
Climb Every Mount Doom
This is the Life
Doggerel of War
War on Terror
They Kill Because They Can
Fanatical Minds Defy Logic
What We Are Fighting For
The Real Truth
Great and Good
Power Based on Faith, Not Arms
Solzhenitsyn's Stature
Out of His Tree
The Pleasures of Smoking
Money to Burn
A Joint Is a Smoke
Great News out of Vancouver
Reputations
The Bush Paradox
From Brian's Lips to Peter's Microphone
Adriene Clarkson Presents
Paul Martin Fights On
Art
Eros by Any Other Name
Mediocrity and Mischief
The Environment
A Caring Heart
Al Gore, Recycled
Cars Are Smokers, Too
Numbers Game
Despicable Mask for a Weak Argument
The New Inquisition
Canadian Identity
Without Hockey
One Nation
I'm with the Brand
Hands Off Hortons
Scandal
Completely Foxed
Bernier's Girlfriend
Canada and the U.S.
How We Flagged the American Bull
Home Truths for Both Countries
Our Camp Coffee
Human Rights
Saudi Justice
Flagrantly Islamophobic
Real Rights and Rights Commissions
A Blot on Democracy
Catastrophe
Spirit Behind the Giving
On Our Blindness to Disaster
The Bleakest Day
NewFoundland
Last Dice Game
Victims of Stereotyping
The Peace of Twillingate
Meteorological Madness
One Voice that Counts
The Elusive Flavour of Our Politics
Danny Williams Has Gone Too Far
Faith
Play Mystic for Me
Tolerance Must Flow Two Ways
The James Cameron Code
The Path To Power
Dion Buried Alive
Coalition for a Day
Grit Miracle
Coalition of Unintended Consequences
It Might Have Been
Acknowledgements