Articles
Address by Prime Minister Paul Martin at the United Nations General Assembly
September 16, 2005 New York, New York The international response to the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina reminds us once again that there are connections between people that have nothing to do with a common language, race or creed, and...
The G-8 Summit, By Jonathan William Barr
The leaders of the G-8, which includes the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia, were gathered at Gleneagles golf resort in Scotland. The largest industrialized nations of the world met to discuss various issues including the Middle...
Live 8: Publicity, or an issue of Life and Death?? By Jordan Alexandra Gracey
It is no secret that there is an ever-increasing gap between the have's and have-nots in today's global marketplace. The dilemma over how to cope with this gap is not a new phenomenon; economists have studied this societal problem, posed...
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The true meaning of a cowboy.
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This poem humanizes the numbers that are casualties. Young men and women, many just kids, give up their freedom when they join the military. They put their trust and their lives in the hands of leaders. They should not be put in harms way unless it is absolutely unavoidable.
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Searching for an answer... finding understanding.
The tsunami: What can we learn from the disaster? By Jonathan William Barr
The tsunami which stuck on December 26, 2004 left Southeast Asia completely devastated as infrastructures were annihilated and over 160,000 people were reported dead. The epicentre of the quake was approximately 500 km west of the island of Banda Aceh,...
The Responsibility to Protect, By Jonathan William Barr
If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica - to gross and systemic violations of human rights that affect every precept of our common humanity? This controversial question...
Terrorism: An effective response? By Jonathan William Barr
It's business as usual on September 11, 2001; the morning sun shines down on New Yorkers already grinding through their daily routines. Without any warning, terror strikes. Some passer-bys - distracted for obvious reasons - look up, as a massive...