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Chantal Hébert:
Until recently, Quebecers' loyalty to the public broadcaster acted as a bit of a shield for the CBC.
In their quest to win over Quebec, the Conservatives were not about to be caught dead laying a finger on Radio-Canada.
That changed in tandem with the Conservative decline in Quebec.
Since the House returned, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has given TVA three interviews and Radio-Canada none.
On that score, the heritage minister's embarrassing foray on Tout le monde en parle last week is unlikely to restore Radio-Canada in the good graces of the PMO.
So far, Quebecers have not focused on the financial stranglehold that the government expects the CBC to operate in and its consequences for the capacity of Radio-Canada to continue to play the central role that they expect of it.
John Ibbitson - The only thing that can save the Republicans is a Canadian.
Ian Robinson wants schools not to teach science because his children said the Johnny Appleseed grace wrong:
It's called environmentalism, which is the politically correct term for pagan earth worship.
And if you think that's an exaggeration, you can talk to the kids in my son's Grade 6 class who recently went on a four-day retreat to a camp in the bush to learn about the environment.
There, before eating meals, they were encouraged to say grace.
One of those prayers was one familiar to North American Christians, called The Johnny Appleseed Grace -- only the enviros substituted the word "Earth" for the word "God."
Peter Worthington: Unlike Republicans, Canadian Conservatives have no problem badmouthing Rush Limbaugh.
The likes of Bill O'Reilly and Dick Morris of talk radio, rail that this is a ploy by Democrats to embarrass and alienate those Republicans and independents who aren't Limbaugh ditto-heads.
Newsweek recently ran a cover-story on Limbaugh by David Frum who rejects Limbaugh as a party figurehead, partly on grounds that while 20 million American conservatives think Rush is wonderful, 100 million other conservatives think he's too extreme.
Jonathan Kay continues his never-ending dehumanization of Arabs in the middle east.
While Dow Marmur actually offers some sensible advice:
But I don't share the alarmist view that the new government of Israel will jeopardize the peace process with the Palestinians. After all, it was Menachem Begin, the hard-line right-wing Israeli prime minister, who in 1979 made peace with Egypt. And there's no evidence that the obstacles for making peace are primarily put there by Israel. It's by no means clear that a new Palestinian unity government, should it ever be formed, will be open to constructive solutions.
Peace will come not because politicians talk it but because people will it. In a democracy, governments negotiate details but the electorate determines direction. Opinion polls consistently show that a substantial majority of Palestinians and Israelis want peace. Ultimately, no political machinations can defy the consensus.