Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
As the Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we are writing to express our concern about changes recently announced in Canada’s war against ISIS.
We welcome the withdrawal of the six CF-18s that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, but are dismayed by the retention of refuelling and surveillance aircraft together with aircrew and ground personnel. These will be working in support of coalition bombing, and will continue to be aided by
Canadian troops marking targets. The present plan provides that the withdrawal of Canadian fighter jets will not bring the expected end to Canadian bombing in Iraq and Syria, and instead will ensure that Canada’s role in bombing will continue. The loss of human life and the...
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Dear Ms. Joly,
It has been encouraging to see the new Canadian federal government immediately implement promises made during the election campaign. The mandate letter from the Prime Minister to the Minister of Canadian Heritage outlines changes that will positively affect Canadian arts, culture, and heritage.
Unfortunately, that letter has a conspicuous absence: renewed financial and administrative support, as well as oversight of mandates and operations, for Library and Archives Canada.
LAC is one of the primary partners of nation-wide initiatives for libraries and archives, and works in conjunction with professional associations and the Canada Council of Archives. Its symbolic role has not changed since the National Archives and the National Library were amalgamated a decade...
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To My Fellow Canadian Oil Sands Shareholders:
My name is Seymour Schulich. I am a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) specializing in Oil and Gas and was a senior partner for 22 years at one of Canada's largest investment counselling firms. I also worked for Shell Oil early in my career and have been a merchant banker to the Oil and Gas Industry for over 46 years.
I've made a good living making smart investment decisions and thinking long term.
I also know when someone is trying to pull a fast one on me and Suncor is trying to pull a fast one on all of us.
Quite simply, they're offering an unacceptable price for an irreplaceable asset.
Let me tell you why.
Suncor is hoping we are thinking short term, ignoring the benefits we are about to see from recent capital...
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Your Excellency,
We wish to extend to you our best wishes and heartfelt congratulations on your historic victory in the recent elections. As the second-youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history, and your past experience and passion in youth advocacy and human rights, we share a strong vision for democracy and human rights in Iran. Your recent remarks made while visiting members of the Iranian community in Ottawa was especially important to us, as you so rightly stated that you clearly differentiate between the aspirations of the Iranian people and the policies of the theocratic regime.
The plight of the Iranian people in their struggle for a just and an equitable society based on universal suffrage and human rights, and their right to be able to choose their own destiny ...
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Dear Citizens of Missouri,
The Science Teachers of Missouri (STOM) is an organization run by a member- elected board of volunteers that promotes great science teaching and great science teachers in the state of Missouri. In recent weeks and months there has been much discussion and news regarding work groups tasked with writing new Missouri Learning Standards for Math, Science, English Language Arts, and History as part of the passing of Missouri House Bill 1490. The STOM organization would like to convey an educator’s point of view of the happenings regarding this process.
The Process
From the very start, the work surrounding HB 1490 has been a concern of STOM due to the potential for bias and lack of transparency in the make-up and running of the committees. Each subject...
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Dear Colleges,
With the first month of school over, I am angry with a couple of my professors. Please explain why you are forcing me to show up to class when you do not teach. Being a commuter, I have to leave about an hour earlier than when my class actually starts. With a 10:20 class, I have to leave my house by 9:20 in order to get to class on time. I enjoy sleeping in (as most people do) and I would not mind going to class if you were going to actually teach me something. One of my professors during an hour and twenty minute class rambles on and on about how she knows the material and became so successful in the industry. Well that is great in all but why don’t you get down from the high horse you are on and actually prove your “knowledge”. It appears to be all talk. I have had eight...
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Dear Governor Deal (and Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles)*:
As a Catholic moral theologian (and a former corrections officer and reserve police officer), I wish to go on record in requesting that you do not execute (and that you instead commute her sentence) Kelly Gissendaner, who is scheduled to die in Georgia on Monday night, March 2nd. In my past experience in law enforcement and in lay ecclesial ministry, I knew first hand murderers, victims of murder, and families of the murdered. As a Catholic theologian, I agree with the teaching of recent popes and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on the death penalty.
Sixteen years ago, while visiting St. Louis, Pope John Paul II–now Saint John Paul–asked then-Governor Mel Carnahan of Missouri to commute the death sentence of...
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To my fellow EVS 23 participants:
As a new entrant to this market, I’m delighted to be a part of the excitement and passion this industry has for today and for the future.
As you all know, the International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exposition (EVS) series took root in 1969 – the same year that man first walked on the moon. The Apollo Mission required enormous industry collaboration, smart engineering, and the imagination and vision to ignite an entire industry to rally behind it. It was a unifying vector for all of mankind’s ingenuity to put together the science we had already known at the time into an integrated solution that was a wonder of technology. That race to the moon created many opportunities for many new companies in innumerable fields of technology which advanced...
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To Bob McCulloch St. Louis Circuit Attorney and Jennifer Joyce St. Louis City Attorney,
I heard the news story about you threatening to take libel suits against anyone who dares criticize your choose candidate Barack Obama. I note that you did not say “Political Candidates”. You listed only one candidate (BO) in particular.
I have a serious problem with you protecting only one single candidate. It seems like a violation of your office to only target what you perceive to be your political enemies. It’s more disturbing that you’re trying to get other elected officials both at the state and local level in lock step with your tactics of intimidation. The only conclusion that I can draw is that you are attempting to manipulate the election by silencing opposition.
If what Joyce said...
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Dear Interim Chancellor Wilson, Interim Vice Chancellor Feser, and Vice Chancellor Romano,
Today, November 18, 2015, marked the National Day of Action, #StudentBlackOut, in which Black students organized dozens of actions on university and college campuses throughout the US and in Canada. Black University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) students joined this national call to action, organizing a “Black Student Solidarity Rally” that took place on the main quad today at noon. In response, an “Illini White Student Union” Facebook page was created and self-described as, “A new page for white students of University of Illinois students to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives...
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