Dear Susan,
If Assad is so confident that the uprising is of
foreign insurgents trying to topple his government, why doesn't he hold
open and free elections to determine the will of the people who he
insists support him...
Susan Ormiston Answers Your Questions on Syria
- January 25, 2012 7:19 PM
- By Susan Ormiston
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School's Out
- January 24, 2012 8:19 PM
- By Adrienne Arsenault
So, it snowed in Attawapiskat. A lot. And apparently enough to cancel
school today. Good opportunity, we thought, to wander by a house of a
youth leader and chat with her about everything swirling around her
here.
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From Attawapiskat to a Mexican Jail Cell
- January 23, 2012 2:18 PM
- By Adrienne Arsenault
Some conversations are just so surreal. On a recent minus
thirty-something afternoon in Attawapiskat, as we tried to update,
untangle, deconstruct, make-any-sense-whatsoever of the housing and
political crisis that is now under a national microscope, the subject
suddenly veered.
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Syria's Chargé d'Affaires responds to Terence McKenna's documentary
- January 9, 2012 5:39 PM
- By THE NATIONAL
Statement from Bashar Akbik, Syrian Chargé d'Affaires to Canada about a
UN report that 5000 Syrians have been killed in his country since
March:
"The casualty figures reported have never been corroborated and therefore considered a figment of the imagination of those that churn out such exaggerations...
"The casualty figures reported have never been corroborated and therefore considered a figment of the imagination of those that churn out such exaggerations...
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The Good Doctor
- December 23, 2011 3:13 PM
- By Adrienne Arsenault
Every year in a job like this, when you look back and consider those whose faces you've stared into, whose stories you've told and worlds you entered, there is often a dizzying array of standouts. But for all his complexities it is Dr. Nilo Barandino whose tale haunts the most. He's a man of the most peculiar contradictions; a healer and killer. His stethoscope clutched with the same fervour as his Second World War carbine rifle. Ask which he prefers and he hesitates.
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Clarification
- December 8, 2011 9:00 PM
- By THE NATIONAL
In a story that aired on The National on November 9, 2011 we reported on an allegation in a Statement of Claim that then RCMP Superintendent Peter German improperly disclosed statements to Robert Blundell. We are not aware of any evidence to support that allegation. CBC apologizes if it left the impression that now Deputy Commissioner German made any improper disclosure.
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Making an Award-Winning Story
- November 24, 2011 11:02 AM
- By Susan Ormiston
It began as a wisp of an idea, while riding home on the
London tube one night. I caught a small story about the Middletons having drawn
their line in the sand years ago; suing a photographer and his agency for a
picture of Kate playing tennis at Christmas.
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The Silver Cross Story
- November 10, 2011 3:45 PM
- By Stephanie Jenzer
This Remembrance Day, as another National Silver Cross Mother lays a wreath in Ottawa, you might want to take note -- to remember not just Canada's sons and daughters who fell in war, but also the women who many believe sacrificed those children.
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Saša Petricic speaks to a Canadian-Israeli Soldier
- October 18, 2011 5:33 PM
- By Sasa Petricic
Saša talks to a Canadian-Israeli soldier about the prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit
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Meet our new At Issue panelist
- September 15, 2011 5:10 PM
- By Leslie Stojsic
Bruce Anderson grew up with a curiosity about what exactly makes people
do what they do, and eventually found himself in the market and opinion
research business.
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