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Demers: Fetters of the Old Contrarians
Znet Article, May, 24 2007
Charles Demers
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Over the past few weeks, progressive writers such as the ...
Demers: The disaster of Canadian colonialism
Znet Article, October, 27 2005
Charles Demers
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There’s an old, awful joke that – in direct proportion to its offensiveness and horrific frankness – gets to the heart of one of the fundamental hypocrisies of Canadian apartheid and the comfortable air of superiority wi...
Demers: The Nazi formerly known as Prince
Znet Article, January, 18 2005
Charles Demers
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It has been a troubling week for the Commonwealth and, accordingly, for the American liberals who’ve looked for hope in us as a still-white, still-Anglo-Saxon exemplar of civility, especially when contradistinguished against the Red-state ...
Demers: From El Salvador To Iraq: Death Squads Come In Waves
Znet Article, January, 10 2005
Charles Demers
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Remember the heady, idealistic days of early 2005? You know, like, January 1st through to, say, the 7th or 8th? After the three-hundred-and-sixty-six day bloodbath that was 2004, and once the Are-the-Tourists-Okay? angle of the Tsunami story was d...
Demers: Framing the Shariah debate
Znet Article, September, 15 2004
Charles Demers
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In a post-9/11 world such as this – where well-intentioned white liberals have temporarily de-emphasized their personal campaigns to smile awkwardly at every black person they pass on the street in order to concentrate on smiling awkward...
Demers: Child Labour Day is everyday, in Dickensian B.C.
Znet Article, September, 09 2004
Charles Demers
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Before becoming known for famous quotations like "Hey New York, turns out I'm part Jewish" and "You're sleeping on the couch," Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was known for helping to make famous the maxim "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child"; in ...
Demers: Non-violence In The Palestinian Arsenal
Znet Article, August, 19 2004
Charles Demers
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The well-worn maxim that “What is old is new again†has finally moved beyond the realm of vintage t-shirts, vinyl fetishists and Athenian Olympiads and into the heady stuff of North-South geopolitics. For years, discussions of â...
Demers: Obesity, Class, and the Cheeseburger Bill
Znet Article, March, 21 2004
Charles Demers
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A week ago, upon hearing the phrase "Cheeseburger Bill," one might have thought that McDonald's was adding a new face to their already-bloated cast of cartoon characters in order to help sell their wares to an already-bloated consumer base. In fac...
