January 20, 2009 - Global Comment

In memory of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov

January 20, 2009
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By Natalia Antonova

This is a special edition of this column. Yesterday, in broad daylight, in the center of Moscow, a human rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down. Lawyer Stanislav Markelov was most famous for...

The Historic Inaugration: looking southward with envy

January 20, 2009
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By Renee Martin

In Canada, we have socialized medicine, same gender marriage is legal, and though we have a disparity between rich and poor it does not come close to the separation in the United States. Our rate of...