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...election by appealing to the populace with the same form of mass appeal. Let's hope the U.N. and the E.U. will not become emasculated appeasers. It would be an exercise in futility to negotiate with enemies who are intractable in their determination to destroy Israel. Harry Grunstein Hampstead, Quebec...
...heart disease or stroke. The problem, as physicians quickly found out, was that body mass includes not just excess body fat but muscle as well. So fit people with dense muscle mass would consistently register as overweight and unhealthy. That led Dr. Jean-Pierre Despres, of Laval University in Quebec, to champion another measure for metabolic health: waist circumference. In a series of recent studies, researchers found that a larger waist circumference is a good indicator for metabolic syndrome, a constellation of physiologic changes that can lead to diabetes and heart disease. "I call it a vital sign," Despres says...
...point, yes, but one that at least a few party veterans view as an overdue opportunity to heal internal wounds and rebuild. "It's time to regroup," says departing Environment Minister St?phane Dion, one of the 13 Grits (out of 21) to survive the combined Tory-Bloc onslaught in Quebec. "It's not the end of the world to be the opposition." Meanwhile, the New Democratic Party, with 10 new seats, is poised to exploit Liberal disarray...
...Liberals have only themselves to blame for losing the upper hand. For the past two years, they have been dogged by revelations that a federal program was manipulated to create a Liberal-friendly slush fund and kickback scheme in the province of Quebec. A Nov. 1 report by a national commission exonerated Prime Minister Martin, but the scandal has left a lingering stench. "I'm tired of being screwed by the Liberals," says Gerry Gagné, 47, a lifelong Liberal supporter from Low, Que., in a now common refrain...
...20th century - a record that bolstered their claim to be the "natural" party of government. But even natural parties come to a natural end. The tipping point came from disclosures in 2004 that funds from a $250 million federal scheme to buy the loyalty of separatist-leaning Francophones in Quebec were siphoned off in illegal kickbacks to Liberal Party operatives. Opposition parties competed in expressions of high dudgeon. "This is a dark time for democracy in Canada," declared Jack Layton, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party. The first postscandal attempt to unseat the government, in June 2004, left...