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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Lorne Sossin

Lorne Sossin teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

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Does Independence Matter?

From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree July–August 2008
The old saw is that if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. For Canada’s federal government, the hammer is partisanship and, of late, the unlucky nails have been a disparate set of independent public agencies, from Elections Canada to the Canadian Military Complaints Commission to the Canadian Nuclear Safety…