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Not Rex: On the barbarian foothold in Canada

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A Monty Pythin-esque look at the groups Harper has denigrated to keep power.

What have the Conservatives ever done to hurt anyone?

Paul Orlowski

| October 1, 2015

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(Note: The following is very loosely based on what I recently overheard in a neighbouring classroom lecture. It is a fusion of this AND a famous satirical skit from a British comedy group popular in the 1970s.)

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Tories polling strongly among nation's that-one-friend-on-Facebook

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OTTAWA - A poll conducted among the that-one-unbearable-person-on-facebook demographic has shown that the Conservative party is polling above 95 per cent.

"Polls of people with any basic decency show Harper coming in a distant third," said pollster Margaret Duchamp. "But that seems to be exactly why the country’s that-one-friend-on-facebook-whose-profile-picture-is-him-shooting-a-gun-or-holding-a-fish is supporting him so strongly."

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Report shows thousands of public servants test positive for opinions

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OTTAWA -- According to a report by the Conservative government, over 12,000 federal public servants have tested positive for opinions.

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Harper to economy: 'You're a liar!'

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TORONTO -- Canada's system of production and consumption of goods and services was put on the defensive at the Maclean's National Leaders Debate when Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused it of misleading Canadians.

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Charlie Hebdo and the meaning of a massacre

Claude Denis

| January 14, 2015

Two jihadists, the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, and killed ten of its staff members and two police officers. This much is clear, undebatable, and unquestionably horrible. Then what? It is an attack on freedom of expression, we all say. Many add that it is an attack on journalism. Rick Salutin counters that, no, it is not an attack on journalism but rather on satire.

Charlie Hebdo would scoff at appeals to 'Western civilization'

Pierre Beaudet

| January 12, 2015

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The carnage of January 7 in Paris will remain in our memory as a criminal act against the freedom of expression. Over the years, the scathing humor of Charb, Cabu and the other members of Charlie Hebdo made us sit up and take notice even when we disagreed with them. They, wherever they are, must be laughing mirthlessly now that the right and the far right, whose nostalgia for colonialism was regularly denounced by the magazine, now beatify them as victims of the enemies of "civilization."

Alberta needs Charlie Hebdo

Susan Wright

| January 12, 2015

Wednesday's massacre of eight journalists, five of whom were political cartoonists, at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo unleashed a torrent of "We are Charlie Hebdo" editorials across the world.

Newspapers fell all over themselves in an effort to demonstrate solidarity with the slain cartoonists -- but they had a concern. Was it enough to simply describe Charlie Hebdo's controversial cartoons or did they have to reprint examples of the magazine's work?

Some reprinted the cartoons, others did not, arguing that reprinting an offensive cartoon would be disrespectful to Muslims.

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Charlie Hebdo attack targeted satire, not journalism

I'm uneasy calling the massacre in Paris an attack on journalism. Journalism is a vast flabby entity, practised by many. The slaughter at Charlie Hebdo was aimed at satire, birthed along with journalism in the enlightenment era (Swift in England, Moliere and Voltaire in France, many others). More precisely, it was aimed at political cartooning, which the French adore. Daumier was the great precursor to the martyrs -- I think that's the right word -- this week.

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On apologies and apologia: Why making fun of sexual harassment is not 'satire'

Diana Samu-Visser Mandy Penney

| September 3, 2014

On August 19, the student paper for the University of Western Ontario, The Gazette, published an article online titled "So you want to date a teaching assistant." The article, meant to be humourous in nature, received widespread criticism for making light of sexual harassment in the workplace, targeting graduate students in an already precarious and vulnerable working environment and for perpetuating rape culture on campus. In response, the newspaper published a series of statements before finally apologizing, withdrawing the article and agreeing not to publish the issue

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