Canada - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/canada/?source=rss&aim=canada en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT The Wingnut explains why socialized healthcare sucks By Glenallen Walken Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/18/wingnut/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/18/wingnut/index.html?source=rss Our undercover conservative answers a tough question: If socialized medicine is so awful, how come no country that's adopted nationalized healthcare has ever gotten rid of it? The Canada-Uganda connection By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/06/23/globalization_gone_awry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/06/23/globalization_gone_awry/index.html?source=rss Shouldn't the African nation be able to manufacture its own imitation-African products cheaper than Canada? I can't give a compliment to save my life! By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/12/compliments/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/12/compliments/index.html?source=rss My withholding of praise goes deep, I know -- but I want to change! Clean Power Groups Slam New Canadian Budget By David Ehrlich Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/clean_tech/2009/01/28/clean_power_groups_slam_new_canadian_budget/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/clean_tech/2009/01/28/clean_power_groups_slam_new_canadian_budget/index.html?source=rss Payback's a bitch By Louis Bayard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/28/payback/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/10/28/payback/index.html?source=rss Margaret Atwood talks about the perils of debt -- and imagines a utopian future without greed. America is scaring the hell out of us Canadians! By Cary Tennis Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/10/canada/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/10/canada/index.html?source=rss I used to think America was just weird; now it's feeling a lot like 1932. Good night and good TV By Thomas Rogers Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/01/newsroom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/01/newsroom/index.html?source=rss "The Newsroom" does for the talking heads what "The Office" does for cubicle dwellers -- and may be the funniest TV show ever made about the news business. Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the ice! By Andrew O'Hehir Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss It's frozen allegory week -- in summer! Guy Maddin reveals the sleepwalking sex secrets of Winnipeg; Werner Herzog chases psycho penguins in Antarctica. How to stop illegal Canadian immigration By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/13/tancredo_canada/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/13/tancredo_canada/index.html?source=rss Tom Tancredo says we need a fence on the northern border, too. At least one Canadian vociferously agrees. So long, Canada By Edward McClelland Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/01/canadian_border/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/01/canadian_border/index.html?source=rss Strict new border policies are turning Canada into a foreign country. Is this any way to treat our neighbors? Act like a man (who knows what that means)! By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/14/canada/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/14/canada/index.html?source=rss A blogger sets out to answer what it means these days to be masculine. Welcome to the compact fluorescent twilight zone By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/21/freezing_by_compact_fluorescent/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/21/freezing_by_compact_fluorescent/index.html?source=rss When does it not make environmental sense to switch from incandescent lightbulbs to CFLs? The chronicles of Austan Goolsbee By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/03/nafta_obama_and_goolsbee_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/03/nafta_obama_and_goolsbee_2/index.html?source=rss Obama's economic advisor admits he talked about trade with Canadian officials. But he was misquoted! Except he was telling the truth! Will loose lips sink anti-NAFTA ships? By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/29/nafta_and_austan_goolsbee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/29/nafta_and_austan_goolsbee/index.html?source=rss Canada's CTV says Obama's economic advisor Austan Goolsbee told a Canadian official not to worry about Obama's "rhetoric." Canada's ferocious NAFTA growl By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/28/canada_nafta_and_obama/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/28/canada_nafta_and_obama/index.html?source=rss Don't worry your head about whether Obama lied about the free trade agreement. The real story is a threat by that petro-state up north to turn off the oil spigot. Canadian healthcare: Not "universal" for single women By Lynn Harris Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/27/refuse_pap_smears/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/02/27/refuse_pap_smears/index.html?source=rss Some doctors are conscience-clausing their way out of performing basic gynecological screening. Girl murdered over hijab? By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/12/13/hijab/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/12/13/hijab/index.html?source=rss A 16-year-old Canadian was reportedly killed by her Muslim father. Some hint it's because she wouldn't cover up. When did we become like Syria? By Alia Malek Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/14/arar/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/14/arar/index.html?source=rss As I watched a surreal torture case unfold in a U.S. courtroom, the line between dictatorship and democracy seemed to disappear. Lumber, housing, and the high-flying loonie By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/lumber_prices/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/18/lumber_prices/index.html?source=rss Even with the considerate help of the industrious mountain pine beetle, it's a rough time to run a saw mill in Canada Hey, at least he didn't call it "America Junior" By Tim Grieve Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/08/08/americajunior/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/08/08/americajunior/index.html?source=rss Barack Obama and "the president of Canada." U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada? By Alex Koppelman Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/index.html?source=rss In his new bestseller, Jerome "Swift boat" Corsi explains how immigration will destroy American sovereignty and the "amero" will replace the dollar. Pesticide harmony -- a sick free trade tune By Andrew Leonard Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/09/pesticides/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/09/pesticides/index.html?source=rss Canada plans to reduce pesticide safety standards to match the U.S. Meanwhile, Europe looks on in disgust. Northern exposure By Gregory Levey Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/03/awol_in_canada/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/03/awol_in_canada/index.html?source=rss American soldiers are fleeing the Iraq war for Canada -- and U.S. officials may be on their trail. North of the border is no longer the safe haven it was during the Vietnam era. Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 By Rebecca Traister Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html?source=rss Conserva-babe and star-in-the-making Rachel Marsden has a, um, colorful past. What was Fox thinking? Banning veils from the polls By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 18 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/03/23/veil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/03/23/veil/index.html?source=rss Muslim women will have to remove their niqabs before voting.