| Oda rejects poll suggesting Afghan support for NATO plummets
Canada's international development minister took issue with a new poll Monday that suggests Afghans are increasingly critical of the war in their country. Bev Oda, the minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, dismissed the findings of the survey, which suggested support for NATO has plummeted the last year and the Taliban is growing in strength. .
Test results fuel boom in sales of bisphenol A-free baby bottles
The mounting public concern over bisphenol A, a chemical that mimics estrogen, has reached a boiling point in Canada in the past week after scientific reports and tests have shown the chemical can leach from baby bottles and may be harmful to children. Born Free is receiving about 100 phone orders a day from Canadian consumers, many of whom have been scouring stores only to find the products have already been snapped up, Mr. Vigdor said. "I'm hearing from mothers who say, 'I threw away everything, I need you to overnight me [the] product,' " he said. While the company is filling orders to individuals and retailers as quickly as it can, the demand has been high and many stores don't expect new stock from Born Free or other distributors, such as Green to Grow or ThinkBaby, for several more weeks.
What’s The Verdict In The John McCain Versus The New York Times ...
It's hard to see how editorial judgment at the Times could suffer a defeat in the court of opinion more clear cut than this." Now in the pages of the New York Times, readers can be told about "prosecutorial discretion," and they are expected to be grown-up enough to handle this wrinkle in how the world works. But when it's time for a lesson in Editor's Discretion suddenly all sophistication disappears, and we are supposed to believe that the Times had no choice: if sources said "romance" we have to say romance. But the readers who can handle "not every crime deserves to be prosecuted," are the same readers who understand that the New York Times did not have to say a word about the romance to publish the essentials of the story. Politically, they are miles ahead of where Abramson's explainer stands: wiser than their newspaper.
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