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This Toronto Sun article about Tamils doesn’t really surprise me a whole lot. The article cites a government survey which reveals that most successful Tamil refugee claimants return to Sri Lanka after receiving their papers.

I would swear that each and every time there is a major literacy study, the percentage of illiterates gets higher.

Now, either the teachers in our publicly funded schools are totally inadequate (which some would debate is the case) or it is how illiteracy is defined that is responsible for the ever increasing numbers. And, while I think that decades long social promotion and no-fail policies are likely not helping the literacy rates, the latest StatsCan report is, without a doubt, misleading.

Observers on this side of the border shake their head when they hear this Islamic cultural centre compared to a Nazi sign outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by Newt Gingrich, someone well respected for his commitment to the limited government cause in Congress. It is sad that politicians who would not normally made outrageous comparisons and claims are making them now.

Dear Liz,

I know I haven't been the most sympathetic of commentators in the past, mainly because I find your style of politics both shrill and annoying. But, in light of a few recent pieces of news, allow me to offer three small pieces of advice:

1) Please stop trying to get Greens elected. Or rather, please stop trying to make this the main focus of your efforts.

Repondents were almost evenly split on this question.

Some 30 percent of respondents said it should be a crime because “covered faces in public are a security nightmare.” Another 13 percent agreed with the concept on the grounds that “France has the right idea. This is a good way to enforce the principles of equality and openess.” And some eight percent based their “yes” vote on the fact that “Muslim countries such as Syria and Turkey do this already.”