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Editorial Comment: Layton's Registry Quagmire
 Posted 9/1/2010 2:16:00 PM
(Don't forget, my daily editorial comment airs weekday mornings at 6:20 with Bruce Kenyon and the Morning News, and again at 12:20pm with Wayne Nelson and Today So Far.)
Wednesday's editorial comment:
It's hard not to have some sympathy for Jack Layton and the political quagmire he finds himself in.
It's pretty clear the NDP leader thinks Canada should maintain a long-gun registry, but at the same time, he's willing to tolerate the fact that some in his caucus disagree, and will vote to kill the registry.
This position is causing him no shortage of grief as it would now seem that those NDP votes could make the difference on whether the registry survives.
The Liberals, who once upon a time allowed a free vote on the matter, and hammering the New Democrats hard over this. So, too, are other groups who are fighting to preserve ...
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Editorial Comment: Wi-Fi Hysteria
Posted 8/31/2010 8:54:00 PM
(Don't forget, my daily editorial comment airs weekday mornings at 6:20 with Bruce Kenyon and the Morning News, and again at 12:20pm with Wayne Nelson and Today So Far.)
Tuesday's editorial comment:
Should we be fearful of wi-fi systems in schools? Should we be worried about what those wireless networks might be exposing children to?
The short answer seems to be: absolutely not.
However, you might have concluded otherwise based on much of the recent media coverage.
Some parents in Ontario have organized and called for school boards to remove wi-fi systems after some cases of headaches, dizziness and rashes were reported.
However, there's no evidence that those symptoms are in any way linked to wireless networks. Given how widespread wi-fi now is, we would be seeing those symptoms in abundance if there indeed was a link.
Some of those calling for wi-fi bans have trotted out some proported "experts" to ...
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Calgary Herald Column: The CMA's Evidence Deficit
Posted 8/31/2010 8:02:00 AM
In a conflict between evidence-based policy and emotion-based policy, one would expect physicians to be clearly on the side of the former.
So it is therefore disheartening to see Canadian doctors embracing policies that seem devoid of evidence and instead rely primarily on empty emotional rhetoric. If the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) cannot be counted on as a defender of evidence-based policy, then the cause will suffer immensely.
At their annual conference earlier this month, CMA delegates voted 84 per cent in favour of a ban on mixed martial arts (MMA), a sport which now commands a huge following across North America.
A press release quoted a CMA past-president as saying, “this so-called 'sport' is savage and brutal and its aim is the ...
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