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Lo que Enrique y Meghan podrían enseñarle a Canadá

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Azotados por los tabloides, aislados de la familia y agotados por la responsabilidad real, Enrique y Meghan han venido a Canadá para empezar una nueva vida. Buscan privacidad, seguridad y, quizás, una nueva identidad.

En estas grandes y vacías extensiones, probablemente lo encontrarán. La mayoría de los canadienses se sienten cómodos respetando el anonimato a quienes lo desean, comenzando por sí mismos, un pueblo exitoso pero modesto, del que se dice que esconde su propia luz.

Cuando la pareja real anunció sus planes de elegir Canadá, los canadienses reaccionaron en gran medida con su característica moderación. Se rumoraba desde hacía tiempo que la pareja prefería el lugar donde había vacacionado en Navidad (Isla de Vancouver) y donde Meghan vivió cuando era actriz (Toronto).…  Seguir leyendo »

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The story of the general election in Canada that catapulted the Liberal Party back into power after its near-death decade in exile is the unlikely story of Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister-elect.

The charismatic son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the iconic leader of Canada from 1968 to 1984, Justin Trudeau spent his first 12 years at 24 Sussex Drive, the official residence of the Prime Minister. He taught mathematics and English before entering politics and was elected to parliament from Montreal in 2008. Like his father, he skis, boxes and canoes.

Now 43, the same age John F. Kennedy became president, he is Canada's second-youngest prime minister.…  Seguir leyendo »

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It was a surprise, even for a journalist, to be driving down Wellington Street, the city's ceremonial thoroughfare, and to find myself swept into the chaotic aftermath of a disaster. I was rushing to a television studio at mid-morning and passing by the National War Memorial, just minutes after the shooting. A solider was down.

Police were closing streets, stopping traffic, barking orders, brandishing machine guns, fingers on triggers. They soon imposed a lockdown, lasting until mid-afternoon. It is from that confinement that I began writing this.
This is not supposed to happen in Canada -- much less Ottawa, its sleepy, self-absorbed capital.…  Seguir leyendo »

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The good news from the world of the law in 2006 is that we did not for once in recent memory have to endure an avalanche of vapid news coverage about a solitary trashy tale of sex and fame and crime. There was no Michael Jackson molestation trial or Kobe Bryant rape trial or Laci Peterson saga to draw our attention away from trials and cases and legal issues of true merit.

The bad news from the world of the law in 2006 is that we didn't take that extra time given to us by divine providence and follow or absorb with any depth or sense of passion or outrage the truly monumental and generally ominous things that were done in the law, in our name, in this fifth-going-on-sixth year of the legal war on terrorism.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Supporters of same-sex marriage, no doubt a little disappointed that the New Jersey Supreme Court didn't go a smidge further and order the state legislature to recognize same-sex marriage as such, should take solace nonetheless in the language, rationale and voting math of the ruling. This was a very good day for their cause, even if they didn't get precisely what they wanted.

I'm sure that most people, when they saw that the case came down to a 4-3 vote, figured that the four-Justice majority represented the Court's more liberal or progressive wing. I also suspect that most folks figured that the three dissenting justices were against the idea of same-sex marriage in general and against the idea of equal rights for same-sex couples in particular.…  Seguir leyendo »

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We know now what we didn't know then, back in the dark days of the autumn of 2001, and we still cannot get it right. After five years we now have a long track record of seeing what can, will and usually does go wrong when the administration acts unilaterally in the legal war on terror. It has been written into the record of one Supreme Court case after another, one lower court ruling following the next, and still we accept the premise that the rule of law as we knew it could and should be twisted unrecognizably, now and forever more, until this ill-defined, ever-evolving, undeclared war is over.…  Seguir leyendo »