Musings of Babalas

Accident or Intentional

I live in the greater Toronto area, and the Toronto Star is my newspaper of choice. I especially like the articles written by Haroon Siddiqui who I admire greatly.  I was on the Common Dreams website yesterday and noticed that one of his articles was posted there on Sunday. Went I went to read the story again today, from it's original source, which was the Toronto Star, it was conveniently missing from Haroon Siddiqui's list of recent articles. The subject of the article, is one which is sadly overlooked by most of the main stream media, so I am wondering if the Toronto Star has bowed to some external pressure by removing any  trace of the article in question? Some of the things that make you go mmmm...

Update:
I have sent an email to Haroon Siddiqui regarding the missing article and he has assured me that it is being fixed.

Update:

It is now a day later and although being assured by Haroon Siddiqui that it would be fixed, the links to the missing article are still not corrected.  One other thing which is interesting, I can understand one mistake regarding this article, but there is actually another area which links to Haroon Siddiqui's latest articles and the mysterious article is also missing from there.  Could I be reading too much into this?

New Liberal Leader

So the Liberal party has finally decided on a leader. I am glad that they chose Stephan Dion as their leader instead of the apparent front runners Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae.  Michael Ignatieff  has not been a resident in this country  in over 30 years so this was an absolute horrible choice as leader. Having been out of the country for so long, how could he possibly hope to know the wants and needs of the average Canadian. His pro Iraq war and pro torture sentiments are completely out of touch with the majority of Canadians mindset. Bob Rae was also a terrible choice to lead as he cannot ever hope to shake the monkey of his back. That monkey being his disastrous stint as Premier of Ontario as head of the New Democratic Party. I have renewed faith in the Liberal party after having elected a life long Liberal as their leader. Now forward to the elections, although I think that we will still get a minority government. But a Liberal minority is still much better then the Conservative minority we have now.