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Gaza and the Crimes of Mubarak February 2, 2009
By RANNIE AMIRI
As staggering as the statistics detailing Gaza’s destruction may be, they still do not present a complete picture of the unique travesties and tragedies suffered by individuals, families, neighborhoods and villages during Israel’s savage 22-day assault on the tiny territory. Yet, they bear repeating. From the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (www.pcbs.gov.ps) and various NGOs:
1,334 killed, one-third of them children (more children than ‘militants’ were killed)
5,450 injured, one-third of them children
100,000 displaced, 50,000 made homeless
4,100 residential homes and buildings destroyed, 17,000 damaged (together accounting for 14 percent of all buildings in Gaza)
29 destroyed educational institutions, including the American International School
92 destroyed or damaged mosques
1,500 destroyed shops, factories and other commercial facilities
20 destroyed ambulances
35-60% of agricultural land ruined
$1.9 billion in total estimated damages
In the face of such massive devastation and hardship—and this after the crippling 18-month siege had already reduced Gazato a state of bare subsistence—the behavior and actions of the regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak remain as contemptible after the war as they were before.
On Dec. 25, just two days prior to the onset of the vicious aerial bombardment of Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with Mubarak in Cairo. It is understood that Egypt gave the green light for the attack in the hope that the ruling (and democratically-elected) Islamist group Hamas would be toppled and the more pliant Fatah faction, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, would supplant it.
Rafah crossing sealed
The reasons for Mubarak’s animus toward Hamas, and by extension, for his reprehensible decision to keep the vital Rafah border crossing with Gaza closed to humanitarian supplies was explained earlier.
Apologists for the dictator will say the 2005 agreement between Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the European Union (EU) that regulates movement across the border prohibits it from being opened in the absence of PA and EU observers.
It makes no mention, however, of barring critical humanitarian goods from reaching the territory, where conditions were becoming ever more desperate. Additionally, Egypt was a non-signatory to the treaty, which had already expired after one year and was never renewed.
If keeping the Rafah crossing—the only gateway to non-Israeli territory from Gaza—closed before and during the war was not a criminal act, doing so in its aftermath must surely be.
Preventing Gaza’s children from obtaining medical care
Reporting for The National, Jonathan Cook details four cases of children in Gaza who required urgent, life-saving surgery in France, but were denied entry into Egypt via Rafah. As the aunt of the one of the war’s child casualties remarked, “Each morning we arrived at the crossing and the Egyptian soldiers cursed us and told us to go away.”
Doctors accompanying the children were allowed to pass into Egypt, but the ambulances carrying them were not. Their exclusion was attributed to the Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah who did not authorize their exit, stating there was “no more reason to refer any more children for treatment abroad.” Egyptian authorities abided by their ruling, not wanting to create diplomatic trouble.
But that is no excuse.
First, Hamas, democratically elected to power in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, is the legitimate governing authority. Second, the term of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the PA expired on Jan. 9. Finally, emergency medical situations always take precedent over (alleged) bureaucratic considerations. Those in control of the Rafah crossing must be held directly responsible.
Feeding Israeli soldiers, not Gaza’s people
In light of catastrophic circumstances due to lack of basic foodstuffs (75 percent of Gaza’s children are thought to be malnourished and 30 percent are stunted in growth), a recent report by the popular Egyptian weekly Al-Osboa was all the more shocking. It revealed that an Egyptian company was allowed to provide Israel Defense Force soldiers with food during the war while Gazans were starving.
Iranian Red Crescent ship kept offshore
An Iranian ship sent by the country’s Red Crescent Society carrying 2,000 tons of medical supplies and other humanitarian aid for Gaza continues to be anchored 15 miles off Gaza’s shore. It had already been intercepted and prevented by the Israeli navy from reaching Gaza. Now, it awaits permission to dock in the Egyptian port of Al-Areesh to unload its cargo. To date, permission has not been grated.
In light of the above, blistering criticism of the Egyptian regime’s behavior has come from Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah:
“[Egypt] told the Arab and Islamic world that the Rafah border was opened and it was not … The opening of the Rafah crossing is crucial to the Palestinian people, the Resistance and the living conditions there … its closure is one of the biggest crimes in history.”
The reply from the Egyptian government was all too predictable:
“Hassan Nasrallah's criticism of Egypt confirms once more that he is nothing more than an agent of the Iranian regime and takes his orders from Tehran.”
Irrespective of whether Nasrallah takes orders from Tehran or Tokyo, there were no substantive answers to his accusations. Instead, Egypt reverted to parroting tired anti-Iranian rhetoric which increasingly is falling on deaf ears.
Abetting the siege of Gaza, giving sanction to the Israeli onslaught and its crimes against humanity, and afterward, preventing aid from getting into the territory and the injured from getting out, are all egregious offenses.
Just as many call for Olmert, Barak, Livni and the generals and soldiers who participated in this war to be prosecuted for violating international law and committing war crimes, Mubarak’s own complicity makes him equally liable in facing similar charges.
Rannie Amiri is an independent commentator on the Middle East. He may be reached at: rbamiri at yahoo dot com.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Pakistan, Not Afghanistan, Is the Main Event
Pakistan, Not Afghanistan, Is the Main Event
By PETER LEE
A Polish engineer is beheaded in Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban threaten attacks on Islamabad. In a desperate effort to turn around the struggle against Islamicist extremists, the Pakistani government considers permitting the imposition of sharia law in a key battleground.
Maybe it’s time to admit we don’t have an Afghanistan problem. We have a Pakistan problem, and Afghanistan is simply aggravating it.
Hamid Mir writes in Pakistan’s The News that the Taliban is threatening a major escalation of its violent campaign against the counterinsurgency operation that the Pakistani Army and Frontier Corps are mounting in the ethnic Pashtun North West Frontier Province and affiliated Federated and Tribal Areas at America’s behest:
ISLAMABAD: The local Taliban leadership has decided to send its fighters to Islamabad as a reaction to the operations in Darra Adamkhel and Swat Valley and in this regard chalkings on the walls of Islamabad are already appearing, forcing the Islamabad administration to whitewash these messages quickly.
Many religious scholars in Islamabad have also received messages from the Taliban that they have only two options, either to support the Taliban or leave the capital or they will be considered collaborators of the “pro-American Zardari government” which, they claim, is not different from the previous Musharraf regime.
Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, is in the sedentary and urbanized heartland of Punjab far from the Pashtun areas. The Taliban don’t attack Islamabad unless they believe they can make an immediate and effective political statement.
In this case, the statement would probably be that Pakistanis are dying and their country fragmenting for the sake of a Western agenda for Afghanistan that few inside Pakistan endorse.
There appears to be a major disconnect between U.S. and Pakistani strategies for dealing with the Taliban’s entrenched presence and its increasing reach into non-Pashtun areas.
Pending a review by the Obama administration, the U.S. considers the battles in west Pakistan are considered an adjunct to the faltering Afghan adventure. This is a fatal misreading of the facts on the ground and ranks as a strategic blunder of historical portions.
It turns out the war against the Taliban is a counterinsurgency operation across the entire Pashtun ethnic area, on both sides of the Durand Line that arbitrarily splits the Pashtun homeland into Afghan and Pakistani jurisdictions, and in which the Taliban have discovered that their key bulwark against NATO and U.S. operations is, unsurprisingly, the Pakistan side.
U.S. attempts to deny the Pakistan havens to the Taliban have simply encouraged the Taliban to focus on the weakest element in the counter-insurgency equation, the Pakistan government, entrench themselves not only in the semi-autonomous FATA areas but also in key districts of the NWFP such as the Swat valley, and make it clear that the cost of any U.S. success against them and in Afghanistan will be borne by Pakistan.
In other words, Afghanistan is the sideshow and Pakistan is the main event.
In my view, the Obama foreign policy team should be burning the midnight oil trying to figure out how to support Pakistan in its long term struggle to integrate the Pashtun areas into the national system, not only militarily but politically, ideologically, and culturally, in order to neutralize the Taliban challenge inside Pakistan, while simply holding the line in Afghanistan--and not the other way around.
Indeed, as the Pakistan government points out resentfully, in 2008 Pakistan suffered a death toll of 2000 from terrorist attacks—and still is subjected to incessant U.S. bullyragging concerning its lackadaisical counterinsurgency efforts against the Taliban.
Relations between Pakistan and the Afghan government are quite frosty. Pakistan’s arch enemy, India, has been welcomed into Afghanistan, raising fears of strategic encirclement--and it’s safe to say that few people in Pakistan’s army or general population are enthusiastic about dying for the sake of Hamid Karzai’s regime. And when the Taliban reacts to U.S. (or U.S. mandated) pressure in the tribal areas by attacks in Pakistan’s heartland, the result has historically been anger directed not only the terrorists, but the U.S. effort in Afghanistan that brings so much suffering but little apparent benefits to Pakistan beyond a corrupting financial subsidy.
The central government of Pakistan, both under Musharraf and Zardari, has been loath to employ solely military measures against the Taliban, in order to avoid radicalizing the Pashtun population and bringing a battle in the marginal mountainous border areas into Pakistan’s populous heartland.
The United States, on the other hand, has insisted that Pakistan subordinate its own fears of instability and terrorism to the needs of the Afghan campaign. With the Taliban resurgent in Afghanistan, the United States has adopted a strategy that appears supremely counter-productive: pressuring Pakistan to achieve a military victory in the Pashtun areas, a goal that has eluded non-Pashtuns for centuries on a timetable designed to forestall a military collapse in Afghanistan next spring.
The disconnect was strikingly illustrated in Mir’s story:
Some diplomatic sources have revealed that initially Pakistan was ready to release some arrested Taliban fighters in exchange for the abducted Polish and Chinese engineers but the US authorities raised objections and a deal could not be finalised.
The Pakistani authorities successfully negotiated the release of a kidnapped Pakistani diplomat Tariq Azizuddin in 2008 and the release of kidnapped Army personnel in 2007 by releasing some Taliban fighters. But this time the US pressure complicated the situation.
The Polish engineer was subsequently decapitated.
The most genuinely sensational revelation of Mir’s article concerns the stated willingness of the NWFP governor -- and President Zardari -- to permit the
[A top Army official stated,] “We are no more fighting the secular insurgents, we are fighting with the Taliban and they are demanding the enforcement of the Islamic law in Swat and all the local secular political leaders are supporting this demand under public pressure.”
Chief Minister of NWFP Ameer Haider Hoti, Governor Awais Ghani and the Army high command have strongly recommended to enforce the long pending Sharia regulations, which will be called the “Nifaz-e-Adal regulation”.
District Police Officer of Swat Dilawar Khan Bangash said the Taliban will have no justification to fight against the state after the enforcement of the Islamic law in Swat.
Swat, which was a princely state till July 28, 1969, had Qazi courts operating when the state was finally merged into Pakistan. Residents of Swat think that it was easy to get justice before 1969 through the Qazi courts but after the imposition of the English law, the poor people of Swat are not getting justice.
Taliban have exploited this delay in justice and also instigated the poor people to rise against the big landlords. The Awami National Party swept the valley of Swat in 2008 election with the slogan of peace and justice and now this party is ruling the NWFP in collaboration with the PPP.
Sources have claimed that the ANP leadership has convinced President Asif Ali Zardari to promulgate the Sharia regulations in Swat and the president will announce the promulgation in a few days.
Maulana Sufi Muhammad of the Tehrik-e-Nafaze Shariat Muhammadi has assured the ANP leadership that he will start a long march from Dir to Swat valley after the imposition of the Sharia law and he will appeal to his son-in-law Maulana Fazalullah and other Taliban leaders to surrender.
For the Western powers, there are few issues more hot-buttony than Pakistan acquiescing to the imposition of sharia law in a key battle zone.
So it’s possible that President Zardari is raising the threat of sharia law as a wake-up call to the United States and NATO that the largely military counter-insurgency effort in western Pakistan is not viable, and an alternate strategy -- call it engagement, call it appeasement, in any case a protracted political, propaganda, and economic effort that de-emphasizes vain hopes of a quick military solution in time to save the Karzai regime -- that gives a more central position to Pakistan’s needs and priorities, indeed its survival as a democratic state, and treats the exploitation of Pakistan havens by the Taliban primarily as one element of Pakistan’s thorny Pashtun issue.
Peter Lee is a business man who has spent thirty years observing, analyzing, and writing on Asian affairs. Lee can be reached at peterrlee-2000@yahoo.
Losing the Game Pakistan on the Brink
Losing the Game
Pakistan on the Brink
By BRIAN M. DOWNING
Pakistan might collapse. It faces regional insurgencies, political failures, rising Islamism (in the public and army alike), and reprisals from India over the Mumbai attacks of last November. The trouble in the US’s principal though duplicitous partner in the war on terror is all the more worrisome because it has nuclear weapons. A great deal of Pakistan’s trouble is the fault of its military, which has thwarted political development, encouraged Islamism, and supported terrorism.
From its inception in 1947, Pakistan was predisposed to military rule. The British colonial army of the subcontinent was drawn predominantly from the Punjab, a region that became part of Pakistan upon independence. From that point on, the Pakistani army was more unified and capable of concerted action than were the political parties. Seeing itself as embodying the nation far more than they did, the army would push aside civilian governments and take the reins of power when it saw fit. There’s no edifying morality play here. Pakistan’s political parties are corrupt, oligarchic patronage networks that bear considerable blame as well for the situation today.
The Pakistani army, more so than the political parties, benefited from Cold War dynamics. India, though more powerful than Pakistan and hostile to China, chose a path of nonalignment and so Pakistan (along with Iran) became the US’s partner in the region. Arms and money and advisors flowed in, adding to the army’s hypertrophy. The military used its muscle in politics often and the results were not good. Military governments thwarted the development of stable political partnerships and coalitions, failed to integrate the various provinces of the country (Balochistan and the North-West Frontier Province) into a national whole, and also failed to find a political arrangement to limit sectarian clashes.
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 greatly strengthened the army (especially a section of it), which at the time was ruling the country after overthrowing and eventually executing Ali Bhutto. The US and Saudi Arabia poured money into Pakistan to aid the various mujahadin groups fighting just to the north, most of whom could readily be considered Islamist. The supply effort was entrusted to a section of the military – the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI). In order to inspire new recruits for the war in Afghanistan (and for the struggle over Kashmir and revanchism over the loss of East Pakistan) madrasas were funded. Along the way, the ISI became a state within a state, an army within an army, a praetorian guard within a praetorian guard.
The Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s was a boon for the Pakistani army and the ISI. They emerged from the war with large amounts of US money and equipment and with institutional prestige infused with victory, which reinforced the conviction that they alone knew best how to lead the country. This sense of national mission had theretofore not been weak but it had been based in part on an uncertain foundation: an hysterical reaction to, and the need to deny, the incompetence it had exhibited in wars with India, one of which, in 1971, had led to the loss of East Pakistan and resulted in a national trauma that shapes national thought to this day.
The chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 presented the Pakistani military and ISI with new security concerns. Though victorious, the guardians saw Afghanistan as a dangerous front in the conflict with India, which had attained influence with Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara peoples of central and northern Afghanistan. These northern groups (essentially the future Northern Alliance) were posed against the Pashtun tribes in the south and in the region across the porous frontier in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province and its Federally Administered Tribal Agencies.
The ISI looked to counter the Indian-backed tribes and also for stability to allow commerce to flow with the independent states of Central Asia that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The mujahadin had never solidified into a unitary movement, remaining instead an assortment of groups with a common interest in expelling the Soviet Union and its collaborators in Kabul. Following the Soviet Union’s exit in 1989, the groups vied for power cruelly but inconclusively. Warlordism flourished; Pakistan’s security to the north remained in doubt. The ISI found its answer to security and commercial matters in the Taliban, which arose, probably without ISI assistance, in 1994 as a fundamentalist sect that suppressed brigandage preying upon commerce in southern Afghanistan and which, with ISI assistance, spread among the Pashtun tribes, especially those whose structure had been badly damaged by decades of war. The Taliban offered new or restored traditional forms of social integration, authority, and patronage. Most of all, they ended crime and anarchy. By 1996, it had swept across most of Afghanistan, cornering the Northern Alliance. Soon thereafter the Clinton administration negotiated with the Taliban to build oil and gas pipelines to bring the resources of Central Asia to Pakistan, then on to foreign markets. The Pakistani guardians were elated.
The ISI had secured its northern front for the time being and established itself as the hub of a wide-ranging network of militant and terrorist organizations to fight India over Kashmir and to one day restore lost honor over East Pakistan. The Taliban handled the north; various groups such as Markaz Dawa-Wal-Irshad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and others staged guerrilla attacks in and near Kashmir. (Lashkar-e-Taiba likely executed the Mumbai attacks in November 2008.) Both fronts benefited from mujahadin veterans, some of whom became al Qaeda. The soldiers of the Punjab had once been mainstays of British imperial might and ambition; the generals of the Punjab were now players in the newest round of the Great Game.
The 2001 attacks on New York and Washington by a group at least on the fringe of the ISI’s network, and ensuing events, revealed how poorly the Pakistani military and intelligence played the region’s famous geopolitical game. In late 2001 the Northern Alliance, aided by US air power, rolled up Taliban and al Qaeda positions and seized Mazar-e-Sharif, Kabul, and Kandahar. The ISI’s clients were trapped in distant redoubts and on the verge of annihilation. The ISI claimed to support the US but rescued the Taliban and al Qaeda forces, and airlifted them into Pakistan – Operation Evil Airlift, as an aghast but helpless US special forces witness called it.
Pakistan’s duplicity continued for years but has now become apparent to all. The US has cooled toward Pakistan and the ISI’s Islamist clients are turning on it. Overt support for the US has caused Islamist clients to turn on the government (military or civilian) and develop into serious insurgent groups. The Taliban reconstituted in Pakistani sanctuaries, allied with a kindred Pakistani movement (Tehrik-e-Taliban), and is now seizing control of swaths of the North-West Frontier Province. To the west, the Taliban, in concert with Baloch insurgents, are asserting control over the northern part of Balochistan Province. Losing control of these areas means losing US/NATO supply routes but attempts to fight the insurgents makes the military seem even more obeisant to the US, which of course strengthens the insurgencies. US leaders are turning to supply routes across Central Asia; and Russia, concerned about an Islamist empire forming to its south, has recently announced greater logistical support for US/NATO forces, which it otherwise vehemently opposes in Eastern Europe.
Pakistan is of diminishing usefulness to US/NATO efforts in Afghanistan, but of increasing alarm to the region and to much of the world. Its army and ISI are no longer able to govern the country or even hold it together – and neither can the newly installed civilian government, whose capabilities the military has stunted and some of whose leaders it has murdered. A reasonable interpretation of recent events is that the military helped assassinate Benazir Bhutto in December 2007 in order to prevent the accession of a popular civilian government, and that it increased guerrilla operations in Kashmir last summer and aided in the Mumbai attacks of November 2008 in order to rally Islamist militants to the nationalist, anti-Indian cause. Disintegration continues.
The Pakistani army is a highly centralized bureaucracy that is organized for conventional war, praetorian meddling, and authoritarian rule. It lacks the flexibility and willingness to delegate authority necessary for counterinsurgency operations and indeed it has allocated guerrilla expertise to the groups it is now fighting. Other politically engaged armies have come to see political involvement as destructive, withdrawn from politics, and focused on building professional, nonpolitical forces. The French army, after agonizing colonial wars and absurd coup attempts, is a case in point. Late in the Franco regime the Spanish army came into contact with the apolitical officers of NATO and saw their professionalism and mastery of technique as more desirable than political involvement. And numerous South American armies have realized that they are unable to govern and opted to go back to the barracks.
But this might not be possible for the Pakistani army and the ISI. Their encouragement of Islamism brought the militant faithful into the officer corps, as they were thought more dedicated to confronting India than those with more moderate religiosity. Islamist militants are all but dominant in the officer corps now, even in the ranks of those who will control the general staff in a few years. The generals have brought Pakistan to the edge of the abyss. The protégées they took in, nurtured, and promoted may be the ones to push the country in, making the Pakistani generals the most recent losers in the Great Game, which has never had a long-term winner.
Brian M. Downing is a veteran of the Vietnam War and author of several works of political and military history, including The Military Revolution and Political Change and The Paths of Glory: War and Social Change in America from the Great War to Vietnam. He can be reached at: brianmdowning@gmail.com
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The Huntsville Forester (Huntsville, Ontario)
The Huron Expositor (Seaforth, Ontario)
Huron Expositor (Seaford, Ontario)
Impact Campus (Quebec)
The Independent (Brighton, Ontario)
The Independent & Free Press (Georgetown & Acton, Ontario)
Indo Canadian Times (Lower Mainland, British Columbia) [In Punjabi]
India Abroad (Ontario)
Information de Mont-Joli (Quebec)
Information du Nord (L'Annonciation, Quebec)
Information du Nord (Mont-Tremblant, Quebec)
Information du Nord (Ste-Agathe, Quebec)
Ingersoll Times (Ontario)
Inside Stratford/Perth (Southern Perth County, Ontario)
The Intelligencer (Belleville, Ontario)
The Interior News (Smithers, British Columbia)
Interlake Spectator (Gimli, Manitoba)
Internest (Quebec)
The Inverness Oran (Nova Scotia)
Island Tides (Gulf Islands, British Columbia)
Jasper Booster (Alberta)
The Journal (Stanstead, Quebec)
Journal de Sherbrooke
Journal de Trois-Rivières
Journal des Pays d'en-Haut
Journal de Québec (Quebec)
Journal PAMH (Montréal, Quebec)
The Journal-Pioneer (Summerside, Prince Edward Island)
Kamloops This Week (British Columbia)
Kamloops This Week (British Columbia)
Kenora Daily Miner & News (Kenora, Ontario)
The Kincardine Independent (Ontario)
The Kincardine News (Ontario)
The Kingston Whig Standard (Ontario)
The Klondike Sun (Yukon Territory)
L'Acadie Nouvelle (New Brunswick)
L'Aurure Boréale (Yukon Territory) [In French]
La Bonne Vie (Ontario)
La Revue (Quebec)
La Tribune (Sherbrooke, Quebec)
La Voix de l'Est (Granby, Quebec)
The Labradorian (Central & Coastal, Newfoundland)
Lac du Bonnet Leader (Manitoba)
The Lacombe Globe (Alberta)
Ladysmith News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Lake of the Woods Enterprise (Ontario)
The Lakeshore Advance (Zurich/Grand Bend, Ontario)
Lakeshore News (Salmon Arm, British Columbia)
Langley Times (British Columbia)
Le Bulletin Regional (Quebec)
Le Canada Francais (Quebec)
Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse (Nova Scotia)
Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec)
Le Devoir (Montréal, Quebec)
Le Droit (Ottawa, Ontario)
Le Matinternet (Montréal, Quebec)
Le Nouvelliste (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)
Le Petit Journal (Newfoundland) [In French]
Le Presse (Montréal, Quebec)
Le Quotidien (Saguenay, Quebec)
Le Soleil (Quebec)
Les Hebdos regionaux de Quebecor (Quebec)
The Leader (Surrey, British Columbia)
Leader Post Online (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Leduc Representative (Alberta)
Leamington Post (Ontario)
Lethbridge Herald (Alberta)
Lifestyles (Estevan, Saskatchewan)
Lindsay This Week (Ontario)
Listowel Banner (Listowel, Ontario)
The London Free Press (Ontario)
LondonTopic.ca (Ontario)
LTVnews.com (Sault Ste Marie, Ontario)
Lucknow Sentinel (Ontario)
Lusitânia (Vancouver, British Columbia - Portuguese/English)
Maghreb Observateur (Quebec)
Mayerthorpe Freelancer (Alberta)
The Melfort Journal (Saskatchewan)
The Manitoulin Expositor (Ontario)
The Manotick Messenger (Manotick, Ontario)
Maple Creek News (Saskatchewan)
Maple Ridge Pitt Meadow Bugel (British Columbia)
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Meadow Lake Progress (Saskatchewan)
Melville Advance (Saskatchewan)
The Meridian Booster (Lloydminster, Alberta)
Meridian Booster (Lloydminster, Saskatchewan)
Markham Economist & Sun (Georgina, Markham, Ontario)
Merritt Herald (British Columbia)
Midland Mirror (Ontario)
The Mid-North Monitor (Espanola, Ontario)
The Minnedosa Tribune (Minnedosa, Erickson, Sandy Lake & Rapid City, Manitoba)
Mirabel (Quebec)
Miramichi Leader (By subscription, New Brunswick)
Mission News (British Columbia)
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Mitchell Advocate (Ontario)
The Montréal Gazette (Quebec, Montréal)
The Montréal Mirror (Montréal, Quebec)
Morden Times (Manitoba)
The Morning Star (Vernon, British Columbia)
Muskoka Today (Muskoka, Ontario)
The Muskokan (Muskoka, Ontario)
Muzhakkam (Ontario, Quebec & British Columbia) [In Tamil]
Nanaimo Daily News (Vancouver island, British Columbia)
Nanaimo News Bulletin (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Nanton News (Alberta)
Nasha Canada (Toronto, Ontario) [In Russian]
The National Pist (Saskatchewan)
National Post Online (Toronto, Ontario)
Neepawa Banner (Neepawa, Manitoba)
Nelson Daily News (British Columbia)
New Canadian (Ontario) [In Russian]
New Tecumseth Free Press (New Tecumseth, Ontario)
New Westminster Newsleader (British Columbia)
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The News (Nova Scotia)
The Niagara Falls Review
The Nipawin Journal (Saskatchewan)
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Nor'wester (Springdale, Newfoundland)
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The Northern Daily News (Kirkland, Ontario)
Northern Life (Sudbury, Ontario)
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Northern News Services (Deh Cho Drum, Inuvik Drum, Kivalliq News & Yellowknife, NW Territories)
Northern Sentinel (Kitimat, British Columbia)
The Northern Times (Kapuskasing, Ontario)
The Northerner (Fort St John, British Columbia)
Northumberland Today (Ontario)
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Nova News Now (Nova Scotia)
The Now (Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam & Port Moody, British Columbia)
Nunatsiaq News (Nunavut)
Oakbay News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Objectif Plein-Jour (Quebec)
Observer (Agassiz/Harrison, British Columbia)
Ob-Zine News Community (Quebec)
The Olds Gazette (Olds, Alberta)
Oliver Chronicle (Oliver, British Columbia)
The Ontario Farmer Daily (London, Ontario)
Opinion 250 (British Columbia)
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Orléans Online (Ottawa, Ontario)
Orillia Packet & Times (Ontario)
Orillia Today (Ontario)
Oru Paper (Ontario, Quebec & British Columbia)
Oshawa Whitby Clarington This Week (Ontario)
The Osoyoos Times (Osoyoos, British Columbia)
Ottawa Business Journal (Ontario)
The Ottawa Citizen (Ontario)
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Ottawa X Press (Ontario)
The Outlook (North & West Vancouver, British Columbia)
Owen Sound Sun Times (Ontario)
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The Oyen Echo (Alberta)
The Packet (Bonavista & Trinity Bay, Newfoundland)
Pakistan Post (Ontario)
Paris Star (Ontario)
Parksville Qualicum News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
Parry Sound North Star (Parry Sound, Ontario)
The Peace Arch News (White Rock, British Columbia)
Peace Country Farmer (Alberta)
Peace Country Sun (Alberta)
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PEI Living (West Prince, Prince Edward Island)
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The Penticton Western (British Columbia)
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Peuple Côte-Sud (Quebec)
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Pharillon (Quebec)
The Philipine Reporter (Ontario)
Plein-Jour Charlevoix (Quebec)
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Pincher Creek Echo (Alberta)
Pipestone Flyer (Wetaskiwin & Millet, Alberta)
Pique News Magazine (Whistler, British Columbia)
Point (Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec)
PonokaNews (Alberta)
Port-Cartois (Quebec)
Port Perry Star (Ontario)
PortStanleyNews.com (Port Stanley)
Porthardy News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
The Portuguese Post (Mississauga, Ontario - Bilingual versions)
Portuguese Sun (Toronto, Ontario) [In Portuguese]
The Post (Ontario)
The Powell River Peak (British Columbia)
The Prescott Journal (Ontario)
Prince Albert Daily Herald (Saskatchewan)
Prince George Citizen
The Prince George Free Press (British Columbia)
Prince Rupert Daily News (Prince Rupert, British Columbia)
Progrès Écho (Quebec)
The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Provost News (Alberta)
Quebec Chronicle Telegraph (Quebec)
Queens County Times (Nova Scotia)
Quesnel Cariboo Observer (British Columbia)
Question (Whistler & Pemberton, British Columbia)
The Quoddy Tides (New Brunswick)
Rabble (National)
The Record (Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta)
The Record (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario)
Record-Gazette (Peace River, Alberta)
The Recorder & Times (Brockville, Ontario)
Reddeer Advocate (Reddeer, Alberta)
The Republic (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Réveil (Quebec)
Revelstoke Times Review (Revelstoke, British Columbia)
The Review (Niagara Falls, Ontario)
The Review Mirror (Westport, Ontario Rideau Valley & Rideau Lakes, Ontario)
The Review Online (Vankleek Hill, Ontario)
Richmond Hill Liberal (Richmond Hill, Ontario)
The Richmond Review (British Columbia)
Rimouskois (Quebec)
The River (Richmond, British Columbia)
Riverain (Quebec)
Saanich News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
The Sackville Tribune-Post (New Brunswick)
Saint City News (St Albert, Alberta)
Saint-Laurent Portage (Quebec)
The San Antonio Observer (Salmon Arm, British Columbia)
The Sarnia Observer (Ontario)
Sarnia This Week (Ontario)
SaskatoonScanner.com (Saskatchewan)
Saskatchewan Sage (Saskatchewan)
The Sault Star (St Marie, Ontario)
Sault This Week (Ontario)
The Scarborough Mirror (Toronto, Ontario)
Seaforth Huron Expositor (Ontario)
Selkirk Journal (Manitoba)
Sentinelle (Quebec)
The Sentinel-Review (Woodstock, Ontario)
Sherbrooke Record (Quebec)
Sherwood Park News (Alberta)
Shoreline Beacon (Port Elgin, Southampton, Paisley & Tiverton, Ontario)
Shoreline Beacon (Ontario)
The Simcoe Reformer (Ontario)
Similkameen News Leader (Similkameen Valley, British Columbia)
The Slave River Journal (Fort Smith, NW Territories)
The Soccer Paper (National)
SooToday.com (Sault Ste Marie, Ontario)
South Delta Leader (British Columbia)
Southeast Journal (Southeast Manitoba)
The Southern Gazette (Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland)
The Spirit of Bothwell (Ontario)
Spruce Grove Examiner (Alberta)
Ssooke News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
St Albert Gazette (St Albert ∓ Sturgeon County, Alberta)
St Catharines Standard (Ontario)
St Marys Journal Argus (Ontario)
St Thomas Times Journal (Ontario)
The Standard (Hope, British Columbia)
The Standard Freeholder (Cornwall, Ontario)
The St Paul Journal (Alberta)
Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times (Manitoba)
Stoney Creek News (Stoney Creek, Ontario)
The Stony Plain Reporter (Alberta)
Stouffville Sun-Tribune (Stouffville, Ontario)
Straight Goods (National)
Strathcona County This Week (Alberta)
Strathmore Standard (Alberta)
Strathroy Age Dispatch (Ontario)
The Sturgeon Creek Post (Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta)
The Suburban (Montreal, Quebec)
The Sudbury Star (Ontario)
Summerland Review (British Columbia)
The Sun Times (Owen Sound, Ontario)
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Tandem News (Toronto, Ontario)
The Telegram (St John's, Newfoundland)
Telegraph Journal (Provincial, New Brunswick)
Telegraph Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)
The Temiskaming Speaker (Ontario)
Terrace Standard (British Columbia)
Terrace Times Online (British Columbia)
Thomas Terrio's View from the West (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Thornhill Liberal (Thornhill, Ontario)
The Tillsonburg News (Ontario)
The Times (Clearwater, British Columbia)
Times & Transcript (Moncton, New Brunswick)
Times Colonist (British Columbia)
The Times-Herald (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan)
Timmins Times (Ontario)
Toronto Business News (Ontario)
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Town Crier Online (Toronto, Ontario)
Trail Daily Times (British Columbia)
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Trois-Rivieres Métro (Quebec)
Tumbler Ridge News (British Columbia)
The Tweed News (Ontario)
The Tyee (British Columbia)
UrduPower (Montreal, Quebec) [In Urdu]
Valley East Today (Valley East, Ontario)
The Valley Echo (East Kootenays)
The Valley Times (Drumheller, Alberta)
Vancouver Courier (British Columbia)
Vancouver Sun (British Columbia)
Vanderhoof News (British Columbia)
Vaughan Citizen (Vaughan, Ontario)
Vermilion Standard (Alberta)
The Victoria News (Vancouver Island, British Columbia)
The Victoria Standard (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
The Villager (Toronto, Ontario)
Vigile (Quebec)
The Voice (Ontario)
Voir! (Quebec)
Voix du Dimanche (Quebec)
Voix Gaspésienne (Quebec)
Voz Lusitana (British Columbia) [Portuguese available]
The Vulcan Advocate (Alberta)
The Walkerton Herald Times (Brockton / Walkerton, Ontario)
Wallaceburg Courier Press (Ontario)
Wawatay News (Ontario)
The Weekly Anchor (Edson, Alberta)
The Wellington Advertiser (Fergus, Ontario)
The Westcoaster (Vancouver Island West Coast, British Columbia)
Westender (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Western Dairy Farmer (Alberta)
The Western Producer (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Western Review (Drayton Valley, Alberta)
The Western Star (Cornor Brook & Western Newfoundland)
Western Wheel (Okotoks, Alberta)
West Nipissing E-News (West Nipissing, Ontario)
Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser (Alberta)
Weyburn Review (Saskatchewan)
Whistler Question (Whistler & Pemberton, British Columbia)
The Whitecourt Star (Whitecourt, Alberta)
Whitehorse Star Daily (Yukon Territory)
Whitewood Herald (Saskatchewan)
Wiarton Echo (Ontario)
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Winkler Times (Manitoba)
Winnipeg Free Press (By Subscription, Manitoba)
Winnipeg Sun News (Manitoba)
The Woodstock Post (Woodstock, Ontario)
Woolwich Observer (Ontario)
The World Spectator Online (Moosomin, Saskatchewan)
Xaverian Weekly (Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia)
The York Guardian (Toronto, Ontario)
The Yorkton News (Saskatchewan)
Yorkton This Week & Enterprise (Saskatchewan)
Yukon News (Yukon Territory)
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