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  • But this raises a fundamental question: why should certain Canadians require what amounts to media advocacy for them to be able to exercise the same rights as their fellow-citizens?

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Ironically, she would be remarkably out of step with her fellow-citizens by so doing.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • I see no reason whatsoever for tolerating vicious verbal assaults on our fellow-citizens because of their sexual orientation, or their "race," or their gender, or their creed.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Here at home, we passed badly-drafted anti-terrorist legislation, and exiled fellow-citizens, while our neighbours to the south thickened their northern borders, adopted torture as a standard interrogation technique, and even tried to abolish habeas corpus.

    Muslims 2009

  • Here at home, we passed badly-drafted anti-terrorist legislation, and exiled fellow-citizens, while our neighbours to the south thickened their northern borders, adopted torture as a standard interrogation technique, and even tried to abolish habeas corpus.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. . .

    How Much Federal Aid Is Too Much? 2011

  • Though she was only six on the day of the attacks, she remembers feeling both affected by the deaths of her fellow-citizens and shut out of the national grieving process.

    Finally: A Film From A 'Mooz-Lum' Perspective (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2011

  • Though she was only six on the day of the attacks, she remembers feeling both affected by the deaths of her fellow-citizens and shut out of the national grieving process.

    Finally: A Film From A 'Mooz-Lum' Perspective (VIDEO) The Huffington Post 2011

  • When it turned to grosser discrimination most people knew they were already guilty of not defending their fellow-citizens, so would not protest even then, and – in order to fight the sense of guilt – they preferred not to see Jews any longer as fellow-citizens.

    Global Voices in English » Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II 2009

  • Hidden in plain sight, Curtis Brick died profoundly alone in the midst of a crowd of his fellow-citizens for whom he had never existed, even while he lived.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

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