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We like to think Islamism represents only a fringe of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims. But that’s because we confound Islamists and terrorists. The terrorists — those who commit and materially support violent attacks — are a fringe (bigger than we’d like to think, but still a tiny minority). By contrast, Islamists may be a majority, and, if they’re not, they constitute a very substantial minority. Islamism is not terrorism. To be sure, Islamism includes terrorism in its arsenal. Still, there is major disagreement among Islamists about when violence should be used and how effective it is. In any event,...

Alberta feelings of separatism a reality By LICIA CORBELLA, EDITOR On Friday, Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark and I spent much of our enjoyable two-hour lunch talking about the growing separatist sentiment in Alberta. A couple of days later, Premier Ralph Klein spoke about it too and it made front page headlines. On my drive into work yesterday, it was the main topic on the Dave Rutherford show and by the time I tuned out, the calls were 17-to-one in favour of Alberta separating from Canada. About one week ago, someone asked my husband, while attending a party, "give me...