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Interesting article by Lawrence Martin: “If someone had predicted a few years ago that Canada would fall into the embrace of right-wing nationalism, they would have been sent off to the nearest home for the mentally encumbered. A nationalism of the left, maybe. We had some of that, at least

Do Canadians really love right-wing vulgarity? Apparently not. SunTV, despite Ezra Levant’s fevered cross-dressing antics, has fared dismally. Torontonians have tired of the crass Rob Ford. And now, contrary to all the hype, it seems that the CBC’s overpaid Don Cherry, surely the poster-child for oafish commentary, may actually be

Another dispatch from the front of the War on Christmas: An Ontario school is replacing their Christmas concert and of course some parents are flipping out. Be careful what you wish for, people.As a parent who endured 10 consecutive Christmas concerts — and I only had two children — I

I am always on the lookout for early uses of the term Romanticism in English. The term Romantic as applied to literature was commonplace even in the 18th century but it usually referred things such as gothic novels or overtly pastoral material, and was often used in the pejorative sense.  Romanticism identified

The New York Times on Tuesday had an interesting interview with Montreal-born psychologist Steven Pinker, whose new book The Better Angels of Our Nature argues that violence has become less and less present in human life over history. He says the “idea for the book took root in his mind…when

Former CBC employee says it’s in the best interests of taxpayers to allow the CBC a greater degree of confidentiality than we might normally extend to a “public” institution.

…what are we fighting for?

Richard Wagamese writes that Attawapiskat is not an isolated case. There is plenty of blame to go around for the tragedy there and on other native reserves. The problem, he writes, is that the elites — in Ottawa and at the AFN — have chosen to look the other way:

“I come to Canada, a country that carries the name of human rights…I came here to be free…where can I go now?” These are the words of hate crime victim Mojtaba, originally from Iran. He was beaten and his throat slashed on the campus of Seneca College, while his assailant,

Various newspaper and media commentary have suggested the answer to the problem in Attawapiskat, and other isolated First Nations communities, is to move everyone to a southern urban setting. A typical comment is: She believes the only solution to improving the lives of natives on isolated reserves is to get

Gazebos and chandeliers, false rumours, now fishing trips…Tomorrow? Who knows. But Harper’s cabinet promises endless new material. Enough for an on-going series? Why, yes, I do believe so. Today Peter MacKay, whose pants have been burning merrily since the days of the Canadian Alliance-Progressive Conservative Anschluss, is in the news