The story that has dominated much of the media cycle during the early days of this month has been the settlement made to Omar Khadr who at 15, was accused…
Like food fads, political fads wax and wane as the gnat-like attention span of their followers gets diverted by the Next Big Thing. Political Correctness has of late given birth…
I’ve always found the Omar Khadr story infuriating. That $10 million smile. Khadr is, of course, the Canadian-born former child soldier (just 15 at the time) who was forced to…
Music is often the soundtrack of our lives. Particular songs evoke memories of personal pain, triumphs, love, commitment and maybe a broken heart. Other tunes just make us happy by…
Donald J. Trump, man/baby president of the United States, has set the Twittersphere howling with laughter over his claim that he and Putin have discussed forming “an impenetrable Cyber Security…
British prime minister Theresa May went to the G20 summit in Hamburg looking for a date. With the combined impacts of the Brexit fiasco, her disastrous performance in Britain’s last…
Green Party of Alberta leadership candidates Grant Neufeld, Romy Tittel, and Marco Reid. The Green Party of Alberta may not enjoy the same success of its cousins on the West…
As a long time follower of this case and someone who decried a couple of different Canadian governments refusing to speak up about the farce taking place at Guanatanamo Bay…
There may be nothing Donald Trump likes better than to bash America’s NATO partners as freeloaders who are feeding off the US economy, dragging America down. A study conducted by…
No one would have expected a progressive such as Joe Stiglitz to be a cheerleader for Donald Trump and he’s not. The Nobel laureate economist does, however, make a compelling…
It sounds like a stretch, Republicans as victims of their health care reform aspirations. That, however, is the Brookings Institute’s Isabel Sawhill’s take. But are Senate Republicans evil people? Do…
Despite the impotent snorting and sputtering of the likes of Andrew Sheer and his fellow travellers, the facts about the apology and compensation awarded to Omar Khadr speak for themselves.…
310 million people living in low-lying coastal areas are already vulnerable to sea level rise compounded by severe weather events. Sea level rise has increased markedly in recent decades and…
I used Telehealth for the first time this past week, Ontario’s call centre for health questions. I thought it was a great service, but now that I’ve spoken to others…
In case everyone hasn’t seen this yet, written by someone named Ben Feral Selinger. July 6 Okay, I’m fucking sick of the idiocy and done with writing a diatribe every…
The world waited last week, like the audience watching the season finale of The Apprentice, to witness the outcome of the Trump-Putin tete-a-tete. If you believe Rex Tillerson, the show…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that the actual change in temperature caused by greenhouse gas emissions may be larger than…
Is it possible to place a price on the American presidency? Can its worth even be determined? Whatever the price might be, it probably is nowhere near the damages being…
Due process is a right that ensures every Canadian citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, and the ability to properly defend and question evidence…
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