If you follow the unfolding climate change wars, you’ll know that things are sure heating up. Pope Francis is about to issue a papal encyclical urging the world’s Catholics to…
Israel has officially absolved itself of any wrongdoing in the murder of four Palestinian kids killed on a Gaza beach last summer. The kids – they were children – had…
And people think I’M stupid! Where did Harper find her? The Supreme Court of Canada seems to have given health minister Rona Ambrose yet another concussive head injury. Ragin’ Rona…
10 minutes? That’s not an audience with the Pope. It’s a drive by. Yet Canada’s world renowned prime minister was ushered in – and out – of the Pope’s chambers…
We should all read Brian Stewart’s essay yesterday on “the rise of the precariat.” Everything he reports has been thoroughly analyzed and disclosed over the past few years. Most of…
An autopsy report concludes that Michael Zihaf-Bibeau, the Hill gunman, received 31 bullet wounds, all sustained within the Centre Block. The all seeing, all knowing coroner also found that the…
The latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine is devoted to espionage, spying, and the magazine reports that today’s Ground Zero of spying is the Arctic. For the countries that border…
On December 18, 1972, vice president Joe Biden’s son, Beau, somehow survived a massive collision between his mother’s station wagon and a tractor-trailer truck. There were two not so fortunate…
What happens is that you get dragged into futile combat missions in distant corners of the world with what are almost always lousy outcomes. America’s foreign policy in the Middle…
I’m posting this because: 1) I just know nobody else will, and 2) it’s important. There are two military exercises underway in the Arctic right now. Putin decided to stage…
I haven’t posted anything lately and it’s been a welcome respite one that may continue save for the occasional interruption. I’d like to explain what this is about. Not much…
Stevie-Joe Harper’s lame target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts – 30% from 2005 levels by 2030 – secures Canada’s hold on dead last place among the developed nations. Last, and…
It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry but the feds have finally proclaimed Canada’s target for greenhouse gas emissions cuts. The figure is a 30% reduction from 2005…
It won’t be the first time the Scots have saved the Brits from themselves. David Cameron may be enjoying his fiendish (minority vote/majority seat) majority only to preside over the…
When he announced last week that he was out of hospital but in hospice care at home it was fair warning that the life of Riley B. King had come…
The clown car that is today’s NATO just upstaged itself. After US State Secretary John Kerry had left the NATO ministers’ meeting in Turkey for talks with Vlad Putin, the…
Supposedly this is legit. Chinese police stop a 6-person mini-van only to find there are 50-people riding in it. I sure with there was video of the other side of…
From the pen of The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz: Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a…
You could say that Britain’s newly minted Conservative majority prime minister, Dapper Dave Cameron, is on a rampage. With his axing of Britain’s Human Rights Act, Cameron seems intent on…
Stevie-Joe Harper’s pursuit of Omar Khadr is getting positively obsessive. Now the feds are off to the Supreme Court of Canada over Khadr – yet again – this time to…
