Columnists

Conrad Black's inner child

Black's Bad Boy: My stab at what got Conrad Black through a prison stretch isn't his arrogance or sense of rectitude. It's his not-so-inner child, an eternal boyishness. You hear it in the piece he wrote last weekend for the National Post. It has a sense of adventure with an improbably happy ending; it could have come out of the Boy's Own Annual, which I can picture him reading, absorbing the Dickensian stylistics. (He's always been a Victorian figure, which helps explain his choice of British lordship over Canadian citizenship.)

Columnists

The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order?

NATO headquarters. Photo: UD/Frode Overland Andersen/Flickr

Confronted with a declining World Order it can no longer control, does the West want to re-assert its will through a new world war, which this time would be really global?

A terrifying scenario emerges from the ceaseless escalation of pressures and threats against Syria and Iran, pitting, for the first time since the NATO-OECD Empire won the Cold War two decades ago, the Western trio of the UN veto club (U.S., U.K., France) against its non-Western duo (Russia and China).

Alert! Radio from Canadian Dimension

Alert! Radio #204: Harper's online spying bill, the Drummond report and China

February 28, 2012
| OpenMedia.ca's Lindsey Pinto on Harper's online spying bill, columnist Tom Walkom on Ontario's Drummond report and professor David McNally on the rise of Communist China as a state capitalist power.

60:43 minutes (27.8 MB)
James Laxer

The myth of American resilience

| February 20, 2012
Columnists

Who wants 'closer' economic ties with China?

The Prime Minister's trip to China last week sparked a flurry of media coverage regarding prospects for "closer" economic ties between Canada and China. Some even speculated that another free trade agreement is in the works (as soon as the Harper government inks its planned deals, of course, with the EU, India, Korea, and the TPP!).

The pandas are cute, sure. But what are the dimensions of the current economic links between these two economies? Does that relationship benefit average Canadians? And do we want something even "closer"?

Here are a few factoids to throw into that particular discussion:

- Canada imported almost $50 billion in merchandise from China in 2011, almost all manufactured goods.

Bernadette Wagner

Another update on the Northern Gateway pipeline

| February 11, 2012

The Invisible Red Thread - Free Documentary Film Screening

Mar 17 2012 - 1:30pm
Mar 17 2012 - 6:00pm

Location

Richmond Hill Public Library
1 Atkinson Street Richmond Hill Public Library, Room A/B
Richmond Hill, ON L4C 0H5
Canada
43° 52' 13.4796" N, 79° 26' 25.9116" W

Free, pre-registration encouraged.

The Invisible Red Thread tells the story of two girls were given up for adoption due to China’s one-child policy: one was adopted by a family in a Chinese village and the other was adopted by a Toronto family. It tells of their meeting and explores how the policy has affected families on two continents. After the screening, join director Maureen Marovitch for a Q&A session.

For more information about this festival screening series, programmed in celebration of Women’s History Month, please visit http://www.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/WhatsNew/WomensMonthFilmFestival2012.cfm

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