According to the publisher of Canada's National Toronto Newspaper, the Globe and Mail will now try to make its readers to pay to read its on-line content -- a trend established by the New York Times last year with limited success.

Phillip Crawley told his assembled troops on Thursday that the paper "will implement a metered paywall system this fall, asking readers to pay if they read more than a certain number of articles each month."

It takes a special kind of politician to use the shooting of two police officers as evidence for the need to eliminate the long-gun registry.

You see ... er … the registry was an example of the welfare-state mentality! That's it, I think.

Just when you thought it was safe for your RRSP to head back into the market, this happens! Greece melts down, Portugal, Spain and Ireland are not far behind, all of the Euro Zone erupts like an Icelandic volcano and the stock markets take your retirement plans on an express elevator ride back to the basement.