Jan 23 2008
| To date Canada has lost almost 80 soldiers in Afghanistan, and over 250 have been wounded. No telling how many will eventually be diagnosed with problems relating to exposure to depleted uranium and
Jan 22 2008
| I was raised liberal, which means nonstop sympathy. I was expected to feel sorry for other less fortunate people pretty much full-time.
Jan 22 2008
| Leading edge netizens are now really catching on to the idea that they can build powerful, flexible and robust social networks for themselves by snapping together existing smaller social networks and
Jan 21 2008
| Parenting experts have a motto they use with teenagers contemplating life decisions: "To not decide, is to decide." This same message applies to economic policy. And it's one that our federal governm
Jan 18 2008
| At a time when post-partisan politics is being touted as the way ahead, Stephen Harper is going in the opposite direction. He has become hyper-partisan, as his supposed package for the victims of man
Jan 18 2008
| The first face I saw at the Oscar Peterson memorial last weekend was Hazel McCallion, mayor of Mississauga, who used to drop by Oscar's home in that Toronto suburb. Not a figure you'd picture beside
Jan 15 2008
| Talk about extraordinary: A public policy debate has broken out over an issue that, normally, would not even warrant discussion.
Jan 15 2008
| News that the world's cheapest car, the $2,500 Nano, will be sold in India — populous, ambitious India — made my heart sink. It sank right down to the basement. I had to go and retrieve it
Jan 14 2008
| First, we all really need to pay more attention to how we treat our personal information. Right now I think a lot of us are social media sluts. We'll jump in bed with whatever good-looking social med
Jan 11 2008
| What does “change” mean, with everyone in the U.S. discussing it? It could mean anything, including nothing. I don't think it means nothing.
Jan 10 2008
| The democratic nominee for president should be known in less than a month, after the February 5 "super Tuesday" primaries, which include votes in California and New York. It will likely be the junior
Jan 9 2008
| For Canadians, watching a televised debate of Republican presidential candidates, like the one last Saturday night, can be a bit like observing an inscrutable species.
Jan 9 2008
| Over the holidays a couple of interesting reports were released. One put out by Ipsos Reid on January 2 was on a poll taken of 22,000 people in 22 different major economies. It asked how people fel
Jan 8 2008
| It's time to consider food neurosis. Over Christmas, something microscopic on a waiter's hand in a diner attacked me and I didn't eat at all for four days, and then no solid food for a week. Confined
Jan 7 2008
| The Frozen Pea Fund rose organically with no central authority, no sponsor and no nonprofit support.
