Sep 25 2006
| “Do you believe that torturing terror suspects is a more effective national security strategy than, say, securing our ports and borders?” It's horrifying enough to realize that the subject
Sep 22 2006
| The Middle Ages were way ahead of us when it came to inter-religious discussions. There were debates between leaders of the three monotheistic faiths, as well as invented, literary ones. They weren't
Sep 20 2006
| A new dynamic is emerging out of the Liberal leadership debates. Bob Rae, Stéphane Dion, and Michael Ignatieff have pulled ahead of the other six contestants, and through impolitic remarks
Sep 19 2006
| To read the three-volume report on the arrest, imprisonment and torture of Maher Arar, the Canadian computer engineer, is to weep. Except for Arar himself, who Justice Dennis O'Connor describes as di
Sep 15 2006
| Journalists keep asking for the motive of Wednesday's shootings in Montreal. Police say they don't have one <i>yet</i>. Maybe it's comforting to think there must be a motive, which just hasn't been d
Sep 15 2006
| There's no lack of issues for feminists. It's the sense of being able to unify activist and not-yet-activist women alike in one winnable struggle to make things better — <i>that</i> is what feel
Sep 12 2006
| Stephen Harper drew on the symbolism of 9/11 to explain and justify his government's decision to keep troops fighting and dying in Kandahar. In the end, the 10-minute TV address did not answer the re
Sep 11 2006
| In the days after 9/11, Iranian president Mohammad Khatami condemned the terrorist attack and reached out to the West to fight terrorism together. Too bad we ignored him. We'd be safer today if we ha
Sep 8 2006
| Here's what heartens me about the fifth anniversary of 9/11. The common sense of ordinary people is starting to reassert itself. Back then, while in a state of shock, they were told by their intellec
Sep 7 2006
| Afghanistan is good news for drug dealers. A recent report in the Associated Press says that opium production there is at a record high, up by more than 40 per cent from last year. Afghanistan produ
Sep 5 2006
| Jack Layton has started the ball rolling. With his comments last week, the New Democratic Party leader is the first elected politician to call unequivocally for a Canadian withdrawal from Afghanistan
Sep 5 2006
| As expected, environmental activist Elizabeth May took over the reins of the federal Green Party at their convention late last month. In normal circumstances, the election of a new leader of a small
Sep 1 2006
| It saddened me that Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove popped the question to his long-time partner on the big screen at the CAW convention in Vancouver. I'm not anti-romantic. All the wor
Aug 30 2006
| It took one hour and a half for the word “poverty” to be spoken when all ten Liberal leadership hopefuls debated women's issues in Vancouver last week. Yet, if you are a lone female parent
Aug 30 2006
| As an American who has deeply loved my country and hardly recognizes it any more, I have always striven in these columns to try to give my Canadian audience a good idea of the motivations behind why
