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
Aug 29 2006
| Here in Canada, in one of the richest countries of the world, the very poorest are getting poorer. This is not the result of some external or unforeseen crisis. It is happening in the midst of a long
Aug 25 2006
| I'd never questioned the value of the “rule of law” until I heard George Bush invoke it last week to distinguish Us from Them. “Terrorists exploit grievances that can be blamed on othe
Aug 23 2006
| <b>CHARLOTTETOWN (2)</b> — By electing one of the country's most outspoken supporters of private medicine to head the Canadian Medical Association, Canada's doctors have served notice that they'
Aug 22 2006
| <b>CHARLOTTETOWN (1)</b> — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's bold election promise to reduce medical waiting lists across Canada is gradually beginning to fade into the dim future.During last wint
Aug 18 2006
| I agree with Shira Herzog, who wrote in <i>The Globe and Mail</i> that one casualty of the war in Lebanon has been Israeli unilateralism. That means its attempts to impose peace by withdrawing from G
Aug 17 2006
| Do you support our troops? That's a pretty simple question, but it demands a complicated answer. Unfortunately, more often than not, those who pose it aren't looking for much more than a straight 
Aug 16 2006
| Canada's failure to provide cheap drugs for Africa is no accident. The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act of 2004, as it was called then, was designed to fail. Conservative Health Minister
Aug 14 2006
| It may not seem like much now, but back in the 1770s, the Six Nations native band was a big help to British forces fighting in the American Revolution. That's why, in 1784, the British Crown expresse
