Mar 6 2007
| What are we to make of the Commons decision to ditch two elements of Canada's anti-terror laws? Prime Minister Stephen Harper would have us believe that the move has left Canada more vulnerable to te
Mar 2 2007
| Canadians have, with a few notable exceptions, been ill-served by the mainstream media on the Afghanistan question. There has been shockingly little analytical journalism on this war, its origins and
Mar 2 2007
| So we now have our own Jack Bauer, hero of <i>24</i>. He's Stephen Harper, ready to take any step against terror, not squeamish like the terrsymps who voted down renewal of preventive arrest and forc
Mar 2 2007
| I do not like the new editor of <i>Harper's</i> magazine and he does not like me, something we have made clear to each other via e-mail. He does not like me because I am an angry female subscriber. I
Feb 27 2007
| Legislation to forcibly end the strike by conductors and yard-service workers at CN Rail is now being prepared. The strikers could return to work sooner, if the two sides can reach a voluntary agreem
Feb 27 2007
| Canada is on its way to becoming a civilized country again. The Supreme Court has ruled that if the government wants to lock up people indefinitely without charge, it has to at least let them muster
Feb 23 2007
| I was confused by the Prime Minister's recent statement: “I have instructed my national security adviser . . .” Wait a minute, are we on the wrong channel? Do we have one of those? The Amer
Feb 20 2007
| George W. Bush has breathed new life into the Afghan war. With his decision to send 3,500 more U.S. troops to that country, he has also made it more difficult for Canada to get out. Bush forgot to me
Feb 19 2007
| No matter how hopeless the situation in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper vows that Canada will be there, as a “country that leads, not that just follows.” Yet in the battle agains
Feb 16 2007
| The anti-Dion ads that ran in Ontario during the Super Bowl and since depress me. They signify everything politically underdeveloped in our society. I don't consider them “negative,” thoug
Feb 14 2007
| Jean Charest has rolled out the pre-election advertising, presented star candidates to the press, and the Quebec Liberal Party just got the polling numbers it wanted to see (at 36 per cent, a five po
Feb 13 2007
| In the Senate defence committee's useful — and remarkably frank — analysis of Canada's military role in Afghanistan, the senators can't quite bring themselves to accept the inescapable conc
Feb 13 2007
| Just when you thought corporate Canada would run out of profligate, economically useless ways to waste vast sums of money, along comes the latest data on mergers and acquisitions. A sum equivalent to
Feb 9 2007
| A few weeks ago, before the direst report yet on climate change, a climate scientist told me he thought the process had gone too far, there was nothing to be done about global warming. So what happen
Feb 7 2007
| Stephen Harper was right when he called the Kyoto protocol a socialist scheme. In fact, if you really want to protect the environment, the best measures would resemble a full-blown socialist plot. Gr
