Feb 6 2007
| When Prime Minister Stephen Harper axed the Court Challenges Program last fall, Ottawa's rationale was that taxpayers shouldn't have to support interest groups trying to take elected governments to c
Feb 2 2007
| I just read Norman Mailer's novel on Hitler's childhood, <i>The Castle in the Forest</i>. It says fairly little about Hitler, who doesn't appear much. There's more on Hitler's dad, who fascinated the
Feb 1 2007
| Last week the Campbell River Mirror on Vancouver Island reported that Catalyst Paper, the owner of the Elk Falls mill, is changing its CEO and its chief financial officer. The CEO is being handed a s
Jan 30 2007
| It wasn't supposed to turn out this way. They told us that government spending was out of control and that if we tackled the deficit, we'd be sitting pretty. They told us that we couldn't afford publ
Jan 30 2007
| It's not only Congress that is afraid to tell the truth and forcefully oppose President George W. Bush's escalation in Iraq and coming attack on Iran. Despite the best efforts of a few thousand activ
Jan 26 2007
| It haunts us still. The Cold War I mean, though you rarely hear it mentioned, it's not a reference point. Students starting university now were born the year it ended. It isn't a touchstone for them
Jan 24 2007
| “Retribution.” Canada fights in Afghanistan in retribution for the Canadians killed on September 11, 2001, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor explains. He points to the need to punish the Tal
Jan 23 2007
| Last week in a speech, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said it would be a “catastrophe” to withdraw from the fight against extremism in the world. This of course raises the questions: wha
Jan 23 2007
| Here's what I don't understand. I don't understand why companies that operate in Canada are allowed to flout Canadian laws. I don't get why, when Canadian laws interfere with U.S. ones, the latter ta
Jan 19 2007
| The science on global warming (now called climate change because it sounds vaguer and less scary) is no more conclusive than last month. What is newly conclusive is the polling. The issue frightens p
Jan 16 2007
| American-backed, foreign Christian troops intervene in a Muslim civil war to unseat the winning Islamist side; a U.S. warplane searching for alleged terrorists in that same country blasts the wrong p
Jan 13 2007
| The pretty face on the new Bush policy for Iraq, announced on Wednesday, is Lieutenant-General David Petraeus, who got a warm, positive profile in <i>The Globe and Mail</i>, along with a sort of John
Jan 13 2007
| President George W. Bush has surprised me again. Instead of the two choices for his Iraq policy I delineated in a previous article — withdraw and leave a bloodbath of a civil war or throw everyt
Jan 12 2007
| Mea culpa. My only excuse is pretty lame: taking a federal Liberal leader's statements and spin at face value. In my last column looking at the next election, I got carried away with the widespread
Jan 10 2007
| The NDP now holds the balance of power in Parliament. The Party can use this to keep the Conservative government in office. In that respect it now has the same stature as the two other opposition pa
