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Michele Landsberg
October 7
It's not long since the United Nations Security Council itself insisted that wherever there are peace talks, the women of those countries should be participants. Burundi and the Democratic Republic o |
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Tom Walkom
October 7
The history of the key players in Afghanistan's Northern Alliance suggests they may prove difficult allies in the U.S.-led war against terror. |
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Michele Landsberg
October 6
Whether you were elated or appalled last week when the Supreme Court decided that sole custody of 4-year-old Elijah Van de Perre, a mixed-race child, should go to his white mother - you're probably b |
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Judy Rebick
October 5
The contrast between the conference audience's reaction to Sunera Thobani's speech and that of the media and politicians afterward is sobering. In his war speech, President George W. Bush said, "You |
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Rachel Giese
October 5
The U.S. has come down with a virulent case of patriotism. That was expected, even necessary. The problem is that, in times of conflict, when the nation has been at its most patriotic, it's also at i |
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Rick Salutin
October 5
If truth is the first casualty in war, I guess we can now say humour is the second. Many of us tend to associate funny with smart and, on that basis, I nominate as the third casualty thought itself, |
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Naomi Klein
October 4
What do new trade deals have to do with fighting terrorism? Well, the terrorists, we are told again and again, hate America precisely because they hate consumerism: McDonald's and Nike and capitalism |
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Parker Barss Donham
October 4
To judge from the public opinion polls, it was, as usual, Chretien who correctly read the mood of the Canadian public. The public shares the universal revulsion at the terrorist attacks, but doesn't |
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Alejandro Bustos
October 3
With an impending armed assault on Afghanistan, there is fear that drug barons will cut their losses and flood Europe with cheap heroin and opium. |
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Dalton Camp
October 3
Obviously, times change and are never precisely the same. The past, however, has been a learning experience in our Canadian struggle to build our own society, one that reflects our values, as we crea |
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Judy Rebick
October 3
There are a lot of reasons why many of our most talented women leaders choose to work outside of electoral politics. And today, it is difficult to even get the issue of women's representation onto th |
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Tom Walkom
October 2
Maybe this is the big one. Maybe, September 11 will enter the economic history textbooks as the 2001 equivalent of October 29, 1929, the day the New York stock market crashed ushering in the Depressi |
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Michele Landsberg
September 30
Instead of pouring billions into weaponry - fatally choosing, say, to arm the so-called Northern Alliance, who are just another version of the Taliban - why not channel the money into massive aid and |
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Dalton Camp
September 30
This is not a war of nations, but a search and seizure mission against a gang of criminals. The first defence against these people is security. We can more easily make the world safer than we can kil |
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Parker Barss Donham
September 30
Until recently, neither Ottawa nor the province had shown much interest in port development, insisting their respective piers would be sold to the highest bidders. The imminent collapse of the Truro- |
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Michele Landsberg
September 29
Some commentators have saluted Mr. Dress-Up, in his passing, as a symbol of a gentler time. I don't agree. Small children have not changed. If parents demanded and supported programming this good, to |
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Tom Walkom
September 29
From today's vantage point, any suggestion that the U.S. might regard the Taliban at all favourably seems inconceivable. But analysts say it was all part of America's confused and confusing policy to |
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Rick Salutin
September 28
The Bush administration seems to have concluded that anything like a real war would do more harm than good, so they'll proceed with caution while also addressing what has been called - problematicall |
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Parker Barss Donham
September 26
By arresting Osama bin Laden and subjecting him to trial by an international court, the United States would retain the moral high ground Islamic extremists surrendered with the World Trade Center att |
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Dalton Camp
September 26
It is a revelation, to say the least, to find so many Canadian journalists who seem to feel Canadians are subsumed in America's interests and that our role and choices in such matters as those now be |
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Tom Walkom
September 25
If we do not understand what motivates people to fly jet planes into big buildings we have no chance - no chance - of stopping them. If we do not act to fix the situations that give rise to these mur |
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Linda McQuaig
September 24
George W. Bush wants us to believe we are in a titanic struggle between good and evil. Such thinking strips other people of their human qualities and makes it easy for us to justify doing any amount |
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Parker Barss Donham
September 23
Aside from its moral reprehensibility, the notion of bombing Afghanistan back to the stone age, with or without nukes, has an obvious practical drawback: it's been done. |
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Michele Landsberg
September 23
At Charles de Gaulle airport, a striking moment: thousands of rushed travellers - Japanese tourists, women in hijab, Africans - fell utterly still and silent for three minutes. It was an almost eerie |
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Tom Walkom
September 22
If Washington changes its mind and decides that U.S. national security now requires it to shift its effective border northward to the Arctic Ocean, past experience shows that Canada will find it hard |
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Michele Landsberg
September 22
Doris Anderson is a hero - a woman whose unassuming courage and clarity have had a profound impact on the life of every woman in this country. And she's turning eighty. |
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Rick Salutin
September 21
When these enemies of America actually speak - including numerous interviews with Osama bin Laden - they stress a litany of U.S. policies and acts abroad. They never say they hate American elections |
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Murray Dobbin
September 20
The largely unreported dispute between municipalities and the federal government on trade issues is heating up. Over fifty municipalities - including Vancouver, Ottawa, Windsor, Regina and St. John's |
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Rachel Giese
September 20
What happens next and afterward depends entirely on how much the American people and their government are willing to tone down their bloodthirst and recognize, respect and reflect the sympathy and as |
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Parker Barss Donham
September 19
On Sunday night, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and federal fisheries officers stood helplessly by as fifty-five white fishing boats raided the tiny lobster zone allocated to the Esgenoopetitj First N |
