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Dalton Camp
November 4
What we seem to have got ourselves into is a war our side cannot lose, in any traditional sense, but cannot win either. Then, it also seems likely that the losses will prove more enduring and provoca |
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Michele Landsberg
November 4
Even witnesses - never mind columnists in the conservative press who make a point of grovelling to male dominance - seem to slip easily into seeing events from the murderer's vantage point. |
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Parker Barss Donham
November 4
A realistic war against terror will make more use of architects, engineers, urban planners, sociologists, computer scientists, and psychologists than police. As a society, we need to think in an orga |
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Thomas Walkom
November 3
Across the country, newspapers headlined what they called the dollar's "woes" while analysts beat their breasts trying to figure out what Canadians have done wrong. |
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Michele Landsberg
November 3
"It was the incredible silence that struck me as I walked down through the empty streets covered with white ash," Nahama told me in New York last week. "Older people say there was the same intense, s |
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Rick Salutin
November 2
We are at a point where there may be no security for anyone in the world unless there is security for all. That used to be rhetoric; now it's close to literal truth. The deaths of more innocents will |
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Rachel Giese
November 1
An increasingly concentrated ownership of media organizations has meant that news coverage is more uniform and is more often programmed based on how well it will sell. And terror sells. Especially wh |
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Judy Rebick
November 1
The burgeoning media-democracy movement is an important component of the anti-globalization movement. Young people are fed up with corporate control of our society. Nowhere is that control more destr |
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Parker Barss Donham
October 31
Whatever their personal view of nudists or rave dancers, police should respect the law. Their overseers should demand nothing less. |
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Dalton Camp
October 31
Accusing the CBC of bias, the Fraser Institute complained that the CBC "is a government-owned, government supported organization ... and we cannot have government-supported bias." The charge is, of c |
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Thomas Walkom
October 30
It already is illegal in Canada to blow up buildings. Police and CSIS already possess extensive authority. The government manifested that last week when it used extraordinary powers under the Immigra |
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Michele Landsberg
October 28
It's mulch time. Well, it's always mulch time, but for me this is the time of year when I remember a hidden courtyard in downtown Toronto, tucked into a maze of old factory buildings at the end of a |
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Parker Barss Donham
October 28
A parade of expert witnesses are wary of the Chrétien government's anti-terrorism bill, which would allow police to arrest and detain persons suspected of crimes that haven't even taken pl |
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Dalton Camp
October 28
Only American diplomacy, not its war machine, can subdue the passions and reconcile the grievances of the Middle East, now ominously spreading as a cancer to the Indian subcontinent. |
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Michele Landsberg
October 27
They began as "fanzines" when punk rock was still political and largely ignored or misunderstood by mainstream media, and followers decided to spread the word themselves. The urgently political and q |
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Thomas Walkom
October 27
Crackdowns make the public feel better but do little to stop violence. The debate surrounding Canada's tough, new anti-terrorist bill focuses on whether it will erode civil liberties, but security ex |
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Rick Salutin
October 26
What is the alternative to the clashing civilizations schema? It's that we live in an interconnected, interpenetrated world in which you cannot hive off nations or cultures. I mean, do you take globa |
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Parker Barss Donham
October 24
Civilized societies regard security of the person as a fundamental value worthy of stringent protection. That's why police in free societies can't arbitrarily search large numbers of people on mere s |
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Jerry West
October 24
War is what they like to call it because it makes it sound so much more manly and heroic - and easier to provoke the passions of the gullible on both sides. After all, some people might think twice |
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Naomi Klein
October 24
The battlefield of this new war are not just the Pentagon, but also the post office; not just military intelligence, but also training for doctors and nurses; not a sexy new missile defence shield, b |
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Dalton Camp
October 24
War is an exercise in excess. We emerge from battle choking on the blood of innocents. Self-deception is always helpful to those of delicate sensibility. Hence, we do try to limit collateral damage a |
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Tom Walkom
October 23
Bill C-15B would increase penalties against those who "wilfully and recklessly" kill or cause "unnecessary pain" to an animal "without lawful excuse." The bill has been fought tooth and nail by the h |
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Linda McQuaig
October 22
Legend has it that Ontario Premier Mike Harris then arrived and single-handedly drove the deficit into the ground. But in fact, the deficit was already on its way down when Harris took over the reins |
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Michele Landsberg
October 21
Ontario Premier Mike Harris made it legitimate and respectable to sneer at the poor, demean their motives and mock their hardship. He gave voice - albeit a droning, flat, expressionless voice that wa |
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Dalton Camp
October 21
Dear, moderate, progressive Ontario was looking rundown, even a little shabby, but then the Tories were raising $1-million a night selling tickets for the pleasure of dining with the Premier. |
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Tom Walkom
October 20
The number of million-dollar homes in the Greater Toronto Area has quadrupled since Premier Mike Harris was elected in Ontario. But the number of tenants evicted from their homes across the province |
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Michele Landsberg
October 20
It's a rare job where an unskilled woman can pull in several hundred dollars a night - or much more, if she's in demand. The Exotic Dancers Alliance exists to help women learn to protect themselves a |
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Rick Salutin
October 19
Bombing Afghanistan accomplishes nothing or little or makes things worse. I'm not saying, Do nothing. I'm saying, Do something that makes things better. |
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Naomi Klein
October 18
Mike Harris came to power not with a platform so much as a doctrine, a hermetically sealed belief system about how economies work. He believed that he could make Ontario a Club Med-style dream vacati |
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Rachel Giese
October 18
War is costly, civilian deaths are inevitable and, in a battle against a small but sophisticated and far-flung organization of people who are happy to die for their beliefs, let's face it, an America |
