View from the Edge

Its hard for me to even feign surprise at the announcement this week that George Bush was commuting the prison sentence for I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former Chief of Staff. Libby resigned from Cheney’s staff amidst allegations …

A Manitoba honours student is facing a final report card of bare passes after being suspended from school during the final exam time range, and therefore being unable to write his exams and getting zero for all final exams …

ne of my favorite sections of the Globe and Mail is the back page of the front section of the weekday papers, the Facts and Arguments page. Not only do they publish excellent essays, essays that are both personal and general at the same time …

The past couple of weeks has been a rather appalling spectacle in the Canadian House of Commons. Whether we are talking about the case of Navdeep Bains and Mr. Harper’s attempted smear, or the name calling surrounding various governments’ handlin…

I take my title today from a common exhortation upon the death of a monarch in a hereditary monarchy. It is a saying whose meaning is two-fold … it both speaks to the passing of an old leader, but also to the continuity of the institution of mo…

Ian Robinson is a columnist for the Calgary Sun, and today he weighed in on his Remembrance Day yesterday, expressing his gratitude that he didn’t run into anyone wearing a white poppy. While I agree in general with his opinion that selling or we…

The Canadian Conservative minority government announced something of a surprise move yesterday.  While there’s been rumblings of discontent over income trusts in Canada for some time now, after the Conservatives pretty clearly stated a “hands off” policy towards the trusts during the election campaign it was assumed by most Canadians that things would continue pretty […]

As a final follow up on the story of the Pasternak twins from Winnipeg, the girls received news this week that the were cut from the team. To refresh the stories I’ve blogged about previously, this past June Amy and Jesse Pasternak have spent the …

I am a voracious reader of newspapers.  I read at least 2 physical papers a day … the Globe and Mail and the Calgary Sun (well, this is assuming I am at home and not travelling) … plus several others on-line on the average day.  One of the main reasons I read so many different […]

globeandmail.com : Air Canada, Air Transat finalize plans to evacuate thousands of Canadian refugees fleeing Lebanon
This whole operation is something important, and I wanted to draw attention to it. Aside from the issues of leaving behind people who haven’t the option to leave, it makes sense for foreigners to evacuate in a time like […]