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 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 […]

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 […]

globeandmail.com : The Vatican is taking a tough new line on radical Islam
This was an interesting bit in the Globe and Mail today. Daniel Pipes talks about the Vatican’s new, hard-line approach to radical Islam. The quote he uses from Monsignor Velasio de Paolis is “Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It’s our […]

globeandmail.com : Catholic bishop says all bets are off

There’s a potential controversy brewing Calgary’s Catholic community. For several decades now, the Calgary Seperate school board, essentially a Catholic organization, has used casinos an…

globeandmail.com : Iran cool to conditions on U.S. nuclear talks offer
Any talks between Iran and the US should be seen as a positive step, but I fear this latest announcement of talks is little more than a smokescreen. If it actually results in Iranian and American officials sitting across a table from each other, then […]