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Prime Minister Stephen Harper took the unprecedented step of suing the Liberal Party of Canada for libel over statements made by the party on its website. After the release of a taped interview with Harper from 2005, Liberals began accusing the Conservative party in general, and Harper in particular, of bribery with respect to Cadman …
The title words for this post have taken on a stark new meaning in recent times in Canada. I’ve been trying to write about the Robert Dziekanski incident from Vancouver International Airport in October for a week or so now …
I used to be a sprinter, of sorts. Back when I was a teenager, I was one of the top sprinters on my high-school track team in boarding school, but I struggled to run a sub-12 second 100m race. While I did quite well within my own school, and even within the Independent School Athletic Association in Ontario …
Canada isn’t usually the first country that pops to mind when people think of the international space program. Countries like the US, Russia, China, and even France and the EU tend to come up before Canada does. Without the fame of the Canadarm, the robotic arm that Canada designed for the Shuttle …
As I reported here back in late March, there was a very natural marketing alliance forming between 7-Eleven and Fox around the upcoming Simpsons movie, and the fictional Kwik-E-Mart convenience store chain from the TV series …
There’s a story going on in the sleepy little city I live in. At 57000 people, Medicine Hat is a small city even by Canadian standards, and its pretty rare that national or international stories unfold here …
In most of the “first world” the notion of democratic power transfer is taken for granted. When an old government is thrown out at the polls, and a new one elected, no one in Canada ever wonders if the old government will, in fact, relinquish power …
As I type, I am watching Elizabeth May give a press conference at a cafe in Antigonish, NS announcing she will seek the Green Party nomination for the riding of Central Nova. There’s been a lot of speculation where she might run …
One of the complaints leveled against Western Muslims in many cases these days is their lack of condemnation of terrorist attacks that happen “in the name of Islam” throughout the world. In today’s Salon, Paul M. Barrett writes an interesting …
Happy New Year!!!! I suppose there are a lot of people wondering if I’ve lost my marbles, given that its “Feb 18th” and not “Jan 1st.” But Jan 1st is actually just one of many “dates” on which the new year is celebrated …
