Catching Up With the Commoners
Here’s what we’re doing elsewhere in the interwebs: Writing in The Mark, Kate Chappell notes the resilience and stability of Canada in these turbulent times. At the Washington Examiner, Scott H. Payne...
View ArticleF-35 Stealth Jet Fighters and Canadian Interventionist Skepticisim
Impolitical does yeoman’s work in debunking the bind myth around what promises to be Canada’s most significant military expenditure ever, Portraying us as having no choice, we’re in too deep, it’s too...
View ArticleCanada Fails to Win Seat on UN Security Council — Let’s Celebrate!
Barbs have been traded all over our recent failure to secure a seat on the UN’s Security Council. The Conservatives opened up this particular round of the blame game by suggesting that Liberal leader...
View ArticleWhy I Hate: Score
Over at CBC, Greig Dymond puts the screws to Mike McGowan’s latest offering which is due to open tonight, Score: A Hockey Musical. Let me just say that I hated this movie before reading Dymond’s...
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Who wins if South Sudan separates?
On January 9th 2011 an historic day will be witnessed by those that currently live in the largest country on the African continent; namely, Sudan. Ever since 1997’s ill fated Khartoum Peace...
View ArticleFirst Married Gay Couples Celebrate Ten Year Anniversary
In the midst of the inevitable barrage of negative political stories, it was nice to happen upon this opportunity for celebration and reflection: Two same-sex Canadian couples who made international...
View ArticleWhat Wise Men Say…
For most people, the events in Egypt over the past few weeks have been engrossing to say the least. That is particularly true of events last week. To watch hundreds of thousands of people struggle for...
View ArticleHoserdom, hockey and Dudley Do-right
There is no doubt Canada’s reputation as the feel-good, peace-loving Dudley Do-right of the world has taken countless beatings in recent years, but none was more jarring than seeing the site of...
View ArticleThe PQ’s ongoing search for relevance
I’ve been struggling in the past week to describe just what it is that sums up the reaction to the Quebec government’s proposal to prevent public employees from donning any and all hints of religious...
View ArticleA Trade Deal Comes
The EU and Canada have struck a monumental trade deal, in principle. It’s not official, the text isn’t finalized and neither legislative body has taken a look at the details, yet, but the way the...
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