Alliance mean-spirited
“God if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul,” that was the despairing prayer of 1917. Tories can be forgiven if they echo these lines as they contemplate another round of the “unite the right” follies. The “unite the righters” fail to understand that the majority of Canadians will vote […]
A tale of two countries, Cuba and Myanmar
Cuba and Myanmar (formerly Burma) are two countries, oceans apart, on different continents, and Canada follows two divergent policies towards them. It is “constructive engagement” with Cuba, but isolation of Myanmar. Yet both these policies have had little impact on the leadership of the respective countries. President Fidel Castro has ruled Cuba since the revolution […]
Canadian help key to build International University of Baghdad, says an academic
Canada has an opportunity to play a leading role in the reconstruction of Iraq by helping to build an international university in the Iraqi capital city, says an Iraqi-born Canadian academic. Tareq Ismael, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, is currently in the process of promoting the idea of building an […]
Head: Canadians don’t trust Alliance: Mark
Stephen Harper jumped ship from the Progressive Conservative Party after half a dozen years of association including working for Calgary PC MP Jim Hawkes in Ottawa. He later unsuccessfully campaigned against Hawkes in the 1988 federal election. Harper won the Canadian Alliance leadership race in April 2002 actively campaigning against unity with the Tories. His […]
Canada’s the female principle
Early last week, President George W. Bush stood in the ballroom of a downtown Washington, D.C., hotel and toasted the guests with a glass of non-alcoholic beer. The guests themselves got to drink the harder stuff and to nibble at some pretty fancy canapes. They deserved it. For the privilege of being in the same […]
Mr. Radwanski goes up the Hill without a paddle: But the real issue is that Parliament Hill must move onto better oversight
Privacy rights are under attack and now experiencing their greatest cloud of uncertainty. It all comes down to questions being raised about the integrity of the privacy commissioner who is supposed to defend those rights. Last week, the Commons Governments Operation Comittee said it had lost confidence in Canada’s Privicy Commissioner and called for an […]
Stop the madness in Middle East
Unless both sides in the Israeli/Palestinian continuing destructive war are both determined to end the bloodbath, the violence will continue. Both groups of people face a future filled with turmoil if they are unwilling to step back and say we cannot continue placing our people in graves. It is an unfortunate deadly reality in Israel […]
CanWest cuts creates buzz on the Hill
It didn’t take long for political columnist and author Susan Delacourt’s phone to start ringing off the hook after she was cut earlier this month from the National Post. Politicians, political types and colleagues phoned to offer their best wishes, as well as to express surprise over the dramatic layoffs which eliminated her job as […]
Apologies to Omar Khayyam
Our political leaders provide endless fodder for cynics and satirical comedians. Take the PM’s latest legacy, a $100- million Canada History Museum Centre earmarked for the old railway station and Government Conference Centre. This political history museum will be run by the competent but hobbled staff of the National Archives and National Library of Canada. […]
Senate votes down C-10B changes
An all-party Senate committee rejected several amendments made to cruelty to animal legislation by the House of Commons last week, giving the government another nosebleed over this controversial bill which has been lobbed back and forth between the two Chambers several times since last December. The latest disagreement between the MPs and Senators over Bill […]
