Federal government trying to reverse trend, wants best and brightest to stay here: Rey Pagtakhan
This past year has given me the distinct privilege to meet some of our best and brightest scholars, researchers, and scientists throughout the country. Everywhere I travel, I am constantly reminded of how vastly different the state of innovation, research and development is now from slightly over a decade ago. We were losing many of […]
UN will survive current Iraqi crisis: Other than doomsday prophets, world leaders are keeping UN in perspective
OTTAWA –The United Nations will survive the current Iraqi crisis. This is a minor challenge compared to what the world body encountered during the protracted Cold War. U.S. President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair started the mantra that the UN will become irrelevant if it does not back an attack on Iraq. […]
Rock: Canada needs better ‘culture of commercialization’: Investors and researchers must work closer together, says Industry Minister Allan Rock
OTTAWA–Industry Minister Allan Rock, who is the lead minister of the government’s multi-billion dollar Innovation Strategy, says the country’s top thinkers and investors must learn to work better together if Canada is to thrive in today’s global economy. In a lengthy interview on the government’s innovation agenda, which is intended to make Canada one of […]
Poverty in our backyard
In the headlong rush toward war in Iraq, let’s not forget our own backyard. Pikangikum is an isolated reserve north of Kenora, Ont. Tragically, it is known to have the highest suicide rate in the world. Over 2,000 people live on this reserve, half of whom are under the age of 25. Ninety-five per cent […]
‘Bastards’ controversy continues
Francoise Ducros and Carolyn Parrish have simply confirmed one of Canada’s dirty little secrets. A number of Canadian politicians clearly despise our American neighbors, particularly if they happen to be Republicans. The stream of invectives clearly establishes the incidence of anti-American prejudices that pollutes the ranks of the Liberal Party of Canada. Jean Chretien tends […]
Starting Sunday – The Trueman Show…
Okay, so that’s not its real name, but Global Television has brought alumni Anne Trueman back to its Ottawa bureau to produce the latest entry into Canada’s Sunday morning lineup of political television shows. The half-hour program, called Ottawa Inside Out will feature regular talking heads Bob Fife and Anne Dawson from the National Post, […]
Brief history of Canada’s gun laws: Part II: 1945-1995
The Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King abandoned the registration of rifles and shotguns in February, 1945, dismantling it before the June, 1945 federal election along with a number of other equally repressive and unpopular Orders-in-Council that had been introduced under the War Measures Act. But members of the Japanese ‘race,’ even nativeborn Japanese-Canadians, […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, 64, March 17, 1939 *Alliance MP Howard Hilstrom, 56, March 18, 1947 *Liberal MP John McKay, 55, March 21, 1948 *Liberal MP Judy Longfield, 56 March 23, 1947 *Alliance MP Lynne Yelich, 50, March 24, 1953 *Secretary of State Ethel Blondin-Andrew, 52, March 25, 1951 *Tory MP Loyola Hearn, 60, […]
Conspiracy theories, eh?
Keith Stringer of Boston, Mass., can’t be a regular reader of The Toronto Star. Had he been, he couldn’t have possibly become so upset with its front-page editorial, er, Linda Diebel “story” last Sunday headlined: “Oil war: 23 years in the making.” Stringer, in a letter to the editor next day, writes, “Fair and balanced […]
i-Channel lives on
The digital station i-Channel, which failed to get Cabinet to overturn a licence renewal grant to one of its biggest competitors, CPAC, has vowed to keep at it even though it still believes the playing field is not fair. Martha Fusca, the head of i-Channel and Stornoway Communications Ltd., was stymied in her effort to […]
