Break it to my Grandma
On June 17, 2009, Bill C-32 quietly passed through the House of Commons, amending the Tobacco Act “to provide additional protection to youth from tobacco…
Canada
Get with the times!
Enough is enough. As a Canadian citizen, I’m used to the federal political process that goes on in Ottawa. I’m accustomed to political gamesmanship between…
Plaid! Parkas! Patriotism!
Assume for a moment that there is such thing as a “Canadian identity.” I, perhaps naively, would like to imagine that it is complex, subtle…
What do you do with a problem like Gitmo?
Pop quiz. You have 245 suspected terrorists and enemy combatants housed 90 miles off the shore of the largest “democracy” in the world. They are…
Idiot or liar?
Our prime minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, addressed the leaders of the 20 richest nations on earth in Pittsburg on September 25. Reuters reported…
The aligning of dead ducks
Tar-sands major player Syncrude plead “not guilty” in court last week to two charges laid after 1,600 migratory birds, mostly ducks, died horrible deaths in…
The merry-go-round of Canadian politics
While the prospect of a federal election has retreated (for now), I don’t think there would be many surprised Canadians if we were sent to…
Canada in Honduras
Canada is more like the U.S. than we like to admit, even when it comes to foreign policy. Since 2000 we have quietly supported all…