Over the last week, three magnificent European soccer traditions unfolded that are almost completely foreign—for no good reason, I think—to North America’s professional sports leagues.
Review by David Frum
In the quarter century from 1983 though 2008, Americans witnessed three stock market crashes: 1987, 1990 and 2000.
The first of those crashes represented the sharpest…
The topic was a current Euro-scandal, linking Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, 72, with Neapolitan blonde lingerie model Noemi Letizia, 18. My Italian visitor had firm views.
“Our Prime Minister is a…
An interesting and important historical controversy now coming to a boil after stoking up for decades is the role of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi atrocities of the Second World War. These…
If more proof were needed that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a feckless, biased, intellectually corrupt haven for dictators and Islamofascists, the evidence was clearly on…
The war between elements of the British press and the White House is back on.
The Brits were offended early in the Obama administration when the President appeared not to be treating them…
Genetically engineer monkeys to make them glow green? It’s always cool when actual scientists do what 11-year-old boys think scientists do. Next thing, the marmoset monkey team will produce…
Danica Patrick came in third in last weekend’s Indy 500 — the best finish by a woman in the race’s history. Post editors deemed that accomplishment worthy enough to put Ms. Patrick’s photo on…
Petro-Canada, the former state oil company, is —
shareholders and Competition Bureau willing — about to disappear
into a merger with Suncor. Although it has, in theory, been “just
another oil…
These days, Patricia Lovett-Reid, senior vice-president at TD
Waterhouse Canada, is ubiquitous. The author, speaker and
broadcaster last week became the first woman to receive the Donald
J. Johnston…
A much larger-than-normal participation from institutional
investors — with a good chunk of those coming from the United
States — was one of the unusual aspects of this week’s
$400-million-plus…
David Rosenberg concedes that he has recently become less
inclined to believe that the March 9 lows in the stock market will
be revisited. But the newly minted chief economist and strategist…
By William Watson
W
hen I stumbled over this term,…
With Chicago lawyer and top Democratic fundraiser David Jacobson rumoured to soon be named the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, President Barack Obama is coming under fire from critics who…
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il usually plays the part of a pudgy demigod — mysterious, aloof, slightly bored and comfortably overweight. For decades he has been a fat man in a country…
Full Comment brings you a regular dose of international punditry at its finest. Today: The ever-wily Barack Obama appears to have once again put conservatives in a difficult position with his…
The European Union is close to banning all Canadian seal products, and a grassroots campaign to boycott Canadian fish and seafood is gaining momentum. But what of Europe’s own barbaric culinary…
“It is not only in academia and on the remnants of the Left that you encounter the argument that to prefer democracy to tyranny in other cultures, or the rights of women to the demands of…
The Great Purge of 2009
Grab your pitchfork! We’re marching on Ottawa!
In the Ottawa Citizen, John Robson brilliantly sketches the intellectual state of affairs in Ottawa, where…
A…
