June 2009
Matt Gurney: In patriotic Toronto, Pride parade... →
What’s the difference between Gay Pride and national pride? In Toronto, one goes on in spite of the strike, and the other gets cancelled. Guess which one got the axe? If you guessed Canada…
Former oppressed become Africa's new colonial... →
Depending on what year you start counting, it took India about 90 years to oust the British colonial government and replace it with an independent Indian government. (The great mutiny took…
Kelly McParland: Ontario votes, 2011 -- Tim... →
Tim Hudak and Dalton McGuinty have a little over two years to prepare for the next Ontario election, which should be plenty of time to develop a positive, upbeat, forward-looking campaign that…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: The best damn country... →
The political miscellany On the cloning of Mike Harris, the evils of Big Coal, and
Iggys’ plans for Western domination. For reasons we don’t think he adequately explains, the Toronto
Star…
Kevin Libin: Harper, Ignatieff still getting the... →
Political leaders are used to being called all sorts of terrible names. Only in the age of Web 2.0 do they pay for the privilege. Until today, anyone rolling their mouse over the…
Fighting for low-income groups, at $33 an hour →
Ever wonder what’s wrong with the poverty industry, and why caseloads keep growing even as spending on social services expands relentlessly? How could it be that Canada could spend billions…
David Frum: Why nuclear works in France →
Update: Ontario shelves new reactor plan
I traveled to Normandy this week to see something not to be seen in the United States (or Canda): a nuclear reactor under construction. I…
Dan Arnold: Elizabeth May and Gary Lunn, for all... →
After her befuddling decision to run in Central Nova last election, Elizabeth May appears to be on the right track:
OTTAWA – The
federal Green party is expecting an election this…
Raphael Alexander: Canada owes no sympathy to... →
There is a ridiculously biased article involving the Conservative government and their current deportation policy on U.S. Army deserters. The tone it strikes is immediate:
Jason Kenney’s…
Ottawa needs a strategy for cyberwar →
By Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski
Recently, the Canadian envoy to Iran was called in and admonished by Iranian officials for contributing to the destabilitization of the regime because of…
Colby Cosh: We were thrilled →
Like other writers you’ve already heard from, I have a distinct memory of the moment Michael Jackson first entered my consciousness. I did not grow up in what you’d call a media-rich environment….
Terry Glavin: Tehran's worst nightmare →
With their uprising now staggering under the weight of increasingly brutal and bloody repression, Iran’s brave democrats are facing a rapidly narrowing range of choices. It’s come down to either…
Second Opinion: A health-care moonshot →
By Neil Seeman So grand was the
lunar landing on July 20, 1969, that thousands would later show up on
the streets of Tokyo — a city firebombed by American B-29s in 1945—
to greet the three U. S….
National Post editorial board: The new Liberal... →
Rocco Rossi, the national director of the Liberal Party of Canada, is beginning to sound a bit like Baghdad Bob.
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf — derisively nicknamed Baghdad Bob — was the Iraqi…
Welcome back, Timmies →
After spending much of the past decade as a subsidiary of American giant Wendy’s, Tim Hortons has announced that it wants to reorganize, soon, as a Canadian company.
This is good news. Tim’s…
Trust is biggest Madoff victim →
Bernie Madoff may well leave this world unmourned, as victim
Burt Ross put it so eloquently after the Ponzi schemer was sentenced
to 150 years in prison yesterday.
There may be more to Madoff tale →
You gotta love the Americans. Their Puritanical streak shows
when it comes to locking up rich bad guys like Bernard Madoff who
just landed a 150-year sentence for his gigantic swindle.
Harper's Ridley terminators →
Score a victory for Big Coal interests in British Columbia
and Alberta, but keep an eye out for the interests of taxpayers.
After a year of backroom lobbying and some unseemly political…
Terence Corcoran: Harper’s Ridley terminators →
By backing Big Coal, Ottawa reinforces the idea that there’s a free lunch for big business
By Terence Corcoran
S core a victory for Big Coal interests in British Columbia…
John Ivison: Ontario Liberals give Hudak... →
Tim Hudak has to hope there are more days like this.
The announcement by Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario government that it is suspending plans to build new nuclear reactors is precisely the…
George Galloway takes up the cause for Ahmadinejad →
Remember the uproar when George Galloway claimed he’d been “banned” from Canada — which, of course, he hadn’t been?
The left was up in arms. Galloway insisted his right to free speech had been…
Kelly McParland: The Economist helps fix U.S.... →
The Economist has an excellent editorial on the problems facing President Obama in reforming the U.S. healthcare system.
It’s excellent in terms of describing the problems, in any…
Obama faces Latin American politics gone horribly... →
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a regular dose of
international punditry at its finest. Today: The United States government actually tries to prevent a Latin American coup….
Canada's banana cream threat to democracy →
In Iran, the protesters throw rocks at police, while undercover revolutionary guards shoot unarmed civilians.
In Canada, a woman throws a pie at Ed Stelmach and, apparently, “the damage to…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Let us now destroy... →
WEEKEND ROUNDUP Countdown to Canada Day Just 36 more hours to bitch and whine about your country! Who’s up for some good old-fashioned iconoclasm? The Globe and Mail’s Doug Saunders …
Stephen Gordon on the housing market: The oversold... →
Here is what is hopefully one of the last of a once-robust breed - The Apocalyptic Canadian Housing Market Story:
Judging by the latest real estate data, the Canadian housing market could…
Raphael Alexander: Franz Kafka and Abousfian... →
The long journey of Abousfian Abdelrazik is over, for now, as he returned home to Montreal Sunday to reunite with his family and friends. No matter what you think about the case, the…
Neil Hrab: Protectionism runs through U.S. DNA →
We’ve got to ensure that knee-jerk protectionism is combated,” John Manley, the new head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, said as he gave a round on interviews afdter his…
Say, isn't that Mike Harris running the Ontario... →
You have to say one thing for the Toronto Star, it doesn’t waste a lot of effort on subtlety.
If you read The Star’s coverage of the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership vote,…
God wants cheating South Carolina governor to stay... →
South Carolina’s governor, the one who had the steamy affair with the Argentinian woman, says he isn’t resigning.
Because he wants desperately to hang onto his job? Because he’s hoping to salvage…
Yoni Goldstein: The secret of speaking Klingon in... →
Estas tiel multe da problemoj pri la angla lingvo. multaj vortoj havas multoblajn signifajojn (estas ironie, ke, “signif” estas unu el ili) kaj multoblaj vortoj povas signif la sama afero. estas…
National Post editorial board: Michael Jackson →
It is hard to know what to say about the death of Michael Jackson. He was a pop star of the highest order - one who revolutionized the dance and music video mediums and wrote some good tunes, too….
Ford's pass through: a better idea? →
There will be about $600-million of celebrations today at
Ford Credit Canada thanks to the closing of the issuer’s initial
securitization of auto loans.
Chris Selley: A welcome end to the veiled voting... →
Yesterday, the National Post’s editorialists expressed
disappointment that the federal government had “quietly dropped plans to ban
veiled voting,” on the quite reasonable premise that given all…
Kelly McParland: Obama's different road on Iran →
It’s not often that conservatives criticize politicians, especially liberal politicians, for failing to provide the world with enough rhetoric. Usually we get more than enough of that stuff…
David Frum: Canada well-positioned to benefit from... →
A veteran of Washington wheeling and dealing told me this story from an administration long ago: At the mid-session budget review, the staff had to present the president with some bad news….
Scott Stinson: Canada's semi-permanent confusion... →
Canada seems to be very uncomfortable with minority governments. Or, at least, our parliamentarians are uncomfortable with them. The electorate is another matter: We are in the fifth year…
National Post editorial board: Toronto's lessons... →
After providing 40 years of practical examples of how not to win a Stanley Cup, Toronto is expanding into a new branch of training: how not to run a city. Mayor David Miller is a pleasant NDP…
Conrad Black: Separatism's dying embers return... →
As I contemplate the American devotion to due process and the pursuit of happiness in my Château d’If of central Florida, my impression is that Canadian politics are more interesting than…
Robert Fulford: Lies the President told us →
In his attempt to sympathize with the Iranian struggle against a cruel theocracy while maintaining his own reputation, Barack Obama has jumped over standard-issue political bombast and…
National Post editorial board: The vote needs... →
Voters should be required to produce government-issued photographic identification
The federal government has quietly dropped plans to ban veiled voting in national elections. Part of their…
George Jonas: Hillary Clinton rewrites the Middle... →
For Obama, “change” apparently includes altering what has already happened
People who plan to change the future often take a practice run at the past. In 2008 Barack Obama…
Trojan CSR →
The movie 300 was a testosterone-packed comic book feature
about a small group of Spartans holding back the Persian hordes at
the battle of Thermopylae. Bill C-300 is a nail-biting private
member’s…
Inside story on Border →
A group of minority shareholders at Winnipeg-based Border
Chemical find themselves in a difficult situation.
Looking ahead into the dark →
John Kenneth Galbraith once famously wrote that the purpose
of economic forecasting is to make astrology look legitimate.
Peter Foster: Trojan CSR →
Bill C-300 would subject Canadian mining companies to show trials
By Peter Foster
T he movie 300 was a testosterone-packed comic book feature
about a small group of Spartans…
Paul Russell: Who really killed Neda? →
Millions of people watched a YouTube video this week showing the death of a young Iranian woman during a street protest. The senseless killing of Neda Soltan — dubbed the “Angel of Freedom” —…
How Liberals and Conservatives forced Toronto buy... →
This is rich: Toronto’s mayor refused to submit any proposals to the infrastructure stimulus fund other than his project to buy 204 new streetcars. The proposal didn’t meet the criteria that…
Sheldon Alberts: The Manitoba-born fly in Obama's... →
When it comes to fighting for the creation of a U.S. government insurance plan to address America’s health care crisis, President Barack Obama has almost three-quarters of the American public…
Daniel Goldbloom: Gilles Duceppe's blue neck is... →
In
an uncommon display of humility last week, Gilles Duceppe admitted that
if there are rednecks in English Canada, they also exist in Quebec. Of
course, they’re not exactly the same; in…
