September 2009
Raphael Alexander: Evidence of success in... →
A socially conservative point of view generally holds that decriminalization of drugs will only lead to drug tourism, greater dependency for addicts, and a gradual social decline. But the…
Colonel Gaddafi's 'tent diplomacy' ruffles... →
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi planned to make his famous Bedouin tent the centrepiece of his charm offensive on his first visit to the U.S. After years as an international pariah, the Libyan…
David Frum: The mass murderer and the oil deal →
A story in the Independent on Sunday suggests that while the Obama administration was opposed to the release of the convicted mass murderer, it made clear that it was open to compromise -…
Alberta to U.S.: Use the oil sands or lose them →
OTTAWA — To lift a quip from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Arctic sovereignty policy and apply it to the American view of Alberta’s oil sands: use it or lose it.
The Chinese government…
August 2009
Fashion lines, rage and broken guitars: Is the... →
Oasis has broken up. Again.
Here’s what Noel posted on the band’s web site last week:
“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis
tonight. People will write and…
British police to re-examine death of Rolling... →
Via Reuters: British police are to re-examine the death of
former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones after receiving new
information.
Jones, a founding member of the rock band, was 27 when he…
Virgin Festival, Day Two: Can you tell the... →
[Maybe the couple on the right works for Virgin, or maybe they just really, really liked Introspective, ok? Credit: Jesse Kinos-Goodin] By Jesse Kinos-Goodin, National Post
I have to…
Where The Wild Things Are: Karen O and The Kids'... →
The details for the Karen O-produced soundtrack to the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are have been released.
You can listen the first single, All is Love, on the film’s MySpace page.
The Ampersand and Dose.ca present The Essential... →
TheAmpersand.ca and Dose.ca are offering our readers an exclusive 22-song long playlist via iTunes Canada.
“The Essential Mix” features some great tracks from artists like…
Kelly McParland: Buzz Hargrove, making friends... →
After just a year or so out of the limelight, Buzz Hargrove has found a way to draw attention to himself once again.
Buzz, the former president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, along with the…
Signs of intelligent life in the Liberal party →
The Star reports:
It’s up to Pollara’s chairman and founder, Michael Marzolini, to lay out the numbers in Sudbury this week and say what they mean in the federal context. But Marzolini says…
David Akin: Conservative spendapalooza approaches... →
Since they won re-election last October, Conservatives have issued 1,582 funding announcements, totalling almost $69 billion.
Whether it’s Human Resources Minister Diane Finley announcing the…
Raphael Alexander: Sacrificing innocents to... →
When the world judged the Nazi’s in the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, the decisions were swift, the executions and punishments equally so. The efficiency of the Germans was so precise, that every…
Stephen Gordon: A lesson for the NDP on... →
The NDP has traditionally had a certain amount of credibility in its concern for environmental issues, and it can fairly fairly credited for dragging many environmental issues to to the…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Look over there! It's... →
WEEKEND ROUNDUP The perfect decoy In
which everyone overlooks Stephen Harper’s horribly partisan new
Senators because of his deft non-partisan appointment of Gary Doer as
ambassador to…
Gerry Nicholls: God disapproves of a stacked... →
According to a media report Prime Minister Stephen Harper is more concerned with “God’s verdict” than he is with what historians will ultimately say about his government. This got me to…
Q&A: Elizabeth Moss, Mad Men's ad woman Peggy... →
By Matthew Belloni, Reuters For all the attention heaped on Jon Hamm and the male cast of “Mad Men,” Elisabeth Moss is arguably at the heart of the drama. The Los Angeles native and…
TIFF 2009: Pssst, wanna buy a film? A list of... →
Got a few million dollars to invest and a festival pass for TIFF? Great. You’ve got some shopping to do, friend. The 34th Toronto International Film Festival has announced the list of films…
Photos: Pop culture cosplay at Fan Expo Canada →
So I spent the day in a geek-a-thon on Sunday, delving deep into the world of comics, anime, horror and sci-fi at the Fan Expo Canada in Toronto. I discovered a few pop culture gems…
Disney to buy Marvel: House of Mouse adds... →
Walt Disney Co said on Monday it plans to buy Marvel Entertainment
Inc. for US$4-billion in a deal that would add characters like Iron Man,
Spider-Man, and the Fantastic Four to its entertainment…
First Asset fund second convertible →
The circumstances this time round are different, and so is
part of the structure, but for the second time in about 30 months
First Asset Funds is in the market with a fund that will invest…
Desmond Jagger-Parsons: The United Church and... →
I
am not certain what gives churches moral authority. Prof.
Barry Kay’s article, Palestinians pay high price for follies of their advocates, questioned the moral authority
of the United…
National Post editorial board: Sen. Smith ends the... →
A senior member of the federal Liberal party finally has acknowledged publicly what has been self-evident for some time: This is not the time for an election, and constantly threatening one isn’t a…
Jeff Jedras: If Harper really wanted to reform the... →
Reading Stephen Harper’s defence to criticism of his appointment of a slew of his close associates and cronies to the Senate, and a number of editorials from that dastardly Liberal media defending…
Scott Stinson: Gary Bettman finally sees the... →
It’s well established that Gary Bettman is one of the few people on the planet who still believes the NHL belongs in the southern U.S. in general and in Phoenix in particular. But you can’t help…
David Frum: The need for a new Mugwumpery →
To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the Mugwumps of
the 1870s and 1880s get predominantly negative press. Their reputation
has not recovered from the scorn applied to them by Richard…
Virgin Festival Day One: Views, Reviews,... →
I got to the Virgin Festival as Grizzly Bear was playing their set and was shocked: This is what all the fuss is about? I like the record, but live it seems kind of ordinary and the complicated…
Virgin Festival: If a band plays to half-empty... →
The organizers of the Virgin Festival in Toronto might have bone to pick with the weatherman, who was calling for rain all day Saturday to kick off the two-day music festival at the Molson…
National Post editorial board: In defence of... →
We’ve heard more than enough from the
critics who accuse Stephen Harper of “abandoning principle” by making
Senate appointments from among Conservative party heavyweights and
advisors who are close…
George Jonas: Kids — can't live with 'em, can't... →
Are children worth the trouble? For
most parents, the answer is a resounding yes. But not so for French
writer (and parent) Corinne Maier —author of the newly published book,
“No Kids: 40 Good…
Robert Fulford: How our children make us smarter →
Are children worth the trouble? For
most parents, the answer is a resounding yes. But not so for French
writer (and parent) Corinne Maier —author of the newly published book,
“No Kids: 40 Good…
Is Bettman prepared for next round with Balsillie? →
It’s possible less energy was expended constructing the pyramids than in chronicling Jim Balsillie’s feud with the National Hockey League, but you’d have to go a way to find a more effective and…
The Ampersand and Dose.ca present The Essential... →
TheAmpersand.ca and Dose.ca are offering our readers an exclusive 22-song long playlist via iTunes Canada.
“The Essential Mix” features some great tracks from artists like…
Citadel aims suit at Bloom →
The Crown Hill/Citadel affair, already a great spectator
sport, has become even more interesting, thanks to a lawsuit filed
this week.
The man who doubted Al Gore →
Dealing with acolytes of the Al Gore school of climate change
(that is, virtually every government on earth, plus the chattering
classes of the entire Western World) has always reminded me of…
September the cruellest month →
Contrary to the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land,
September, not April, is the cruellest month — for the stock
market. Yes, October has a fearsome reputation built on great
crashes and…
Cashing RESPs means jumping through hoops →
The first generation of registered education savings plans as
we know them — there were earlier versions — are being cashed this
fall to fund kids off to university or college.
Cohon's Russia honours →
On Oct. 1, George Cohon, founder of McDonald’s Canada and
Mc-Donald’s Russia, will receive a prestigious award from the
Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C., for his
pioneering…
DJ AM found dead in New York apartment →
NEW YORK (Reuters)
- DJ AM, the stage name of disc jockey Adam Goldstein whose music could
be heard on albums by Madonna and Will Smith, was found dead in his New
York apartment at age…
Facebook group wants Shatner made honorary navy... →
By Chris Lackner, Canwest News Service
He was captain of the Enterprise, but is Captain Kirk fit to be a captain in the Canadian navy? A
recently formed Facebook group is campaigning for…
Sebastian Gorka: Sahriah finance is a zero-sum... →
Osama bin Laden created al-Qaeda in the belief that the West must be defeated by force. It was only after he saw the trillion-dollar-plus damage the 9/11 attacks wrought that he realized that…
David Frum: Barack Obama's Lockerbie sleight of... →
Muammar
Qaddafi delivered President Obama a welcome gift this week — a gift made
all the more valuable by the remarkable lack of curiosity of the U.S.
press about what exactly was…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: They're partisan... →
How could you, Mr. Prime Minister? How could you? Stephen Harper
learns to love the Senate… or does he? The Globe and
Mail’s editorialists have
no problem at all with Harper’s new…
Jonathan Kay: Why is the CBC giving air time to a... →
The sad story of reality-TV contestant Ryan Jenkins and his murdered swimsuit-model ex-wife Jasmine Fiore is by now well-known. The two hard-partying lovers met last March in Las Vegas,…
Elizabeth May's Facebook page has an opening in... →
Public Eye in B.C. reports:
Former federal Liberal Saanich-Gulf Islands candidate Briony Penn has said she won’t be supporting Green leader Elizabeth May in her bid to win that riding….
At last we know what 'shovel-ready' means: →
It means shoveling stimulus money into the pockets of politicians with pet projects:
The Houston Chronicle:
AUSTIN — More than 200 Texas state inmates were sent
federal economic stimulus…
Bernie Farber: Sweden's embrace of the blood libel →
The “blood libel” against the Jews is back. Again. In the 12th
century, an English monk declared that Jews had murdered a Christian
boy to use his blood for ritual purposes, and the blood…
Kelly McParland: Recession means harder times for... →
One of the worst things about golf is that it appeals to rich people. Other than polo, perhaps — which only gets into the paper when Prince Charles or some other royal gets his photo…
Gerry Nicholls: Give me a hat, I'll give you a... →
All this news about Prime Minister Harper’s Senate appointments has
once again triggered talk as to how we can reform the Upper House. And one idea which keeps popping up is that Senators should…
Raphael Alexander: Chatting with Senator Demers →
Well, Stephen Harper’s gone and done it again. He’s appointed a
bunch of party loyalists and dedicated reformers to the Senate in a
move convincingly similar to the Chretien Liberals. Oh I…
