May 2010
Big Environment cuts a swathe through low-paid... →
Here’s an issue to try the heart of earnest left-wingers everywhere.
The workers at a Toronto hotel say a “green initiative” intended to “help the environment” by giving people the option to…
Dan Arnold: Stephen Harper as role model →
With the UK election set for tomorrow, in true Canadian style, we’ve seen a last gasp “stop the Conservatives” strategic voting pitch being tossed out by Labour. Not a bad play on their part…
Anne Applebaum: Who made Iran an expert on human... →
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Behind the scenes, his flunkies twisted arms and offered favours. For weeks, feelers were sent out to all kinds of unlikely…
A look at Fluid's mechanics →
Our faith in stocks misplaced →
Martin Gladstone: Good sense closes in on the... →
Toronto is witnessing a moment of political clarity: There is growing agreement, across the political landscape, that the activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QUAIA) should be banned…
Don Martin: Chretien says nothing, speaks volumes →
Jean
Chretien jumped out of his chair and rummaged through a briefcase
looking for the cause of his “hanging” on Parliament Hill later this
month. Mr. Chretien wasn’t suggesting a noose,…
Father Raymond J. DeSouza: The contrived world of... →
My path to the priesthood went through the study of economics, so the past week I’ve spent at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is about as pleasant a task as I could imagine. For…
Gary Clement on ash once again grounding flights →
Volcanic ash has once again grounded flights in Ireland and Scotland. Gary Clement’s take:
Kevin Gaudet and Colin Craig: How much is a First... →
It is high time some light were shed upon the pay and perks of the elected officials on First Nations reserves. Currently, many band chiefs and elected council members are refusing to disclose how…
Naturopathic Medicine: Nature isn't always good... →
Naturopathic Medicine Week is taking place from May 3rd to the 9th, and one of its aims is to promote the use of so-called “natural” medicines. Naturopathic products have gained a huge market in…
National Post editorial board: Canadian banks... →
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are reportedly resisting European pressure to get Canada to agree to an international tax on banks and financial transactions. The…
Can we all pitch in and buy Justin Bieber an... →
We’re more than a touch dismayed that the pride of Stratford, Ont., Justin Bieber, recently told New Zealand pop music TV host Drew Neemia on Select Live — a text-in…
Live from New York ... it's the latest Betty White... →
She’s really doing it. Hosting SNL.
So, Sunday is Mother’s Day. And that means it’s all about moms, all day, with no ironic twists, or Jay-Z (SNL’s musical guest) duets. But that doesn’t mean…
Concert Review: Yula Wang, Toronto →
by Arthur Kaptainis, Montreal Gazette What is it about Calgary? I mean, the Flames did not even make the playoffs, but somehow this city cranks out pianists the way Tim Horton does…
Gaga: The legend continues →
By Nick Aveling, National Post Lady Gaga proved capable of out-weirding even herself Monday night when the singer locked herself in a Metropolitan Museum of Art dressing room and refused to come…
Hot Docs Q&A: Nenette director Nicolas Philibert →
[Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Getty Images] Nénette is a 40-year-old orangutan who lives at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. She attracts hundreds of visitors every day and one day, she…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: This can't be... →
She’s Adrienne Clarkson, and you’re
not The Ottawa Citizen’s
Dan Gardner refuses
to toe the line on the all-encompassing terrificness of Michaëlle
Jean, suggesting her reputation has…
Matt Gurney on the HST: Just give us some truth,... →
Breaking news out of Ontario today: Premier Dalton McGuinty admits that taxing people more will raise their taxes! No kidding. Ontario will adopt a harmonized sales tax on July 1. Rather…
Lorne Gunter on Hedy Fry: Willing to debate anyone... →
My friend and colleague, David Frum, once wrote that liberals all claim to be in favour of lively debate and free speech, then are constantly surprised when anyone takes these claims at face…
Tasha Kheiriddin: Karlheinz Schreiber gets his due →
Vindication can be a long time coming. But for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it must be sweet to see his nemesis, Karlheinz Schreiber, finally getting what he deserves.
A German court…
Move to Ottawa, work for the city, make a bundle →
Apparently you don’t have to work for the federal government to be well paid in Ottawa.
You can work for the municipal government.:
The average salary at Ottawa City Hall is just under…
Barbara Kay: The Pill at 50, still not making... →
When Mother’s Day was invented just over 100 years ago, early and multiple motherhood was the near-universal destiny of most women. That all changed 50 years ago with the invention of “the…
Stephen Gordon: Encouraging signs from deficit... →
The
Department of Finance publishes monthly numbers for how much money it
has taken in, and how much it has spent. It chooses to run these
numbers on the afternoon of the last Friday of the…
Kelly McParland: Greek unions launch national day... →
Greece’s coddled, bloated and overprotected public service is reacting to government efforts to rescue the economy just as you would expect coddled, bloated and overprotected people to react….
Poison's Bret Michaels released from hospital →
By Mary Vallis, National Post
Bret Michaels has been released from hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage two weeks ago. Michaels’ doctor says he must take four to six weeks of…
Lost Panel: The Candidate →
Welcome to The Ampersand’s Lost Panel. Every week during the show’s
sixth and final season, a panel of National Post editors, reporters and
special guests will break-down the most recent episode:…
Secret trailer for unknown movie imminent →
By Nick Aveling, National Post Premature spoiler alert: a secret trailer for a J.J. Abrams movie nobody has heard of is set to hit theatres this weekend, according to …
Contact 2010: Roman Elinson and Oliver J.G. Nurock... →
By Iris Benaroia, National Post Photographic convention has gotten us used to the image being bound by straight lines and right angles. Can it be any other way? Toronto photographer Roman…
Gary Clement on Ignatieff's love of apologies →
Matt Gurney: Italy takes burka ban to the next... →
Turns out that you don’t have to speak French to take a strong stand against female Muslims covering up. Any Romance language will do.
It seems like just yesterday that Canada was abuzz over…
Adrian MacNair: What Harper needs is more scandals →
Western alienation in Canada may have been reduced by the election of the Conservative Party, but that doesn’t mean the country isn’t divided into two nations. On the one side are Ontario and the…
George Jonas: The danger of the dangling crucifix →
To the surprise of the faithful, last month in Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury defended Christianity. Who would have thought? Rowan Williams was quoted as chastising a hospital’s…
A proud day for Canada and The Netherlands →
It’s Liberation Day for the Dutch. Sixty-five years ago today, Canadian Army General Charles Foulkes and the German Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands, Johannes Blaskowitz, met in a hotel in…
You, over there: Quit celebrating! The economy... →
Just in case you’ve been reading stories about the deficit being lower than expected, and the economy improving, the NDP wants you to know that you have no right to feel optimistic, and should…
Banks seek the 'right' capital →
Naked Aussie tax grab →
Mandatory pensions one solution →
Keith Beardsley: Question Period can be saved.... →
Michael Chong, the Conservative MP for Wellington-Halton,
has introduced Motion #517 to reform Question Period. The odds of any of
his suggested reforms ever happening are pretty slim if…
Andrea Prasow: Afghan torture is no secret →
When the corpse of Abdul Basir was found in an Afghan detention facility in December 2009, the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), which had been holding Basir for the previous month,…
Chris Selley: Score one for Gilles Duceppe →
Here are a couple of vignettes from yesterday’s media scrums after Question Period in Ottawa, where the important business of the nation is taken up. Important business such as Heritage Minister…
Adam Daifallah: Quebec goes to war against McGill... →
If ever an issue captured the struggle between those who want to keep Quebec mired in its statist, lowest-common-denominator-for-all mentality and those who would have the province strive for…
David Frum: U.K. Conservatives are on the brink.... →
At the website of the UK magazine, The Spectator, John
O’Sullivan and Allen Massie are engaged in a high-stakes debate about
the British election. Start reading now, this debate will be…
Lorne Gunter: Alberta abandons its place in the... →
This should be
Alberta’s moment in the sun on Senate reform. Finally, after a quarter
century of demanding an elected Senate (and four years after an Alberta
native son and Senate-reform…
National Post editorial board: Nancy Ruth ignites... →
For the second time in as many months, Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth’s advice on women’s issues has backfired on the government. Instead of increasing the Conservatives’ appeal to female voters,…
Singer, painters, writers to vie for 2010 Turner... →
[Above, a video of Susan Philipsz’s installation: The Lost Reflection, Munster 2007] Berlin-based Susan Philipsz, whose artworks center around recordings of her voice singing…
Wolf Parade debuts tracks from Expo 86, sets... →
Montreal-based quartet Wolf Parade announced that their next full-length disc will drop on June 29, and that it will borrow its title from the name of Vancouver’s World Exposition in 1986.…
Al Jazeera launches in Canada →
Mideast-based news channel Al Jazeera English began
broadcasting in Canada today. The channel will be available to subscribers of Bell
TV on channel 516, Rogers in Ontario on channel 176, and…
Terence Corcoran: Why BP should pay oil spill’s... →
Short of outright prohibition, the most effective accident-prevention mechanism is to enforce property rights and make sure that companies know in advance and under law that they are…
Chris Selley: More on that 'contrived' abortion... →
At The Interim, Paul Tuns takes issue with my Friday column on Stephen Harper’s (I think) bizarre decision not to fund any abortions in aid-recipient nations, even as he swears blind he’ll…
