Michael Coren
Police politicization: Law breakers ignored while law-abiding protesters treated like criminals
Within the propaganda and tawdry political theatre that is the Idle No More movement and the Chief Spence diet program, something rather magnificent occurred last week. A Canadian judge had the courage and consistency...
Ideological narcissism: Chief’s hunger strike tough to swallow
While I have some sympathy for Irish republicanism, I loathe the IRA and their cult of violence. But it has to be said that IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was a man willing to...
Fashion over debate: Sonny days ahead if Justin Trudeau gets Liberal leadership nod
The world didn’t end recently, and it’s unlikely to come to a conclusion in 2013 either.
Rumours of its demise tend to be greatly exaggerated, either from Christian fundamentalists, Latin American tribes, or assorted conspiracy...
Insulting fanatics: They’re the people who make up the legalization campaign
Last week on my television show, we interviewed Jodie Emery, a woman known only because her husband Marc is in prison in the United States and enjoys the sobriquet Prince of Pot.
She’s been on...
Shrill backlash to men’s rights advocate
For more than two years I wrote a men’s column for a rival Canadian daily newspaper.
I’d never even considered men’s issues before, but the editor of the publication wanted the subject to be covered,...
Morality and tolerance
It’s been said many times that while American pastor Terry Jones has the right to publicly burn the Qur'an, he has the responsibility not to do so. In other words, acts have consequences, and...
The Emperor is naked
What a sheer bloody joy it was to see Barack Obama, peace be upon him, exposed as the mediocre, media-inflated, self-important regional politician he so obviously is.
The emperor was revealed as having no clothes...
Religions not the same
This is a tale of two religions.
On the one hand, Christianity: Regularly abused and slandered both in the western world and the Islamic heartland.
On the other, Islam: Protected by blasphemy laws in Muslim-majority states,...
Bullies or victims? Fairness and proportionality strike out in sport and sexuality
So, a guy who plays pro sport is an idiot. Good Lord, I can’t believe it! I mean, who knew?
Yes, Yunel Escobar was dumb enough to write on his face in Spanish something akin...
A night with the fanatics
On Tuesday evening, I covered a 9/11 vigil in Toronto, and a counter-protest across the street organized by Islamic and leftist groups calling for the return of Omar Khadr.
We didn’t know that as this...
Sympathy well runs dry
Ontario teachers are giving us an education in groundless bellyaching
So there he was, the leader of one of Ontario’s largest high school teachers’ unions. He sat on national television and explained there was going...
Pampered prince
Michael Bryant has a new book out. Yes, the former attorney general of Ontario, a man tipped to be the eventual leader of the Liberal party and even perhaps prime minster of Canada, has...
Michael Coren writes: Mr. Ordinary: Jack Layton was OK. Nothing more, nothing less
The time of waiting has come to an end, and like a child embracing the dawn on Christmas Day I feel my heart bursting with a fulfilled anticipation.
Yes, filming has started on the Jack...
It’s about power: Al-Quds Day a celebration of hatred and terrorism
Beyond the hatred, the racism and the anger, there’s a certain irony surrounding Al-Quds Day, commemorated this weekend internationally and to its shame — in Toronto.
The event was founded by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and...
Racism nightmare
Political correctness holding us back from facing gangster problem
There was a BMW SUV parked outside the house, the earnest reporter told us on the radio earlier this week, following the shooting of more than...