Theo Caldwell
Canada’s FATCA Capitulation
As of this past week, the Canada Revenue Agency works for the Internal Revenue Service. The subordination of Canada's tax authority to its American counterpart came in the form of a euphemistically named "Intergovernmental...
Canada’s Complicity in the US Surveillance State
In Canadian political debate, accusing one’s opponent of advocating “American-style” policies used to be the equivalent of launching a nuclear missile.
The trajectory of these attacks was usually left to right, with some earnest advocate...
Of course Canada is more business-friendly than the United States
A recent report from Bloomberg News ranks Canada as the second-best country in which to do business, behind Hong Kong and ahead of the United States. This comes on the heels of a survey...
Toronto Mayor is Not a Victim
I voted for Rob Ford. Normally, I embrace the sanctity of the secret ballot and disdain columnists who announce their personal choices as if they were somehow important. But in this case, an exception...
Good luck, America (you’ll need it)
And here I believed that Obamacare, chronic 8 percent unemployment, stagnant economic growth, crippling spending and the potential for more would sink a sitting president. Boy howdy, was I ever wrong. I take small...
Canadians Should Root for Romney
Many Canadians are predisposed to dislike Mitt Romney. He is a Republican, and robotic even by those standards. In this land of center-left sensibilities, such party affiliation and corporate mien often rankle. But I...
The TSA Tea Party
Yet again, those in power have misread and underestimated the will of the American people. Last November
Remember the Morning
Nine years ago today, our world changed. On the morning of September 11, 2001, four hijacked airliners crashed into targets in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, killing 3,000 innocent people. The reasons and consequences...
What Does Victory Look Like?
Sixty-five years ago today, World War II officially came to an end. On September 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and signed the Instrument of Surrender...
Ashtiani Has Confessed
Sakineh Ashtiani has confessed. Ashtiani is the Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of
Win This War
I wondered, in last week’s column, whether the war in Afghanistan is still a worthwhile enterprise, nine years on. As American and Canadian governments contemplate withdrawal in 2011, commentators far wiser than I –...
Where to from Here?
In last week’s column, I put out a call for proposals to solve the heretofore intractable Israel-Palestinian situation.
Readers did not disappoint. I have tremendous respect for those who take the time to read this...
Always, Always Israel
For some people, it’s always about Israel.
Over the past few weeks, I and other columnists have written about Sakineh Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for the crime of “adultery.”...