Enough already! My response to Marci McDonald
It has been several weeks since the book The Armageddon Factor was released, igniting a storm of controversy that author Marci McDonald says she...
When it comes to public finance, nothing should be a “no-brainer”
The controversy surrounding the Harper government’s decision to give $400K to Toronto’s Gay Pride Festival continues to grow. In his July 9th column in...
Balancing workers’ rights and union privileges
Balancing workers
Rethinking Senate Reform
The government’s decision to prorogue Parliament until early March in response to the Senate’s obstruction of its legislative agenda has once again thrust the...
Making sense of the current Middle-East crisis
The current fighting in the Middle East between Israel on the one side, and Hamas and Hezbollah on the other, is not just another...
U.S. Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats barking up the wrong tree on health care
Critics of U.S. President Barack Obama’s desired health care reforms – including so-called “Blue Dog Democrats” – claim that his plan is just too...
A small step toward fixing Canada’s broken immigration system
I’ve often said that the single greatest problem Canada faces today is the general, and in my view cataclysmic, decline in the quality of...
Straight talk on Canada’s “safe injection” experiment
The 18th century English poet Thomas Gray wrote that “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” Certainly Randy White can attest to...
RIP: Big Blue Machine
Crushing – that’s the only way to describe the latest Liberal victory in Ontario. Crushing, and yet, not altogether surprising.
In case nobody noticed, Ontario’s...
A feckless Conservative Party? Principled conservatives have only themselves to blame
It has been said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes, but in Canada, there’s one more thing you can...
What the…? Tories resurrect Court Challenges Program
For more than a year now, prominent conservatives have been warning – some publicly – about the drift of the Harper Tories away from...
The flawed reasons for doing away with prayer at Queen’s Park
The recent decision by the McGuinty government to consider removing prayer from Ontario’s daily legislative proceedings has once again catapulted the complicated relationship between...
Forget the badges - Iran and Nazi Germany have more in common than hatred...
Winston Churchill once remarked that the poor response of the free world to the emergence of Nazi Germany told much about the profound “unteachability”...
Unfettered speech is not dangerous, unfettered power is
Joseph C. Ben-AmiOne would think that if anyone could mount a strong defence of Canada’s much maligned human rights commissions and their role in...
The daycare lobby produces another slick piece of political propaganda
Princeton University’s online dictionary of English terms defines ‘confidence game’ as “a swindle in which you… persuade a person to buy worthless property.” That...
