On Friday, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson declared that the government viewed same-sex unions as valid, but blamed the situation on the previous Liberal government. But the minister's contention simply does not stand up to the facts.

Wallenberg -- a Swedish non-Jew who saved some 100,000 Jews during the Holocaust -- confronted the Nazi killing machine in Hungary and showed that one person can make a difference; that one person can resist; and that one person can prevail over radical evil.

In the latest of a long list of crimes perpetrated against the Iranian Baha'i community, several graduates of Canadian universities have been detained and imprisoned for their involvement with the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education. Simply put, the persecution and prosecution of these Baha'i is a case-study of the systematic if not systemic character of Iranian injustice.