Peter Worthington

Last week, Conrad Black made his first public appearance since returning to Canada after being released as (to quote him) a "guest" of the American prison system.

The occasion was the first anniversary party thrown by Huffington Post Canada, for which he has been a...

You're not going to believe this.

I had difficulty accepting it, but it's true: A child born to Canadian military family serving overseas can be Canadian -- but has no automatic right to a passport.

Lawrence Connelly was born in Germany in 1967 when his...

Why has our beloved prime minister pledged Canada to give $110 million a year to Afghanistan, after our troops have been pulled out in 2014?

Stephen Harper must know, as every with a room temperature IQ knows, that when NATO troops are gone from Afghanistan, whatever hopes we...

According to reports, Canada is downplaying the espionage case against Sub.-Lt. Jeffrey Delisle for fear of upsetting relations with Russia.

Good Lord!

We've been there before in the bad, old days of the Cold War, only it was "Soviet" spies then, not "Russian" spies...

Even those who are sick of the subject have difficulty escaping the regurgitations of the 2010 G20 demonstrations that went horribly wrong.

The findings of the Independent Police Review director, Gerry McNeilly, seem reasonable and sensible. Still, they are doing some more second guessing -- as are all of...

In any North American town or city, individuals running (or jogging) to stay fit or get in shape, are so common that hardly anyone notices.

What these individuals don't realize is that regardless of the high-tech shoes they may wear - shoes with bedsprings embedded in the soles, microchip-adjusted cushioning,...

By his conversion to supporting gay marriage, U.S. President Barack Obama may have neutralized any Democratic plans in the presidential campaign of accusing Mitt Romney of flip-flopping on issues.

Up to now, Obama has repeatedly said that he believed "marriage" was between a man and woman, and not same...

Apart from photographers and media, I felt as if I was the only non-Jew among the 3,500 sellout crowd that attended the Sony Centre in Toronto in early May to see, hear and acclaim Israel's President Shimon Peres.

As the world's oldest head of state (age 88), Peres has been...

Three odd cases of "justice" are in the news these days, all of them likely to make those who don't commit crimes uneasy.

The National Post's story of 74-year-old Marian Andrzejewski being beaten in his 14th storey Ottawa apartment, and calling 911, and then being put in jail...

The squabble over the federal government legislating an end to long gun registry shows few signs of dying down.

Apparently the government, through Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, doesn't even want people who buy firearms to have their names registered by the store, or the serial numbers of rifles...

No one in the know says much about it, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming a coalition government -- "a government of national unity," he calls it -- strikes some as ominous, others as encouraging.

Still, others see it as Israel preparing to do something about...

Arguably, the most poignant interview ever broadcast on CBC Radio's The Current was the story this week about Shin Dong-hyuk -- possibly the only person ever to escape from a North Korean slave-labour prison camp.

All stories about prisons are harsh, but prisons, or political labour camps...

It may seem odd to some that with all the problems and tensions in the world today, the Pope has chosen to rebuke American nuns for being more concerned about poverty and social justice issues than about abortion and gay marriage.

Last month the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine...

It was Alberta Conservative MP Blake Richards who introduced the private members bill (C-309) which stated that wearing a mask at violent protests is a criminal offence.

While we owe some gratitude to Richards for his initiative, the question remains why it's taken so long for this...

What do the elections in France and Greece have in common?

And what is their effect likely to be in Europe -- and on the world?

For starters, the status quo in both countries has been capsized. Voters in both countries reject austerity measures that were imposed to...

Next to Jewish Canadians, Ukrainian Canadians probably constitute the most effective lobby group in Canada.

I don't mean that in a pejorative way, but rather as a compliment. All ethnic and national groups in Canada have specialized interests beyond our country, and all, from time time, would like to...

What seems to be missing in the hullabaloo over the three remaining elephants in the Toronto zoo, is what's best for the animals themselves.

Beyond dispute is that Toronto is not an environment conducive to maintaining contented elephants. Perhaps it's even lethal.

Seven elephants have died at the...

We've seen this before, and now we are seeing it again.

This time it was President Barack Obama's quick, unadvertised visit to Afghanistan to sign a partnership deal with President Hamid Karzai, and to assure U.S. troops and all Americans that "there is light on the horizon."

In...

Maybe it's just me, but I think everyone relishes stories where reporters confront politicians -- and even more so when politicians challenge reporters.

That's one of the entertaining things about having Rob Ford as Toronto's mayor. One is never sure when there'll be an outburst. Keeps us media types...

Now that Conrad Black will be released this weekend from prison and returned to Canada, the question of the moment is whether he can, or should, regain the Canadian citizenship he renounced in order to accept a British peerage.

Although not "officially" a citizen, he has a temporary...