The following post originally appeared in the Toronto Sun. Mr. Worthing died Sunday evening at the age of 86.

If you are reading this, I am dead.

How's that for a lead?

Guarantees you read on, at least for a bit.

When the Sun's George Gross died...

Love her or loathe her -- as many did -- there is little doubt that Margaret Thatcher was the dominant political, social, economic and cultural force in Britain during the latter half of the last century.

Not only was Thatcher Britain's first female PM, but she was...

Big surprise -- the OSPCA wants more money. Some people think it gets too much money right now for how it handles the job of caring for animals. Complaints about the OSPCA abound, but somehow it seems to have the McGuinty government under its thumb -- or at least under...

An article in the Toronto Star quotes Treasury Board President Tony Clement: "When Chinese schoolchildren are taught about the value of helping humanity, the story they are told is the Norman Bethune story."

There are a couple of aspects of this quote that are worth...

Anyone is wrong who may think the book by former Capt. Rob Semrau -- The Taliban Don't Wave -- is his justification for what happened in Afghanistan in 2008.

Although Semrau is the first Canadian soldier ever to be court martialed for allegedly killing a wounded enemy on the...

David Kilgour was a Member of Parliament for 27 years, and during that time served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and finally became an independent MP on issues of principle.

At present he is best known for investigative work with human rights lawyer David Matas, into

The tsunami of outrage over Blue Jay shortstop Yunel Escobar's alleged "homophobic slur" makes one think of an inspired observation by the late Professor Northcote Parkinson.

During research for his famous Parkinsons' Law, he noted that boards of directors for big companies (or governments) would routinely rubber stamp commitments...

If there was ever a good time to pull the plug on Dalton McGuinty's minority Liberal government, that time is now. In the last provincial election, MGuinty pulled a rabbit out of the hat by winning -- even though it was a minority government when conventional wisdom was that he...

When I first joined the old Toronto Telegram in 1956, the guy who ran the newsroom was J. Douglas MacFarlane -- to this day I'm not sure what his title was, but indisputably he was the boss, and one of the enduring newspaper legends of his day.

One of...

While deploring the mob attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the American ambassador to Libya, Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton also seemed to be apologizing for the movie that provoked the outrage.

"The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others,"

The only puzzling thing about Canada cutting diplomatic relations with Iran is why now?

Can it be that Canada (i.e. the Harper government) thinks patience is running out for that bellicose regime, and that Israel is close to taking it upon itself to attack Iran's nuclear facilities?

The law that says a person shouldn't use excessive force when battling an intruder or making a citizen's arrest is pretty good in theory, but ludicrous in practice.

And yet it's the law. Even the new Citizen's Arrest and Defence Act (dubbed the "Lucky Moose" bill) which supposedly expands...

There was a rhetorical sigh of relief in the Canada Council for the Arts establishment that extensive federal budget cuts this year did not include them. While the DND budget is being cut by up to $2 billion, and the CBC budget of $1.1 billion is being cut...

The Democratic party's convention, which starts today in Charlotte, North Carolina, faces a small (or large) obstacle in that the recent Republican convention that wound up last Thursday, looms large.

Whatever plans organizers may have had to snipe at Mitt Romney's celebrated lack of caring for people, his remoteness...

The Republican convention in Tampa closed with a rousing battle speech by its presidential candidate, Mitt Romney that, while solid, didn't measure up to the supporting cast of speeches leading up to his.

Hispanic Sen. Marco Rubio radiated charisma and common sense when he said the...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was the star attraction at the delayed opening of the Republican convention in Tampa -- but he was almost upstaged by the nominee's wife: Ann Romney.

Almost upstaged, but not quite.

Both had different messages, both delivered them magnificently, both hit...

One can imagine the cheers from critics and skeptics that cyclist Lance Armstrong is being stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France wins, and his 2000 Olympic Bronze Medal.

In face of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) erasing his name from record books, Armstrong...

Although it was postponed one day on account of a hurricane warning, the most exciting thing about the Republican convention which starts today in Tampa, is not Mitt Romney as the Presidential candidate, but Paul Ryan as his VP running mate.

Ryan has electrified...

With the Quebec election due September 4, Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois seems to be doing all she can to ensure that Jean Charest's Liberals are re-elected for a record fourth time. We all know that Quebec is sensitive on language issues. But Marois' plan to require anyone running for...

Housing bonuses: they're kind of like deranged nutbars who take it upon themselves to shoot up a school, or a shopping mall, or a church event, or even a holiday camp in Norway. Until it happens, there's no practical way to prevent them. You can't arrest people without cause.
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