The death and destruction, brutality and barbarism of the Syrian government's latest massacre of its own civilians has passed a tipping point -- indeed if it had not been passed before -- mandating the invocation and application by the UN Security Council of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and requisite...
Peter Worthington | Posted May 31, 2012
Why would U.S. President Barack Obama call Auschwitz a "Polish death camp?"
And not only Auschwitz, where over one million were killed, but Treblinka (900,000 murdered), Sobibor (200,000 gassed), Majdanek (80,000 killed), and Warsaw itself where 400,000 were slaughtered.
Obama spoke of "Polish death camps" in the plural,...
Trudo Lemmens | Posted June 1, 2012
The distorted media coverage in the anglophone press of the Quebec student protest movement and the relative silence in the academic community outside Quebec over some of the issues raised are perplexing.
Some of the tactics of the protesters appear disturbing, the social and economic upheavel disproportionate, and the...
J.J. McCullough | Posted June 7, 2012
We're now in what, week 87 of the Quebec student strike? I may be over-estimating slightly, but judging from the latest round of editorials on the matter, it definitely appears that we in the opinion-telling business are starting to run a little low on indignation fuel.
With so much that can be said already...
Kevin Grandia | Posted May 31, 2012
I am so proud as a Canadian to see that our little baby -- the Alberta tar sands -- is all growed up!
What started out as a small innocent baby project in northern Alberta in the early 1900s with a patent to use hot water to seperate tar oil...
Cassie Farrell | Posted May 31, 2012
Joyce Arthur's recent piece in the Huffington Post is one that is ripe with inconsistencies and misleading statements, and it's no surprise given that she has had a love affair with the traditionally dishonest pro-abortion movement for years. Arthur, the executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of...
Romeo Saganash | Posted May 31, 2012
Canada has had many shining moments to be proud of. Walking around Parliament Hill you can see the monuments to those achievements. They serve as a reminder of what our country can be at its best.
But as a nation we've also had moments to be less than proud...
Irwin Cotler | Posted June 1, 2012