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Why No One Mentioned Rob Ford's Alleged Links to Gun Running

Shireen Jeejeebhoy | Posted 06.17.2013 | Canada Politics
Shireen Jeejeebhoy

I'm troubled that the police knew about the video showing Mayor Ford smoking crack cocaine before Gawker and The Toronto Star revealed its existence. I'm troubled that the Chief of Police won't answer direct questions. I'm troubled that the wider implication is that Ford is involved with a gun-running gang, with people who smuggle guns up from the US, through Windsor, and into Toronto in order to shoot and kill people. I'm troubled about what this means for future business in our city.

Ford Scandal's Biggest Casualty: Toronto

Shireen Jeejeebhoy | Posted 05.27.2013 | Canada Politics
Shireen Jeejeebhoy

The public needs to be engaged in order to resolve the humungous problems facing the city, such as crappy public transit, insane traffic congestion, aging and inadequate infrastructure, and so on. Just as an alcoholic derails a family so that no member can function adequately even at work, so has Mayor Ford derailed us.F

Will Tunisia Become an Islamic Dictatorship?

Gilles Clairoux | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada
Gilles Clairoux

The Tunisian government is now at a critical juncture. It will have to decide whether to continue pushing for an Islamic dictatorship through the drafting of a new constitution; or to recalibrate its vision for the country's future and pursue the implementation of an Islamic democracy that reflects the population's will.

Who's To Blame For the Rob Ford Video?

Shireen Jeejeebhoy | Posted 05.17.2013 | Canada Politics
Shireen Jeejeebhoy

Near midnight last night, the Toronto Star detailed the video of Mayor Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine. But while they're the ones questioning Ford's fitness to lead, they're also the ones who are primarily responsible for this mess -- them and our arcane electoral system. The first past the post system made it harder for the non-top-two candidates, including Sarah Thomson, to stay in the race. If we'd had a ranked ballot method of voting, they may have stayed in. I was livid at Thomson quitting, leaving us with two crappy choices. It's no wonder so many of us either didn't vote or seriously considered not voting.

Is the Bangladesh Factory Too Far for Us to Care?

Andrew Boozary | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada
Andrew Boozary

The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh now stands at over 350 people. In a wonderfully sensitive essay, Jian Ghomeshi raised the question of proximity when it came to our response to human tragedies. Distance may have become arbitrary, but how we draw the lines to connect our dots to one another has not. We can easily grieve, and most rightfully so, with the victims of Boston because we can all picture ourselves there. A feeling of complete and utter vulnerability. But when it's market forces or the lack of regulations that inflict terror, how are we to feel?

Anti-Semites in the House (of Lords)

Conrad Black | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada
Conrad Black

Anti-Semites have a right to speak, but not to convey the impression that they are representative of a major democratic political party in one of the world's most distinguished countries. Britain must reassert its respect for human rights and the social underdog, and cease to placate these hate-mongers.

Barack, Take a Lesson from Bibi -- Suck it Up

Mitch Wolfe | Posted 05.15.2013 | Canada
Mitch Wolfe

Netanyahu had until March 16 to form a majority coalition government with some of the other parties that had won seats in the last election. Did he go on the Israeli equivalent of Letterman or "The View" and whine to the Israeli people like a spoiled, self-entitled trust fund brat? No he did not. Bibi sucked it up. He swallowed his considerable pride, walked across the street and broke Matzoh with his sworn enemy, his former chief of staff, Yair Lapid, the leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party. President Obama should learn from Bibi about how to craft a coalition and make government and democracy work.

Women in Gaza: Neglected By Canadian Feminists Obsessed with Israel

Mitch Wolfe | Posted 05.12.2013 | Canada
Mitch Wolfe

A Gaza marathon has been cancelled because the mere sight of the movement of a woman's body, no matter how fully clothed, makes Hamas uncomfortable. Why, in the name of the holy trinity of Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer, aren't Canadian feminists raising a huge bloody stink about this?

"Witches" Are Still Being Burned at the Stake

Barbara Wade Rose | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada
Barbara Wade Rose

At the end of last week, a 20-year-old woman, Kepara Leniata, was doused in gasoline and burned at the stake for witchcraft in Papua New Guinea. To end horrors like this, Oxfam says, criminalize accusations of sorcery instead of allowing a citizenry to persecute sorcerers.

Why Argentina Is Accusing the U.S. of "Legal Colonialism"

Conrad Black | Posted 04.20.2013 | Canada
Conrad Black

Argentina has been pursued through the commercial courts in New York for over a decade by the vulture funds which bought its effectively defaulted debt and rejected what they considered insufficient offers of replacement bonds. The most interesting prospect opened up by this controversy is the possibility that Argentina, as is the practice of its current president, tells the Americans to stuff their rulings and attempts to engage financial markets in Europe and the Far East. The Argentine economy minister has accused the Americans of "legal colonialism," and, for once, that thoroughly disreputable government has a point.

Thank You All for Supporting Malala

Tahir Gora | Posted 12.18.2012 | Canada
Tahir Gora

Thank you Madonna for beating the drum for Malala Yousafzai. You have delivered a strong message to all celebrities across the world that they have to come out of their cozy lives and needed to be well informed as you are. Thank you Madonna for saying the words, "Support education! Support women!"

The EU Won the Nobel Peace Prize, Fair and Square

Tim Knight | Posted 12.14.2012 | Canada
Tim Knight

Right now, Europe is having serious economic and social problems. But that's no reason to challenge the award of the Nobel Peace prize to the European Union. When it comes to handing out peace prizes, you can't ask for a lot more than traditional enemies beating their swords into ploughshares. And lions lying down with lambs. This Peace Prize is truly well-deserved.

Canadian Supports @UAEDressCode Campaign In UAE

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.05.2012 | Canada Style

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - At least one Canadian expatriate says a popular Twitter campaign trying to combat skimpy clothing among visitors to the ...

No Helicopter, A Sinking Boat... And A Gunman On An Island

CP | Posted 09.25.2011 | Canada

OSLO - When Anders Behring Breivik launched his assault on the youth campers of Utoya Island, he expected Norway's special forces to swoop down and st...

Syrian Army Cracks Down On Restive Border Town

The Canadian Press | Posted 08.12.2011 | Canada

CBC -- Syrian security forces have moved into Jisr al-Shughour after spending more than a day bombing the city to quell an uprising against President ...