Jagmeet Singh’s Charm Offensive
His nice words don’t quite square with nasty realities ✎ Wayne K. Spear | October 5, 2017 ◈ Politics T HE HEADLINES trumpeting Jagmeet Singh’s NDP leadership win each conformed to one of two themes....
View ArticleDear Mr. God, It’s Me Charlie
In many places around this world, I would be killed just for posting this dumb letter THIS IS SLIGHTLY weird for me. I don’t believe that you exist, so it’s like writing a letter to Santa, except I’ve...
View ArticleThe Roundtable Podcast 40
• Week of 05.05.2013 — Bangladesh Factory Fires | Syria | Left vs. Right: The Roundtable Goes Into the Weeds | Guns and Children | Canada Can’t Account for $3.1 Billion in Anti-Terror Expenditures |...
View ArticleWatch Yourself, Canada
ABOVE THE fold of October 4th’s Globe and Mail there was featured a piece by the fine journalist Steven Chase, “Military intelligence unit keeps watch on native groups.” A more candid and accurate...
View ArticleThe Killing of Salman Taseer
It may be that the most eloquent words I can summon, in the wake of businessman and Punjab, Pakistan Governor Salman Taseer’s assassination, are these: “the death was received with shock in India.”...
View ArticleHow Can You Call This Justice?
You will have long work ahead of you should you wish to find an impartial and informed observer who says the “trial” of Omar Khadr has been just. Only a few months ago, Khadr himself refused to...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Three Things You Didn’t Know About Islam
Mount Qassioun, Damascus (Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri) In today’s (September 4) National Post “Letters” I find the following: The Letters page welcomes a wide range of views — but we draw the line when...
View ArticleThirty-One Years Too Many
I remember well the day-by-day countdown — or, more accurate, the counting-up — of the Iranian hostage crisis, with which the six o’clock news commenced each evening in the endless months, or so they...
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