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It strikes me that Canada has used the "best friends" concept towards the U.S. far past the expiry date.  Canada is more of a benign non-issue.  The only time the U.S. admin gives us much thought is when our leadership indulge in some gratuitous U.S. bashing.  There's a real need to foster...

There are all sorts of issues at play in discussing our mission to Afghanistan and I'd wager very few random Canadians have given much thought to the issue so, no surprise, their first response would be "no" to anything that involves dead soldiers. I'd like to see something along the lines of...

Strictly speaking the majority of the population probably should hold the balance of power; certainly a Sunni minority ruling over a Shiite majority flies in the face of things.  I don't know that Iraq will descend into a civil war if the vast majority of people don't go along with those who are...

S_Baker   I agree with you.  Living with the threat of being killed for doing anything the regime doesn't approve of doesn't appear to be the sort of world I'd choose to live in.  I do think we have to keep in mind that the vast majority of Iraqis, a nation of 25 million, aren't involved in...

It appears fairly large numbers of Iraqi deaths are caused by the so-called "resistance"; presumably the people of Iraq are able to put the blame where it should go.

Agreed!     I always find it amazing that there's probably more sources of information available to the public than ever before and yet there's a pretty amazing lack of interest in anything not directly impacting on the individual.  I'm also pretty unimpressed with the media; anything that...

I don't have much respect for the whole "a poll shows...", particularly given their dubious accuracy.  Pollsters were tripping over each other last election to determine whether the Tories would have a large minority or a small majority.  Turns out they got it all wrong.  Then there's the...

Apparently the CUPE strike over pensions is a non-starter.  McGuinty agreed to review the impact of the new plan in 2012 and Sid backed down. There seems to be some indication that various CUPE locals made it clear that they wouldn't be participating in any strike so the onus was then on...

I'm inclined to see media types claiming to be fighting for "free speech" along the same lines as academics who claim "academic freedom" as defence to do just about anything.  Neither group is routinely prevented from exercising tremendous lattitude to do their jobs and, IMO, very few of them...

I think there's probably an element of, for want of a better phrase, "being seen" to be doing everything possible to go along with whatever the best possible means is of confirming someone's identity.  There may well be various issues involved in bringing in the card, however as long as we're...

I believe TCBF is right; the Yanks are really tightening up what they'll accept as I.D. for entry so I'd imagine this national I.D. card is largely a way of keeping them happy.  I believe Canada is exempted from the requirements the U.S. is planning to impose on darn near everyone else so this...

I believe, although I can't swear to it, that the issue is that money put into a pension plan receives pretty favourable tax treatment and so the government doesn't want to allow excessive funds to flow into pension plans, much above what is required to cover outlays.

Apparently there's a government rule that a pension plan can only have a certain amount above and beyond whatever it needs to be "fully funded" and that's why most plans, including mine, had a few years of "pension holidays".  When the markets perform well the plans hit the wall and can't go any...

I heard Sid interviewed today and he mentionned that there was an "x" billion dollar surplus in their plan a few years ago and they should be able to negotiate how the surplus is spent.  How in the h#ll do you negotiate an increase in pensions based on a surplus in a given year?  The value of...

I'm not sure Mr. Staples is a great choice for a thoughtful analysis on the cost of anything!  He claims Canada is already spending far more than is reasonable on the military, although all evidence suggests his claims are rather dodgy. 

What makes me laugh is how the so-called "national child care and early..." is tarted up as if it actually exists.  Basically the Liberals committed $1 billion per year to what promises to cost many times that amount per year.  The provinces signed on in order to get the Fed's money, however if...

Apparently the video was shot 2 years ago, during a riot, and the kids had, alledgedly, been stoning the Brits.  While I don't condone the beatings the issue appears more complex than  what is shown in the video.  What is the standard response to being stoned, er,  having stones thrown at CF...

No doubt Linda would also be absolutely outraged at the Talibam treatment of women!  She appears to have landed herself a fairly comfortable existence being a "commentator" on just about everything without having to take actual responsibilty for anything.  It would be useful if she'd, at very...

Suggestion:     Check out a few of McQuaig's past columns.  You'll note that really thoughtful analysis isn't her strong suit.  She plays to the anti-American, anti-conservative, both large and small c, anti-corporate worldview.  By all means read her work, but keep in mind that she knows what...

Hi Guys!   A Toronto radio station 640 AM now has a couple of OPP members up doing traffic reports in their helicopter.  Apparently it can be called upon to assist in the event of an "emergency".  Sort of a police helicopter via the back door ;D