Liberal MP under fire for ‘separatist losers' blog post
Liberal MP Garth Turner has come under fire for blasting Quebec sovereigntists on his blog as “balkanizing separatist losers.”  MORE...
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UPDATE: Confirmed. Ray Martin is expected to announce today his intention to run for Jack Layton's NDP in the riding of Edmonton East.
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If we don't step forward, no one will
Last week's column trigged a mini-avalanche of email, both in quantity and in quality of feeling and of argument. The subject was Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion's "green shift" proposal for imposing a new carbon tax while returning the.. MORE...
Harper has shifty moves, too
Stephen Harper has yet another opportunity to seize the green mantle and, in so doing, place himself within reach of a majority. The smart money says he has to try. MORE...
Let the carbon tax debate begin
No one's taking up Liberal Leader Stephane Dion on his challenge to debate the prime minister over a carbon tax. Can I make Dion an offer? I'll debate him anytime, anywhere. MORE...
Wallet politics work against Dion

It somehow seems right for Stephane Dion to hold his Liberal leader's Stampede breakfast at the Calgary zoo. And if the dorky Quebec politician dresses up like a real Alberta cowboy, things will only get more bizarre. MORE...

Dion a threat to the West
So Stephane Dion thinks all he has to do is show up for Stampede, eat a corn dog or two, and talk nice to the handful of federal Liberals still left in the oilpatch and we'll all embrace his party's plan to stick us with a nationwide carbon tax. MORE...
Ottawa is rewriting Quebec history
Future historians will probably be mystified by the extent to which the Charest government allowed Stephen Harper to make sure that Quebec City's 400th anniversary would also serve to publicize Canada, its history, federalism and.. MORE...
Free speech and Hitler
The Supreme Court last week struck a welcome blow for free speech – and against libel chill – with its ruling overturning a judgment against a talk-show host. MORE...
Poutine and perception
It's unlikely the Canadian embassy in Washington meant any insult to French Canadians when it sent out invitations for its Canada Day party showing Samuel de Champlain carrying a plate of poutine. Diplomats are usually super-sensitive.. MORE...
A majestic belly flop

Whether Henry Morgentaler is a champion of women's rights or a baby killer, there is no debate about one thing: He is now a member of the Order of Canada. No one should freak out. The same award was given to Alan Eagleson, Conrad Black.. MORE...

Morgentaler is worthy of the Order
In a previous life 20 or so years ago, I had personal and professional cause to cross paths with Dr. Henry Morgentaler. For a brief season, we both visited the Toronto Central YMCA at the same time. While waiting for my sons' swimming.. MORE...
Order of Canada for Morgentaler tells us a lot about our country
An announcement this week that Henry Morgentaler has been named to the Order of Canada has significance that goes well beyond the man. MORE...
Who's ready to return their snowflake?
If I had the sole and undivided power to select the Order of Canada, Dr. Henry Morgentaler would get through the door easily. Indeed, we might have to create a whole new class of the Order just for him. MORE...
If you wear the pin, send it back
If I had an Order of Canada I'd return it to protest the appointment of Henry Morgentaler. But of course people like me don't get that little white snowflake lapel pin. We're too divisive. MORE...
Hooking safe sex
Politicians too gutless to legalize prostitution for women's safety. Such hypocrisy. We're too gutless to legalize prostitution but we don't mind being pimps, charging licence fees for activities everyone knows are covers for the sex trade. MORE...
Obama has little choice but to drift toward centre

Everyone does it. But Barack Obama claims not to be everyone. The Illinois senator's most enthusiastic supporters are furious at his flip-flop on FISA. And they are bombarding his website with protests by the thousands. MORE...

 
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