The Ontario government has sponsored a new anti-smoking campaign on TV and the web. Quite simply, it labels smoking as “stupid.” All the adverts I have seen thus far have in and of themselves been pretty stupid, but the latest one really takes the cake.
We see a full bathtub with a toaster propped on the […]
In April 2003, the US invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein. In January 2005, the Iraqis had their first election, and right now we’re hearing about good ol’ American style bargaining among the various factions who got elected into the legislative assembly, as well as secret negotiations between US officials and insurgents who seem […]
A British girl who had been diagnosed with a strange disease that prevented her from eating solid food has been cured during a visit to the United States. Instead of having Bulbar Palsy, she simply had swollen tonsils.
Aren’t we glad we don’t have “American-style health care” here in publicly funded Canada?
Thomas Hobbes: “Contracts without the sword are only words, Covenants without a King are useless.�
Paul Martin: “This is our airspace, we’re a sovereign nation and you don’t intrude on a sovereign nation’s airspace without seeking permission.”
As if US Air Command is going to bother phoning Mr. Dithers to make a decision about an […]
Impressed by its technological know-how, our society seems to be adopting more and more biotechnologies, raising questions about the ethics of cloning, genetics, etc. Parents are increasingly told that they can manage their children’s genetic codes to secure the most desirable characteristics. If they can’t do that, they always have the absolute freedom […]
US Ambassador Paul Cellucci today stated repeatedly that Canada’s refusal to participate in ballistic missile defence marks a diminution of Canadian sovereignty.
“We will deploy. We will defend North America,” said Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada.
“We simply cannot understand why Canada would, in effect, give up its sovereignty - its seat at the table […]
Wilfred McClay has a fascinating speech on what he calls George Bush’s “evangelical conservatism” (not to be confused with Evangelical conservatives). In it he argues that those two terms do not easily fit together because:
As a faith that revolves around the experience of individual transformation, it inevitably exists in tension with settled ways, established […]
You know your doing something right when all your opponent can do is throw childish insults your way.
Ted Rall has got his panties in a knot over the state of the blogsphere. In his recent editorial, BUT WHO WATCHES THE WATCHDOGS?, Ted claims that the majority of the political blogs in the United States […]
I noted yesterday that the Liberal Party Youth Wing is pushing for the legalization of prostitution, and I also noted some unintended consequences that this measure would produce. Today’s Nat Post (subscription required) notes it is being pushed by Senator Mac Harb. It also interviews the national director of the Liberal Youths: […]
