Category Archives: Foreign Policy & Military

Jim Prentice: Doing The Right Thing For All The Wrong Reasons

There was quite a bit of anger among conservatives in Canada last week when the boys in Ottawa blocked the sale of a Canadian (space) satellite division to an American buyer. Gerry Nicholls railed against the decision by a Minister of Industry who is admittedly not so inclined to keep industries prosperous, given some of […]

The Lights Are Back On, And Still No One’s Home On Granola Street!

9:40 pm — I think I looked outside at one point during the 8 o’clock hour to see if the cityscape changed here; it didn’t. Lights of businesses, houses and cars were still on. So I’m not even sure if this whole thing went ahead outside of the urbane, advanced city cores of […]

China Boycott: It Should’ve Started in 2001

I remember watching the decision making vote back in 2001 when the IOC, the governing body of the Olympic games, back in 2001. It was a pre-9/11 world still back then and Boris Yeltsin had just retired a year and two months earlier, making Vladimir Putin an unknown quality at the time. Toronto, […]

Worst Countries: One of these Things Is Not Like the Other

The Toronto Star’s current edition includes a Top 10 Worst Countries To Be A Woman list today. Aside from the usual left-wing editorializing that the Star is proud to display in every story they publish,
Measures of well-being include life expectancy, education, purchasing power and standard of living. Not surprisingly, the top 10 [best countries […]

NAFTAgate: Who is Wagging Whom?

In the middle of this international ruckus over Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper supposedly “interfering” with the Democratic Primaries in the United States, and by proxy, influencing the USA’s selection of a new President, now enters suggestions that perhaps Harper and by proxy, Canada’s Conservative government has become a weapon in the knock-down, drag-out battle […]

Obama and Clinton Would Pull Out of NAFTA

Canadians were recently polled and it was found they overwhelmingly favour the Democrats over the Republicans. Yesterday’s comments by both Clinton and Obama should have those same Canadians rethinking their preference:,
During a nationally televised debate in Cleveland, the two Democratic presidential candidates suggested Canada and Mexico would be given just six months to make […]

Canadians should recognize Kosovo

In light of the recent savagery committed by Serbs in their own streets, Canadians should recognize Kosovo independence and tell Russian politicians to go to hell. The Russian ambassador to Canada has the unmitigated gall to give the following insulting advice:
“We are both federal states and when you live in glasshouse you don’t throw […]

Thoughts from a Soldier in Fallujah

While on a tour of an overcrowded Fallujah prison:
Sergeant Dehaan was comfortable with his mission in Iraq and the flaws of the Iraqi Police he was tasked with training and molding.
“I prefer these small and morally ambiguous wars to the big morally black-and-white wars,” he said to me later. “It would be nice if we […]

Federal law “protects” employment for reservists but…

This federal legislation protects the employment for reservists in the federal government, crown corporations and federally regulated industries — that does not surprise me. It is actually quite surprising that it never existed before. However, I am not too sure I like the rest of the story. If you wait until the […]

Norman versus Paul

Paul Wells speaks, Jan 29, 2007
President Bush has had a difficult time lately in Iraq. He lost the mid-term elections, fired his defence secretary, and is about to launch his presidency’s last stand — a “surge” of thousands of fresh troops in one more desperate attempt to take and hold Baghdad.
Norman Podhoretz speaks Jan […]