I see the King of Hot Air himself, Al Gore, was in Montreal attending an environmental training session. While there he took the time to congratulate Quebec on its environmental policies. This coming from a guy who uses more power in one month than the average American family does in a year.
Now I’m not knocking [...]

“Canadians in four ridings ought to have their little backsides twaddled. Bad voters. Use it or lose it.”
The words of Garth “Master of the Universe” Turner. Did it ever occur to Mr. Turner that these people were exercising their right to not vote? Did it occur to him that perhaps they didn’t like any of [...]

Kudos to MP Irwin Cotler on two points:

his stand on Canada’s human rights commissions
his stand on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

On point number one Mr. Cotler recognizes Canada’s human rights commissions have strayed far from the mandates they were originally set up to follow.
…it’s clear Cotler believes the commissions have, in investigating a number of complaints [...]

Once again a Canadian citizen has mysteriously died in Mexico. 19-year-old Josh Iwasiuk was vacationing at the Getaway Resort in Puerto Vallarta with his older brother Jerry last week. The two brothers were drinking in a hotel bar Saturday afternoon which is the last time Jerry saw his younger brother.
After Jerry awoke the next morning [...]

Where do you draw the line between civil rights and public safety?
Imagine police sneaking up to your car while you’re inside a store and slapping a little magnetic box under the fender that tracks the vehicle everywhere you take it, without you even realizing it’s there.
That’s the length cops in Fresno, Calif., have gone [...]

Congratulations to Team Canada for winning yet another gold medal at the juniors and once again proving nobody does it better than we do! If it’s not a shootout with the Americans its OT with the Swedes. We do have a flare for drama.

There’s no deterrent like a financial deterrent.
A father and son who went snowboarding out of bounds and had to be rescued at a North Vancouver mountain resort on Dec. 29 have been billed for the effort.
They can pass as many rules and regulations as they want but you can’t legislate common sense. You can however [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about the Taser having no effect after being deployed by Winnipeg police in a confrontation with a suspect. (see Taser Had No Effect) Well, here is some more Taser-related goodness.
Police in Brandon, MB are being investigated for allegations one or more members used the Taser on willing volunteers [...]

A draft resolution introduced by Canada and backed by other western nations including the US was approved by the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The resolution expresses “deep concern” at the ongoing human rights abuses in Iran and cites as examples “torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including flogging and amputations.”
It specifically [...]

So, after all this time — four years since it became public knowledge that he took cash payments from Karlheinz Schreiber, fourteen years after the actual event — Brian Mulroney finally comes forward to explain… and explains nothing. Or rather, digs himself deeper. Those who might have been inclined to give him the benefit of [...]