Dear Prime Minister: Ottawa is lovely in spring, isn’t it? The daffodils and the tulips bloom pretty colours of yellow, crimson and violet. The wind off the Rideau retracts its claws and is no longer anything even remotely close to menacing and the skies above, as the days grow longer, turn a pale but rich [...]

I am amazed at the pundits and commentators claiming that the weekend election of Thomas Mulcair as NDP leader–and Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, was a good thing for the Conservative government–that he would ensure another term for the Harper era Tories. It’s not good news at all, and those prognosticators that continue with [...]

On the far wall of my impossibly cluttered office, next to a signed picture of Marlon Brando and above a personally dedicated helmet of football’s most prolific passer, Dan Marino, is a framed column written by the National Post’s incomparable George Jonas. It’s the only news clipping I’ve ever had blown up and framed and ranks [...]

Amid the celebrations, typically Canadian, of the slap on the wrist the Shafia family murderers received yesterday, no one, as yet, has addressed the elephant in the room. How could this have happened in Canada? Oh, we’ve seen crimes of this kind before. A rabid Sikh renegade killing his wife and pretending through crocodile tears [...]

Well, now that didn’t take long, did it? Not 48 hrs after the Premier of BC’s office invited the Prime Minster to an ambush photo op at the hockey game of Ms. Clark’s son, she’s turned on him. No, you say? Read on. At the final press conference today for the Premiers’ summit on healthcare, [...]

Right after I appeared on Brian Lilley’s exceptional Sun TV show just one week before the last federal election (May of 2010), I was removing my mic and fighting with the bit of make up that ended up in my eye, when a former Sun colleague listening to the interview emailed me: “Are you sure [...]

Imagine, if you will, that it’s the spring of 2020. Splashed across every newspaper in the province is the following story: Enbridge Pipeline accident claims millions of salmon including Chinook and Coho. Bullhead trout also threatened, with clean-up estimated in the billions: Communities of Burns Lake, Smithers and Prince Rupert devastated. Managing Directors Kim Haakstad, [...]

The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]

What can be said or written about Jean Chretien’s legacy as the most unaccomplished prime minister in modern Canadian history that hasn’t already been noted? He ruled Canada for a decade simply because his opposition was divided by an oppressive, vain imp name Presto! He balanced Canada’s books because his finance minister picked the flowers [...]

If you’ve never seen a woman attired in hijab (head scarf), niqab (veil) and burka (full ceremonial dress), it’s a rather menacing, hostile sight–if not a degrading one. I’m unsure which God mandated that women cover themselves so thoroughly, so ridiculously, but whichever one it was, he’s a hypocrite, since there is nothing on this [...]