It was more than a case of tranquility lost and dignity vaporized. Far more than yet another painful example of the castrated Vancouver Police Department under current Chief Jim Chu and current Mayor Gregor Robertson–they had no presence for the first 45 minutes of the Vancouver Club mugging, it was an instructive lesson on how [...]

Today is not a day to celebrate the real successes in the last ten years: Middle Eastern countries where women can vote and drive cars; little girls can join their brothers in a classroom; where gays won’t be stoned to death or beheaded. Bin Laden–DEAD! These are certainly successes, and reasons to very much celebrate. [...]

It has been of absolutely no wonder to me why the Chinese investment in this country has been so strong. We are strategically, geographically centered near their homeland and our laws are not as restrictive as the United States. Our people are a mosaic, not melting pot, and Chinese culture and language are readily accepted [...]

In all the insanity and lies being proffered by the Chief of the VPD and Mayor Moonbeam about the riot, I thought you might join me in celebrating a little. The gay community, the world over, has often been the target of discrimination and hatred. I don’t like the word ‘homophobic’ as it misrepresents a [...]

When you first arrive, the developing silence is incomprehensible. Shuffling of feet stops. You become more purposeful. Breathing becomes a little laboured and tight–you must work for it a little. You are, after all, standing among the sad, exhausted souls of innocents. For a place that birthed millions of unearthly cries in the night, it’s [...]

Some of you may think that my regular pokes at the Obama Administration are of no value to you as Canadians. Well, think again. What this man has done during his tenure as President is turn his own country, the one he swore during the election, and since, that he’d protect, into the Dysfunctional States [...]

In a somewhat hazy moment last night (had no sleep the previous night, long story…), I awoke from my chair to catch one of my favorite programs, the BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’. On the program as a guest was a chap named Kamal El-Helbawy, a member and former spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood–an organization which may very [...]

Now, far be it from me, of all people, to pass judgement on the wardrobe of an entertainer, but honest to God, if there was EVER a reason to weep for America, here it is in all its glory. This is the reason Sarah Palin MUST be retired strictly to the punditry class and only [...]

In the days since the Arizona shootings I have sat quietly–a rarity, and tried to put into perspective the tone of the political discourse continuatio in, unfortunately unabated, that has contributed to the burgeoning maelstrom of furious, but cross-eyed, navel-gazing. If it is true that both sides of the American political divide are, at some [...]

All I can tell you on this one is how absolutely deliriously delighted I am for the men, their families and loved ones of this almost disaster, turned huge success story. In a world of dead babies, murders, thefts, drugs, accidents, calamities and the like, this is one for the books. The world mining community [...]