Bill Longstaff

An iconic environmental issue of the 20th century for Canada was baby seals. Environmental activists gained international attention and crea...

Not being an American I will be spared the responsibility of voting for the next president of the United States; however, if I was I would h...

Oil prices surge again -- a barrel fetching close to $120 this morning. Gas prices are following suit. A national survey last week found the...

Kudos for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero. Following his success over his conservative opponents in the recent election, he has appoint...

About the only thing crueler than killing someone is torturing them when you do it. Despite the Eighth Amendment to the American Constitutio...

China-bashing is all the rage these days and, make no mistake about it, considering their behaviour in Tibet and Sudan, the Chinese deserve ...

Last year, before Tony Blair stepped down as British PM, one of his last acts was to terminate an investigation into allegations of corrupti...

Jimmy Carter, once again manifesting a refreshing, if rather un-American, approach to Palestine, will meet with Hamas chief Khaled Meshal i...

As if Michael Chertoff, the U.S. Homeland Security czar, didn't have enough power, Congress granted him even more. In 2005, they gave hi...

As the Olympics approach, and the torch relay wends its weary way toward Beijing for the Games opening August 8th, we will continue to hear ...

In view of Prime Minister Harper's statement to NATO re the Afghanistan mission that, "We all underestimated the task and we've...

With all the noise the media has made about Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright and his anti-American sermons, they seem to have over...

Listening to U.S. presidential candidate John McCain reminds me once again how remarkably successful al-Qaeda was with their bombings of 9/1...

The Globe and Mail deserves applause for its courage in publishing its new series "Talking to the Taliban." Rather than simply dem...

Moshe Feiglin, notorious member of Israel's Likud party, favours us with a visit this week. Feiglin, who has supported expelling Israel...

Bob Rae says it's an "insult to the intelligence" to tout Canada's recognition of Kosovo's independence as a precedent...

Lots of blood and violence in the news these days: Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Tibet, and so on ad nauseam. But it isn't all bad. On the ...

Reading my morning Globe recently, I encountered a prominent half-page ad (very pricey those), paid for by the Government of Canada, warning...

In 2001, the World Trade Organization accepted China as a member. China made the usual promises: opening its markets to foreign investors an...

Yesterday, the House of Commons voted to extend our mission in Afghanistan. One might think the first question to be asked would have been h...

Who or what inspired the ten commandments? God. you say. You may believe so, but Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University suggests ...

Here's a series of logic for you: Alberta Sustainable Resources Development is initiating a project to shoot adult and baby wolves. Why?...

The United States has taken umbrage at China's buildup in its defence forces. China revealed a 17.6 per cent increase in its military bu...

Monday's election result in Alberta, a major victory for the incumbent Conservatives, wasn't exactly my first choice. Not simply bec...

Israel has recently said nice things about Canada's misguided approach to a UN-sponsored anti-racism conference. The conference, entitle...

If the two Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency were both looking good before, they are looking even better today. Hillary Clinton ...

Kosovo, it appears, is divorcing itself from Serbia. This has raised no little angst in Canada with its obvious analogy with Quebec. So the ...

Doesn't this shout out that something is fundamentally amiss? Iran, a dictatorship, supports two of the most democratically successful o...

Voices ranging from environmentalists to Alberta elder statesman Peter Lougheed have been warning that oil sands development is proceeding f...

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is cutting quite the environmental figure these days. His government's new budget, delivered in the legisla...

The whine from the oil industry was positively ear-splitting during the recent royalty debate in Alberta. When the Royalty Review Panel rele...

As the Toronto District School Board prepares to set up an Afrocentric school, the question of the day becomes, Is it justified? Ontario Pre...

Anti-American. The tedious old saw that conservatives, and even liberals from time to time, hurl at leftists when they challenge American fo...

An editorial in Monday's Globe and Mail took umbrage at human-rights commissions for agreeing to hear complaints from Muslim groups abou...

Recent surveys that show Canadians are becoming increasingly car-dependent are not good news for the environment. According to Statistics Ca...

If you frighten easily, you may not want to read the quotation below from Pulitzer-prize winning author Tim Weiner's thought-provoking (...

Having recently posted on the mad antics of George W. Bush in the Middle East, I feel I must add a comment on the recent musings of former B...

What kind of a man saunters into a neighbourhood and tries to turn neighbour against neighbour? And then provides guns to one of the neighbo...

That the Conservatives should side strongly with the Jews over the Arabs in Palestine is to be expected. Conservatives, after all, are incli...

When I was little, I was instructed at my mother's knee that if I made a mess I should clean it up. It was one of those rule of life thi...