Bill Longstaff

"Free trade" as we have come to know it is largely a mechanism for making the world safer for corporate exploitation, particularly...

Working Canadians are a little poorer today than they were a year ago. At least on average. According to Statistics Canada , while average w...

Carol Huynh. Remember that name. Etch it in your memory. Carol Huynh is the young woman who saved Canada from terminal petulance. For the fi...

Poor Georgia. An ancient civilization now best known for being the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, it currently finds itself the target of two ...

The meeting this week of United Steelworkers from locals across Canada and Brazil in Thompson, Manitoba, illustrates what workers must do if...

While the nuclear powers, especially the United States, Britain and France, express great concern about Iran developing a nuclear weapon and...

Throughout George W. Bush's reign as president of the United States, I can think of very little he has done that might be considered pro...

As someone who has done a little cartooning myself, I feel obliged to comment on the now internationally famous (or infamous) July 21st cove...

What country is the world's leading exporter? China, you say? Wrong -- China is number two. Then it must be the United States? Wrong aga...

So the Church of England has voted to allow women to be consecrated as bishops. Hallelujah! The heartland of the Anglican community has fina...

The Harper government has decided to be a follower on global warming, specifically to follow the American tactic of refusing to get serious ...

So Barack Obama may "refine" his timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. No kidding. The United States now has a major military...

In former British PM Tony Blair's report to the G8 Hokkaido summit Breaking the Climate Deadlock , he claims, "Most people no longe...

The progress of civilization is largely about the progress of rights. The Spanish parliament has now made a logical next step in that progre...

Everyone knows why China appeals to corporations seeking a site to manufacture their goods -- cheap labour. Coerced labour actually. Chines...

The Great Game refers to the 19 th century rivalry between the British and Russian empires for supremacy in central Asia. The struggle, cen...

As a frequent visitor to Al Jazeera's website (I am forbidden TV access to Al Jazeera), I was pleased to see the broadcaster win Best 2...

In his book The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika, Christopher Shulgan tells an interesting tale about the col...

In 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, he brought catastrophe down upon the Native people of the Americas. He introduced greedy and r...

There is no better example of the tail wagging the dog than the United States' unequivocal support for Israel. The U.S. complains from t...

Nepal fired their king yesterday. The country's newly-elected Assembly voted overwhelmingly to abolish the monarchy and establish a repu...

The NDP has consistently supported abolishing the Senate. The Manitoba NDP government is on record as agreeing. And yet they are planning on...

In the Bible, when the Israelites wanted someone else's land, they did an ethnic cleansing. It was easy to justify -- God made them do i...

Some wit once compared Canada's two national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the National Post, to those infamous Soviet twins Pravda...

We are a drug-dependent society. From tranquilizing our kids with Ritalin to reinvigorating our old men with Viagra, we are a cradle-to-grav...

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...