Bill Longstaff

The consensus of economists, business leaders and politicians seems to be that the solution to the current economic mess is for everyone to ...

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's newly-appointed Economic Advisory Council looks at first glance like, as Chairwoman Carole Taylor puts i...

Once again, Jean Charest has set the standard. Acting on the precedent he set in his last cabinet, half of the 26-member cabinet forming his...

As an atheist I've never felt much inclination to proselytize. It has simply never mattered much to me what people's spiritual belie...

Judging by the tortuous arguments being raised against the NDP/Liberal agreement, many Canadians seem to be suffering from coalition shock. ...

One thing that has particularly upset Canadians most about the Liberal/NDP coalition, is the arrangement with the Bloc Quebecois. This is du...

So ... did our Governor General do the right thing? The optics, as they say, are not good. To begin with, a democrat might cringe at the ver...

Stephen Harper had a chance to be a statesman. He indicated he would be. After the election, he told Canadians he would work with the opposi...

Oh my. Here in the pollution province we have enough trouble convincing the "others" that we are a modern society with a modicum o...

One can be nothing less than overwhelmed at the federal government's extraordinary generosity toward the human rights museum proposed fo...

One of a number of disturbing phenomenon in the recent U.S. presidential election was the constant undertone of anti-Islamism. Obama was ...

In another step forward for women in this still far too masculine world, Amal Soliman, a 32-year-old Egyptian, has become the Muslim world...

Israel's squeezing of Palestinians off their land now includes the dead. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has been given the OK by the Israel...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information released its study on health care spending last week, predicting spending for 2008 of $172-bil...

"Terrorist" has become, in the minds of many, a synonym for an Islamic extremist. As a result, we tend to overlook the extremists ...

As poppy day is once more upon us, I found myself pondering the question of why Canadians died in the two great wars of the 20th century. Wh...

The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States is a huge breath of fresh air after the stifling atmosphere of the Bush admi...

How the mighty have fallen. Only a very short time ago, the U.S. and the U.K. were extolling the virtues of their deregulated financial mark...

An Angus Reid survey before the October 14 federal election revealed that 11 per cent of Canadians had been dissuaded from voting as a resul...

The new federal cabinet shows considerable improvement over the last. The number of women has increased from 23 per cent to 29 per cent. Thi...

The failure of the neoconservative ideology in the United States, in affairs both domestic and foreign, represents the biggest collapse of a...

Watching the World Series and seeing the Phillie slugger and 2006 National League MVP Ryan Howard in action, something odd struck me. He...

I confess. I voted Liberal on October 14th. As someone who has been a life-long member of the NDP, this is something I haven't do very o...

With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Americans neoconservatives must have felt they had entered the Promised Land. Not only did th...

The British government is purchasing major stakes in Britain's banks at a of cost of four per cent of the annual economy, more than was ...

The Republicans have been making much of Barack Obama's association with former member of the Weathermen, William Ayers, who they deligh...

In 2004, Canadians elected a minority government. In 2006, we elected another one. A perceptive observer might conclude we were sending the ...

Whoa! What's with The Globe and Mail's nasty little assault on their former columnist, Heather Mallick? Not only did they sic Margar...

Politicians hot on the campaign trail will receive a report this week they should pay close attention to. I refer to the YWCA's Report ...

The Conservatives' tough on crime policy for teenagers is generating enthusiasm across the country. According to a Strategic Counsel sur...

Normally I rely on my own writing to express my opinion rather than simply referring to someone else's . Occasionally, however, I encou...

The colonies are in revolt. The Bolivians have expelled the U.S. ambassador, accusing him of instigating violent protests against their gove...

Restorative justice, the approach to crime that strives to restore the offender to society as a responsible citizen, while providing restitu...

This week, the death of yet another Canadian soldier occupied the front pages of our daily press. Meanwhile, the deaths that should be of mo...

Looking at that picture of Republican vice--presidential candidate Sarah Palin sitting pertly on her office sofa accompanied by a very large...

With the recent flurry of concern in the West about Russia's muscle-flexing in Georgia, we might well wonder what is motivating Moscow...