Bill Longstaff

The Baghdad Clogger, Muntazer al-Zaidi, is being honoured for his famous shoe-hurling of George W. Bush. A statue of a giant shoe, complete...

When the conversation turns to nuclear weapons these days, the focus is almost entirely on Iran. The rumour is the Iranians may be developin...

I have always been something less than a fan of organized religion. Observing the hostility and violence the world suffers because of faith-...

Fifty years ago, Bolivia's native people were banned from the presidential palace in La Paz. Last week, their leaders met in the palace ...

In his inaugural address, President Obama laid out a powerful warning for certain types of evil-doers: "And for those who seek to advan...

"Obama is Lyndon Johnson." This rain on the Obama parade comes from Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report , in an art...

Since the advent of agreements such as NAFTA and the WTO, and the rush to "free" trade generally, Canadian workers have worried ab...

Wanna get rich quick? Head for Zimbabwe. For a mere forty bucks you can get a 100-trillion Zimbabwe-dollar banknote. That's right, one h...

I seem to remember that Canada was once a world leader, but the memory is fading. More and more these days we seem to be a follower. Take fo...

At her Senate confirmation hearing, Hillary Clinton claimed she wants to shift American foreign policy toward the use of "smart power,...

I confess, I'm addicted. Not to anything that has me sweating and trembling if I don't get my daily fix, but addicted, nonetheless. ...

The Isreali assault on Gaza is unequivocally a criminal act. To cite only one item of international law Israel has violated, I offer Article...

The tolerance of Western politicians and media for Israel's crimes in Gaza is remarkable. The inmates of Gaza include almost a million U...

While Canadians continue to debate what the North American Free Trade Agreement has done for us -- or to us -- we pay rather little attentio...

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...