Bill Longstaff

The notion that eventually we will create an artificial intelligence superior to our own has been around for quite a while. Now someone has ...

Andrew Leslie, former Canadian forces commander in Afghanistan, now adviser to Liberal Party chief Justin Trudeau, has been busy recently ...

As the scandal over Vladimir Putin's $50-billion Olympics begins to fade, equally sordid scandals about the World Cup come to the fore. ...

In 2009, our government in its wisdom imposed stringent visa requirements on Mexicans visiting Canada, the harshest on any country. claiming...

I was watching with interest the other night Jon Stewart's interview of Elizabeth Kolbert, author of a new book, The Sixth Great Extinct...

It sounds like good news. A new study , "Oil Sands Economic Benefits: Today and in the Future," states that tar sands production s...

Alberta's Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith has offered what on the surface sounds like a good idea. Her party is proposing the provi...

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's $500-million handout to the auto industry has engendered a bit of controversy. Dino Chiodo, president of...

Observing debates about electoral reform online and elsewhere, I notice one error cropping up consistently: the notion that proportional rep...

Not being a conspiracy theorist and having great faith in the integrity of our civil servants, I find it hard to believe that the current sp...

Criticism of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline focuses, understandably, on the threat it poses to the environment, both in its construction ...

The best idea I've seen yet about what to to do with our constitutional albatross, the Senate, short of abolishing it, appeared in a rec...

"There's no place for the state," a prime minister once said, "in the bedrooms of the nation." I hope Justice Minist...

Our federal government's lamentable attitude to science, or at least any science that doesn't benefit business, is one of its key fe...

A couple of items I encountered recently demonstrated perfectly the extremes of the now much talked about wealth gap. First, was a report b...

Place your finger on your forehead, just above the eyebrows toward the right side. It is now within centimetres of your conscience. Our cons...

Watching Jon Stewart the other night brilliantly satirizing American right-wingers' laments about the poor exploiting social justice pro...

Capitalism is generally recognized as having one great strength. That, of course, is as a creator of wealth. Aided by the remarkable advance...

Trade missions have always been questionable vehicles for boosting the Canadian economy. Nonetheless, some can be justified by, if nothing e...

If there was any remaining doubt that the Conservative government has a militaristic view of history, check out Canada 150 , the website for...

The Pew Research Center recently published a study of religious persecution over the period 2007-12 and the results aren't pretty. Of 1...

Every year the World Economic Forum hosts a confab of the world's elite at the Swiss resort of Davos to discuss the state of the world. ...

It's not that all Conservatives are opposed to proportional representation. Senator Hugh Segal is onside and Conservative MPs Peter Brai...

While Neil Young very publicly feuds with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and its ally the Canadian government, tar sands pr...

When I first heard about Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati's challenge of the federal government's appointment of Justice Marc Nadon to th...

Our federal government's policy on greenhouse gas emissions is simple: whatever the United States' policy on greenhouse gas emission...

It wasn't supposed to be this way. The U.S. and its coalition of the willing invaded Iraq with the justification that it had weapons of ...

Everyone likes to be liked and, boy, do our southern neighbours like us. A recent Pew Research Center survey reveals that of all the countr...

There are unpopular wars, and then there are really, really unpopular wars. The Afghan war falls overwhelmingly into the latter category. Ac...

If Time Magazine can choose a person of the year, I can choose two: a man and a woman. The woman, of course, is Malala Yousafzai, the cour...

One of the traditions of the holiday season is lamenting about the corruption of Christmas by commercialization or by foreign cultures that ...

When you consider that the United States is the richest country in the world, the state of its working class is shocking. The country now ...

The Joint Review Panel has ruled on the viability of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the result is as expected. The panel, establ...