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Don Drummond clearly has sympathy for the poorest of the poor in Ontario. But his report this week on the state of the province's finances is worse news for them than for anyone else.
As the threats of war against Iran have been escalating in the last few weeks, Zafar Bangash, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought, said the majority of Canadians don't want war, so we have to resist this madness that is being pushed down our throats.
On March 10th the registration to run for Egypt's top political office takes place. In my opinion there is a short list of three candidates for the position, one of which will most likely win. The list includes only those who have the financial backing (estimated to be at least $30 million i.e. $1 per voter) to mount an effective campaign.
Arising out the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist who invented dynamite, the Nobel Prize is universally recognized as the most prestigious award in the fields of peace-making, economics, chemistry, physics, medicine and literature. How about an international award - without the gold medal, the diploma and the money -a for hypocrisy?
I don't understand why we (Canadians) do not have a government or even Opposition Leaders who are interested in taking what steps they can to protect us.
The year 2011 delivered a series of strategic surprises. From the onset of the Arab Spring, which toppled familiar dictators, to the eviction of European leaders who were victims of financial crisis, sudden change was the order of the day.
After 60 years of military/autocratic rule, Egypt descended into a lamentable state of existence.
The Harper government does not admit to any imperfections - and why should it? It has a majority and in its ranks it boasts "the best finance minister on the planet," as the prime minister called Jim Flaherty at Davos a couple of weeks ago.
President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad's "Benghazi moment" – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand how we Westerners can get it so wrong.
The police say "driver error" was to blame for that horrible crash near Hampstead this week that killed a vanload of agricultural migrant workers from Peru.
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