SHOULD OBAMA GO TO COPENHAGEN?

On Friday of this week the Intrernational Olympic committee will decide who will host the 1916 summer games.  Four cities are in   contention:  Rio de Janeiro, Madrid,  Tokyo. and Chicago.  The presidents of Brazil, Spain  and Japan will be  there.  On recent occasions Putin  of Russia and Tony  Blair of Britian have secured the Olympics [...]

IS IGNATIEFF A LEADER?

The Liberals have introduced a motion in th Commons of no confidence i n the Harper government.  If passed when voted on this Thursday, the government woul d fall and we would be into a general election. (It won’t pass because the NDP  will support the government.)
Meanwhile the Quebec wing of th Liberal party is [...]

SHOULD POLANSKI BE RELEASED?

France’s political elite iss urging Switzerland to release Roman Polanski rather than extradite him to the United States for a sexualo crime committed more than 30 years ago.  The French artistic commun ity also accuses Switzerland for hounding Polanski and bowing to U>S> pressure.  “I think this is awfull and totally unjust,” said the French [...]

SHOULD WE SEND MORE TROOPS?

An urgent appeal for more troops by General McChrystal, the tope commander in Afghanistan, in  -a tight spot – lose the war or risk losing the American people.  The General warns Obama that the eight-yerar-old conflict will fail unless he commits more forces within the next year to battle the Afghan insurgency. 
But con sider the [...]

IS CANADA’S HEALTH CARE SYSTEM BETTER THAN AMERICA’S?

During thi brutal health care debate in the U.S. Canada’s health care system is taking a beating from Obama’s critics.  But let’s look at one factor:cost.
The American system costs three times more than Canada’s.   Per citizen the American system costs $1.059.  In Canada it costs the individual $307.   One problem for the Americans is the [...]

IS OBAMA OVER-EXPOSED?

O n this Sunday President will be the major guest on all the talk shows on the major networks with the notable exeption of Fox. Last night on Charlie Rose there was an interesting discussion on whether the President is too ubiquitous on the tube.  Is he over-exposed?
Not by a long shot.  Obama is the very [...]

IS OBAMA WEAKENING THE UNITED STATES?

At one stroke, by abandoning the ridiculous Star Wars plan for eastern Europe, President Obama has changed the face of international relations: a new and more dependent relationship between the West and Russia, a diminished sense of imminent threat from Iran, a renewed push for mulilateral nuclear disarmament, and a reduced desire to build a [...]

IS OPPOSITION TO OBAMA BASED ON RACE?

Do you think Joe Wilson would have yelled “You lie” if the president had been Joe Biden?  I thought not.
Now President Jimm y Carter has tackled head on the dark elephant in the room: “I believe the racism inclinatiion still exists and I think it has bubbled up to the surface  because of a belief [...]

IS QUEBEC IN DECLINE?

I was shocked recently to discover that the populaanadiantion of Quebec, now about 25 per cent of Canada’s, will shri nk to barely one-fifth of  that number by 2031 – implying, according to economist Brian Crowley in a new book “a big drop in he province’s relative weight in the House of Commons.”  In fact [...]

SHOULD THERE BE A PRICE ON LIFE?

If anyone doubts there is a cancer epidemic all he or she needs to do is read the obituaries.  Or better still just look at the numbers.  Last year 166,000 Canadians were diagnosed with cancer and 74,000 died.
The health establishment has a full court press against the ravages of this disease.  And that includes ever [...]