WILL PALIN GO FOR THE WHITE HOUSE?

If Sarah Palin were planning to run for the presidency in 2012, what would she be doing now?  I would argue she would be doing exactly what she is doing — writing a book, getting rich from  book, and doing a book tour where she can reconnect with her b ase in every place from [...]

IS OUR HEALTH CARE TOO EXPENSIVE?

Did y ou know that Canada spends 11.9 percent of our GDP on health care?  That comes to a total health care cost annually of $183 billion dollars.  And that comes to $5,452 each year for evostsery single Canadian.  Not only that.  Health careare costs are rising steadily about five per cent a year as [...]

WILL THE WORLD END?

According to a famous Mayan prophecy the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11.11 am just in time to ruin our last Christmas shopping season.  the blockbuster movie, 2012, says we will die from earthquakes, volcanoes, and tidal waves.  Other films, books and TV shows predict the doomsday will be caused by meteor [...]

WILL OPRAH BE MISSED?

Would it be an exaggeration to say that Oprah Winfrey is the most successful entertainer in the history of television?  I think not.  She has had her daily show for more than 23 years.  She reaches about seven million viewers a day.  She has empowered millions of women.  She has changed reading habits by recommending [...]

DOES THE HARPER GOVERNMENT CONDONE TORTURE?

AAals don’t send individuals off to be tortured.”
We now know that is a flat-out lie.  Yesterday a Canadian diplomat who served in Afghanistan swore before a parliamentary committee that Canadian soldiers regularly turned over prisoners to Afghan authorities who tortured them even though many of them were entirely innocent. This Canadian diiplomat, Richard Colvin, repeatedly [...]

WOULD YOU READ PALIN ‘S BOOK?

More than  a million copies of Sarah Palin’s book,  Going Rogue, have now hit the bookstores.  Palin earned an advance of $1.5 million on the book.
As I understand it,the book settles the score with McCain’s political team.  It also explains why she blew her interview with Katie Couric and takes a shot at her then [...]

CAN THE SEPARATISTS WIN THE NEXT REFERENDUM?

In his new book on Quebec sovereignty, just published, former premier Jacques Parizeau, predicts that the YES side will win the third referendum on separatin g from Canada.  He argues that the third referendum will be dominated by globalization. “Globalization does no dilute the sovereignty of nation states, it renders it even more necessary.”  Parizeau blames [...]

SHOULD TERRORISTS BE TRIED IN NEW YORK?

Attorney General Holder has bitten the bullet and five of the world’s worst terrorists will be tried in a civilain court in Neww York city.  Some commentators feel a civilian trial iecause is the preferable outcome bthe the Uecause it shows that international rule of law  and the U.S.’s ownlegal system, and not arbitrary executive [...]

SHOULD CANADA ACCEPT GITMO PRISONERS?

Several national polls show Canadians strongly support President Obama’s plan to close the prison at Guatanamo Bay.  Should not Canadians then put their money where there mouth is?
The Obama administration has been appealing to other countries to help in the process by taking some of the detainees.  England has taken some.  So has Ireland.  So, [...]

SHOULD OBAMA SEND MORE TROOPS?

erryPresident O bama has been presented with four options regarding AfghanistaN.   They all involve  sending more troops – upwaards of 45,000/
Now suddently a fifth option has appeared.  Send few or no troops.  This option has been presented to the president by Karl Eikenberry, the American ambassador to AfghanistaN.  Formerly Ambassador Eikenberry was the top American [...]