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Brenda Martin granted parole, freed from prison |
 Brenda Martin, the Canadian who was recently transferred back home after spending more than two years behind bars in Mexico, was released on parole Friday afternoon. MORE... |
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Sovereignists signalling desperation |
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 Under the guise of a full-scale rant against the monarchy and Canada's place in the celebrations of Quebec City's 400th anniversary, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe gave the House of Commons a rare peek into sovereignist angst.. MORE...
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Nobody's affair but the Minister's |
 From the moment she stepped into the media spotlight holding hands with Canada's new Foreign Affairs Minister last summer, Julie Couillard was an eye-popping, cleavage-bearing standout in a bland world of blue-pinstriped or.. MORE... |
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Don't worry, it's just a new tax |
 When the leader's down, a good Liberal operative's first instinct is to knife him in the spine and roll him into the nearest ditch. The party machine has tasted power a lot, wants it again and has little patience for losers. MORE... |
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Quebec is losing its voice |
 Harper, Charest and Sarkozy have conspired to reduce Quebec's ties with France. It is a mistake to reduce the controversial launching in France of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City to a mere "chicane" between.. MORE... |
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France welcomes our G-G - to the dismay of some |
 Memo to Gilles Duceppe and Pauline Marois: Grumbling that Quebec is part of Canada makes you look ridiculous. Win a referendum, or at least form a government, before you complain about France giving a proper diplomatic.. MORE... |
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24 Sussex: A national embarrassment |
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 The prime minister's official residence, 24 Sussex, is the most famous address in the country. But truth be told, it's a dump inside and badly in need of repairs throughout. The Auditor-General has just provided the much needed political.. MORE...
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Move out Steve, and fix up 24 Sussex now |
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 Ever owned an old house? No, I don't mean a 30- or 40-year-old fixer-upper in Scarborough. I mean a really old house, let's say 140-150 years old. My husband and I have and it's a never-ending story -- the roof, the foundation, the windows. MORE...
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Of décolletage and dating |
 Just when voters are tuning out in record numbers, federal politics is rescued from slipping ratings, if not irrelevancy, by a girlfriend scandal and a red-faced separatist attack on the monarchy. And they say this minority Parliament has lost.. MORE... |
 Canada unable to monitor people who show up on our shores. In a bombshell decision more than 20 years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that anyone who sets foot on Canadian soil is entitled to protection under the Charter of.. MORE... |
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Canada could make Kyoto strides with carbon capture |
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 Canada has been talking fast but moving slowly to promote a technology that could help it get out of the environmental doghouse. Carbon capture, or sequestration, increasingly is touted as a potential solution for big, fat.. MORE...
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 Grand Chief Mike Delisle of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake expects "some kind of confrontation" if the Conservative government acts on its pledge to crack down on contraband tobacco, which has become big business on many native.. MORE... |
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From the Liberals, double-speak on Israel |
 A Conservative deconstructs Michael Ignatieff 's views on the Middle East. On Sunday, April 13, Michael Ignatieff gave a speech at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple. It was supposed to clear the air with the Jewish community in regard to.. MORE... |
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The opposite of colonialism |
 This week marks the 60th birthday of Israel's modern foundation. The term "modern" is significant here, in that the Jewish state never quite disappeared, even after it was defeated by the imperial Roman military following the great.. MORE... |
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A Timbit-sized sign of our times |
 The story of the Timbit martyr ended almost as quickly as it began. On Monday morning, Nicole Lilliman, a 27-year-old single mother of four who worked at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop in London, Ont., gave one of the chain's popular pastry.. MORE... |
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A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan must serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. 
Local girl Jayde Nicole, 22, is Playboy's Playmate of the Year.
Security checks on ministers' associates necessary, veteran CSIS agent warns 
Armed posses spreading violence across Prairie communities 
PM moved quickly to help 107-year-old soldier after getting handwritten note 
..awarded a lucrative Olympic housing contract to a hotel without a public bidding process. 
