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At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 6,084 athletes participated. Only one — Princess Anne — was exempted from gender testing. That dispensation was deemed “appropriate” due to Anne’s royal status. (An equestrian in the three-day event discipline, the princess was the first royal ever to compete at the Olympics.)
Jesus wept. And so did I. Even though I’d already seen much of the horrific video live-streamed by Hamas fighters and their camp followers on Oct. 7. Watched even worse than what is shown in the lightning-rod controversial documentary “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue.’’
A restless and restive world is on the move, sometimes in small boats, more often only as far as their tired feet will take them. Running for their lives: 123 million human beings last year, according to the United Nations. Refugees, asylum seekers, the internally displaced, those fleeing violence and persecution. One in 67 are children.
May their memories be a blessing. Because the hostages still held in Gaza have been condemned to die. By starvation, by Israeli bombardment, or by execution.
Skeletal, dead-eyed Jews liberated from concentration camps. That’s what I thought of immediately, upon viewing the propaganda video Hamas released on the weekend of 24-year-old Evyatar David, abducted from the Nova musical festival on Oct. 7, 2023, on his 659th day of captivity.
Charm is an inherited trait, it would seem, in the Trudeau family tree. From Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott to Justin Pierre James.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Has everyone taken their best shot yet at the knockout verdict delivered by Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia acquitting five professional hockey players on charges of sexual assault? Nah. The print wasn’t even dry yet on the 90-page judgment before it was assailed by a daisy chain of polemical law professors, mediocre journalists, ill-informed commentators, crisis nannies, camp followers and...
The complainant’s testimony was not credible (that’s the judge speaking) but she certainly did take the stand with an attitude of presumed credibility (that’s me speaking). She did those things, said those things, enticed those things — a succubus who aggressively demanded the sex acts that unfolded in room 209 of the Delta Armouries Hotel more than seven years ago...
What if the top court in the land gets it wrong? What if the most elevated and presumably wisest judges in the land refute the law as crafted by Parliament after many years of consideration and legal debate?
Hockey is blameless. Hockey Canada is not. That should be kept front of mind when Justice Maria Carroccia delivers her verdict Thursday in the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial that transfixed and outraged a nation.
At some point in the not-distant future, the errors of this particular provincial government will emerge in starker relief. Be it the grotesquerie of a mega-spa and monster parking tower at revamped Ontario Place or the erosion of environmentally protected land in sweetheart deals with palsy developers — because the halting of one Greenbelt swap, sparked by public outcry and...
The nipple is having a moment. An erogenous zone, the mammilla has never actually fallen out of favour. Manna from milk heaven for babies, objects of quivering fascination for men, subjects of captivating artistic expression for painters and sculptors.
Canada will have to find $150 billion in the sofa cushions to make good on its five per cent of GDP commitment this week to NATO in 2026. That’s $150 billion annually in the next 10 years. Split into two portions: 3.5 per cent of GDP dedicated to military spending and 1.5 per cent on “defence-adjacent’’ infrastructure investments.
The world woke up on Sunday morning as a safer place for humanity. But the same cannot be said with any assurance for all the morrows after that. An Iran struck by a historically unprecedented bombing attack — American pilots flying American B-2 stealth bombers, each dropping 30,000-pound payloads, GPS-guided bunker-busters that can penetrate down through mountains and hundreds of...
The rooster crowed three times … Which doesn’t hold a candle to the cock who crowed 13 times (in English, didn’t count the French) on Thursday morning about ripping up the NDP-Liberal pre-nup that has kept Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government in trembly power for the last 30 months.
They shoot presidents in America, don’t they? And former presidents. And ex-presidents taking a second run at the White House.
Justin Trudeau is a witless for the prosecution. The prime minister could, if he chose, disclose at least the most pertinent details that have been dangled with maddening obfuscation about foreign meddling in Canadian affairs. This is information that surely would be of keen interest to the citizenry.
It’s troubling how willingly some societies will forsake civil liberties in the name of a purportedly greater or more urgent cause. Because there are very few, if any, really, in a liberal democracy which eclipse precious rights of freedom of speech, assembly and beliefs. Even what most of us might condemn as outrageous expression or heretical — hateful —
One potato two potato three potato four … Two weeks after South Africa submitted its brief to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, long after many key allies of the Jewish state condemned the bid as grossly distorted and without merit, and hours after the hearing at The Hague had concluded, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Restlessly, desperately, wretchedly, much of world humanity is on the risky move. By choice and by circumstance — fleeing conflict, fleeing persecution, fleeing poverty, fleeing catastrophe from climate change — millions of souls are seeking a better existence for themselves, for their children, by imperiling their lives, making the hazardous journey to foreign shores, often in unseaworthy, small, overcrowded boats...
A masked Hamas militant placing a gentle hand on an abducted Jewish child, leading the boy towards liberation. I want to believe that gesture was genuine and not merely a sham tableau scripted for the Hamas-produced propaganda footage from the Gaza side in the transition of hostages to Israel. That there is a common humanity, at least a vestige of...
So much hate out there. So much hurt out there. Which are not the same thing. The law can’t prevent anyone from saying hurtful things, words that cut to the bone, and that is how it must be in a democracy that enshrines free speech. But a lot easier said when the invective isn’t aimed at you. When it is...
Why the massive anti-Israel protests that engulfed major cities — including Toronto — on the weekend were beyond the pale.
Terrorists. Terrorists. Terrorists. Sadly, it does bear repeating apparently, to call Hamas what it is. Already — actually within hours — the barbaric and terrorist incursion into Israel a fortnight ago, the butchery of men, women, babies and the elderly, has been transformed into an act of justifiable resistance to the occupation of Gaza.