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Commentary

DON'T LET U.S. DRUG POLICY INTO CANADA

The U.S. drug czar, John Walters, was in Ottawa early this month trying his best to put a positive spin on one of the greatest disasters in U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Part of his agenda is to...

Television pales by comparison to our real life

My four-year-old son looks at me with a terrified expression. “I have to get out of here, Mommy.”  Are we in a war zone? No. We're at the movies and the trailers are playing. To him, a boy with...

Can't touch this!

That's how I'm livin', and ya know...Stephen Harper is sticking his hands into the CBC. The Koch Brothers want to snatch up the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune; that is, if Rupert Murdoch doesn’t...