Bob Thirsk returns to Earth after 6 months in Space

  Canadian Astronaut Bob Thirsk returned to earth at 2 am ET, after 6 months on the International Space Station.  He returned on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that landed in Kazakhstan, Central Asia....

Money or Life? Which is more important?

  Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...

Canadian Tar Sands a Criminal Offense

Peaceloving Canada, produces a toxic area the size of England. Peaceloving Canada, has the largest and most destructive project on this planet. Worse than China, it can be seen from outer space. Peace loving Canada...

Canada and India break 34 years of nuclear jinx

Canada, world's largest producer of uranium, has now become the eighth country which has reached a civil nuclear agreement with India, since the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) lifted a...

It's not so invisible anymore: 'The Family's' influence in Uganda

'The Family's' influence in Uganda is not so invisible anymore according to Jeff Sharlet, author of  "The Family", an investigative look at a US fundamentalist group at the heart of Uganda's anti-gay ...

Amy Goodman, APR, detained at Canadian Border

Is there oversensitivity about bad coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, or  was this just an overzealous border guard?  It certainly feeds the perception that free speech has gone in the tank when it...

Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa Unhurt in Assassination Attempt

Tooryalai Wesa left Afghanistan in 1991 after serving as Kandahar University's first president.  He worked at the University of British Columbia's agricultural expert in Canada. Hamid Karzai asked him to...

Misogyny and Advertising are Often Intertwined

In Canada and the United States women enjoy a measure of equality but the hard earned status of personhood is fragile at best.  Built into and part of our culture are subtle and not so subtle...

Harper to raise issue of Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill at Summit

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is going to raise the issue of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which opens tomorrow in Port of Spain, the capitol...

Vatican no fan of 'deviant' Twilight

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Wow, apparently the Vatican is taking the moral high road on deviancy!But then they should know all about deviant behaviour, ask any altar boy with a sore bum. "The Vatican has spoken out...

Ontario Financing the Export of Healthcare

The Ontario Ministry of Health released figures showing that more and more Ontarians are travelling to the United States for medical care.  In the past half decade Ontario's out of country medical spending...

Harper to attend Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Prime Minister Harper has been criticized by environmentalist for his intention not to attend next months Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.  His stance was that there needed to be a critical mass of...

The Revenge of GAIA, Humanity under Attack.

By, Uwe Paschen. The Revenge of Gaia, The Earth is Fighting back. Humanity is now under attack after decades, even centuries of abusing the Earth and it's balance. This is what James Lovelock believes and writes...