July 16

July 15

6:55 pm EDT | Toronto | Drew Nelles reporting: Covering African conflicts is always a challenge for the Western media, who too often reduce vastly complex conflicts to tribal warfare - age-old, mindless, uncontrollable. Unfortunately, after the International Criminal Court’s indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, this trend appears slated to [...]

June 17

2:55 pm EDT | Toronto | Daniel Tencer reporting: The Canadian government has placed the World Tamil Movement on its list of terrorist entities, marking the first time that a Canadian-based group has been added to the list. The accusation: The WTM, based in the world’s largest Tamil city, Toronto, is a front for the [...]

May 27

1:30 pm EDT | Montreal | Daniel Casey reporting: Adding childish insult to the wildly ineffective injury of scrutinizing laptops at the border, the Citizen and the Globe report on a plan to have border guards search iPods and other digital media players for copyright-infringing content. The Canada Border Services Agency would seem to have [...]

Today

Mark Carney would have Canadians believe we are headed towards greener economic pastures; the only problem is that he first needs to convince Canada’s premiers and its manufacturing industry that he isn’t leading them down the garden path. Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, stated yesterday that Canadians need not worry about the downturn [...]

Yesterday

Until earlier this week, the only thing even mildly tawdry about the Barenaked Ladies - Canada’s goofiest international pop stars - was their name. The band’s loveably roly-poly lead singer, Steven Page, appeared to be a model of uprightness; he is described in today’s sources as “clean-cut,” “squeaky clean,” and a “noted environmentalist, political [...]

July 16

The first time Omar Khadr was questioned by Canadian officials at Guantanamo Bay, the then-sixteen-year-old begged that his inquisitors remove him from the US detention centre and return him to Canada. “Well, there’s not anything I can do about that,” his CSIS interrogator replied. “I want to stay in Cuba with you. Can you help [...]

July 15

Satire, though it wasn’t known as such at the time, has arguably existed since ancient Egypt and Greece. In the several millennia since then, the form has evolved, but a key tenet remains: The intended humour must be subtle enough to be plausible, but obvious enough to achieve its desired effect. One would [...]

July 14

Canada’s largest aerospace company, Bombardier, did the unthinkable yesterday. Its top executives travelled to an air show in Farnborough, England, called a press conference in a nearby hangar, and announced that the company will embark on a $3.3-billion project that will produce one of the most fuel-efficient planes in the world, create 3,500 jobs in [...]