Gripe/Opinion

DEFENCE is the wrong department to co-ordinate a whole-of-government approach. SO we’re having a debate. Line up, take your turn, set-piece statements. A few tears, a bit of passion, the obligatory case for the negative. […] […]

Canada’s notorious Omar Khadr finally buckled before a discredited American military tribunal and provided the guilty plea it was set up to elicit. But nothing like justice has been done in this wretched case. U.S. […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE I am actually laughing as I write this opinion because I find it really laughable that western democracy can be so utterly naive when it comes to Islamic countries such as Iran and […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE The case of Rohan Coombs who was born in Jamaica emigrated to the US at age 6 grew up there then join the US Marine Corp where he served in Japan, Philippines and […] […]

By Sandrea:-MYGRIPE Western society model itself and how civilised we are, how we are so democratic in our behaviour that we detest nations that made their citizens into subservient being, torture them, and suppress them […] […]

Is it possible for democracies to justify long wars and occupation of other countries? DON’T let it be said again that our politicians lack poetic sensibility. When Kevin Rudd fell in June as prime minister, […] […]

The voice on the answering machine is polished and professional. But Mary Elizabeth Harriman never returns the call. She has had, understandably, nothing to say publicly about her 19-year marriage to a man who’s just […] […]

WHEN it comes to evil regimes, the Taliban in Afghanistan stands front and centre. IF you were a sensitive, bookish adolescent in the 1970s, navigating your passage to adulthood through the maelstrom of the times […] […]

While Canadians aren’t thrilled to see boatloads of people — including both economic migrants and genuine refugees — turning up here seeking asylum, as 492 Tamils from Sri Lanka did this summer, does Ottawa need […] […]