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We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world — tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy...

Politicians, pundits, and thinktank wonks have been lining up lately to proclaim the Great Recession of 2008-09 is over. Earlier in the summer, it was the Bank of Canada...

As the ranks of Canada’s unemployed swelled in the midst of the recession earlier this year, the adequacy of employment insurance (EI) was called into question from many quarters....

As Canada’s job losses mounted dramatically in the 2009 post-budget months, the focus of parliamentary attention has shifted from the adequacy of the Harper government’s stimulus package to concern...

Recently, a Saskatchewan business person asked a pertinent and revealing question: why don’t more unemployed Canadians from parts of the country with high jobless levels move to provinces that are...

Tehran, 1979: “ALLAH-U-AKBAR!” As many as a million voices yelled from the city’s roofs toward the dark night sky, “God is great!” The detested shah had fled a national...

In 1940, the brilliant Canadian scientist George Laurence began an audacious experiment. Following on the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939, Laurence build a prototype nuclear reactor in a...

Attention, shoppers: politics, as it’s being practised in Canada, is increasingly not just a sales job. Politics has long been intermingling with the world of commerce — from door-to-door...

Nothing reveals the decline of a political party more cruelly than a leadership contest. First there is the candidate field. Recall the sad parade of “star candidates” who apologetically...

In his elegant 1989 retrospective, Diefenbaker’s World: Populist in Foreign Affairs, Basil Robinson, who served as liaison officer for External Affairs during the Diefenbaker years (1957-63), remarks that it...

Without a doubt, we are currently living in the most challenging economic times since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Governments and central banks around the world are taking...

The Museum of the American War is in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). It is a major attraction, but mostly for foreign tourists. Displays chronicle...

Le 23 juillet, tard dans la nuit et après huit tours de scrutin, l’Assemblée des Premières Nations s’est donnée un nouveau leader, Shawn A-in-chut Atleo. Chef héréditaire des Ahousaht, une...