Glavin: How low the discourse has sunk about the ISIL mission
It is into this milieu of fables and propaganda that Harper brought to his motion to the House this week.
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Editorial: The Senators' inexplicable, entertaining run
Over the next few days, the temperature in the city of Ottawa will again rise to the mid-single digits, melting away much of the remaining snow on the ground. The damp air will fill our lungs and the capital will begin to really come alive. Playoff weather. -
Op-Ed: Paying people $1.15 an hour is wrong
It’s not real work if it’s not real pay. And it’s not vocational training if it doesn’t lead to paid employment.
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Reevely: Lower standards of proof to speed up courts
The Ontario government wants to save money and speed up the justice system by lowering the standards of proof needed to convict people of non-criminal offences and moving a lot of those cases out of courts. -
Editorial: Syria, then what?
Stephen Harper on Tuesday argued that it's time to push on into Syria. This is extremely problematic, because we have yet to hear anything resembling a coherent strategy for tackling the problem there, let alone accounting for the very real chance we'll serve as inadvertent allies of Syrian President/Butcher-In-Chief Bashar Assad. -
Cohen: Canada's Jews don't speak with one voice
What was interesting about Justin Trudeau’s recent musings on religious freedom – the most substantial remarks of his leadership – was that in defending the wearing of the niqab, he used an analogy that some say “trivialized” the Holocaust. -
Ashby: Stephen Harper's time warp
Although he has striven nobly to hide his condition from friends, family, and colleagues, Stephen Harper has quietly been running at least 10 years behind the rest of the world.
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Chianello: Time to talk about changing campaign finance rules
When Tobi Nussbaum ran in last fall’s campaign, the Rideau-Rockcliffe councillor promised to introduce a motion to ban corporate and union donations in municipal elections during his first 100 days in office. -
Adami: LCBO refuses patron despite protest that he hadn't been drinking
"I said I have never been drunk in my life and I never drink during the day." — Hugh McCord -
Reevely: Kathleen Wynne's inconvenient libel suit
The Liberals' removal of a clause in a bill against SLAPP suits that could have killed Premier Kathleen Wynne's libel suit against two top Tories had absolutely nothing to do with that case, Wynne's office says. -
Christie Blatchford: Rob Ford oddness curses Toronto drug trafficking trial
Somewhere, it must be written that nothing that has been even briefly in the same orbit as the former Toronto mayor will ever be simple or proceed in the usual fashion -
Michael Den Tandt: Despite the political spectacle, it’s hard to imagine any other decision on ISIS
There is risk. We saw that with the tragic recent death of Sgt. Andrew Doiron. But to characterize this mission as an imminent Afghan redo is facile and misleading. -
Reevely: Toronto's treatment of its ombudsman strengthens André Marin's case for oversight
Toronto's city ombudsman, Fiona Crean, is leaving her job this November, announcing Monday she won't be seeking a renewal of her contract. Toronto city council was supposed to debate an extension, and -
Brazillian aircraft maker Embraer’s decision to target regional jet market pays off
The battle for global regional jet supremacy is over. -
Andrew Coyne: Artists become cartoonish simpletons when their politics lose moral ambiguity
They are renowned for their shrewd understanding of human character. Yet get them in front of a microphone or a march and the world of three dimensions collapses into two -
Christie Blatchford: Liberal MPs accused of sexual harassment treated less fairly than VIA plot terrorists
I was waiting for the jury in the VIA train terror plot to return with a verdict when what looks like the final shoe in the Scott Andrews/Massimo Pacetti saga dropped in Ottawa last Thursday — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was now permanently booting the two from caucus.
