Editorials
Editorial / Op-Ed
What's wrong with these people? A country's history is woven
densely into the fabric of its society, and those who think they can
pluck out a few threads for transitory amusement or momentary
interest reveal their disrespect for our heritage.
Editorial / Op-Ed
The recent highly successful visit to Canada of Queen
Elizabeth II, coming as it did at the end of Jean's term, makes this
an auspicious moment for the crown in Canada, and so for the naming
of our next governor-general.
A warm day, a small boat, a tree-rimmed lake; it's a classic
image of Canadian summer. But the reality, unhappily, is not always
so idyllic.
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U.S. should stop BP from drilling in Beaufort
Plenty. In this context, "innovative" means "experimental." This plan needs to be stopped until BP truly develops a culture of environmental safety.
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Bellemare should testify or retract
Having splashed mud over Premier Jean Charest, the Liberal government, and anyand all judges appointed to the bench between 2000 and 2004, former Liberaljustice minister Marc Bellemare continues to refuse to back up his claims in any meaningful way.
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Bellemare should testify or retract
Specifically, he still says he will not appear before the inquiry that the premier has called to look into his allegations. First he said that he was muzzled by his oath of secrecy about cabinet matters while he was Quebec's justice minister in 2003-04. But after the Charest government lifted the oath of secrecy, Bellemare fell back to a prepared reserve position: the inquiry, headed by former Supreme Court justice Michel Bastarache, is a sucker trap, and he will have nothing to do with it.
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Don't worry, it will be winter again before you know it
Every winter, Montrealers grab our opportunities to feel smug when snow strikes Atlanta or Miami. Even two centimetres can disrupt cities where drivers have neither snow tires nor snow-driving know-how. Cities have no plows, schools close, people hoard food ... and we grin at each other and feel superior.
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Stamp out candy tobacco once and for all
We're strongly supportive, usually, of private enterprise. Investors and entrepreneurs, after all, create the jobs and products and wealth in our society.
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CSIS head should learn to keep a secret
Canadians tend to think of espionage in spy-novel terms: intrepid heroes, vast occult bureaucracies, nuclear doom impending, George Smiley, Jack Bauer -and all of it the business of the Americans, the Russians, and the British. Heck, what secrets does Canada have that are worth stealing?
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Promising results from provincial finals
Quebec students did their province proud on last year's finals, scoring their best results in five years: Eighty-seven per cent of the 100,000 Grade 10 and 11 students passed the end-of-year departmental exams, showing a respectable and steady improvement over the 83 per cent who made it through in the department's chosen comparison year, 2005.
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Who will protect us from our protectors?
Ten days after the G20 meeting, debate continues about the way massed police treated protesters (and passersby) around the downtown Toronto site. Inevitably, there is still considerable disagreement about the facts of many incidents reported. But it's not too soon to draw one central lesson with important implications: Police will use the powers they are given, use them too enthusiastically sometimes, and exceed them sometimes.
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On appealing to youthful idealism
Slickly produced, with quick cuts, stirring music, and high energy, the principal ad is a dramatic short account of northern castaways saved and illegal drugs interdicted. "Fight fear," the ads say. "Fight chaos. Fight distress. Fight with the Canadian Forces." (They seem to be working: Army recruiting is booming.)
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Tough-on-crime laws are tough to swallow
Canada has a $47-billion deficit, a crime rate that is falling steadily, and a public that is not clamouring for tougher crime laws. Yet in the face of little real need and even less available money, the Conservative government is planning to more than double the country's spending on prisons, to double the number of inmates.
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BRENDAN KELLY
Aren't we past the two solitudes?
In one of those classic only-in-Quebec tempests in a media teapot, Jacob Tierney became public enemy No. 1 for many Quebecers last week after he dared to suggest Quebecois cinema was too white bread.
PAUL CARBRAY
England the most underachieving nation in soccer
It's official: the most underachieving team in world soccer is England.
HERB ZURKOWSKY
Al's Brown an unlikely hero
On a night when, for all the world, it looked like he was going to come out of this looking like a bum, Jerald Brown became an unlikely hero. Such is the life of a defensive back in the Canadian Football League -especially one who plays on a team that largely employs a man-to-man defensive philosophy.
STEPHANIE MYLES
The Warmup
Public-address announcer Bob Sheppard, one of the best things about old Yankee Stadium, died last weekend three months short of his 100th birthday. While Sheppard will be remembered for his player introductions, he also was the stadium voice of the NFL New York Giants from 1956 to 2005, and also for men's basketball and football at St. John's, where he was a professor.
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