THE TITANIC CENTENNIAL: April 15 marks the hundredth anniversary of the fabled disaster. Part of the history was the “Women and children first!” criteria for lifeboat access. Well, that piqued the interest of  C.O. at THE ECONOMIST, wi…

THE TITANIC CENTENNIAL: April 15 marks the hundredth anniversary of the fabled disaster. Part of the history was the “Women and children first!” criteria for lifeboat access. Well, that piqued the interest of  C.O. at THE ECONOMIST, with an articl…

Dear Readers: What scares me about this article is that if she looks this good in person, I wouldn’t give a damn if she used to have a dick or not!! (Matter of fact, I’m not sure I would even care if she STILL had a dick!) —————————————————————— The national director of Miss Universe Canada [...]

By Angelique Rodrigues, QMI Agency EDMONTON — Finding foreign terrorists on home soil should come as no shock to Canadians who may be partially to blame, says an Edmonton professor of international relations. The arrest of Edmonton-based alleged terrorist Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif — whose extradition hearing was recently delayed — demonstrates the potential “that there are [...]

By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – Canadians would pick a tax hike over waving goodbye to freedom 65 when it comes to pension reform, a new survey suggests. A poll by Abacus Data indicates 57% of Canadians support keeping the age of eligibility for Old Age Security at 65 even if it means cutting [...]

Dear Readers; This is what happens when we admit people from a society that is still stuck in the twelfth century! ————————————————— Diba Masoomi, sister of Rona Amir Mohammad, received mysterious calls from Dubai telling her to withdraw a police complaint against Mohammad Shafia. MONTREAL — The Shafia honour killing trial heard from plenty of [...]

“Mohammad Shafia was obsessed and closed-minded!” Typically, immigrants arrive in a new land prepared to make sacrifices for the sake of their children. Mohammad Shafia, a native of Afghanistan, came to Canada in 2007 a wealthy man intent on imprisoning his daughters in an authoritarian household. And when they took steps to break free, a [...]

Dear Mr. Janssen; In reply to your article about the transgendered being allowed into the Girl Guides, I am almost 65 and I am a post-op transsexual and have been female for almost 15 years. I make that clear and the fact that I fathered 3 children and still live with my spouse of over [...]

Dear Readers At first I was going to go into one of my “The world is going to hell in a hand-basket” rants, but after a bit of sober second thought, I really don’t know how to react to this story! I guess I will just have to decide for yourself, because I really don’t [...]

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence! Rebuttal; What an utterly condescending, self serving, intellectually bankrupt video. So from earliest beginnings, mankind’s drive to reach for something greater, beyond the confines of what is quantifiable to the human eye, is evidence of fear? Really? It’s funny, tripe like this video is nothing new, it’s [...]

Why am I the only one made uncomfortable by this?

That’s it! Nothing else to add……… the headline says it all folks! Now the reason I put it up this morning is to make a point. This headline will draw more readers than just about anything else I can do on this publication boys and girls! I could write on just about any subject, or [...]

Traditional holiday customs appear to be on the outs for some Canadians, according to the results of the latest poll. Fewer Canadians, 72 per cent, say they’ll be dining on turkey for Christmas dinner, down nine percentage points since 2007, according to the latest Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News and Global News. Of [...]

Can a wholly innocent man be manipulated into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit? That’s the question posed in this edition of Darren Brown’s program, The Experiments. Brown, a British illusionist and mentalist, describes his latest series a…

Dear Readers; It’s Sunday…… time for another dose of religion! As I have said many times in the past, I don’t have any problem with religion as long as people remain sensible and conduct themselves in a civilized manner! It’s when someone goes overboard, like an Islamic terrorist, or that guy from Westboro Baptist Church, [...]

Dear Readers; We have talked about this on numerous occasions, but since I heard an interview with the Niagara Cops on CBC radio today, it brought all the old fears and memories about our upholders of justice back, so I think I need to warn everyone about the police department’s agenda once more! This cop [...]

Dear Readers: This article is rather long for the modern attention span, but please read the entire thing so you can see just how nuts things have become. (People should be less concerned with offending others  and just get on with life.) P.S. While you read this, I am going to be wondering, once again, [...]

Dear Readers: Your ever faithful scribe got this in the mail today! An Amish sect in eastern Ohio is the subject of a federal investigation following a wave of Amish-on-Amish incidents, FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson confirmed to CNN Wednesday. Members of a group of families disavowed by mainstream Amish have cut the beards off men [...]

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A systems model of how ethnic tensions flare into violence has passed a test in Switzerland, where harmony prevails except for one region flagged by the analysis. Though tests of the model are still in early stages — Switzerland is the third country to be analyzed — they raise the alluring possibility that propensities to social violence can be formally quantified, predicted and even prevented.