Pelosi’s visit in Taiwan

August 4, 2022 · 0 Comments

by GWYNNE DYER Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was ...

Crickets from government

OUR READERS WRITE I am writing to express my concern and anger over the current health care crisis in Ontario. I wonder, how many days, ...

Last Arab democracy goes under

by GWYNNE DYER Tunisia would seem to have everything going for it. Average salaries are the third-highest in all of Africa’s fifty countries, just behind ...

Thank a nurse

by BRIAN LOCKHART One of the online forums I frequent and contribute to on a regular basis, posed the question: “who is your hero?” A ...

Scrap ArriveCAN

by MICHAEL ZWAAGSTRA Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland thinks her government is too humble. At least that’s what she said when a reporter asked her ...

War – what is it good for?

by BRIAN LOCKHART It was a couple of shots from a pistol that are blamed for starting the First World War. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was ...

Sri Lanka: a band of brothers

by GWYNNE DYER “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked (in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’). “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and ...

Paying with cash

by BRIAN LOCKHART “Cash only please.” You may have seen that sign when entering local business recently after a service disruption caused interact terminals in ...

Independent review of COVID response needed

by PRESTON MANNING Increasing numbers of Canadians are demanding a national, independent investigation into government mismanagement of the COVID-19 outbreak. Because governments themselves would be ...