Letters

The price of bananas

August 8, 2024   ·   0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART I went to the gas station a few days ago and was shocked to see the price had risen to $1.67 per ...

Gaza deaths: Who cares?

by GWYNNE DYER The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since last October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the ...

Rumours of war

by BRIAN LOCKHART “Napalm son – nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells ...

FGM and the need for Islamic scholars

by GWYNNE DYER There was a small victory in The Gambia this week, when a proposed law to legalise female genital mutilation (FGM) was defeated ...

Red Corvette

by BRIAN LOCKHART There is a TV show called Border Security that follows customs and border agents as they clear visitors at airports, land crossings, ...

Iran’s rapidly eroding theocracy 

by GWYNNE DYER “I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election],” Supreme Leader Ayatollah ...

Shaken, not stirred

by BRIAN LOCKHART “I’ll have a martini, shaken, not stirred.” Yes, that’s the famous line from Bond, James Bond. Although I’m pretty sure even Bond ...

The west: Enormous changes at the last minute

by GWYNNE DYER By Friday (5 July), we will know the outcome of the British election. On Monday (8 July) we will know the result ...

Hired for the wrong reason

by BRIAN LOCKHART Sports injuries are pretty common. Anyone who enjoys playing tennis, slo-pitch, skiing, mountain biking, or even hiking the Bruce Trail, is taking ...

Assange: Free at last, but…

by GWYNNE DYER Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a free man at last after spending almost all of the past fourteen years in ...

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