Canadian Columnists & Opinion
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Unlike its southern neighbour, Canada has no fence against illegal aliens, and no plans for an Amnesty.
Canada’s legal immigrants are causing the most angst for some Canadian taxpayers.
By Neil Desai, Canadian Taxpayers Association
Thursday, November 16, 2006
It has been 8 long months since natives of the Six Nations reserve began occupying a disputed piece of land earmarked for a real estate development in Caledonia. In this time, the people of Caledonia and the Six Nation reserve have come no closer to a resolution. If anything, they are further apart.
Canadian Coalition for Democracies
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Ottawa, Canada - For the first time in many years, a Canadian Prime Minister has declared that Canadian foreign policy will be set in Ottawa, not in Beijing. En route to the APEC conference in Hanoi, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters that Canada will not sell out human rights in response to threats of trade consequences by China.
By Arthur Weinreb
Thursday, November 9, 2006
The day before Americans went to the polls; back when Rummy was still firmly ensconced in the Pentagon, the Toronto Star was predicting a win for the Democrats that would spell trouble for Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.
By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Now that Japanese researchers have found a dolphin with 'remains of legs’, how long will it be before some slick group steps forward to cash in on it?
By Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Last Friday the Ontario Court of Appeal handed down a decision that hopefully dispels the notion that many people have about their various levels of government. This decision runs contrary to the view that the nanny state is and should be held liable for each and every mishap that befalls every one of its citizens. There are, according to the court, just some things that governments are not responsible for.
By Klaus Rohrich
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
When George W. Bush declared the 9/11 attack on New York City and Washington DC “An act of war”, he encapsulated the significance of that event in the simplest terminology. Rather than obsessing about what the West had done to make them hate us so much, Bush, unlike most, understood that this action was an escalation of hostilities that started long before Bush, or Clinton for that matter, assumed the Presidency.
By Arthur Weinreb
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty helped wind up the meeting of the Ontario Liberal Party last weekend by railing against the federal Conservative government. The premier focused on cabinet ministers Jim Flaherty, Tony Clement and John Baird, all of whom served in the cabinet of the previous PC Ontario government; a government that McGuinty still blames for most of his woes. According to Dalton, not only do these guys not know what century we're in (it's the 21st in case any of them happen to be reading this) but they think that all of the country's problems can be solved by cutting taxes. According to the Ontario premier, the thought of these three guys sitting up there in Ottawa chopping taxes gives him "recurring nightmares".
By Klaus Rohrich
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Gosh, politics can be fun; particularly when Canada's "natural governing party" publicly dukes it out down and dirty. It's beginning to look like my friend Arthur Weinreb is going to get his wish of Bob Rae leading the Liberal Party of Canada to its next defeat, as the party that hasn't had an original idea since Pierre Trudeau omitted property rights from the Charter is running a full array of lightweight contenders.
By Arthur Weinreb
Monday, October 30, 2006
The principle of conditional sentencing was first introduced into Canadian law 10 years ago. Its purpose was to allow certain offenders who would otherwise be incarcerated to serve their sentence in the community in a form of house arrest. The only "offence related" restriction that was placed upon conditional sentencing was that such a sentence could not be imposed where the offence called for a minimum term of imprisonment.
By Arthur Weinreb
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
On November 13, Ontarians go to the polls to vote in municipal elections. Although it has not become a major campaign issue, there have been calls that landed immigrants or permanent residents of Canada should be given the right to vote in these elections.
By Arthur Weinreb
Monday, October 23, 2006
Last week the Ontario government announced that the province will be spending $2 million in new character building initiatives in Ontario schools. Premier Dalton McGuinty wants to add "respect" and "responsibility" to the present 6 Rs -- reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, racism, reproduction and recycling.
By Judi McLeod
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Like many other electronic newspapers, Canada Free Press has a dim view of the mainstream media that some pundits increasingly ridicule as the "drive by" media.
But the problem caused for CFP by the mainstream media on Wednesday night could have sent the RCMP to our Elm Street office.
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, October 19, 2006
The dueling feud between a Man of the Cloth and a Member of Parliament has spilled out of the Michael Coren Show and the MP's blog to land on the pages of the Canadian print media.
Dr. Charles McVety, the president of both Canada Christian College and the Canada Family Action Coalition and MP Garth Turner first met on the Michael Coren Show.
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