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President Obama suddenly appears in Afghanistan
U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Afghanistan Tuesday in what media sources are calling a “surprise” visit. Shouldn’t every presidential visit to a war zone be a “surprise”? What did we expect: a...
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Did U.S. bug German Chancellor’s cellphone?
The United States sought to avert a diplomatic crisis Thursday amid growing reports of its alleged monitoring of phone calls around the world. German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally called...
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U.S. spy chief: our allies spy on us
In the wake of the United States spying on European leaders “scandal”, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Intelligence Committee that clandestine monitoring of world leaders...
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Letters: Teachers, BCTF, Ukraine, diplomacy, Tortorella, Luongo, Gillis,...
You’re fed up with us? My response to the recent letter to the editor to B.C. teachers, suggesting that we just “do the job we were hired to do,” is you are right. I did go to school with 35 students...
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Canada opens its own Twitter account
Canada joined Twitter Wednesday morning, announcing itself with its first tweet: “@Canada’s now on Twitter, eh!” It seemed to make about as much online splash as when Kazakhstan joined Tinder. A lot of...
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Podcast: In Depth with Ian Austin — George Abbott on the B.C. Treaty Commission
Host Ian Austin chats with former provincial government minister George Abbott about the job that was almost his. Abbott was endorsed by First Nations, the federal government and the province to become...
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Anthony Furey: Native prosperity ‘most pressing public-policy issue’
Polls and pundits repeatedly tell us that the economy is the No. 1 issue on voters’ minds. But are voters including the local economies in First Nations communities in their mind’s eye? They should be....
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Lorne Gunter: Trudeau the hypocrite is acting a lot like Harper
One of the themes of last fall’s election campaign, of course, was that former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper had embarrassed Canada on the international stage. For instance, his...
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