A welcome new report from Ontario's food banks exhorts the government to stay the course and not back off its stated goal to reduce poverty because of the growing threat of a recession.
The Taliban's big lie
Adolf Hitler knew that some people are quicker to swallow a big lie than a little one. So do the Taliban. In an "open letter" to Canadians this week, they claim we "came to Afghanistan to kill and torture ...
Adolf Hitler knew that some people are quicker to swallow a big lie than a little one. So do the Taliban. In an "open letter" to Canadians this week, they claim we "came to Afghanistan to kill and torture ...
Judging our top judge
A group of Christian and right-to-life organizations have filed an official...
Pakistan's chance to move forward
For months, Pakistan's leaders have been distracted by a debate over whether to...
Team Canada stands up
A week is a long time by Olympic standards, especially when medals can be won...
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Help for HIV-positive women
Jasmeet Sidhu
Inside a modest one-room office on the outskirts of Windhoek's city centre, Jennifer Gatsi-Mallet displays her signature wide grin and fills the room with her chuckling manner of talking.
Asia's new 'great game' is all about pipelines
John Foster
The quest for control of energy resources has been dubbed the "new great game" – a rivalry for pipeline routes to access energy resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.
John Foster
The quest for control of energy resources has been dubbed the "new great game" – a rivalry for pipeline routes to access energy resources in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.
Stephen Harper's urban test
Thomas Walkom It's accepted wisdom that Stephen Harper is anathema to urban Ontario. Children dying for want of attention
Jim Coyle The obit pages brought sad news yesterday, as increasingly they do. Zdenek...
Thomas Walkom It's accepted wisdom that Stephen Harper is anathema to urban Ontario. Children dying for want of attention
Jim Coyle The obit pages brought sad news yesterday, as increasingly they do. Zdenek...
TheStar.com - Letters to the Editor
Isn't that the UN's job?
Every time we have a crisis anywhere in the world, like the current one between...
Rodeo too retro for the Ex
Re:It's a pity CNE was roped into
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Jasmeet Sidhu
Inside a modest one-room office on the outskirts of Windhoek's city centre, Jennifer Gatsi-Mallet displays her signature wide grin and fills the room with her chuckling manner of talking.
Inside a modest one-room office on the outskirts of Windhoek's city centre, Jennifer Gatsi-Mallet displays her signature wide grin and fills the room with her chuckling manner of talking.
Jasmeet Sidhu
Buttoned to the shirt of Charles Simakumba is a pin made of a beaded white ribbon enclosed by a blood-red background.
Buttoned to the shirt of Charles Simakumba is a pin made of a beaded white ribbon enclosed by a blood-red background.
Mehdi Rizvi
The House of Commons recently passed Bill C-50, which reformed the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to process applications by skilled immigrants much more quickly.
The House of Commons recently passed Bill C-50, which reformed the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to process applications by skilled immigrants much more quickly.
Jasmeet Sidhu
Hot, dry air hovers lazily over fields of yellow and green grasses, occasionally wafting in through the windows of a nearby university classroom.
Hot, dry air hovers lazily over fields of yellow and green grasses, occasionally wafting in through the windows of a nearby university classroom.
Tony Gizzie
As a teen, I can vividly recall the sight of dead fish floating off the shores of Lake Erie. I remember days when large swatches of sky were yellowed from the emissions pouring from the chemical plants that lined the ...
As a teen, I can vividly recall the sight of dead fish floating off the shores of Lake Erie. I remember days when large swatches of sky were yellowed from the emissions pouring from the chemical plants that lined the ...
John Croutch
I am writing this for all those Canadians who may question why the federal government needed to apologize to aboriginal peoples for crimes that many might consider to be no more than a regrettable chapter in a checkered ...
I am writing this for all those Canadians who may question why the federal government needed to apologize to aboriginal peoples for crimes that many might consider to be no more than a regrettable chapter in a checkered ...
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