Insite uproar a blessing and curse
Paul E. Garfinkel
Those of us who care about lively and informed public debate of Canada's drug policies see Vancouver's supervised injection site as both a profound...
Harper tries to sell success as failure
James Travers
Canada is so placid and its people so polite that the country is regularly referenced in film and fiction as a better place to hide than...
U.S. policy adrift as Musharraf quits
Haroon Siddiqui
President Pervez Musharraf's resignation yesterday highlights the failure of American policy on Pakistan – and, by extension, the Canadian mission in...
Red meat doesn't suit all tastes
Rob Mitchell
In politics, as in life, there is the law of unintended consequences. So it was when the federal Tories spiked the "Prom-Art" program with...
Laurence Fishburne joins CSI
Rob Salem
After months of speculation and negotiation, Laurence Fishburne has been signed to replace the departing William Petersen on the enduring hit...
Clarify your office's policies on breastfeeding
Ellie
Q: I'm breastfeeding and during my lunch hour I go to the ladies lounge, set up for that purpose, and express my milk. However, the lounge is often...
Canadian medallists a huge boost for CBC
Chris Zelkovich
There's nothing like a few medals to get the blood flowing, the national pride surging and the television ratings soaring.
The bare truth about shirtless men
Vinay Menon
On Sunday, as I wandered around Centre Island, shirtless men were as common as novelty balloons and funnel cakes.
The healthiest number: 10,000
The You Docs
How many steps will you walk today? You don't know? What, you don't have a pedometer yet? People who have a number in mind (and track it with a...
No fault comes with high price
James Daw
Many Ontario drivers find the cost of auto insurance premiums a pain in the neck, and one hot spot during a five-year review that's being conducted...
The kind of show Toronto needs
Martin Knelman
Remember Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel's 1967 movie Belle de Jour? The stunningly beautiful French actor played a bourgeois housewife who seems...
Propane blast puts the heat on City Hall
Royson James
Where's the mayor and why hasn't he stuck with his loyal subjects, victims of the massive propane blasts 10 days ago? Apparently, he returns today,...
BMX has winner written all over it
Dave Perkins
According to dispatches from the official Olympic propaganda office, BMX biking originated in California in the 1960s.
'Girlie-girl crybaby' a medal contender in taekwondo
Dave Feschuk
A dumb question from a befuddled scribe: Is taekwondo still a combat sport?
In a new era, the Yankees wave the white flag
Richard Griffin
Note to Hank and Hal Steinbrenner: These are not your father's Bronx Bombers ... and unfortunately for the team's forever premium-paying fans, it's a...
Up, up, up and away to an Olympic gold
Rosie DiManno
From beneath a quilted blanket – and where did that come from? – only a pair of jittering feet were visible.
Run for The Hills and take cover
Rob Salem
It is time once again to talk about The Hills, the deplorably vapid so-called "reality" show that returns to MTV tonight, starting at 8...
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