Guest speaker: Thoughts on the Riots in Paris

If you’ve been following the news lately you would have seen reports of rioting outside Paris. Unfortunately due to the language barrier it’s harder to get a feel for what the *French* actually think about these events. So I wanted to find someone who could give a better perspective on how the events are being …

Bad Headlines for Canada: Sponsorship Program has Opposite effect?

Given my (granted limited) attempt to gather International news… I just flipped to cnn.com and was presented with this as the Top Headline on the International Section. New push for separate Quebec If what Chretien wanted to do was truly to promote federalism, it appears he has failed miserably and, at least to outsiders, appeared …

Gomery Report: Will the Government fall?

I doubt it. For a number of reasons… #1: The Conservative Party has not the balls to bring down the government. They *could* do it… without quesiton, but they’d have to make a deal with the Bloc and NDP in order to do it. They’re far too power hungry to do that.. they think they’d …