Of seals and democracy

Like many people around the world, I’m thrilled the European Union has finalized its decision to ban domestic trade in products of commercial seal kills, effectively closing off about a third of Canada’s seal pelt export market. I’ve witnessed baby seals being clubbed and shot to death on the ice floes with my own eyes, [...]

Harper’s G8 gaffes reflect badly on Canada

Last week wasn’t a good week for Stephen Harper. No, I’m not referring to the much ado about nothing that was “wafergate”—I’m talking about his series of gaffes at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy. He was late for the group photo (for the second G8 summit in a row), and he made some bizarre [...]