Unbelievable. ‘Political agitator’ Anne Coulter (as the Globe & Mail labeled) is filing a hate crime complaint against the University of Ottawa because she felt threatened by student protesters.
Does that make sense to anyone?
Ok, perhaps I made some logic leaps here. Let’s give Coulter the benefit of the doubt and backtrack the logic here. Coulter is filing a hate crime complaint because the University of Ottawa provost, Francois Houle sent her a letter reminding her that:
“Our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or ‘free …

Over the past couple weeks, Canadians had the opportunity to submit questions via text or video format for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper through a Harper-Google joint media campaign. Netizens could then vote on these questions and a selection of the top-tiered ones were posed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to which he responded in an interview yesterday.
The entire clip was 40 minutes and 31 seconds long. Since your time is precious, we hereby, summarized the interview. Not only does it save you time, it shaves …

The Thailand red-shirted protesters (so named because they wear red shirts) are protesting for the dissolution of the Thailand government by throwing blood at government offices; a common transmitter for things like hepatitis, HIV, and Ebola virus.
The protest drew over 100,000 protesters to amass  a 1000 liters of blood – approximately 1000 standard-sized bottles.
Some protesters say the blood throwing is a ritual curse on the leadership, while other protesters say the blood is symbolic for sacrifices they make for the love of their nation.  I say, it’s just really …

Here is another piece of news that makes you question whether free-press actually has the degree of freedom that it claims.
Hal Turner, a notorious shock-jock Internet radio talk-show host was arrested in June of 2009 for issuing speech advocating the death of three Federal Court judges on his blog.
He wrote, “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed. Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty. A small price to pay to assure freedom for millions.”
The incredible Hollywood twist, however, came during the …

Two high school teachers from Churchill High School in Winnipeg were taped putting on a lapdance show that would make Elizabeth Berkeley jealous during a school rally, before hundreds of high school kids in the school gymnasium. Like all good lapdances, there was a modest amount of ass-to-face, crotch-to-face, ass-to-crotch, face-to-crotch action with a hint of spankings. Brilliant.

The clip was posted on YouTube titled “Two Teachers One Chair” (hehe, nice). It is not known whether the teachers were aware of the filming, but with hundreds of pubescent …

On January 29th, 2010, Canada’s Supreme Court declared that Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested and detained for seven years without civil trial under Bush’s Military Commissions Act, had his “right to life, liberty and security of the person” violated in Guantanamo Bay after evidence surfaced that harsh interrogation methods were used on him by CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Services) and foreign affairs officials. And, well, that’s all, folks!
The highest court of Canada made a declaration that one of our citizens’ basic rights have been violated, yet stopped short of doing …

On December 30th, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper rang up Canada’s Governor General, Michaelle Jean to prorogue the Canadian Parliament.  Jean granted permission (as a good Governor General always does), and the Canadian legislative assembly was officially put into suspension until March 2010.
Since then, Canadians have been divided into two camps:
A) ones who are appalled by Harper’s seemingly despotic power and
B) people who just don’t care.
(Personally, I do not know anyone from a camp C who is ecstatic for prorogation.  If you do, let me know.)

It’s an interesting …

After Senate passed their version health-care reform on Christmas Eve, the prevailing wisdom was that Congressional Democrats would quickly resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions so that the President could sign the bill and use his State of the Union address to pivot to a new job-focused legislative agenda. Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday in the Massachusetts Senate election now means the era of the Democratic Party’s senatorial “supermajority” is over and brings the fate of American healthcare reform into question.
An obvious solution would be for …

The release of Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has brought a sense of relief to her friends and family and Canadians across the nation. After 15 months in captivity in Somalia by their kidnappers, Ms. Lindhout, along with her fellow colleague, Australian photographer, Nigel Brennan, will be home for Christmas.
The scenario, however, is much more bleak for Canadian journalist Beverly Giesecrecht. Not only does she lack the family support base, she seems to have lost the support the from the majority of Canadians.
That is because the 53 year-old West Vancouverite …