CLINTON- OBAMA

What an experience.
We left for Unity, New Hampshire (1507 pop.) about 10:15 Thursday morning. We arrived in New Hampshire four hours later. We knew we needed tickets which we didn’t have. So first off, we checked into the two locations where cars were to be dropped off before taking a bus to [...]

SHOULD ROBERT MUGABE BE REMOVED?

Robert Mugabe was brought up a Catholic and taught by the Jesuits. Sadly, he is now one of the bloodiest despots on the face of the earth. He has reduced Zimbwabe to a poverty-stricken, fear-ridden country where bullets and blood are the daily fare.
He has forced the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, to [...]

LA FETE NATIONALE

Today is the Fete Nationale du Quebec. So, happy feast everybody. The day is especially significant this year because Quebec City is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its founding.
Quebec is a smiling pleasant place these days — at peace, prosperous and readying for a summer of [...]

IS ANYBODY AGAINST A CARBON TAX?

There has not been a big issue separating the federal parties since the election of 1998 was fought on free trade. Now, as a result of Stephane Dion’s announcement there will surely be a big issue in the next federal election. It is called a carbon (pollution) tax and its [...]

SHOULD MEDICARE PAY FOR IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION?

A confontation is brewing in the Quebec National Assembly between the government and the two opposition parties.
The issue is whether tax payers’ money should be used to cover in-vitro fertilization procedures, which can cost $10,000 and have an average success rate of about 20 per cent.
If both opposition parties hang together, they could [...]

IS AN APOLOGY TO THE NATIVE PEOPLES GROVELLING?

Tomorrow in the House of Commons at three o’clock the Prime Minister will rise to make a formal apology to the thousands of men and women who suffered mistreatment as young residents of a state-funded Christian school system aimed at stripping them of their aboriginal culture and connections.
Two in three Canadians agree it’s high [...]

SHOULD OBAMA OPPOSE ABORTION?

As Barack Obama closed in on the Democratic presidential nomination, Catholic supporters of the Illinois senator have been challenged on the nominee’s pro-choice stance.
Douglas W. Kmiec, a friend of Obama and a former aide to two presidents, says he was denied Communion by a priest because he has publicly endorsed [...]

SHOULD OBAMA PICK HILLARY FOR VP?

Now that Senator Obama has won the Democratic nomination, he will turn to the challenge of rounding out the ticket. Who will Obama choose to run with him? What will he do about Hillary Clinton?
Yesterday Clinton told her Democratic colleagues from New York that she would be open to running as vice-president. [...]

SHOULD POLYGAMY BE A CRIME?

The Attorney-General of British Columbia, Wally Oppal, has named a special prosecutor to weigh charges against individuals in the village of Bountiful which houses a community of polygamists.
Bountiful has been a headache for B.C. officials for years. But there are conflicting opinions on whether polygamy (punishable by five years in the penitentiary) [...]

SHOULD THE RCMP INVESTIGATE THE BERNIER AFFAIR?

For about two weeks now Canada has been seen as a laughing stock around the world because of our Foreign Minister leaving top secret documents in his lover’s bedroom, the bed having been wired with a microphone.
Yesterday in Quebec City, Opposition Leader Stephane Dion demanded the RCMP be called in to investigate. He [...]