Straight Talk archives

August 2011

August 30th, 2011

Let's learn a lesson from Americans
If something like Hurricane Irene had hit Toronto, or Montreal, or Calgary or Vancouver, would we have been ready?

August 29th, 2011

STRAIGHT TALK: Rest In Partisanship
Ezra Levant and Michael Coren, analyze the partisan rant masquerading as a eulogy for Jack Layton.

August 28th, 2011

Corrupting journalists
Quebec's communications minister has come up with a conceited, self-important, cockeyed plan.

August 27th, 2011

A politician, not a saint
Let's be blunt. Jack Layton was little more than the leading salesman for a discredited brand of politics.

August 25th, 2011

Asserting Arctic sovereignty
Prime Minister Stephen Harper must start talking tough to any country thinking it owns any piece of our Arctic Circle.

August 23rd, 2011

STRAIGHT TALK: Saving the state broadcaster
Ezra Levant heads inside the belly of the beast to try and save the CBC from itself, and the government.

August 20th, 2011

Helping Syria: damned if we do, damned if we don't
While NATO struggles even to dislodge Moammar Gadhafi, Syria's bloody regime poses larger challenges.

August 18th, 2011

STRAIGHT TALK: We're with the good guys
While the CBC continues to coddle suspected war criminals, we here at Sun News Network are identifying them.

August 17th, 2011

Canada's 'Royal' military
In the military, what goes around seems to come around. Again.

August 15th, 2011

Fat can be healthy: Study
Being obese might not be so bad for your health, a York University professor suggests.

Ottawa's jobs-for-life culture
Attrition in the federal civil service is responsible for more job cuts than pink slips.

August 14th, 2011

McRae: Puppet love
Ernie and Bert in the Capital Pride Parade on Aug. 28 in posing pouches and leather chaps.

In grudging praise of Flaherty
Over the past few days, Jim Flaherty has been doing a not-bad job. A good job, even.

August 12th, 2011

Could guns help keep the peace?
You don't need social janitors when society is allowed, trained and encouraged to protect itself.

STRAIGHT TALK: Standing strong behind our Gillis interview
Sun News Network won't roll over in the face of an orchestrated campaign to silence its style of journalism.

August 11th, 2011

The U.K.'s tough-love approach
British PM David Cameron essentially said "screw the bleeding hearts."

August 10th, 2011

EDITORIAL: The buck stops with Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama may be a Democrat, but he is certainly no Harry Truman.

August 9th, 2011

Opinion: Barack Obama's wake-up
President must stop the blamestorming and get control of spending.

Home-grown terror trend hits London
The jolting images of riots and looting in North London shocked me awake Monday. It left me stunned.

STRAIGHT TALK: Investigating our prison system
Sun News Network opened a can of worms Tuesday when it aired a special report on Canada's prison system.

August 4th, 2011

STRAIGHT TALK: Talking to Turmel
Daniel Proussalidis gets to the bottom of Nycole Turmel's separatists leanings in this exclusive interview.

August 3rd, 2011

Language spies invade Ottawa
Official languages commissioner Graham Fraser is planning a secret shopping trip through much of downtown Ottawa.

STRAIGHT TALK: A stern chat with Steyn
Ezra Levant, host of The Source, speaks with fellow freedom fighter and all around realist Mark Steyn.

 

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