Straight Talk archives

January 2012

January 30th, 2012

Heroic verdict for honourless crime
Twelve good and true Canadians - seven women, and five men - held the moral fabric of this country in their hands.

Warmington: Wicked and cruel killers
Not here will beastly barbarism be tolerated.

January 29th, 2012

It ain’t broke, but capitalism needs fixing
Capitalism, in its current form, has no place in the world around us.

January 28th, 2012

Burka bravery: Women seeking extended ban that has nothing to do with religion
For this modest proposal, they have been intimidated, insulted and threatened.

Don't bet on North Korea change: Worthington
Maybe it signifies a change - a breakthrough - in the thinking and actions of the "Hermit regime" of North Korea.

The trial that gripped a nation: Warmington
The most powerful evidence in this sensational trial comes from words uttered by wealthy businessman Mohammad Shafia.

Canada played for a sucker
Alleged Rwandan war criminal Leon Mugesera played Canada's slow judicial and immigration systems.

January 27th, 2012

Canada: Our home and UN land
Canada is a sovereign country, but not if the United Nations gets its way.

January 24th, 2012

Attack on Calgary woman in Mexico a familiar refrain for grieving Albertan
Murray Toews is not surprised to hear a Calgary woman is now in a coma after being left for dead in her Mexican hotel.

Republican debate winner? Well that's debatable
It's often difficult to figure out who wins a political debate.

Blue day for BlackBerry
Research In Motion, once a darling tech firm that gave Canada some bragging rights over Apple.

Newt or neutering?
Conservatives afraid Romney a perpetual loser.

January 23rd, 2012

Spy times have changed in Russia
Delislie, a member of the Canadian military is accused of passing information to a foreign entity.

Where’s the loyalty?
Mon Dieu, is Mulcair’s citizenship really a conflict of interest?

January 22nd, 2012

Attack ad double standards
Compared to hyper-sensitive Ottawa, Ontario is the Wild West.

January 21st, 2012

Don't talk to strangers
The Joint Review Panel established for the Northern Gateway pipeline should be dismantled immediately.

Share destructive secrets for the greater good
Terrorists with weapons of mass destruction are the stuff of nightmares.

January 19th, 2012

STRAIGHT TALK: Obama sucks, blows
To say U.S. President Barack Obama is sucking and blowing at the same time on U.S. energy policy is an understatement.

January 17th, 2012

Rae days for desperate Grits
Canadians are desperate to have a solid Liberal party to jostle with the Harper government's majority.

January 16th, 2012

How to solve Syria?
Certainly not with the help of the UN, a gabfest boondoggle.

Provinces just want cash
They've always bickered over health care with Ottawa.

Eco-elites speak!
Ezra's spared no criticism of foreign lobbyists and celebrities trying to dictate Canada's environmental policies.

January 15th, 2012

Liberals have Kyoto blues
Next leader needs an energy policy that doesn’t come out of a Cracker Jack box.

January 14th, 2012

Tax breaks the same as spending
Give the finance department credit for its annual attempt to list Canada's tax loopholes and estimate their cost.

Harper heeds winds of change
Canada has ethical oil to sell to China.

Meet three world-class stooges: Strobel
Scared yet? Pick a stooge, any stooge, from this fine selection of political brutes.

January 13th, 2012

Liberals gather to discuss disaster
hundreds of staffers and MPs lost their jobs after the party was reduced to rubble.

Bureaucrats gunning for rifle owners
When Bill C-68, was being debated, opponents said registration of firearms would lead to their eventual confiscation.

Charities and other false prophets
There was a time when being a charity meant doing something real, something tangible.

January 10th, 2012

Big-time bias
Pipeline review boss’ double standard for accepting late registrations penalizes patriots.

January 9th, 2012

Romney on way to GOP win — but then there's Paul
It is widely expected that by Tuesday night, Mitt Romney will have decisively won the New Hampshire primary.

Reunited Korea? No way
China too comfortable with tensions between North and South.

January 8th, 2012

A non-foreign affair
Pipeline review hearings allowing foreign input is ridiculous — we don’t need another country’s permission.

Top 10 reasons why Office of Religious Freedom is a bad idea
Foreign Affairs minister John Baird believes in religious freedom. Just ask him.

Congress drove getaway car
Wall Street bankers weren’t the only villains in the 2008 global economic crash.

January 7th, 2012

No sex, please: Union extremists pushing aggressive sex-ed on students
There has been a great deal of discussion in Ontario recently about a radical and intrusive sex education curriculum.

Immigration isn’t just about numbers
The big issue in Canada, as in other western liberal democracies, next to the economy is immigration.

January 4th, 2012

Philip — Prince, war hero, friend
Prince Philip may be best known for planting his foot in his mouth, but that's a cynical, ignorant way to view the man.

January 3rd, 2012

From out here, Ottawa is the enemy
When you are two or three time zones away from Ottawa it is easy to dismiss the place.

'Blame Canada' still popular refrain
Despite being one of the best countries in the world, Canada received a lot of flak in 2011 for certain activities.

January 2nd, 2012

Prescription for health care reform
It's time to stop passing the buck on health care.

January 1st, 2012

All means all
Calgary mayor thinks religious tolerance is a one-way street, a point he made again brutally at Christmas

 

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