Category: Insight

In the run-up to the coming election, some argue one issue is not receiving as much attention as it should. The Afghanistan mission already has a high death toll and an even higher price tag and is opposed by a majority of Canadians, yet has not become a defining campaign issue.

Along with the ongoing sovereignty debates with huge provinces in their country, Canada and China share another commonality: the two states are the next to hold the Olympic Games.

She is the world’s top human rights defender. Soon her voice will be silenced and she will come home to Canada. But don’t expect her to stay quiet very long.

Maybe it’s some sort of cosmic coincidence, but Brenda Martin, the Canadian chef that has been wasting away for over two years in a Mexican prison without a trial, has become the fifth installment in a seemingly growing series of Canadians getting into trouble abroad.