The Column

Everytime Stephen Harper Says the Word “Change” . . .

By Stan Persky | December 7, 2005

Everything you need to know in order to cast an intelligent, intelligible ballot. 

A Short Enquiry into the Gomery Inquiry

By Wally Hourback | November 1, 2005

Up in North Bay, our correspondant Wally Hourback offers a brief interrogation of the Gomery Inquiry and its report

No Landslide in Germany

By Stan Persky | September 24, 2005

German conservatives were expected to win last’s week election in a landslide. Didn’t happen? Why not? All is explained… a little Nachtmusik, maestro.

Teaching the Controversy

By Stan Persky | August 27, 2005

Evolution or intelligent design? How to solve America’s cultural wars while watching the old ball-game.

We’re Winning, Eh?

By Wally Hourback | July 11, 2005

Our North Bay correspondant checks in with a brief survey of how the far distant world looks to him.

Kink of the Pops

By Brian Fawcett | July 1, 2005

Brian Fawcett tosses in his 2 cents on the subject of Michael Jackson

Lost in Translation

By Max Fawcett | June 20, 2005

Max Fawcett examines the work of Rachel Marsden, the newest member of the National Post’s punditocracy, and can’t avoid the conclusion that the bar has been lowered for Canadian journalists and journalism.

Ah, Leave Her Alone

By Brian Fawcett | June 9, 2005

Brian Fawcett comments on the real reason for all the hysteria over the pending release of Karla Homolka

On Good Intentions, Gardening, and the Political Left

By Max Fawcett | June 4, 2005

While participating in a “guerilla gardening” exercise in downtown Toronto, Max Fawcett encounters some uncomfortable but familiar truths about Canada’s political left.

The Week That Wasn’t

By Stan Persky | May 20, 2005

Now that it’s temporarily all over, you want to know What It All Means. We dutifully explain.