Max Fawcett discusses the increasingly uncertain future of federalism in Canada, and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Casting a cool eye on the Pope, a prince, and a severely brain-damaged woman in Florida. Horseman, pass by!

Brian Fawcett has some ideas about how to make the NHL work, and they don’t have much to do with “fiscal rationality”

Yeah, yeah, Bush in Europe. No big deal. The real news? Spanish sanity, Portuguese socialismo, electoral squeaker on the Danish border, and rum, sodomy, and the lash on the gay British high seas. Our European bureau chief checks in.

Brian Fawcett looks at Ontario’s electrical supply crisis and can’t see much difference between what Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals want to do and what the last regime did.

Brian Fawcett looks at where the gay marriage controversy is going, and where it came from.

A devout bachelor clears up all the questions about the same sex marriage debate that you’ve been too bored to ask.

Brian Fawcett tries to figure out whether multiculturalism is for or against racism.

The Tsunami in Southern Asia is a catastrophe writ large – dead children, destroyed towns, and carnage on an unthinkable scale. It has also spawned another, less immediate, catastrophe: a tidal wave of sentimental bullplop from the Canadian media. Max Fawcett tries to get to the bottom of the increasingly large pile.

Brian Fawcett files a longer, more rant-filled version of a piece first published in The Tyee in early October