Stan Persky examines what was at stake in the recent assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, and suggests that Fortuyn was more interesting and less reactionary than the international media made him appear

From Berlin, Stan Persky files on the French Presidential election

Our Indian Correspondant meditates on the need to protect the "affirming flames" of democracy. (Courtesy, the Asian Age)

Our Washington Correspondent takes a swing at Canadian journalists who’ve bought into Bush’s "War on Terrorism".

Stan Persky makes a relevant point about commerce and Literature at Brian Fawcett’s expense.

Brian Fawcett has some criticisms of the City of Toronto’s latest, and deeply flawed, Anti-Smoking Bylaw…

Brian Fawcett files a column about why things don’t go the way the planners think they’re going to…

Our Washington correspondant checks in with some questions about what the U.S. mass media ought to be doing, but isn’t.

Raywat Deonandan visits the Smithsonian Institute and encounters an unpleasant phenomena

Brian Fawcett offers his insights on the behavior of the Mass Media after the World Trade Centre Attacks and during the war in Afghanistan