The Column

Stephen Harper After Five Years As Prime Minister

By Brian Fawcett | January 1, 2011

Five years later: what do we know about Stephen Harper? Not much.

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Julian Assange As Sexual Predator

By Wally Hourback | December 21, 2010

Our North Bay correspondant tries to figure out what’s really going on with the sexual assault charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing, and why he’s facing them

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Ankle Lickers, and Other Things We Don’t Understand in North Bay

By Wally Hourback | November 13, 2010

Wally Hourback thinks the Toronto media has been bird-dogging the wrong writer.

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Letter from Berlin: Ashes to Ashes

By Stan Persky | April 22, 2010

Ashes over Europe, ashes under Europe. From the skies of the continent to the burial grounds of Poland.

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Letter from Berlin: Secret Germany

By Stan Persky | February 18, 2010

It’s icy in Berlin. A good time to get a grip on Germany’s slippery past.

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Saving Haiti

By Brian Fawcett | January 29, 2010

Brian Fawcett tries to reassert perspective in the face of the earthquake in Haiti.

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What Good Are Books?

By Stan Persky | January 3, 2010

Rick Salutin thinks we could do with a lot less book-reading.

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Missing the Point about Abdulmutallab

By Gordon Lockheed | December 31, 2009

Failed terrorism and the end of airline passenger docility.

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A Florida Christmas Story

By John Harris | December 24, 2009

In the spirit of this Yuletide, John Harris posts a retelling of what Good King Wenceslas really did upon the Feast of Stephen–according to a now Florida-based neo-Capitalist culture hero of yore. Merry Christmas, all!

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Vancouver Before the Olympics

By Brian Fawcett | December 15, 2009

Brian Fawcett has a look at the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics, and Vancouver’s anxiety levels over them.

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