The White House stated on Thursday that Syria crossed a “red line” with its use of chemical weapons, compelling the U.S. government to intensify the “scale and scope” of its support for the so-called Syrian opposition.
On a recent episode of the original British Dragons’ Den, a woman pitching her hair-extension business was asked by a Dragon about the numbers in her balance sheet.
Margaret Thatcher's courage, both personal and political, shone like a diamond held up to firelight, naturally emphasized in countless tributes since her death.
With the Liberal Party of Canada leadership race underway and ending this coming Sunday, the Prince Arthur Herald has decided to endorse Martha Hall Findlay as the next leader of Canada’s second opposition party.
On Wednesday April 3rd, the McGill Office of Sustainability hosted its third annual Catalyst Awards, recognizing students and staff for their contributions to sustainability at McGill.
On March 17, card-carrying Liberals from across the province will be selecting the new leader of the Parti liberal du Québec (PLQ) and quite possibly the next premiere of Quebec.
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a national organization composed of campus student unions, purports to organize students on a “democratic, co-operative basis.” When Guelph students wanted to hold a referendum to exit the CFS, they served the CFS with a petition asking for a referendum to be held to decertify.
We all remember the October Crisis, where the separatist terrorist group Front de libération du Québec kidnapped British diplomat James Cross on October 5 1970 and Quebec minister Pierre Laporte – who was later murdered – on October 10.
The Federal Open Market Committee chaired by Ben Bernanke has released its policy statement today confirming Fed watchers’ expectations of a new bond-buying program.
The Prince Arthur Herald sat down with Joseph Soares, former Quebec advisor to Prime Minister Harper and current candidate for the Conservative nomination in Calgary-Centre to discuss his background, views and plans for the riding.
Last month, Canada’s economic watchdog, Jim Flaherty, announced that the government will once again be tightening the restrictions on residential mortgages.
Fortunately, there is an awesome way to stay in shape, one that’s very effective and actually fun, unlike going to a regular gym every day which might feel overwhelming and often boring.
Paul Krugman was once much admired by his economist peers as a notable talent, who made substantial contributions to the theory of international trade.
The CLASSE, Quebec's most radical student federation, just finished a tour of Ontario, which started in Ottawa on July 12th and ended in Peterborough on July 20th.
The Quebec-Ontario Student Solidarity Tour kicked off last week, aiming to spread the Marxist revolution to Ontario students in order to free them from their oppressive subsidized tuition fees.
This summer, the leaders of Quebec's student radicals will be coming to a campus or community centre near you, whether as part of their Quebec public relations campaign in preparation for a fall election, or as part of their CFS sponsored Ontario tour intended to spread the student “strike” movement to the rest of the country.
The quiet, yet strong leadership that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has brought to this country has not only saved it from the economic disaster that is the European Union, but is slowly but surely walking Canada up the steps to the top of the world podium.
As we get ready to celebrate Canada’s 145th anniversary, we should recognize that we have much to be thankful for and every reason to be proud of our place in the world.
British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron landed in hot European water last week for comments made on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The politicians who preach the rhetoric of “responsibility” are missing a golden opportunity to encourage a real effort on the part of all Quebeckers to reform our bloated welfare state and culture of dependence on government handouts, of which heavily subsidized tuition is only one example.
Those on the left and their allies in the media do not live in a world where the actual facts about private equity matter, but only the rhetoric they are able to spew.
The rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor; that is, the rich are facilitating the spread of destitution, the destitution to which the 99 percent are so inequitably being subjected.
The government’s original position was to increase tuition by $325 a year for the next 5 years, while the student groups wished for the tuition freeze to continue.
Rebekah Hebbert emailed me asking: "If you had one message/piece of advice/warning for students in 750 (or so) words, what would it be?" What a daunting question to receive.
When news broke last week that there were misleading “robocalls” placed to a few ridings on the federal Election Day, it barely took two seconds for the accusations to start flying.
Hardly anything has been heard in the media about Bill C-11, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act which Canadian netizens have been labelling as Canada’s own version of the tyrannous American “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA), allowing corporate interests and hypocrisy to triumph over the individual rights of fair usage to internet content.
There is undoubtedly a case to be made against the recent actions of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, but Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) does not make it.
In the recent federal election, a number of residents received calls from an automated voice message claiming to be Elections Canada and stating that their polling station had changed.
In response to increasing radicalization on campus, concerned students at McGill met Thursday night to discuss how to mobilize moderate students to foster productive dialogue.
Last Wednesday, the 500+ page Drummond report was published, outlining over 300 areas the province can scale back to bring the budget closer to balance.
The 2011 census has re-affirmed several of the narratives about Canadian demographics that have dominated headlines: our aging population, the increasing urbanization of the country, and the growth of the West are among the highlights.
Last Monday, the results of the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) Winter referendum on whether or not to further empower its general assembly were announced, with the ""yes"" vote coming out ahead with a plurality by a very slim margin of only 13 votes.
With the West threatening to revoke aid if African states do not end discrimination, we are confronted by the question of whether or not donors have the right to attach conditions upon aid.
The question of religious accommodation in general is one that is making bigger and bigger headlines across the globe as schools adapt to a population that is much less homogenous than in earlier years.
Despite being written off by all manner of pundits (including me) Rick Santorum somehow managed to pull off three surprise electoral victories this Tuesday, handily winning the caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado, as well as the primary in Missouri.
If a voucher system were in place it would still allow schools to be publicly funded but it would give people in Ontario an actual choice as to what type of school they want to send their children to.
Meryl Streep has provided a brilliant mimicry of Margaret Thatcher's visible personality, and The Iron Lady also offers a more universal portrait of ambitious youth, triumphant middle age, and frailty, loneliness, and dementia in final years.