Today is the Prime Minister’s birthday. He is 48–years-old. Liberal MP Scott Simms (left)took note of this anniversary during “Members Statements” in the House of Commons today:

Mr. Scott Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, Lib.) :
Mr. Speaker, I rise to offer advice to the minority Conservative government and we ...   more »

Scientists are lobbying UK regulators to prevent the DVD distribution of a documentary that claims global warming is hoax. One of the scientists who is featured in the documentary now says the film is “as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War II.” Again: The guy who said ...   more »

I’m an Anglican but this Pope guy sounds like he’s got a plan …

The Vatican yesterday added its voice to a rising chorus of warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will, and that the one billion-strong Catholic church ...   more »

This evening, on another network’s national newscast, the contents of a British documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle”  were reported. Many readers of this blog have brought this film to my attention and, as it has been widely available from time to time on YouTube and elsewhere on the Web, I often open my mail client ...   more »

Well this is kinda funny. Now I’ve heard of people being overzealous in their protection of copyright but this is nutty: A 30–second video I shot myself with my 15–frames-per-second digital still camera — and narrated myself! — as I walked through the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in Vimy, France ...   more »

NDP Leader Jack Layton makes public a letter he sent to Opposition Leader Stephane Dion and Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe asking each one to consider using some of the procedural options available to opposition parties to try to force the government to bring C-30, the re-named Clean Air and ...   more »

My friend and former colleague Joel-Denis Bellavance reports in this morning’s La Presse that the Liberal governments of 2002 and later knew that Afghanistan authorities were likely to torture or abuse those they captured as suspected Taliban operatives or sympathizers.

The Liberals, of course, have spent all week accusing the ...   more »

The University of Guelph’s Centre for the Study of Leadership holds a conference next week for civil servants, academics and other experts in the field of leadership in the public service. I’ll be speaking to that group on Friday May 4.

I’m spending the weekend trying to figure out what ...   more »

The Associated Press reports that Howard Dean, the president of the Democratic Party, believes voters would be better off if reporters were banned from all-candidates meetings and unable, as result, to tell voters what candidates actually said.

"The media has been reduced to info-tainment," Dean said. "Info-tainment sells; the problem ...   more »

The Afghan detainee issue was again the dominant them in the House of Commons. For some background, a reader points me to some remarks then Defence Minister Bill Graham made on this matter in November, 2005:

… concerning prisoners. This is not a formal presentation, but I would like to ...   more »