Tonight on the Daily Brief on Sun News Network:
A poll — albeit a slightly facetious one — in memory of Christopher Hitchens and one of the themes which dominated his writing for the last few years of his life and which was the subject of his 2007 bestseller God Is Not Great. Take the poll … Continue reading A poll in memory of Christopher Hitchens
The blogosphere and the Web are filled today with memorials to and remembrances of Christopher Hitchens, who died last night in Texas, aged 62. Continue reading Christopher Hitchens: The battle between civilization and theocracy
Meanwhile in Europe…
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy faces the prospect of “economic retraction, rising protectionism, isolation and . . . what happened in the 30s [Depression]”, as European tensions again flared over suggestions in Paris that the UK’s credit rating should be downgraded before France’s.
[Read the rest: IMF chief warns over 1930s-style threats – FT.com.]
In a few minutes, Conservative MP Russ Hiebert, NDP MP Wayne Marston, and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler will hold a joint news conference about the following: Continue reading MPs "sound the alarm" on Camp Ashraf
Do continue on to the comments where there is a robust discussion by readers on this issue:
VICTORIA – If the propaganda flowing over “tar sands” crude shipments across B.C. were oil, the province would be out of deficit by now. Continue reading Alberni Valley News: B.C. a playground for eco-stunts
Canada’s decision to pull out of Kyoto has sparked a great deal of sharp reaction on all sides but a Canadian working as a policy analyst at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland makes the case that we are a “nice country” gone very, very bad… Continue reading WTO analyst says Harper, Hitler and Mussolini now in the "wreckers club"
They are half-a-world away and there are only seven of them, but the members of Parliament on a House of Commons human rights committee are doing whatever they can for the 3,400 refugees at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, who, the MPs believe, are in imminent danger.
There are two Canadians among that group. They remain at Ashraf voluntarily despite offers from Canadian consular officials to get them out of what could, within days, become a very dicey situation. Continue reading Iranian terrorists or refugees? Either way, MPs say those at Camp Ashraf are in danger
Hot off the presses, the ruling from the Speaker of the House of Commons on the complain from the member for Mount Royal, Irwin Cotler, that his privileges were breached after the Conservative Party blanketed his riding with a push poll that suggested he had retired or was retiring. This was read into the record in the Commons a few minutes ago: Continue reading Speaker's ruling on the Cotler privilege motion/Conservative dirty tricks