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Canada’s Part in the Coalition Against ISIS

As perhaps the greatest current international threat to peace and democracy, the terrorist group, which has come to be known as ISIS, has taken the Middle East and news sources around the globe by their necks a...

Harper Ratifies Canada-China FIPA

Everyone has had a babysitter that overstepped its authority. If not, surely each can recall the moment when the elementary school teacher put a student in charge of the class when she left the room. What happe...

Harper to Address the UN

Stephen Harper, fresh faced and rosy cheeked from discovering one of the Franklin expedition ships, will address the United Nations later this month for the first time in three years. However, he won’t take par...

Stephen Harper to Deploy Canadian Armed Forces To Iraq

No, you did not read that title wrong. On Friday at a NATO summit in Wales, Prime Minister Harper announced his plan to deploy several dozen Canadian armed forces advisors into Iraq, which, over the past decade...

Harper Sends Mixed Messages about Scotland, Foreign Aid, Sociology

This week, the Harper government approached the NATO conference in Wales with reservations about spending more money on foreign commitments. However, in true Canadian style, they agreed to give more after all—...

Quebec and Scotland: Partners in Separation

Prime Minister Harper recently made pilgrimage to the British Isles; the origins of his heritage. On his father's side, he mostly English. On his mother's, mostly Scottish, describing the union, "worked well fo...

Stephen Harper Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Jewish Organization

"Mazel Tov, Stevie!"Rabbi Daniel Korobkin Proving once more that “fact is stranger than fiction,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being nominated for the Nobel peace Prize by a Canadian Jewish orga...

Canada On Obama’s Environmental Wall of Shame

"Naming and Shaming" is what's at risk in Obama's newly thought up international climate change agreement, though despite the cleverly rhyming consequence, this voluntary pledge has about as much political grav...

Women Force Sunwing Flight Diversion After Drinking, Smoking, Fighting

Two women, seen here enjoying being young and alive, are out on bail after causing a disturbance on a Cuba-bound passenger aircraft. Their behaviour was so bad, and their threat to the airplane’s security so "n...

Canada Gains Corporate Tax Haven Status as Burger King-Tim Hortons Deal Surfaces

In a story that reads like the thrilling absurdity of a Dan Brown novel; one that twists and turns your heart and forces you to the edge of your seat, Burger King has announced it will buy the quintessence of C...