A harvest of horrors

China’s Falun Gong prisoners are disappearing, and organ transplants are on the rise. Witnesses say there’s a deadly connection
Zhang Tianxiao fears the worst. The 34-year-old Chinese native has been trying to find her younger sister, Yunhe, for the last three years. The sisters are both practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement outlawed in Communist […]

Paging all outraged Canadians

When the Chinese decided to copy Canada’s iconic BlackBerry, Canadian media and political elites went apoplectic
Imagine if a Chinese company calling itself Tang Hortons started selling coffee, donuts and sandwiches across the Orient. Great for Toronto businessmen in Shanghai looking for a cruller fix, but talk about trademark infringement. That’s what happened to Seattle’s Starbucks, […]

A rolling Rock gathers no Mo

National Post: Canada takes UN fight to world media–Chief’s selection process. What’s Allan Rock doing? I don’t know really, but there seems to be an air of desperation about this stepping "outside diplomatic circles. . . appealing to the international media." The article doesn’t mention it, but the big hook comes out for Rock in […]

Canada, the most awesome place on earth

I must confess, I was a little hestitant at first to include this quote in "Married to the Mob?" just because it seemed so over the top:
"If [organized criminals] were asked to invent a country, it would look exactly like Canada."
–Antonio Nicaso, Jan. 23, 2006

It’s so reassuring to find independent verification:
"The current climate legally in […]

Commission, sue thyself

A men’s rights advocate files a human rights complaint against Alberta’s human rights commission
Human rights commissions, those notorious quasi-judicial enforcers of political correctness, have earned a reputation as kangaroo courts. But perhaps the more apt zoological description these days might be that of a dog chasing its own tail, now that an Alberta man has […]

Question Period: Maurice Strong

Born April 29, 1929, Oak Lake, Man. Chairman, technology and environmental advisory board, Visionary Vehicles. Environmental adviser to the Chinese government. Former adviser to the UN secretary-general. Special UN envoy to North Korea. Under-secretary-general of the United Nations. Member of Canada’s Privy Council. Chairman of Earth Council. Co-founder and honourary director, Canada China Business Council. […]

Greens of the world, unite!

With Kyoto failing, Maurice Strong, the father of the accord, says it’s time for an all-out environmental revolution
In the $1,500-a-night, 1,200-square-foot Topaz Suite, on the corner of the 10th floor of Vancouver’s swank Pan Pacific Hotel, Maurice Strong has just wrapped up a private discussion with Robert Fung, the multi-millionaire investment banker from Toronto. The […]

Found in translation

A men’s rights advocate files a human rights complaint against Alberta’s human rights commission
Human rights commissions, those notorious quasi-judicial enforcers of political correctness, have earned a reputation as kangaroo courts. But perhaps the more apt zoological description these days might be that of a dog chasing its own tail, now that an Alberta man has […]

Another Canadian history lesson

You may have seen this story in the Globe and Mail: Canada urged to build foreign spying agency.
"Canada has always been dependent on the free intelligence handouts that it receives from its close allies, notably the U.S. and the U.K.," Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 from 1999 to 2004, recently told a University […]