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Tag: Politics

The Terror of America

Posted on July 25, 2006October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Since there is a war on terrorism, has anyone bothered to ask how we will know when we’ve won? What will winning look like? Will it be an interminable peace where people sit around gazing at their navels, sometimes getting up to wander through beds of roses?

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©opyright ©oming to ©anada

Posted on January 20, 2006October 17, 2022 by David Barker

As election day in Canada approaches (Jan. 23rd), voters have had their sensibilities assaulted by the usual carping that comes from candidates who have nothing substantive to work with. The current liberal government has stumbled—and will probably fall—not because it took a stand on an important issue (since that would be an honourable defeat) but because of corruption.

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Pride Day in Toronto

Posted on June 26, 2005October 17, 2022 by David Barker

Toronto hosts the 3rd largest pride day in North America with over a million people flocking to the city over the weekend.

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