Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about the disgraceful and questionable acts of a very small (and extreme) minority that unfortunately end up tarnishing the good standing of a community at large. To attribute the actions…
The Hizbollah-Israeli conflict has so far killed a disproportionate number of Canadians compared to losses from other countries not involved in the conflict. First, we heard of the tragic deaths of the Al-Akhrass family…
Those don’t look like peacekeepers or wounded people that pile into a UN ambulance for transport. The terrorists in the video also do not appear to have hijacked the ambulance. What’s going on here? The video…
It’s been a while since my last post (4 days!) but it has felt longer since I’ve been busy doing a lot of blog stuff unrelated to this blog. During the weekend and over this week, Craig Smith and I have been working…
In an article on the CBC website yesterday, the state-run broadcaster tries to label the Conservative government’s evacuation of Lebanese-Canadians from Lebanon as slow. The article even gives a subtitle to a section of…
Regarding the evacuation of foreign and resident nationals from Lebanon, the following has been said about the (what should have been) obvious difficulty in the wide-scale evacuation of citizens (50,000 Canada, 25,000…
As has been noted around the blogosphere, the media seems to be climbing all over itself to frame the evacuation of Lebanese-Canadians from Lebanon as too “slow” and as a “disaster”. Where was the flotilla of ships…
Poor Mr. Harper… Our current PM is on track to reverse the trend of our nation’s international obscurity caused by the previous Liberal governments. However, as indicated by Forbes magazine, he may still have a bit more…
This evening, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a speech to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel in London, England. Here’s some of the speech: Much of what Canada is today we can trace to…
As reported by PoliticsWatch.com, the Prime Minister will be meeting with British PM Blair for a “tete-a-tete” at Number 10, and Mrs. Harper and the PM will have a private audience with the Queen. However, what may have…
