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After watching and reading six years of seemingly non-stop bloodshed and deaths by ambush, firefight, skirmish, battle and bombing throughout Afghanistan and Iraq in the bloody wake of al Qaeda's [...]

Wait a moment. Canada is cold. Damn cold. If anyone should be happy about global warming, shouldn't it be us? That's the inconvenient truth about climate change that the Al [...]

Justin Trudeau strolls through the front entrance of the posh clubhouse at the Nicklaus North golf course in Whistler, B.C., just before dusk on Feb. 23. There's no fanfare, no [...]

The mid-afternoon Alberta sky was a characteristic ice blue, the temperature a typically bracing -17°C, and the southerly wind an unsurprisingly brisk 17 kilometres an hour. In all respects, then, [...]

John McNee is probably the most important Canadian you've never heard of. As the country's new ambassador to the United Nations, McNee is standing squarely at the epicentre of increasingly [...]

Daniel Plecas has always been committed as a parent to the British Columbia public school system. The 54-year-old Mission resident has seen three of his four children graduate from public [...]

Back in the early 1970s, when B.C.'s Simon Fraser University was considered Canada's most radical school, one professor offered a geography course featuring an alluring multimedia presentation on the development [...]

He was convicted in 1993 for sexually attacking four Toronto boys. He spent 16 months in prison--just a few months for every innocent childhood he shattered, every innocent family he [...]

They say time heals all wounds, but it's not the case for the parent of a murdered child. Nevertheless, until last month Doug De Patie had somehow grown accustomed to [...]

The death of six Canadian Forces soldiers in Afghanistan on April 8 saddened the country. For many Canadians, the grief was particularly acute because the tragedy came on the eve [...]

Voltaire must be rolling over in his grave. The 18th-century French philosopher was a passionate defender of freedom of expression. It was he who gave history the line, 'I disapprove [...]

A series of storms hit Vancouver's Stanley Park in December and January, the worst on Dec. 15, knocking down more than 3,000 much beloved trees, with winds measuring over 100 [...]

IT'S 9:45 p.m. on a frigid, early-December night in Hamilton, and Karen Steventon is standing at the corner of Main and Hughson streets, waiting for a bus. And waiting. And [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is one busy world leader. His hectic schedule in mid-2005, for example, included a July 1 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Moscow, a July [...]

Scores of students spill onto an outdoor asphalt play court as classes at the B.C. Muslim School, in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, break for a lunch hour recess. The [...]

IT was a simple plan a year-and-a-half ago for the Conservative Party of Canada's election campaign: a package of easily explainable promises covering a half dozen well-defined areas; promises that [...]

Under Canadian law, an individual does not actually become a legally recognized 'person' until the moment he or she is born. This precise definition buttresses the legal framework supporting a [...]

Patterk Netser killed his first polar bear when he was 14, bagged about 30 more over the three decades since, and plans to keep shooting even more until he's no [...]

From the great workshops of the Renaissance to the studios of the modern masters, artists have long employed assistants to fill in the background on paintings or do the hard [...]

Good character actors can easily steal a scene on the stage or the silver screen. However, the very nature of their specialized but limited talent means they are rarely able [...]

Canadians will almost certainly face another federal election campaign this year, after the relentless tug of political gravity brings down Stephen Harper's tightrope-walking minority Conservative government. It's a good bet [...]

IN a country where 54 per cent of the people live below the poverty line, a young woman named 'Miracle' is living an economic miracle of her own. Her name [...]

ON Oct. 12, Mr. and Mrs. Tie Domi of Toronto issued a joint news release through the Canada News Wire, stating they had chosen to resolve their marital differences 'through [...]

Canadians with long memories will recall how, in the early 1980s, the B.C. government pushed to allow non-union companies to help build Vancouver's Expo 86, and the political kerfuffle nearly [...]

Last January, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that a massive police initiative code-named Operation Backfire had resulted in the indictment of 11 members of a terror cell. The Family, [...]

Jim Smith skippered his first fishing boat in B.C.'s salmon-rich Fraser River 52 years ago, when he was just 13. His father was a fisherman, too, and Smith says with [...]

IF the results of several U.S. studies are any indication, the answer is yes. In fact, a 2003 study at Emory University concluded that each execution deters an average of [...]

IF YOU'RE IN THE MARKET FOR A near-new supercar and have a spare hundred grand lying around, then Calgary automobile dealer Zahir Rana is the man to know. Rana says [...]

It doesn't appear so. And that means that Terrace, B.C., aboriginal artist Dempsey Bob will continue to receive sole credit for creating a $150,000 golden necklace, one of the most [...]

One of the supposedly sacrosanct pillars of public education in most modern jurisdictions is that all children, from otherwise normal kids with dyslexia to profoundly retarded ones with Down syndrome, [...]

He's out there somewhere and the FBI wants to talk to him. His name is Adnan G. El Shukrijumah and he's a 31-year-old Saudi Arabian with multiple passports. He is [...]

Who is Gordon Campbell and what is he doing to British Columbia? If you had asked that question six years ago, after his initial electoral victory, most British Columbians would [...]

The slogan 'Solidarity Forever,' from the union anthem, is more than just a catchy phrase for Canadian union members to sport on buttons at NDP rallies or to scrawl across [...]

ON Jan. 15, the notorious Front de liberation du Quebec issued a communique, the second in two months, threatening to wreak havoc on Montreal's English-speaking communities. Exactly one week later, [...]

Patrick Dolan Critton, a bank-robbing, black-power radical from New York, hijacked an Air Canada plane in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 1971 and, after letting the passengers off in Toronto, forced [...]

Several dozen students at the University of Western Ontario protested against the appearance on their campus of Calgary anti-abortion debater Stephanie Gray of Calgary last March by taping their mouths [...]

B.C.'s Simon Fraser University thinks not. Its governing bodies voted last year to remove two crosses from its official coat of arms and replace them with books. SFU vice-president Warren [...]

One can only guess at what the late John Humphrey would feel today about his most lauded accomplishment. The Montreal lawyer, who died in 1995, is credited with drafting the [...]

The late U.S. politician Tip O'Neill once observed, 'All politics is local.' If so, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had better mend fences across his western political base. This message emerges [...]

IT'S NOT EASY TURNING A WHITE, MALE, middle-class insurance salesman into a folk hero these days. But a heavy-handed B.C. real estate company seems to have accomplished just that in [...]

Some feuds never end. In late 1998, the Vancouver-based Sierra Legal Defence Fund, an agency providing legal expertise to environmental activists, took part in an extraordinary summit of Canadian and [...]

Last October, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it is donating more than a quarter-billion dollars to fight malaria, a disease that kills 1.2 million people a year, mostly [...]

IT is no mystery that the left-leaning arts community can be counted on to attack U.S. foreign policy. It is a mystery, though, why the taxpayer-funded National Film Board of [...]

When the water pipes leading into the Vancouver Island community of Tofino very nearly went dry before the Labour Day weekend, Mayor John Fraser pushed the proverbial panic button, issuing [...]

When federal Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn arrived in B.C. in August with a promise to take a 'second step' with employment equity, it sent some into a panic. But Vancouver [...]

Hard to say. If the triennial General Council of the Church, held in Thunder Bay, Ont., in August is any indication, the church's politics have gone far enough off the [...]

Born Jan. 29, 1947, Liverpool, England President-elect, the Canadian Medical Association. Orthopedic surgeon, Co-founder and medical director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, Vancouver Former president, Arthroscopy Association of North America. [...]

Senate reform used to be rather like the weather: everyone talked about it, but no one did anything about it. Then, on May 30, Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton, the government [...]

It's a typical tourist snapshot. Three friends around a table at an outdoor restaurant, their broad smiles filling the frame. Three friends: oblivious to the fact that, as their happy [...]