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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 [...]

Q: Should the U.S. Senate ratify the CEDAW treaty? YES: It would advance women's rights in education, employment and health care. 'All human beings are born free and equal in [...]

Consecutive polls conducted by COMPAS Inc.--one released two weeks before the federal election was called; the other, one week after--found that Canadians think Prime Minister Jean Chretien is both the [...]

In 1978 the province of British Columbia held a year-long celebration to mark the 200th anniversary of English explorer James Cook's historic landfall in what was to become Canada's westernmost [...]

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 [...]

As the sun rises over his rural Vancouver Island acreage, an elderly brown-haired man considers his day s chores. He knows he has to tend his winter garden, feed his [...]

Sophie McCann remembers the exact moment when a phone call from her son's daycare interrupted her during a business meeting. A senior manager of corporate affairs at Pfizer Canada Pharmaceutical [...]

When it comes to lavishing perks and benefits on its employees, there is perhaps no more famous company in North America than SAS Institute of Cary, North Carolina. The subject [...]

Feeling burned out because of work? Then your home life is probably suffering too. And that, in turn, likely means you are falling behind in your housework. Indeed, high levels [...]

Think that only household harmony and individual well-being are at stake in the workplace/home-front stress problem? Think again. The truth is, the very nature of the country is being affected [...]

The mid-January release of census data describing the increasing ethnic and racial diversity of the Canadian population did not surprise anyone living in one of the country's big urban centres, [...]

There is a building in the heart of the English Midlands called the St. John's House Museum. Visitors to the old home can pay $4 to experience for one hour [...]

Correna Schwab makes no excuses when telling a stranger how she turned immediately to the welfare office after separating from her husband in September 2000. 'I left the house with [...]

Correna Schwab smiles self-consciously as she recalls her first appointment last summer with JobWaveBC, a program operated under contract with the British Columbia government to help welfare recipients find employment. [...]

Here we go again. B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell's drunk-driving escapade in Hawaii raises the possibility that, yet again, B.C. voters will not have the pleasure of seeing a duly-elected premier [...]

It is 1994. Jean Chretien is in his second calendar year as prime minister, the World Series is cancelled and O.J. Simpson is charged with murdering his wife Nicole. It [...]

The first thing I saw when I turned the corner was a mass of about 80 teenagers, and they were clearly agitated. The teens were in an isolated part of [...]

Blame British Columbia. Again. Already responsible for dragging down national economic growth over the past decade and also for being a hotbed of extreme environmentalism and social alchemy, the province [...]

Were they bored, were they hyper-charged by TV and video-game violence, or were they simply being boys? That is a question no one seemed to ask in the wake of [...]

Lawrence and Rosemary Lowe were looking to the future when they chose their retirement home. Mr. Lowe, 69, says he and his 73-year-old wife were particularly concerned about each other's [...]

I had been at the riverside trail for only a few minutes when I saw it, just 30 feet from where Breann Voth had drawn her last, anguished breath less [...]

Barry Lepper is not your typical Canadian boater. This is because the 71-year-old Burnaby, B.C., resident carries in his wallet one of the Canadian Coast Guard's new 'pleasure craft operator's [...]

Here is an assertion that will shock many Canadians: far from being the environmental monster that progressive politicians and preachy preservationists say it is, the sport-utility vehicle (SUV) can actually [...]

In what some judged to be a highlight of an otherwise inconsequential speech, Prime Minister Jean Chretien told a Vancouver audience on December 4 he was committed to implementing the [...]

Until the 18th century, no one was allowed to witness or report on parliamentary debates. The reason was that representatives worried they would be seen as treasonous if their criticisms [...]

Cree leader Billy Diamond is quoted in a 1989 biography as saying, 'Great obstacles make great leaders.' Gordon Campbell must certainly hope so, for rarely has a politician faced such [...]

Green is the colour of hope, so it is entirely appropriate on this sunny mid-December afternoon that an increasingly hopeful Christopher Kempling is wearing a pale green tie, an even [...]

From the moment Pope John Paul II touched down in Toronto last July for World Youth Day, his message began inspiring tens of thousands of teenagers. In fact, televised scenes [...]

It is a typical weekday night at the Port Moody Rec Centre in suburban Vancouver. On the ice, the hometown Rebels are skating against the Arbutus Club Avalanche in a [...]

In late November, British Columbia's most influential newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, devoted the cover story of its weekend magazine, Mix, to the fashion tastes of the city's newest celebrity-politician, mayor-elect [...]

Ask a typical Canadian to name the most powerful person in the country, and he will have no difficulty answering 'Jean Chretien.' But ask him to name members of the [...]

Because I do not work for a government department, ministry or agency--and nor am I employed at a city hall, a school office, a municipal works yard, community recreation centre, [...]

Pat Archer sits on the edge of a sofa in the living room of a mountaintop home outside Victoria and tells a story--her story. A bright-eyed, red-haired woman less than [...]

I write to you today from the heart of what some of my fellow citizens describe as 'urban sprawl.' I, on the other hand, prefer to use words of a [...]

Somewhere around the time I finished reading about pop singer Christina Aguilera's secret 'piercing'--you know, the one in such an intimate location on her overexposed body that she coyly declined [...]

Would she be Spiderman, Buzz Lightyear, a bride, a doctor, a dog, a dinosaur or a bumblebee? In the frantic few days before Halloween, five-year-old Breanna Himmelright could not decide [...]

On April 24 of this year, a law professor at the University of B.C. signed a harshly-worded 12-page internal report. Officially, the document was intended to end a bitter 13-month [...]