Canada's new Office of Religious Freedom, with a $5-million budget and astaff of five, may set tyrants around the world shaking ... with laughter. But a candle is worth lighting given the extent of darkness out there.
Benedict XVI startled the world this week by becoming the ninth pope toannounce he'll step down. Or possibly the fifth. We're not sure. But as only the second to resign because the job was too much for him, the first to quit in almost 600 years and the first ever to do it because of failing health, the allegedly reactionary Benedict set a boldly innovative precedent.
King Richard III seems to have turned up at last. Mangled. In a ruined monastery. Under a parking lot in Leicester. What are we going to do about it?
'Tis not the season to be sarcastic. I'm still hoping Santa will bring one of those "National Sarcasm Society: Like we need your support" T-shirts. But I'm not writing a satirical list of dream gifts for politicians or anything like that. There is a time to demolish rubbish and a time to stop and breathe deeply and smell the roses or, in this case the pine needles, and be glad we have noses. Click here to read the rest.
Wherever the hidden imam may be hiding, it doesn’t seem to be the pages of Canadian newspapers. Which won’t bother Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad much since he despises Canada. But it should concern readers. Click here to read the rest.