If you love your freedom, thank a Greek. Specifically Themistocles. Click here to read the rest.

The bad guys are on the move. From Iraq to Libya to Ukraine to Beijing the separate crises are starting to roll into one. Click here to read the rest.

With Israel winding down its incursion into Gaza, we search through the physical and mental rubble for lessons. As usual, an air of unreality permeates the exercise. Click here to read the rest.

We face a multiple choice question on prostitution: Criminalize it for both parties, legalize it, or pursue the “Nordic model” where it’s illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. All have drawbacks but you must pick one. Click here to read the rest.

Justin Trudeau claims God is a human rights violator. It sounds like nonsense. But the facts are plain. Click here to read the rest.

Easter is about death and resurrection. Also you get little candy eggs because life should be fun. But it is fitting that it was on Easter 1917, rising from the grotesque mass slaughter of the First World War, that Canada became a nation at Vimy Ridge. Click here to read the rest.

“Pope hawks souped-up ride.” Man, we journalists live for headlines like that. Maybe we’re not alone. Click here to read the rest.

Apparently the U.S. is putting “pressure” on Israelis and Palestinians to advance the “Mideast peace process.” Pressure, I think, is a colourless, odourless gas that causes journalists to write headlines. But I have no idea what this “peace process” might be. Click here to read the rest.