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While most Canadians were joyously reading all those year-end reviews of 1991--you know, GST, Gulf War, recession, bankruptcies, unemployment, cross-border shopping, constitutional crisis, etc.--our particular study group was brooding over [...]

With a federal election call probable within a year, this is becoming urgent: we must, somehow, wrest control of the campaign away from television and back into the hands of [...]

Some of our best friends are Boomers, but, frankly, it requires a constant effort to regard them as normal Canadians Funny, isn't it, how a country so obsessed with diversity [...]

As a matter of interest, ever wonder how certain institutions, individuals and even illnesses--to name a few--have managed to lay exclusive claim to valuable adjectives? For all practical purposes, they [...]

Our political parties undoubtedly mean well in proposing that governments operate within their financial means, but unfortunately they all have it, in a manner of speaking, butt backwards. What we [...]

Darned hard to figure why so many Canadians of the Anglo variety are developing eczema rashes over the idea of an independent Quebec. The way that guy, Jacques Parizeau, desc [...]

If Jean Chretien has even a passing interest in prolonging his popularity with the Canadian people, as prime ministers are wont to do, a royal opportunity awaits him this fall. [...]

Much of the credit must go to Brian Mulroney. There, that got your attention, didn't it? Bet you think we can't spell blame. Moving right along, the uplifting topic for [...]

At last, encouraging progress. Your friendly federal government, chronic fumblers in everything that counts--the Constitution, unemployment, budgetary deficits all spring to mind--has finally declared war on incomprehension. It actually wants [...]

For years now, politicians the world over have been accusing the media of being negative--carefree critics, totally devoid of positive proposals. It was one Spiro Agnew, a better-known American at [...]

The downside of this column is that it contains a touch too much personalization. The upside is, it completely avoids any use of the dreaded C-word. We basically want to [...]

It was one wise individual who said, 'Statistics is the science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.' Perhaps wiser than the one who said, 'Statistics prove you can prove [...]

Purists will undoubtedly disagree, but there are occasions, like right now, when journalistic research is clearly counterproductive. In future, it will be undertaken only in dire emergencies. This was to [...]

For the vast majority of Canadians, this won't be news. But for the few who were hitchhiking through Mongolia at the time, clearly the most stunning event of recent times [...]

It is without apology that the name of Charlie McKenzie is being planted on this page for the second time. What the heck, the Prime Minister has made it more [...]

Yes, indeed, you could see this one coming a mile away. Talk about a perfect setup! Here we were, languishing in the summer doldrums, totally bereft of news, and Brian [...]

Truly amazing how one can spend an entire lifetime fighting feverishly against non-existent phantoms simply because enough people, with head-shaking sincerity, tell you they must be real. Not clear? Well, [...]

Trouble with our danged French-English haggling--we do haggle, don't we--is that it's muddying our collective psyche. It's so muddied, in fact, we've stopped debating, perhaps even seeing, the truly divisive [...]

It gets even funnier--if space allowed Why did Canadians fail to explode in giggles when the senators gave themselves a nice little bonus? What's going on here anyway? For reasons [...]

Let podiatrists do a Constitution Today, as we wring our collective hands over the demise of the Meech Lake accord, we mustn't miss this - perhaps last - opportunity to [...]

No laughs please, we're Canadian Isn't it passing strange, if not stunningly strange, that none of our political leaders, those who devote lifetimes to allegedly improving the lot of Canadians, [...]

The right royal way to study a problem At least Mulroney is reluctant to abuse commissions, the longest-running trough in Canadian history Just as a precaution, you might want to [...]

A better way of electing our leaders After waiting 14 years for a party to change leaders, we could wait an extra four minutes for the results As we look [...]

Subsidizing the hyphenated Canadian We have this fantasy, doctor, one of those outrageous dreams that's almost too embarrassing to discuss, particularly in front of your nurse here. Sex? Of course [...]

The favor of Erik Nielsen's silence We've been thinking about this, and, in his own sweet way, Erik Nielsen may have rendered the country a gargantuan service with his sizzling [...]

The PM's black, travelling cloud Just as John Turner had the smarts to call for the services of an image consultant, who, among other things, exorcised his staccato speaking style, [...]

Well-educated dynamic man seeks...' Finally, thank heavens, the frustration has ended. It's almost like graduation time in Ottawa. And if the expression weren't so detestably meaningless, one might even be [...]

A community of small communities While the government of all the Canadas has been otherwise distracting us - and what a helluva job it's done - you may not have [...]

Helping taxpayers by using fewer `jerks' Think how many people complained in the last Parliament over such unseemly words as `liar' and `sleaze bag' Accepting the proposition that the media--probably [...]