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CAROLYN BUFFALO was fuming mad. In late April, she had sat deep into the early morning hours watching the House of Commons standing committee on Aboriginal affairs debating the new [...]

PERHAPS IT'S GIDDINESS at the first sighting of green in ages -- or just the dawning realization that Jean Chretien's rigor mortis years are coming to an end -- but [...]

THE DAY AFTER Ottawa's only big-league sports team, the hockey Senators, dropped a 2-0 slugfest to the Philadelphia Flyers last week, there was still joy in hockey's Mudville. The local [...]

IF YOU WANT to enter the heart of American triumphalism, there are few better places than Norfolk, Va. Headquarters for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, the town is little more than [...]

Fence-mending exercises in politics are often the enemy of clarity. A few weeks ago, Jean Chretien was as clear as he has ever been in opposing war in Iraq without […]

Amid all the troubles in the world, the Morris family of Ottawa is going one step further than most to do their bit. This week, Capt. Maureen Morris, 54, a [...]

JEAN CHRETIEN had a tough selling job last week. With the U.S. champing at the bit to get on with the dirty work of forcing out Saddam Hussein and his […]

CALL IT A NEW silly season in Canadian politics -- albeit one coinciding with the longest winter freeze in years. Jean Chretien, who this year eschewed his annual golf pilgrimage [...]

LEADERSHIP CONTESTS are often gory, internecine battles that nevertheless manage, somehow, to make the family stronger by generating new ideas and garnering attention. That hasn't been the case for the [...]

WATCHING THE COUNTDOWN to the new year in Times Square on television is usually an unalloyed pleasure. But last week, as millions of Canadians and Americans turned on their sets [...]

IT'S NOT OFTEN that a politician can cause a minor firestorm simply by minding the store. That's what happened to Stephen Harper this summer, when the newly minted Canadian Alliance [...]

UNTIL SHE UTTERED that now infamous put-down of George W. Bush, few Canadians, and far fewer Americans, had ever heard the name Franioise Ducros. Known in Ottawa circles simply as [...]

ROYAL COMMISSIONS have played a dubious role in Canadian public affairs. Often created under duress, they are trumpeted by the enacting government as an impartial search for solutions to a [...]

GEORGE W. BUSH keeps a packet of photographs in his desk in the Oval Office. All are of men, many in turbans and sporting long beards. They are ranking members [...]

'AS YOU ASSASSINATE, so will you be, and as you bomb, so will you likewise be.' The chilling message, possibly delivered by Osama bin Laden on an audio tape broadcast [...]

WHAT DID THE PRIME MINISTER know and when did he know it? News that Jean Chretien had secretly scuttled the merger plans of two of Canada's Big Five banks prior [...]

IN SPITE OF THE SMILES, Jean Chretien was in a foul mood last week as he stood outside Rideau Hall with his newly minted solicitor general, the hitherto unremarked Wayne [...]

BY HER OWN admission, Susan Whelan was not the logical choice to be Canada's top social worker to the world. A small- business lawyer and daughter of former agriculture minister [...]

JEAN CHRETIEN has always looked back at his six years as minister of Indian affairs with an equal measure of fondness and something resembling regret. He has called his work [...]

MERE MINUTES after an aide has struggled to shed light on the Paul Martin vision to baffled reporters, the man himself takes up the challenge in Leamington, Ont. -- near [...]

IT WAS BY MOST ACCOUNTS an uncomfortable meeting when Jean Chretien sat down with George W. Bush for 45 minutes in Detroit's Cobo Hall last week. The Prime Minister had [...]

John Cripton knows what he wants people to think of his multimedia dance extravaganza commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center: 'A brilliant idea' that speaks not [...]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN a simple question for a man accustomed to the black art of political gamesmanship. What can the other contenders for Jean Chretien's throne do to give [...]

BODY LANGUAGE never lies. And Paul Martin's slumped shoulders, sagging cheeks, eyes wandering aimlessly side to side, told a different story from the fulsome praise he recited, as if by [...]

THEY'RE HOME TO eight out of 10 Canadians. They're the country's economic engine and a source of national pride. Yet they are arguably the least understood, least financed and least [...]

THIRTY YEARS AGO, John Sankey's was a lonely voice, warning of dangers lurking in the perfectly manicured lawn. Now he has an army around him, from environmental lobbyists to local [...]

This time there will be no push. No false non-aggression pact like the one Brian Mulroney made with him in the early 1980s while all the while scheming against him. [...]

It was appropriate that as he embarked on the biggest political gamble of his life, Paul Martin chose to talk about wavering at the edge of the Rubicon. Ordered by [...]

The first political victim of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling against U.S. satellite television may have been Richard Pollock. The Liberal candidate in last month's Windsor West federal byelection [...]

The low point for Canada's highest court may have come in September, 1999. Chief Justice Antonio Lamer, the great Charter of Rights and Freedoms advocate, was about to pass on [...]

Canadians are not normally accustomed to outward displays of patriotic pride over their fallen warriors. Since 1948, more than 100 Canadians have lost their lives nobly in peacekeeping missions around [...]

The only term we have for it is the impossibly inadequate Vietnam War- era phrase 'friendly fire.' It seems a bitter joke to apply that euphemism to the mighty explosion [...]

Medicine's holy grail might be whirring away at a lab outside San Francisco, Calif. where, in rows of containers, tiny rotary pumps relentlessly speed a clear liquid solution through a [...]

In a few short months, R.J. Brack went from being a swimmer with a bright Olympic dream to a teenager with a very bleak future. In 1999, the then 18-year-old [...]

Even before the Canadian dollar plunged to historic low last week, Arthur and Joan Elgar had given up on their Florida dreams. Snowbirds since 1991, when the loonie hit the [...]

It all happened so fast. One day, the calming conventional wisdom around Ottawa was that things were getting back to normal after a fall packed with post-Sept. 11 turmoil. The [...]

Certainty has been the hallmark of Paul Martin's remarkable run as finance minister. When Martin set a target for cutting the deficit, Canadians learned, year after year, that he was [...]

It's standing room only in Salle F-3080 at the Universite du Quebec Montreal. That's not surprising: the guest instructor for the two-hour class is Louis Lortie, world-renowned concert pianist and [...]

It was serendipitous that Justice Minister Anne McLellan happened to unveil her sweeping anti-terrorism bill on Oct. 15. As she introduced the 171-page omnibus bill inside Parliament's Centre Block, RCMP [...]

Flora MacDonald was literally on the other side of the planet when the World Trade Center's twin towers came crumbling down. The former Canadian cabinet minister was perched 4,600 m [...]

Every few days, a convoy of about 40 dust-covered trucks weighed down with sacks of grain leaves Turkmenabad, a Turkmenistan town near the northern Afghan border, for the uncertain, overnight [...]

Welding torches hissed, hammers clanged and cranes hoisted cargo high overhead at Halifax's naval dockyard, home to Canada's East Coast fleet. Three ships were being readied to sail as the [...]

In the countdown to war, it went almost unnoticed. Answering an unrelated question in the House of Commons early last week, Jean ChrAtien revealed that he'd established the Ad Hoc [...]

They were, in some ways, the lucky ones. Thousands of desperate and impoverished Afghans, only a tiny percentage of those trying to flee their country, made their way across Pakistan's [...]

As his appearances grow more frequent and his rhetoric more fervent, Americans have almost forgotten that in their darkest hour, their president briefly went missing in action. Unlike New York [...]

The gash to the western perimeter of the Pentagon, the five-sided defence headquarters that is the embodiment of American military might, is only about 20 metres across. But the wound [...]