Who was Mikhail Suslov? Almost no one in the West seems to know him, yet he was one of the most powerful men in the Soviet Union. His funeral, in 1982, was one of the largest parades ever staged in the USSR, but most onlookers in the west - those few who even noted the event shown on TV news - scratched their heads in perplexed...
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We're such superstitious animals. It's difficult to believe we live in the same era when we can put a spaceship on Titan, a billion miles away, and send back photographs of the event, and we still don't build apartments with a 13th floor. We have unparalleled access to information and data through the Internet, yet most...
Many nations celebrated the 60th anniversary of VE Day - Victory in Europe Day - on May 8. No country suffered more or lost more people in World War II than the former Soviet Union: 27 million dead. In recognition of the effort and sacrifice Soviet people made to stop the German steamroller and eventually defeat the Nazis, world...
PM Paul Martin struck a deal with the NDP's leader Jack Layton this week, in an attempt to keep his government from falling over a failed budget. In that deal, Martin acquiesced to NDP demands for more social spending ($4.6 billion) and a reduction on corporate tax cuts. Had his budget not passed, Martin would have faced an...
Maybe air rage isn't your fault.
We've all read the stories about airline passengers who go ballistic over some petty or imagined slight, or those who get way too drunk for the amount of alcohol consumed, then become loud and obnoxious.
Maybe it's not because they're just jerks: maybe it's because they're...
We've all read the stories about airline passengers who go ballistic over some petty or imagined slight, or those who get way too drunk for the amount of alcohol consumed, then become loud and obnoxious.
Maybe it's not because they're just jerks: maybe it's because they're...
Prime Minister Paul Martin's brief speech to Canadians last week (April 21) was a muted mea culpa over the growing scandal in the Liberal Party that's been exposed in the media, commonly called "Adscam."
If you haven't been following Adscam (say, perhaps, living...
If you haven't been following Adscam (say, perhaps, living...
I've just finished reading Michael Crichton's latest 'thriller', State of Fear. I had expected it to be like most of his previous works: smart, sexy, action-oriented and with just enough science or history to make it believable. In all, I expected a good read as usual.
I was wrong. When it's not...
I was wrong. When it's not...
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Quebec's relationship with the rest of Canada has always been a rocky marriage. It's swung between love and hate so many times, it's hard to chronicle the history without confusing who's doing what to whom. But the most acrimonious of the disputes seem to have been over language.
On March 31, 2005, the Supreme Court...
On March 31, 2005, the Supreme Court...
This will read like heresy to many of the followers of the politically correct version of history wherein bad and good are clearly defined, but the Chinese invasion of Tibet may prove to be the best thing that has happened to Tibet since Padhmasambahva brought Buddhism into that isolated Himalayan kingdom, about 1,300 years...
Matt Labash recently wrote a controversial editorial piece in The Weekly Standard called Welcome to Canada. The Weekly Standard is a Washington, DC-based political publication.
A passionately anti-Canadian American, Labash dismisses Canada...
A passionately anti-Canadian American, Labash dismisses Canada...
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