TORONTO — Canada has flexed its military muscles, first in Afghanistan for nine years alongside NATO forces and now in Libya in its supply of ships and combat planes for the rebel forces, but little debate has happened on the ground among Canadians themselves on this...
TORONTO - Washington's preemptive war, in which Muslims are picked up, labeled Islamic terrorists, and then sent to a foreign state where under torture they confess wrongly to membership in al-Qaeda, is at the heart of what happened to an innocent Canadian citizen,...
So far, only a trickle of U.S. soldiers are heading north to Canada to avoid serving in the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. It is still relatively early in the conflict, which has not reached the level of the equally controversial U.S. military involvement in Vietnam...
TORONTO - Ottawa's tendency to take contradictory or ambiguous political positions on sensitive issues will be put to the test in the current debate over the U.S. request that its northern neighbor endorse its controversial ballistic missile defense (BMD) program. If...
TORONTO - How to shed light on one Canadian's nightmare experience in a jail in Syria and the secretive U.S.-inspired, extralegal global system of interrogation and torture that put him there are challenges facing one judge here, who must also confront "national...
TORONTO - Fears are rising among groups that lobby for the Palestinian cause that Canada might be abandoning its traditional middle-of-the-road position on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Ottawa could squander an opportunity to play a constructive role in resurrecting...
TORONTO - The growing use of international treaties to bypass the will of national parliaments, by bodies waging the so-called "war on terrorism," increasingly threatens civil liberties and freedom of the media, warn privacy advocates. When U.S. officials...
TORONTO - In the novel 1984, George Orwell depicts a world where powerful and secretive authorities – "Big Brother" – scrutinize the intimate details of citizens' personal lives. That fiction may be closer to reality than most people think. Earlier this...
