I did a story Tuesday about whether there are any positives to Ontario's coming imposition of a harmonized sales tax.

For the TD's Don Drummond, the HST is a better tax that will help business.

The question is whether the benefits of that will outweigh the higher taxes on some consumer items and some modest overall boost in inflation.

Drummond says yes. What do you think?

Cambodians have become slowly become riveted by the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, who ran the horrifying Tuol Sleng prison during Khmer Rouge's reign from 1975 to 1979.

Toronto Star writer Tyler Hamilton apologizes on behalf of his craft. He then explains why an apology is due.

While travelling in the Ukraine in the fall of 1989, I met up with a fellow named Tom Koppel, a journalist working for a communist newspaper in Kyiv on an exchange program.

With the 20th anniversary coming of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, I thought I'd excerpt an article I wrote for Bulletin, then the magazine of the Canadian Association of Journalists. It was published in the Fall 1990 issue and outlines how the paper that hosted Koppel covered the Wall story: