Reporters without Borders (Reporters sans Frontieres) has lumped Canada in with Iraq and Iran as a country that censors al-Jazeera.

I heard about this in an interview on CBC's As It Happens on Friday night.

Boy o' boy, the spectre of being blamed for the millions of bloating tots around the U.S. of A. has McDonalds reverting to extreme measures.

Ronald McDonald, the company mascot and "chief happiness officer," is going to become its public fitness guru.

'The Daily Outrage' column by Ari Berman at The Nation's website looks at the furious Pentagon response to Seymour Hersh's eye-opening New Yorker piece (still on the shelves!; I wrote about it) and how ...   more »

I just finished a book called Exception To the Rulers, by U.S. journalist Amy Goodman and her brother David. She hosts a program called Democracy Now!

Now, the question is: What next? That's where you come in.

The 501 Queen car. Heading west to pay my overdue bill at the self-storage place.

Am minding my own business when I hear a monster "Ah-Choo!!" followed by a sputtered "Mother-FUCKER! Don't you cover your mouth?!?!"

Paul Rusesabagina's efforts to save lives during the Rwandan genocide have made him a famous man, with his story immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda.

But excuse him for being frustrated with humanity's inability to learn from the past. He says: "'Never again' to me is not enough."

I was doing an interview with with a prominent author and professor in 1992 on violent criminals. The savagery in Bosnia was in full swing, the the phrase "ethnic cleansing" had emerged from there.

The prof said who would have thought we'd hear such words again, drawing an analogy to the Nazi phrase "final solution." I said it didn't suprise me a bit. "You can't eliminate hatred from the human soul," I said.