My friend Stevie Cameron, one of this country's finest investigative reporters and authors, has come under criticism for her relationship with the RCMP during her work on the Airbus and Eurocopter investigations. The latest salvo came this weekend. She fires back at her critics.

Darshan Singh is looking for work today. An Aussie newspaper printed the name and photo of Singapore's executioner on the eve of his having to hang a Vietnamese-born Aussie citizen for drug trafficking.

Haroon Siddiqui, the Toronto Star's editorial page editor emeritus, has a somewhat different perspective on Robert Fisk than does the Globe's Marcus Gee.

There is nothing like a subway accident and a surface shuttle bus packed with screamers to get one's day off to a good start.

The Edmonton Eskimos, the CFL team that represents the city of my birth, won its 13th Grey Cup on Sunday, edging the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in a wild, wild game.

How wild? There were 62 points scored in the second half and OT. The Esks retook the lead with just over a minute left but the Als tied it with nine seconds left -- and might not have done so had two Edmonton defenders not bobbled the same possible interception.

Montreal was on the move after a one-pint first half -- until the Esks' Tony Tompkins set a CFL record with a 96-yard kickoff return.

Games like those are why I love CFL football! (Please don't tell anyone in Toronto about this; it's a bad carryover from my prairie upbringing. I'm trying to break the habit so as to better fit into this vast zone of near-total CFL apathy).

So, way to go Esks! But hold your head high, Montreal; you played a hellofa game too.