By Mark M. Persaud LL.B., L.L.M. The public admonition of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) leadership, by the Minister of Public Safety, on the issue of gender discrimination has been widely reported recently in the media. This should serve as a grave reminder that discrimination in the public service is a reality faced by […]
By Jean Hodgkinson This country does not have a culture that accommodates fighters for causes -Raffique Shah As Dr Wayne Kublalsingh continues his hunger strike for the environment in Trinidadian obscurity the world’s news reporters have descended on Doha, Qatar. There, the COP climate negotiators scramble like an overworked ant colony; air-conditioned tunnels protect the […]
By Jean Hodgkinson A revolution can neither be made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one if its children to give it direction by dint of victories -Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon spent his youth training to be a soldier, not a politician. But as a general he was capable of navigating […]
By Herman Silochan Forgive my vehemence, possibly my ignorance of legal hair splitting, but for one citizen plus a rambunctious egotistic lawyer and a recalcitrant judge, to be able to get an elected mayor out of office, with no public input, does not sit well with me. In fact I am damn angry. There are […]
By Jean Hodgkinson Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide -Jean de La Fontaine The aftermath of last week’s Republican defeat supplied late-night TV with plenty of comedic fodder as the conservative spin machine attempted to make sense of the facts, something it doesn’t do very often. Rachel Maddow of […]
By Jean Hodgkinson An American presidential election is a movie, usually a very bad movie, but the American public likes bad movies –Lewis H. Lapham During his presidential campaign Mitt Romney asked American voters to consider whether they’re better off now than four years ago, as if the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression […]
The Foreign Affairs Department paid almost $2 million to an international security firm for a sweeping intelligence study of potential threats to Canada’s foreign embassies. The assessment would have undoubtedly informed the Harper government’s decision to close its embassy in Tehran last week. The contract was awarded earlier this year to Control Risks Group, a […]
