Guest Column

Detentions Escalate at China Quake Site

PEN expressed alarm today over the disappearance of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was last seen being forced into a car by three unidentified men in Chengdu on the evening of June 10. His detention comes amid an escalated effort by the Chinese government to establish tighter controls over reporting from earthquake-affected areas.

Canada Free Press Columnist, Yomin Postelnik, Attacked by Atheist Group

A South Florida columnist who recently wrote a column in Canada Free Press titled, “Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound,” has received over 200 emails from militant atheists and has found himself the target of numerous forum posts and harassing phone calls. Ask if he’d do it again, Yomin Postelnik says, “it’s a shame that people react in the way they do but, yes.”

Canadian Television Fund: A Convenient Deception

What is this Canadian Television Fund (CTF)? Well, it is a prime example of crony capitalism, a public policy which was deliberately designed to be inefficient in order to unjustly enrich influential corporations.

Irish treaty rejection plunges EU into crisis

Irish voters dealt a stunning blow to the European Union's grand reform plans Friday by rejecting a new treaty and plunging the bloc into a new crisis.

Of tire taxes and tire recycling

Nineteen years ago this May the Honourable R. F. Nixon - then provincial Treasurer in the Peterson Liberal Government - introduced a $5 tire tax in Ontario. The tax was supposed to, "… help fund efforts to support recycling and environmentally sound disposal." Just nine months later in February of 1990 a 14 million tire stockpile in Hagersville, Ontario burned. Despite this dramatic event by the time the Bob Rae NDP Government repealed the tire tax in 1993 the province had accrued over $150 million in revenue from the tire tax yet had only spent less than one-tenth of that amount on promoting scrap tire recovery and recycling. Upon repealing the tax then Finance Minister Bud Wildman stated that, "What the industry said is quite true, that the whole amount was not used for recycling and for new technologies related to rubber. The revenues, of course, went to the consolidated revenue fund…

IFJ Demands UAE Overturn Ban on Pakistan TV Programs

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned that two popular talk programs transmitted to Pakistan from Dubai-based GEO TV have been taken off air at the request of the Government of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The IFJ calls on the UAE Government to explain why, and on whose authority, it asked the independent Pakistan television broadcaster to cancel the programs. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an affiliate of the IFJ, said the owner of GEO and the Jang group of newspapers, Mir Shakeelur Rehman, confirmed that UAE authorities had asked GEO to discontinue broadcasting Capital Talk, hosted by Islamabad-based Hamid Mir, and Meray Mutabek, hosted by Dubai-based Shahid Masood.

New Poll Shows Quebec-based Support for Unborn Victims of Crime Bill C-484

(LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite a massive misinformation campaign by radical abortion activists, there remains majority support for a bill designed to ensure that those who murder unborn children while attacking pregnant women can be held accountable for those murders. At a press conference in Ottawa yesterday, Conservative MP Ken Epp released the results of a poll he commissioned regarding his Private Members Bill, C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.

Robert Mugabe’s militia burn opponent’s wife alive

Jan Raath in Mhondoro, Timesonline The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

J. Richard Bond receives $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

New York, NY, and Toronto, June 12th, 2008 ─ J. Richard Bond, PhD, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program, is the recipient of the 2008 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in affiliation with the International Astronomical Union. He is being honored for groundbreaking theoretical work on structure formation and evolution of the universe.

Genetic clock ticks for men

Les Sheffield, The Herald Sun MOST men would have been surprised to read that overseas researchers had found the death rate of young adults was higher if they had been born to older fathers.

A closer look at the “green” movement

By William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. www.douglassreport.com These days, there's nothing more hypocritical - and, if you ask me, downright silly - than the so-called "green" movement throughout the country. It has become nauseatingly trendy for the elite and the self-important (i.e., Hollywood types) to swath themselves in all things eco-friendly in order to diminish their "carbon footprint" and have "less of an impact on the environment." I'm talking about save-the-planet, tree hugging, global warming alarmists like Al Gore.

Drill now for energy in America

We can no longer afford Jim Crow energy policies that penalize poor and minority citizens

An ominous warning that the rapid rise in oil prices has only just begun

By Danny Fortson, Business Correspondent, The Independent The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".

Is free speech being manipulated by internet rating organizations?

I was not asked by NewsWithViews.com to write this short piece nor am I being compensated. Like millions of Americans, I am fed up with media manipulation.

Zimbabwe Police Raid Christian Offices

By Michelle A. Vu, Christian Post Reporter Police raided Zimbabwe Christian Alliance offices on Monday and arrested five staff members for interrogation, the group reported.

Time to muzzle free-speech deniers

By Rebecca Walberg, Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy This week, the British Columbia Human Rights Commission began its hearing of a complaint against Maclean’s magazine. The particular issue – whether Maclean’s infringed upon the human rights of some Canadian Muslims by publishing an excerpt from a best-selling book – represents a collision of Canada’s traditional and cherished freedom of the press with the demands of a growing and vocal Canadian minority.

Why Europe Has No Spine!

The men of Europe conquered and colonized most of the world, and while they are derided by some for the abuses colonization often created, many a “native” people would still be dancing naked round campfires and eating each other had it not been for European influence. (Although it must be pointed out that despite the Europeans best efforts in some places like the deep Amazon and Papau, New Guinea New folks still dance naked round camp fires and still do eat each other)!

Carbon prices in Europe highest in two years

LEIGH PHILLIPS, EU Observer Carbon prices in the European Union have hit their highest level in two years on the back of spiralling oil prices.

OPEC & Saudi’s Hit Poor With Propane Boost

The jump in the wholesale price of propane also known as cooking gas or LPG was raised last week by Saudi Arabia.

Russian Court Laughs in Katyn Victims’ Face

Wacław Radziwinowicz, www.wyborcza.pl, Moscow Only those killed in Katyn could personally apply to be recognised as victims of political reprisals and rehabilitated. Their descendants don't have that right, a court in Moscow said yesterday.