Guest Column

Opposition retains House of Assembly

Four weeks to the day after Zimbabwe queued to vote in the 29 March 2008 elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission have finally confirmed their original results, and that was that Zanu PF has lost its majority in the House of Parliament for the first time in 28 years.

McCain Shouldn’t Have Picked a Fight With The North Carolina GOP

As a conservative who has written in strong support of John McCain and who will cast a ballot for him on November 4th, I think the GOP nominee has erred in picking a fight with the North Carolina Republican Party.

Tannumah district school supply drop

BASRA - During the morning of April 21, Iraqi Soldiers along with 504 PIR, 82nd Abn Div Soldiers participated in a joint humanitarian aid mission in the Tannumah district of Basrah.

Prominent sheik meets with Raider cmdr., discusses future of Doura

BAGHDAD - A key figure in the community and a respected local leader for the Iraqi people living in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad, arrived at JSS Doura with a procession of local leaders and family members, April 22.

Black vs White in Zimbabwe-a Zanu PF myth

Gweru-Zimbabwe-Justification for the continuous stranglehold on political reforms in Zimbabwe by Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF on racial grounds has been dismissed as 'utter rubbish" and "unfortunate taking for granted" the intellect of Zimbabweans in "understanding the global village political dynamics."

Returning Freedom to Canada

The only way freedom is going to be restored, be it in the office, the warehouse or the college campus is for people to exercise it. Courageously and in defiance of speech codes and harassment guidelines.

Good BotNet versus Bad BotNet

The newswires are awash with stories of hackers attacking US military sites, CNN, anti-Tibet sites. The tech wires are filled with warnings against opening unsolicited emails, and protecting against spam. All of this has a common theme, and that theme is botnets.

Rice rationing imposed at Wal-Mart’s warehouse division

Shades of rationing during the wars... What's next...

Immigration as a quick fix

Is Canada's perpetual shortage of skilled labour real, perceived or conjured up for the purposes of creating a glut?

African leaders’ attitude on elections must change

THERE is a crisis in Zimbabwe! South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki is at the very end of his second and last term in office. He has spent most of the past 10 years of his presidency engaged in Zimbabwean issues because of the crisis that has been festering in that country for a very long time.

“Global Warming’ is not a Global Crisis”

International Climate Science Coalition releases signatories to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

Iraqi Army discover weapons cache in vehicle

BASRA - IA soldiers discovered a weapons cache in 2 vehicles during Op Charge of the Knights in the Al-Quibla district of Basra, April 19.

The Moon Not so Inactive as First Thought

Our moon has long been our interstellar companion, protecting us from meteor hits and directing the tides. From a glance, it would seem dead and lifeless; a slow-motion world fit for movies about tragic discoveries and losses.

Social Networks as the new Online Search? I damn well hope not…

In this day and age the internet is forever changing. People throw around terms like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 as if they were candy, when in reality, the former is frustrating to hear every four minutes and the latter is nothing but nonsense.

The Internet and the Future

Hands up those who have heard the rumor that the internet isn’t capable of handling all we’re trying to throw at it. I assume that most of you have heard threats like this, and have been on the lookout for the internet’s successor.

Black Hole at Center of Milky Way’s Turbulent Past

Astronomical time is one of those things hard to get your head around. Some of us (ok, me) have enough trouble working out what day it is they are currently residing in. So when someone asks me to assume millions of years is nothing more than an astronomical blip, I get worried.

Immigration breaks backs of taxpaying U.S. citizens

Are you having a hard time paying your bills, making your mortgage payments or putting your kids through college? You need to know how much of your hard-earned income the government is skimming off and diverting into handouts to immigrants and illegal immigrants.

Democracy A to Z (America to Zimbabwe)

For all the shortcomings of American democracy there are two things of which we can be certain.

Reclaiming the English language from the CBC

The concept of language as a kind of lens or filter, or even straitjacket, cannot be over-stated. Wittgenstein said that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world.

Canada’s “Soldiers’ Soldier ” Resigns

Lt. General Rick Hillier is resigning. During Canada's deployment in Afghanistan, General Hillier has been the public face of the Canadian armed forces. At the close of 2007, I named General Hillier as one of my Heroes of the Year. (The co-Hero of the Year was General Petraeus.) Then I wrote (in part):