Tag: Columnists
Dyer: American rhetoric on Russian invasion of Ukraine grows less plausible
On Jan. 18 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “our assessment has been that (a Russian invasion of Ukraine) could happen any time between mid-January and mid-February.” On Jan. 28 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said the United States sees “every indication that (Russian President Vladimir Putin) is going to use military […]
Chamberlain: Could Ottawa police be sued for convoy failures?
Lawsuits are slow, rough and uncertain tools for addressing negligence by public authorities
Baranyai: Big chocolate producers slow to address human trafficking, child labour problems
After winning her first gold medal in Beijing this week, skier Eileen Gu charmed the world with her plans to open a bag of Ghirardelli chocolate peppermint bark, a disarmingly ordinary pleasure for a world-class athlete. Chocolate can be many things: a celebration, a consolation, an indulgence and an aphrodisiac. It can be a romantic […]
Sims: I feel ‘bad’ that kind criticism seems so rare
Apologies to all who winced a little after reading the first line of Wednesday’s column where I admit I committed a grammatical faux pas. My heart was in the right place. I wanted to write that “I felt BAD,” for the fully vaccinated, hard-working truck drivers trying to avoid the chaos going on at Windsor’s […]
Sims: Time to scrap testing rules, again, at Canada-U.S. border
I felt badly for those hard-working, fully vaccinated truckers lined up to get to the Blue Water Bridge after re-routing from the anti-government protests in Windsor. A transport traffic jam was backed up 10 kilometres at one point. By contrast, the cars-only lanes were practically empty. That’s not surprising since the federal government re-instated the […]