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Abortion Again: Canada & the G8
"The details remain to be determined. However, Canada's contribution will not include funding of abortions." This was one of International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda's statements regarding the Canadian government's recent decision to not include abortion funding along with other G8 funding for things such as family planning and the use of contraceptive...
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Unfairly Grounded? Were the airplanes unfairly grounded? In the aftermath of the recent...
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Don't Forget Haiti News media is always looking for the next big story. Even...
Yesterday Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, opened fire at the Fort Hood military base in Killeen, Texas, killing 13 people. The BBC reports: The shooting began at about 1330 (1930 GMT) on Thursday at a personnel and medical centre at Fort Hood - the largest US military base in the world, home to about 40,000 troops. The commander...
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Forty years ago today, man stepped on to the moon for the first time. Neil Armstrong touched his foot to the dusty surface and said “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”. Armstrong wasn’t only stepping on to the moon that day. He, along with Buzz Aldrin and pilot Michael Collins, stepped straight into the history...
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The G8 leaders summit is an annual gathering of eight of the world's most powerful government leaders. The purpose of the summit is to discuss important world issues, and besides the economy, the main topic of discussion seems to be the environment and climate change. US President Barack Obama is heading the Major Economies Forum, attended by...
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"The world is watching. And how they approach and deal with people who are, through peaceful means, trying to be heard will, I think, send a pretty clear signal to the international community about what Iran is and is not. ... This is not an issue of the United States or the West versus Iran. This is an issue of the Iranian people." (President Barack...
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. On June 4 1989, hundreds of protestors were killed in Beijing, China, and thousands more left wounded, after the ruling Communist Party of China government commenced military intervention. The event was immortalized, in part, by the famous "Tank Man" photo and video of a lone, unknown...
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In the aftermath of the United States military response to the car–bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August, New York’s John Cardinal O’Connor drew a distinction between ad hoc, after–the–fact moral judgments about such particular responses to terrorism and a serious national effort to add a moral dimension to policy...
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The recent news about "Swine Flu" has caused widespread concern, perhaps with memories of the SARS outbreak only a few years ago, which ended up killing over 900 people, still fresh in our minds. Today the Toronto Star provided a helpful list of questions and answers about Swine Flu: Q: What can I do to prevent myself from getting the flu? A:...
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