KABUL — Yesterday’s news from Toronto, my Canadian home, was that the mayor had caved in to pressure from the unions and surrendered the keys to the city. After a 36 day municipal workers’ strike, it appears the city has agreed to a contract that is largely unchanged from what was offered by the union […]
DUBAI — I had an unusual chance on Wednesday to watch the back end of U.S. president Barack Obama’s press conference on health care. He answered a number of questions
with answers that were, for a politician, unusually lengthy and detailed. The last question was off-topic, asking for his opinion of the hoopla surrounding the arrest […]
DUBAI — An article in today’s Los Angeles Times provides good evidence that the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan “gets it” when it comes to counter-insurgency warfare there. The article announces a new U.S. military policy to forego body counts in future press releases.
For some time now, ISAF and U.S. military spokespeople have touted the […]
TORONTO — A story in today’s Toronto Star provides a perfect illustration of what ails Canada’s biggest city. Always worried that Toronto isn’t as “world class” as the Joneses of New York, London or Paris, Mayor David “Nero” Miller and his left-wing council decided that the city’s street vendors should offer a better class of […]
TORONTO — Michael Jackson is still dead. Film at, well… continuously.
TORONTO — Since June 22, Canada’s largest city, Toronto, has been embroiled in a symptomatic strike by its city-workers that has residents fuming (or at least gagging on fumes). Striking workers include garbage collectors, parks and recreation staff, ferry workers, etc. It is the garbage collectors, however, who are the most galling — next, that […]