I believe Justin Trudeau has made quite a decent prime minister, certainly at least a major improvement over his predecessor. The only important disappointment for…

Maybe I’m getting too old to change, but rather than making resolutions for the New Year, I decided to do wishes instead. My number one…

On September 11th, 2001, the Islamist extremist group al-Qaeda carried out one of the most dramatic terrorist attacks in history on the United States. It…

So many people from the rest of the country are moving to Alberta that the province has cancelled its "Alberta is Calling” program. The program,…

Rudolph Giuliani was once a man of substance. A man of integrity. He served as the U.S. Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and…

It’s all up and down with democracy these days as right-wing populists, some bordering on fascism, come and go. The most prominent case, of course,…

Maybe it took an oilman to do it. When Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates was appointed President of the UN Climate…

I have long been intrigued at how men who inflict torture and murder on their fellow human beings can consider themselves moral leaders. History is…

It doesn’t seem to have attracted the attention it deserves but 2023 is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration…

Perhaps the most famous border in the world is the one along the Rio Grande that separates Mexico from the United States. It is almost…

With gorgeous blue prairie skies all too often transformed into smoky shrouds, we have just experienced a summer that brought climate change home. We are…

Some Republican-led American states are changing how students in their public schools are taught civics. The new standards focus on patriotism, Christianity and anti-communism. Hands-on…