Category: Editorials

Treading on unfamiliar turf: culture wars

TORONTO – The unthinkable is happening before our very eyes. An American president and American members of Congress (primarily Democrats) are condemning Israel for ‘crossing the line’ in its Gaza political strategy. More importantly, it the USA has now ordered a hold on weaponry allocated to Israel as part of its USD 15 billion aid package for the purpose of defending ‘Israel’s right to exit’. 

We are a rule of law country…

TORONTO – It is a self-glorifying, quasi-condescending observation towards “peoples” who do not appear to share the same “Olympian standards of deference” to the law that we claim for ourselves. As I watched some video reproductions of Sikh Vaisakhi parades in Vancouver last week, I kept thinking of a Hero in Canadian Journalism – Tara Hayer – who risked Limb and then Life to expose the truth so that we could say Canada is a “rule of law country”.