Friday, May 4, 2012

Conrad Released.. Students Bare All (Almost).. Air Canada Loss

Friday, May 4, 2012
Some Quebec students were baring it all – or close to it – in their anti-tuition fight.
He's OUT (And He Divides Us Still)
Air Canada Profit Plunges
Mulroney: 'I Miss The Adulation'
Mint Strikes Last Penny Today
Rookie MPs Get Their Report Cards
BLOG POSTS
Douglas Anthony Cooper: Has Bill Maher Been Sucked In by PETA's Naked Celebrities?
2012-04-06-PETAfinalGREEN51.jpgBill Maher is pretty much the last person you'd expect to get sucked in by PETA, Ingrid Newkirk's cult of euthanasia. For Maher to uncritically cheerlead for one of the ugliest cults in America is truly disheartening. And, unlike most of the celebrity cults, PETA does real damage, on a gruesome scale.
Peter Worthington: Oh Please! Lord Black is no Omar Khadr
Like him or not, approve of him or not, despair of him or not, Conrad Black is as Canadian as maple syrup and a hockey stick, and neither a threat nor a danger to fellow Canadians -- unlike, say, Omar Khadr.
J.J. McCullough: Why the Media Hate-On for Quebec Students?
2012-04-27-mediabitesreal.jpgTwo quiet professors in yesterday's Globe and Mail drew upon that rarest resource in opinion writing (actual evidence). They noted one of the great unspoken truths about post-secondary education in Canada: the leading variable determining whether kids attend university or not is usually cultural pressure within one's social class -- not cost. For some reason, asking university-educated journalists to analyze politically active university students rarely yields these sorts of conclusions, however.
Marvin Ross: Your Police Officer is not Your Therapist
The Ontario Government has announced they will review how the police respond to the mentally ill. This latest concern about an age-old problem has resulted from a number of fatal shootings involving the police and people with mental illness in Toronto. The police are not mental health professionals and they should not be expected to spend as much time as they do dealing with sick people.
Chris Jancelewicz: The Avengers: Rating The Movie's Superheroes
Some of the Avengers hit their character's mark better than others. Who lights up the screen the most? Who do we really end up caring about? Here, in a very particular order, are rankings for the Avengers.

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