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There’s a strain of well-meaning people on both the left and the right who mistakenly think the best way to encourage better choices is to rigidly restrict people’s range of choices.
Just one month after Paul Gallant wrote in EYE WEEKLY (in “All laid out,” on June 18) about how the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision legalizing on-premises sex clubs — previously outlawed as bawdy ...
In the old west, a special kind of derision was reserved for horse thieves. A horse was not just another possession, and not even just another animal — to steal a man’s cattle was to steal some ... (3)
We first encountered EYE WEEKLY contributor Shawn Micallef in 2004, when our then associate editor (now City editor) Edward Keenan was working on a story about the absence of historical plaques in ...
Dr. Henry Morgentaler is a true Canadian hero and a tribute to our country’s ethos of growth through immigration: an Auschwitz survivor who declined to move to Israel because he didn’t believe in Zionism, Morgentaler settled in Montreal and, after years ... (1)
We were relieved to read of the decision of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) declining to hear the recent complaint against Maclean’s magazine and polemicist Mark Steyn. As we’ve written here before, we felt the complaint brought by the ...
On average, 135 Canadians every year are struck by lightning. Some are left brain damaged or blind or deaf; they may experience comas and seizures or heart attacks. An average of 10 per year die from the electrocution. As far as lightning goes, the most ...
Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice, US ambassador David Wilkins and the owners of major record labels and movie studios are not a sympathetic bunch — especially when they make proclamations like Prentice’s description of Bill C-61, the Harper ...
Oh, the visionless Conservative Party of Canada thinks they’ve stumbled on a winner with their moronic, oil-splattered anti-carbon tax ads that made the front pages earlier this week even though they may or may not ever run at gas pumps, where they were ... (3)
As regular readers of this magazine know, we love bikes. Most of us ride them to work every day, and we’ve used this space god knows how many times to assail the city for not acting on its long-dormant Bike Plan.