Monday May 12, 2008
Former cabinet minister left the world a little greener
A squad of volunteers will fan out around Ottawa today delivering oak saplings to friends and admirers of Carletto (Charles) Caccia, one of the most compelling and persistent politicians to have landed on Parliament Hill in many decades.
An epic that refuses to fade to black
It has been cool and rainy down here on the West Coast.Winds some times gust in off the Pacific and snap the Stars and Stripes hanging off the stern of the two-masted Ghost.
Obama is taking on McCain despite what Clinton says
Some time over the weekend, depending on whose count you use, Hillary Clinton fell behind in the superdelegate count, laying to rest her last, best hope.Barring a cataclysm that no one even wants to imagine, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is now the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
Serbs reject ultra-nationalists
Serbian voters seem to have put aside their anger over the independence of Kosovo and, in a dramatic surprise result, embraced a pro-European future in an election that had earlier been expected to return the country to the angry ethnic nationalism of the 1990s.
Ribeiro, Osgood stay in the game
The verdict came early last night: Dallas Stars forward Mike Ribeiro will not be suspended for his love tap, baseball-style, on Detroit Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood as time ran out in the Stars' 2-1 loss on Saturday.
Philadelphia not feeling lucky
The Philadelphia Flyers were much better in all areas last night except one - luck.In the second game of their NHL playoff series with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flyers did a better job of checking Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby. Their goaltender, Martin Biron, was much better. But their luck was just as bad as it was coming into the Eastern Conference final as the Penguins grabbed a 4-2 win and 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
What's plaguing the immigration system
Auditor-General Sheila Fraser reported last week that Canada's border agency had lost track of about 41,000 individuals who should have been deported. Most of them are refugee claimants who failed to prove their case. Some of them might have quietly blended into society - albeit, I suppose, under a different identity - or left the country without the authorities knowing.
The man who cried wolf has a point
With the publication of another Mel Hurtig book, the temptation is to run for cover. Oh gawd, spare us another rant on how the elites have sold out the country.
U.S. mission to Mars has Canadian link
A U.S. spacecraft named Phoenix is speeding toward Mars - and Canadian scientists are admittedly nervous. That's because the probe, which is supposed to touch down on Mars later this month, is carrying a Canadian-built weather station.
