Living while being gay still gets you killed in many parts of the world.

Pulsing with hate, powered by bigotry, mobs have brutally attacked and killed fellow citizens solely because the sexual orientation of their victims differed from that of the majority. Though it can happen anywhere, media reports suggest...

"I will dedicate myself to the service and well-being of the people of the Republic of Ghana and to do right to all manner of persons," reads Ghana's Presidential Oath. "Should I at any time break this Oath of office, I shall submit myself to the laws of the Republic...

Our security elites know better, but they're not talking.

Most Canadians understand why our political and business leaders have been doing everything they can to noisily sign trade agreements and commercial deals with China. We might even agree with some of it.

Who doesn't like pandas...

"Would you still watch hockey if fighting was banned?"

I put this question to my 22-year-old son, a dedicated hockey fan and nhl.com gamer. I asked him just after National Hockey League President Gary Bettman declared, brutally, that the findings of new research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or...

As inevitable as an Ottawa blizzard in January, the federal cuts are coming.

This is not a secret. Quite the contrary: through the sly press scrum musings of their ministers, the incendiary rhetoric of their foot soldiers in the House of Commons, and the forced and ragged rationales of their...

Don't even think about it.

That's the message that Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay and Chief of the Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk need to hear right now, as the federal government's spending review snakes through the bureaucracy, seeking new prey.

The fact is that a new front...

There is some movement now on the famine in and around Somalia.

As NGOs raise private donations that rich-country governments have promised to match, the UN's World Food Programme just airlifted 14 tons of nutritionally fortified food for children into Mogadishu.
This is dangerous work....

Dear Derek,

You have a lot to celebrate.

Your 3,000th hit was a home run that put your team back in the game. Your team went on to win, and you collected four more hits that day, adding an exclamation point to an already remarkable baseball achievement.

And...

"Lift as you climb."

That's what women leaders have to do as they rise through the ranks of government, business and the community sector: they must bring other women in the organization, especially younger ones, along with them, changing the organization as a whole as they move forward.

Homophobia has no place in women's soccer, at any level, anywhere.

This week's Women's World Cup of Football in Germany is a sporting event of great skill and drama, heroism and resilience. It is exciting to watch. Television coverage of this sport is improving steadily. Growing visibility and positive momentum...

The federal election of 2019 should be a very good one for the NDP.. Why? Because there'll be a lot more socialists in Canada by then -- thanks to the Tories.

Right now, nobody is promoting socialism better than the Harper Conservatives. It's becoming one of their core competencies.

In...

In addition to having really tall captains, and superb defensive skills, Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins, and NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks, have something else in common.

Their veterans came through in the playoffs -- big time.

For the Bruins, forward Mark Recchi recorded a goal or assist...

Understand. Plan. Act.

That's what we should do when something big and new comes along. That's what we need to do about the Chinese yuan.

Why? Because it's going to become an international currency within the next five to 10 years, maybe sooner. Institutions and individuals around the world will...

"Of course he should--it's ******* 2011!"

That's what our 20-year-old son said when I told him Steve Nash had made a video supporting same-sex marriage.

True, our son comes from a socially liberal family, lives in an urban centre, and, most importantly, belongs to a generation that is North America's...

So far, post-election media coverage has focused on domestic politics and internal party issues as the New Democratic Party assumes its parliamentary role as Canada's Official Opposition.

Fair enough. What positions the party will take on health care and pensions, how Leader Jack Layton and Quebec Lieutenant Thomas Mulcair will...