LETTERS: Canada should invest into the Global Fund
“Although Monkeypox cases continue to swell in Canada and around the world, the virus doesn’t currently seem to have the biological potential to cause the next pandemic.”
Category: World News
LETTER: Poem for Ukraine
“Yes, the one who gave the promise will stand by it
and carry it through with victory and honour
to the precious and united people and leaders of Ukraine.”
Every four years, we ignore reality
By Adam Williams, Kamloops This Week Does anyone else find World Cup fever a tad strange? Don’t...
Populists wielding pitchforks
By Gwynne Dyer “There is no doubt that many populist, Euroskeptic and even nationalistic parties...
Welcome to the human era
By Gwynne Dyer There is no doubt that human beings are the dominant species on Earth. The seven...
Reclaiming Spain’s Jews
By Gwynne Dyer The Spanish parliament still has to pass the new citizenship law, but the cabinet...
Obama’s elephant in the room: Asia
By Gwynne Dyer Poor old Tony Blair is condemned to spend the rest of his life trying to justify...
Ukraine: stupidity in action
By Gwynne Dyer It’s all too easy to imagine the high-level meeting in Kiev where the Ukrainian...
How to avoid war in Ukraine
By Gwynne Dyer On one hand, eastern Ukraine appears to be slipping out of the government’s control...
Afghanistan mission not accomplished
By Gwynne Dyer Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron rambled a bit on his visit to Afghanistan...
Ban on Russian vodka a weak protest
In protest to the crisis in Crimea, the government of Manitoba is considering hitting Russia where...
How far will paranoia drive Putin?
By Gwynne Dyer Crimea is going to be part of Russia, and there is nothing anybody else can do...
Even revolution can’t keep capitalism at bay
By Christopher Foulds For a few years, I worked with a reporter who was born in what was then East...
Will India swing hard right?
By Gwynne Dyer An Indian election is a marathon, not a sprint. The voting will start in a month’s...
Looking at Ukraine after revolution
By Gwynne Dyer From a Ukrainian point of view, the priority is not to throw their revolution away...
It’s all about abrupt climate change
By Gwynne Dyer This is not how it was supposed to happen. The standard climate-change predictions...
John Kerry’s quixotic Middle East quest
By Gwynne Dyer John Kerry has been U.S. Secretary of State for precisely one year. During that...
Suspend your disbelief and get lost at sea
It’s the sort of story you would expect to see on the big screen (and if you’ve seen the 2000 Tom...
Mars mission out of this world?
A handful of people from B.C. have made the next round of interviews to be part of Mars One’s...
Supervolcanoes: Yet another thing to worry about
By Gwynne Dyer The good thing about volcanoes is that you know where they are. If you don’t want...
