Henry Morgentaler 's successful (if controversial) nomination is just another episode in a life full of controversy thanks to his position as Canada's most visible abortion doctor. Some opponents...by arsonists blew the wall out at No. 85. No one was ever charged. A small apartment is there now, next to Ms. Emma Designs at No. 87. Earlier this week, Dr. Morgentaler was named to the Order of Canada.

I'm willing to claim that The Globe and Mail of Toronto is the closest thing that all Canada has to The New York Times . Certainly the Globe 's thicker on Saturdays than the NYT. Regardless, here's...diaspora fostering new bond with homeland ) about how, with growing immigration and China's success, new generations of Chinese-Canadians are coming to identify more closely and proudly with China.

Paul Weinberg at NOW Magazine ( "No perfect victims" ) touches briefly on the reasons why some people are supporting Toronto's Omar Khadr despite his family's decided dodginess. Torontoist's latest...the safe" ) taking apart the claims that Toronto's exceptionally dangerous among big cities or that Toronto has grown increasingly dangerous over time. Today is John Simcoe Day! (More on that later.)

Reuters reports on the latest round of Cypriot reunification talks. The decision of the leaders of both sides to initiate the talks is hoepful, but is this likely to end in something, I ask my readers...noble His Royal Highness Duke Carl Herzog von Wurttemberg after the Soviet invasino of Czechoslovakia, has been bought up by an environmental group that wants to operate it as a nature reserve.

"Because when government is the enemy of marriage, then the people who are actually creating successful marriages have no choice but to change governments, by whatever means is made possible or necessary." Am I self-hating if I still like the author's Pastwatch ?

Dana Millbank's coverage in the Washington Post of the testimony given before the United States' Congress by one Elaine Donnelly, President of the Center for Military Readiness , against the idea...his time at swimming pools. The anti-Semite is like that, and one of the elements of his hatred is a profound sexual attraction toward Jews (46) ( 1995 edition ) Ah, the powers of repression.

Claus Vistesen worries that the economy of the Eurozone may be about to jump off a cliff. Amused Cynicism's Phil Hunt lets us know that Britain, too, has public officials who refuse to provide...cities and at the lowest end of American ones. Martin Wisse points out that the groups that decry terrorism can feel quite free to shove their own terrorist histories under the nearest rug.

First, from The Toronto Star , confirmation that two people were shot, one a woman who was hit in the ankle by a bullet, the other a man who seems to have been shot in the chest. Police are still...by a French magazine and publicized by a Swedish journalist. Finally, Martin Wisse reinforced from a recent annafdd comment elsewhere on the extreme subjectivity of the "race" used in "racism."

From the Canadian Press, "Lawyers, advocates dispute Harper claim of 'no real alternative' on Khadr" . Prime Minister Stephen Harper is playing fast with the facts when he says the Conservative government...in my mind that they're guilty of aiding and abetting torture, criminally . . . . It is a criminal offence." I've said before that Canada has had too many torture-related scandals of late, right

A couple of days ago, as if thinking of my most recent post on ethnic conflict in Canada , Torontoist's Kevin Plummer had an interesting post up there part of their Historicist series, "Orangemen and... there's a commenter at Torontoist who defends the glorious fredeoms of the Glorious revolution against the people who respect an authoritarian pope. I guess that some thinks do manage to hang around