Luke Kelly was one of our greatest traditional singers as both a member of the legendary Dubliners and a solo performer. He was mourned not just across Ireland but around the world when he died at the age of 43 after suffering a brain tumour on stage in Cork, and was operated on that night. […]

On Sept. 14, 2001, Congress wrote what would prove to be one of the largest blank checks in the country’s history. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists gave President George W. Bush authority to attack the Taliban, the Sunni fundamentalist force then dominating Afghanistan that refused to turn over the mastermind of […]

I’ve been paying your 13-year-old daughter in Amazon vouchers for me to have unfettered access to her phone. I can see what is in every window or what is on the screen at any time. I can see what apps she uses and how much she uses them and what she does on them. Does […]

If you live in Dublin and would like to vote for the Nimby Party at the May local elections, you will be spoiled for choice. Prospective candidates bemoan Dublin’s severe housing shortage while they campaign shamelessly against every proposed residential development. They have co-conspirators in Cork. Accommodation costs, especially in Dublin, are unaffordable even for […]

All states have interests in the wider world. They pursue those interests in a range of ways: from exercising whatever power they have to persuading others to want what they want. Democracies, unlike non-democracies, must also consider their values in deciding how they act in the world. When interests and values clash, governments in democracies […]

In a city where winter can be almost guaranteed to bring temperatures below -30 C, saving homeless people and other vulnerable persons from severe frostbite or even death is a complex project. It relies on a lot of goodwill and elbow grease from Winnipeg’s non-profit groups and, despite efforts, street people still often need to […]

In a sense it’s not surprising that a renewed debate about abortion would begin in New York State, which passed a law last week — since imitated, to more controversy, by Virginia Democrats — ratifying the right to kill human beings in utero in the third trimester. Almost 50 years ago, in 1970, New York […]

A Calgary company will be front and centre for the second year in a row at the Super Bowl on Sunday — but not in they way you might imagine. Street Characters Inc. created Pat, the mascot for the New England Patriots, and Rampage, the Los Angeles Rams’ mascot. “It’s thrilling,” company founder Glenn Street […]

To be fair, the person who left the newspaper clipping on my desk thought they were helping. ‘It’s a scandal that working mothers are 40pc more stressed than other people’, the headline ran. The clipping detailed the findings of a new study, by the Universities of Manchester and Essex, which has reported that chronic stress […]

Canada’s government has a plan to protect the integrity of our next federal election from foreign interference. It’s a real problem. Many of our allies have already seen such interference already. Canada will absolutely be targeted — if we’re at each other’s throats at home, we’re less effective abroad. That suits the interests of many […]