Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean’s trip to Nunavut has made a monarchist of former republican and Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Steve Maher.
THE SIGHT — beautiful beyond words — of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean holding a bloody piece of raw seal heart in her viceregal mouth has convinced me to abandon my long-held republican beliefs and half-heartedly embrace [...]

So says Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (at right), a British Muslim peer, Conservative MP, and Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action.
PC SENSITIVITIES must not block efforts to protect women from forced marriage and violence, a leading Muslim peer said yesterday.
Sayeeda Warsi believes “white liberalism” – the belief people cannot talk about such matters because [...]

A mountain of evidence has accumulated indicating that children living with step-parents are at far greater risk of abuse than those living with biological parents. The Times of London columnist Camilla Cavendish wonders why British child-protection authorities are ignoring the elephant in the room.
The Cinderella Effect is the name given to analysis in Canada, the [...]

Jason Kenney is one of the few members of the Harper government who does the right thing, political correctness be damned.
The current guidebook for Canadian newcomers includes two pages on environmental stewardship and barely a mention of the Canadian military — and that has Jason Kenney hopping mad.
Kenney, the Conservative minister of citizenship and immigration, [...]

A Canadian tourist in New Zealand says she’s offended by Eskimo marshmallow candies. How crass is it to visit a foreign country and criticise the food?
A young Canadian tourist travelling in New Zealand, Seeka Parsons, says she was appalled by the sale of Eskimo sweets, an iconic marshmallow treat sold widely in corner stores [...]

Dr Sanity outlines the evolution of leftist strategy.
Read the whole thing.

The headline and opening sentence of the Church Times article make the Taliban sound like tolerant and open-minded multiculturalists.
Easter ‘with Taliban blessing’
EASTER DAY passed off without a hitch in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, thanks to the Taliban’s support
To read the rest, you need a subscription.
Fortunately, Andii Bowsher has a subscription and provides [...]

The Canadian flag used to hang from the ceiling of Wyckham House, the student centre at Mount Royal College, Calgary. It was taken down during renovations, but the students’ association is apparently having qualms about restoring it to its former place of honour. Students will be surveyed.
“We want to be as fully representative [...]

Shades of the fight over Kennewick Man. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, are outraged because administration officials have moved to give two 10,000-year-old skeletons to a Native American tribe. The local Kumeyaay tribe has asked for the skeletons, which were discovered in 1976. University of California president Mark Yudof [...]

Pope Benedict XVI has ruffled the feathers of Western public health officials for saying that condom distribution exacerbates the problem of AIDS—even though scientific studies back the pope’s position.
And I thought public health officials are interested in helping people to avoid getting sick.
The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) in a 2003 study indicated that condoms [...]

Research by a team of scientists from UCLA shows that intelligence is largely inherited.
In a study published recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, UCLA neurology professor Paul Thompson and colleagues used a new type of brain-imaging scanner to show that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain’s axons, or wiring that sends [...]

Pro-life students are suing Spokane Falls Community College over conditions administration officials imposed on an anti-abortion display. In a transparent effort to shut down pro-life opinion, the students were ordered to publicise views contradicting their convictions. So much for freedom of conscience (never mind freedom of speech) at Spokane Falls.
They wanted to post [...]

Where have we seen this before recently?
A speech by conservative writer Don Feder was disrupted by loud-mouthed “anti-hate” activists at the University of Massachusetts. His scheduled topic was hate crime legislation (he’s against it); but when obstreperous protestors entered the room, he took ‘em on.
Feder sternly redressed the crowd in his opening statement.
“You don’t [...]

The British Columbia College of Teachers began a a long-running campaign of professional persecution against school teacher Chris Kempling after he wrote letters to a local newspaper opposing normalisation of homosexuality. He was cited for misconduct and suspended in 2002. He initiated a legal challenge of the College’s actions, but the BC Court [...]

Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak has removed the justice portfolio from MLA Louis Tapardjuk because he wrote this in an e-mail to his staff:
“Often, in cases of domestic disputes, both parties share the blame but, according to the Criminal Code, the person who gets physical is charged, even though the other party initiated the conflict,” Tapardjuk [...]