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Pornography found in bin Laden hideout: U.S. officials

Fri, 13 May 2011 12:39:35 -0700

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Too smart, too Black?

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Richard Gwyn - Sep. 10 (Opinion) - Is Obama to smart and too Black for declining America?

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Oilsands pollution exceeds official estimates

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - Dec. 08 (News Report) - An independent study suggests pollution from Alberta's oilsands is nearly five times greater and twice as widespread as industry figures say. The study says toxic emissions from the controversial industry are equal to a major oil spill occurring every year. Government and industry officials say contamination in area soils and rivers is natural, but the report links it firmly to oilsands mining.

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Westhead: Pakistan's 'Path to Salvation'?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Unknown - Oct. 19 (News Report) - "The Pakistan army has started a ground assault in its remote, mountainous region of South Waziristan, opening a high-profile battle against Islamic militants in an area near the Afghanistan border that's acted as a lawless terrorist safe haven".

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News & Features | Why Americans can't talk about health care

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Kenneth Kidd - Aug. 15 (News Analysis) - For Canadians and Europeans, who tend to view medical care as a civic right alongside the vote, the current debate over the U.S. health-care system can often seem puzzling – not just in its intensity, but how a government role marks such an emotional divide. The United States spends more on health care than any other country on the planet, about 16 per cent of gross domestic product, compared with 10 per cent in Canada. Nearly half of all that spending already passes through government hands via the likes of Medicaid and Medicare, the program for seniors. And yet there are still nearly 50 million Americans without insurance of any kind. Why?

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How Did 100,000,000 Women Disappear?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Nicole Baute - Jun. 06 (News Report) - Two researchers crunching population statistics have confirmed an unsettling reality. Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray noticed the ratio of women to men in developing regions and in some cultures is suspiciously below the norm.

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Looking for a net gain in the energy sector

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Tyler Hamilton - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Give him $50 million, he says, and within four years he and his small team of scientists and engineers at General Fusion will show a world trying to wean itself off carbon-based fuels how to fuse atoms on the cheap.

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Ruling would 'bankrupt this province'

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Tracey Tyler - Apr. 08 (News Report) - The problems were traced to chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins, seeping into the creek and well water from truckloads of waste asphalt and concrete buried on the farm in the 1960s, after Ontario's transportation ministry reconstructed the intersection at Highways 9 and 23. Last year, a trial judge found the province negligent and ordered it to pay the Berendsens $1.7 million. But after a 14-year legal battle, the province wasn't prepared to give up. Yesterday, a lawyer for the attorney general told the Ontario Court of Appeal that the ruling, if allowed to stand, "would bankrupt this province."

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Liberals face their own economic challenge

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By David Crane - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - A challenge for the Liberal party is to demonstrate that it recognizes the fundamental importance of an innovative, entrepreneurial economy where the state is an active and supporting partner. For example, that Liberals should champion government that is more proactive in facilitating innovation and entrepreneurship to create the businesses and jobs of the future. It also means stronger support for city-regions, which are crucial engines of innovation and job-creation.

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'Cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache'

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Tim Harper - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Meet the real pit bull. The one without the lipstick. Rahm Emanuel, the 48-year-old Chicago congressman expected to be named U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's new chief of staff, is a sometimes abrasive man who could have one key role in the coming months that will be watched intently in Ottawa.

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Business | Why Canada may dodge U.S. crisis

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By David Olive - Oct. 04 (News Analysis) - [Prime Minister] Harper said, "The economic and financial mess in the United States is disastrous. The policies have been irresponsible. We've made different choices in Canada. We are not bailing out companies in Canada."

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China's uphill Olympic sprint

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:37:33 -0700

Toronto Star - Aug. 03 (Editorial) - The Chinese people are "crossing fingers for a gold spree on home soil" when the Beijing Olympics kick off Friday, as the China Daily newspaper put it a few days ago. And well they might, after spending $42 billion to host China's first-ever Games. China's leaders hope the Aug. 8-24 Games will boost China's image, kindle patriotism, legitimize the Communist regime and win respect by showcasing the country's vast potential, $4 trillion economy and openness to the world. In little more than a generation, China's 1.3 billion people have liberated themselves from Mao-style totalitarianism and deep poverty. Their progress has been astonishing. The opening ceremony in the spectacular "Bird's Nest" national stadium is planned to be a sparkling welcome for 500,000 visitors and 11,000 athletes. And most observers expect the 2008 Games to be a sporting success. But the choreography and sports records will not dispel the shadows that have already fallen over these Games. Sadly, China's political elite has not grown with the nation. President Hu Jintao presides over a technocratic regime that lacks the legitimacy that democratic elections bring. It fears dissent, is reflexively authoritarian, bristles at criticism and refuses to be held accountable for shortcomings. As a result, the sprint to Friday's opening ceremony has been an uphill one, marred by one hapless stumble after another.

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Made-in-America China the worst of both worlds

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Rosie DiManno - Aug. 01 (Opinion) - Without a shot fired, the Middle Kingdom has been invaded, swamped by the West, gluttonous in its appetite for all things foreign and bourgeoisie, racing at warp speed toward a different kind of class conformity than that espoused by Chairman Mao - who's still dead, still on embalmed display, but increasingly a red-faced embarrassment to China un-bound.

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Khadr video released

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - Jul. 15 (News Report) - The Pentagon forbids the release of any videos or pictures of Guantanamo detainees and for years the Canadian government has resisted any requests by Khadr's lawyers to turn over the recording. In May, lawyers Nathan Whitling and Dennis Edney won a ruling at the Supreme Court that compelled the government to disclose the video of Khadr's interrogation and previously classified documents on his case. Khadr's lawyers hope the short clip of the video posted online today will create an outcry in Canada and pressure Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand that the U.S. halt their war crimes prosecution of Khadr, the last Western detainee still imprisoned in Guantanamo.

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Breakfast with Kabul's shadowy spy-master

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:32:34 -0700

Toronto Star - By Rosie Dimanno - Jun. 28 (Interview) - KABUl-He is, this fellow who was smiling pleasantly across eggs-over-easy, among the most feared men in Afghanistan. I cannot reveal his name. That proviso for the interview came directly from President Hamid Karzai. The Star can describe him only as a "top official" with the National Directorate of Security - Afghanistan's blood-chilling domestic intelligence service. "I am a spy," he shrugs. A torturer, perhaps, if human rights agencies are to be believed, or at least the man who bids others to do torturing on the nation's behalf, in pursuit of critical information: thousands of agents fanning across the land, infiltrating Taliban cadres, listening, watching, detaining. "We do not torture," he objects. "But interrogation is not negotiation. It's not chatting over coffee. It's a very intense conversation. We conduct very intense conversations to get information from people. "But the law is very clear. We cannot physically harm a suspect. We do not slap, we do not beat, we do not use electrical prods.

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Rice export cap mulled as supplies lag demand

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - Apr. 03 (News Report) - Indonesia, the world's third-largest rice producer, may join China, India, Vietnam and Egypt in curbing exports as declining inventories threaten to spark unrest around Asia.

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Women march on for equality

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Paola Loriggio - Mar. 09 (News Report) - Women's groups and governments around the world have honoured women on March 8 for more than a century, though it wasn't until 1975 that the date officially became International Women's Day. Chantal Sundaram, who helped organize Toronto's march and rally, explains what makes it so important.

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Gitmo 'Attack Dog' Turns on His Pentagon Masters

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By William Glaberson - Mar. 04 (News Report) - Whatever happens, some advocates for detainees say officials may have difficulty erasing the image of a uniformed former Guantanamo champion challenging them directly - particularly one known for scorched-earth attacks on adversaries, be they terror suspects or lawyers.

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Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Catherine Porter - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - Some say as many as 470 mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia have been flattened this way. For the industry, it's a financial jackpot - fast, cheap and thorough. But for the mountains, and the communities nestled between them, it's war. Their homes have been flooded, walls cracked, wells poisoned, streams polluted; their jobs have been forfeited, cemeteries unearthed and communities abandoned. Many suffer from early-onset dementia and kidney stones. And they've lost their ancestral home.

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Marketers see Red over Ad Age story

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:28:21 -0700

Toronto Star - By Michelle Henry - Mar. 11 (News Report) - Billboards hawking Red the campaign, and items manufactured in the colour red, such as special American Express credit cards, T-shirts, Motorola cellphones and iPods, are hard to miss - they're everywhere. The article, titled "Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million," charges that the Gap, Motorola and Apple have spent a collective $100 million (all figures U.S.) marketing Red, but they've sent only $18 million overseas in aid. "It's journalists vs. charity," Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom says about the furor that's erupted since the Wednesday printing. "Red is saying we did this terrible thing and the entire story is inaccurate."

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Blueprint green

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:59:29 -0800

Toronto Star - By Peter Gorrie - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Mayor David Miller wants to be part of that movement. "We will be the leading environmental city in North America, without question," he vowed in the Star last month. We intend to track how well Miller and his council keep that pledge. We've consulted experts who are proposing major targets for environmental change, and we're setting out the crucial steps necessary to reach them. We'll use the benchmarks to assess Toronto and compare it to other cities.

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Avatar in virtual world aids awareness program

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:59:25 -0800

Toronto Star - By Peter Krivel - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - Madelyn Herschorn works during the day as the Alzheimer Society of Ontario's director of marketing and communications. She does virtually the same job in the evening, except that she's known as Millicent Holsworthy when she's moonlighting. "One of our biggest roles is to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease, and if we have to go to another world to do it, that's what's taking us there," Herschorn says of the society's foray into a virtual world called Second Life.

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Secular Europe's fundamental test

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:05:00 -0800

Toronto Star - By Sandro Contenta - Dec. 30 (Special Report) - Ganging up on Islam is a sign of the times in Europe. Whether it's British cabinet ministers launching an attack on the veil, the Netherlands proposing to ban the head-to-toe-covering burqa, or France banning headscarves in schools, all forced tense national debates over a tiny, almost invisible minority of women. These issues are certainly topics for discussion in a continent where the integration of 15 million Muslims is probably the most pressing challenge. But the message too often, even in countries with a multicultural model, is that citizens can't be Europeans and devout Muslims at the same time.

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Islam thrives as Russia's population falls

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:43:38 -0800

Toronto Star - By Michael Mainville - Dec. 03 (Special Report) - The Sobornaya Mosque is one of only four mosques in Moscow serving a Muslim population of 2.5 million -- the largest of any European city. Crammed amid the grey monoliths of Moscow's 1980 Olympics complex, it was the only Islamic house of worship allowed to function during the Soviet period, usually empty due to religious repression.

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A genome gem uncovered

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:38:43 -0800

Toronto Star - By Megan Ogilvie - Nov. 23 (News Report) - A Toronto-led team of international researchers has revealed a new map of the human genome that will break new ground in finding out the genetic origins of disease...The study, published yesterday in the journal Nature, also reveals that genetic variation between humans is much greater than previously thought.

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