Today in Kabul we’re expecting a  balmy high of 38 celsius, overnight low of 0, chance of raining shrapnel stands at 20%, chance of a Canadian pullout in 2011… ehhhh… depends who you ask.
The Harper government’s original plan was to abandon all military operations in Afghanistan by 2011, a war Canada had entered to kill [...]

When Parliament’s prorogued, it’s kind of hard to get good political news. The news cycle has pretty much been “Liberals outraged at prorogue”, “Conservatives shrug in apathy”, “Oh hey look more Tiger Woods shit!” So let’s look at some broader stories, one of which has been firing up Globe&Fail mouthpieces lately: the weird fetish Stephen [...]