BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS June, 2015 At age 18, Debbie Lori Kaye became the youngest performer in history to have her own variety special on CBC TV. A tiny singer with a big voice, her star had been rising steadily
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JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 30, 2014 Japan this week launched a three-pronged response to China’s growing military and diplomatic shadow over Asia. In Singapore today, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged his country’s “utmost support” for the countries of Southeast Asia that are locked
JONATHAN MANTHORPE May 28, 2014 There is no comfort for Europe’s band of supporters of a bigger and more powerful political union that their side won nearly 64 per cent of the vote in last weekend’s election. That victory cannot override the reality
JONATHAN MANTHORPE May 23, 2014 China’s project to slowly gobble up sovereignty over the South China Sea and, with money and threats to cow the 10 countries of Southeast Asia into subservience, has made dramatic advances. Beijing will be well pleased with the
By BRIAN BRENNANMay 2014 After almost 30 years of seeking Hollywood’s attention, New York playwright Larry Kramer has finally gotten his wish. A film adaptation of his 1985 AIDS-crisis drama, The Normal Heart, will be shown Sun. May 25 on HBO in Canada
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 21, 2014 A day after declaring martial law, the first attempt by Thailand’s army to mediate an end to the country’s eight years of political turmoil ended inconclusively, with both major factions refusing to end their street protests. Hours after launching what
The death of the blues, though, came as a shock, said biologist Andrew Trites of the University of British Columbia. Scientists are pondering the repercussions of losing nine members of an endangered North Atlantic population of a mere 250 adults - fewer
When dead whales wash up in Newfoundland's small fishing villages the battle over who owns and who can do what with them begins. Story and pictures by Greg Locke in Woody Point, Newfoundland.
What were populations potentially at risk, are now the doomed. CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished May 17, 2014 If there were before some footing left for doubt, narrow and slippery though it might have been, there is none left now. The world as
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 14, 2014 Thailand’s military leaders are clear that they don’t want to launch another coup, but the growing intensity of the political chaos may give them little choice. Last week’s ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the Constitutional Court
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 9, 2014. The Chinese government seems determined to provoke a military clash with its neighbours over disputed ownership of islands and conflicting maritime boundaries. This week’s clashes between Vietnamese naval and coast guard vessels, and Chinese ships defending a deep-sea