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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By Brian BrennanPublished October 10, 2013 On October 17, 2013, the American government could enter unchartered territory. If Congressional Democrats and Republicans cannot agree on raising the statutory borrowing limit known as the “debt ceiling,” the government could be forced to default
JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 9, 2013 Xi Jinping is not the first modern Chinese leader to threaten the island nation of Taiwan with invasion if they do not soon agree to hand their sovereignty to the Beijing regime. Indeed, it has become a
JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 4, 2013 The charm offensive at the United Nations General Assembly by Iran’s new President has isolated Israel and left the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with few options against Tehran’s nuclear threat. Israel has scant ability to
JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished: October 3, 2013 As China marks the 64th anniversary of the Communist Party coming to power, the country is facing growing uncertainty. The time approaches when confronting the contradictions in its political and social lives can no longer be avoided.
JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished September 27th, 2013. The 34 years of animosity that has marked relations between Iran and the United States took a new direction today when President Barack Obama had an apparently constructive telephone conversation with his new counterpart from Tehran, Hassan Rouhani.
CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITY Published September 27, 2013 Where I live, in Mexico, screens have been filled with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ingrid and tropical storm Manuel along the country’s coasts. Mexico is in no doubt about the reality of climate
JONATHAN MANTHORPEPublished September 25, 2013. One result of the siege of the Kenyan shopping mall occupied by Islamic militants will be to reinforce Washington’s determination to continue expanding its controversial military presence in Africa. The take-over of the up-market Westgate shopping centre
While Squamish, British Columbia and Yosemite, California are the major centres for rock climbing sports in North America, on the island at the far eastern edge of the continent Newfoundlanders have some pretty good rocks, too. The climbs are not as high,
JONATHAN MANTHORPE Published: September 18, 2013. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is moving to loosen constitutional restrictions on the use of the country’s armed forces, in response to increasing military pressure from China over disputed islands in the East China Sea. On Wednesday
The moratorium on fishing northern cod off Newfoundland hit like a shock wage in Bonavista, where people trace their ancestry – and reliance on the fish – back five centuries By Deborah Jones BONAVISTA, Newfoundland, Canada, 1993This summer, the smell