Mad Canuck

This is my first Christmas since moving back to Canada from the United States, although for most of the six years I lived in the US we still...

Over the past few years, I have really marveled at how strange and convoluted the US policy is towards drivers licenses. Prior to 9/11, in m...

Earlier today, a US military judge in Guantanamo Bay ordered that the trial for Omar Khadr, the Canadian imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay ,...

This past Thursday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in the United States delivered a report to Congress titled "Security V...

After a bit of a hiatus from blogging, I am now back. For those of my old readers who kept coming back now and then, thank you for your pati...

Yes, the last two months I have not posted anything, and the past few I haven't posted as much as I used to. It's been a lot of work...

There is an old saying, “the devil makes work for idle hands.” Over the past few days, this saying has been proving itself out yet again in...

Yesterday, the radio talk show host Don Imus got himself into quite a lot of trouble by describing the Rutgers women’s basketball team as a...

Computer specialists rushing to patch systems and dire warnings about problems with computer scheduling. Did I just wake up in 1999 again? ...

Sorry for the delay in blogging. Over the past month, I completed my move back to the Toronto area. It's been stressful, but now that ...

Sorry I've been so long to post. I started my new job just under three weeks ago and have been busy traveling since. In the past three...

These two guys deserve medals. And, if I were President Bush, I would be flying them to Washington to present them personally: KABUL, Afgh...

This is a busy week for me. I am wrapping things up at my old job. My last day at my current job is tomorrow (Friday) here in New York, an...

Earlier today, news reports from Iraq indicated that Iraqi authorities have arrested a guard over the release of an unauthorized cellphone ...

A little more than 24 hours ago, Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq, the result of his death sentence he received as a result of the Dujail...

I'd like to wish a happy and blessed Eid al-Adha (feast of the sacrifice) to all my Muslim friends around the world. It is unusual this ...

Earlier today, Saddam Hussein was handed over from US custody to the Iraqi government and hanged. What will this mean for the situation on t...

Last week, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed a set of sanctions against the government of Iran and a handful of Irania...

Merry Christmas everyone! I am currently in Canada enjoying the holiday with my parents and my own family. To all my readers, I wish you al...

As I am preparing to move back to the Toronto area, I have been amazed at the kinds of remarks I've gotten from some of my American coll...

A few days ago, a Toronto judge ordered a Christmas tree moved out of the courthouse lobby and into a less-frequented corridor, out of fear ...

I have some big news that has been in the works for a few months now: I am taking a new job with a different company, and moving back to Ca...

Earlier today, I saw some news that I had trouble believing: congressman William Jefferson was re-elected to office . This is the same guy w...

The US government is made up of a collection of various departments, and sometimes these departments make policies that are incompatible wit...