The Vancouver Winter Olympics are upon us and all of Canada is abuzz with excitement.
Will Canada break free from being known as the only Olympic host nation in history not to win gold on home soil? Will Canada’s Own the Podium program produce the results we hope for?

Do we want a strategic plan for Queen’s University that privileges capital creation before quality education, reduces students to revenue units, excludes students from the decision-making process, and attracts global wealth instead of international students from diverse economic backgrounds?

Pursuing a post-secondary program is one of the first big decisions many of us make. Post-secondary education sets us on a career trajectory that typically influences the next several years—or decades—of our lives.

An executive decision

Udo Schüklenk Here’s the good news: this commentary won’t be accompanied by photos of a crying black baby or a maimed granny.
I’m sure those few who have watched TV programs other than Entertainment Tonight or TMZ will have noticed that an earthquake hit Haiti a week or so ago, killing scores of people and destroying much of what was left of the country’s dilapidated infrastructure.

I was born and raised Catholic in a small town in central Ontario. I attended Catholic elementary and secondary schools complete with uniforms, multiple daily prayer times, in-school masses, and compulsory religion classes.

Although I don’t agree with anything he says, Glenn Beck makes an important offering to the American political discourse.
For one, the television and radio host gives voice to a large group of people in the United States.

It was business as usual across the country on Dec. 30. No one seemed to notice our prime minister, Stephen Harper, personally take it upon himself to turn Canada into a part-time democracy.

Queen’s University has been traditionally known for its leaders of tomorrow, but campus politics at Queen’s today resemble a squabble among children rather than an open-minded, intellectual debate.
We see this in the form of federal and provincially-funded ideological interest groups that dominate the discourse of campus politics due to larger funding and organization.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen runs from Dec. 7 to 18, but we’re already beginning to hear the excuse parade from assorted world leaders skeptical that anything substantive will emerge from the meeting.
Since the last UN climate conference in Kyoto in 1997, climate change has evolved from a social and environmental issue into one universally recognized as having massive global security implications due to its impact on food supplies and drought caused by global warming.