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How to Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice
Dave Gordon
Mon, 25 August 2008

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Parenting is a tough job, and when kids' challenges make it tougher, some parents unwittingly choose the easy, but wrong, responses. Sarah Chana Radcliffe, author and psychologist, wants to change that. How to Raise Your Kids Without Raising Your Voice is the newest book from Radcliffe, a mother of six, and a parent-educator with three decades of experience in parenting, marriage and individual counselling in Toronto....




Did Celine deserve an honorary doctorate?
Dave Gordon
Mon, 25 August 2008

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 Honorary doctorates used to be considered symbolic accolades for one’s scholarly contributions, innovations, and oeuvre of literary contributions. Laval University has added new criteria: Put out a collection of CDs and have a few top 40 hits.    Pop diva Celine Dion received an honorary doctorate from Laval University last week, coinciding with Quebec’s 400th anniversary celebrations.The National Post printed the announcement on Friday, August 22 (A6), where a story about Dr....




Goodbye to a Hero: ARTHUR STEWART COLLINS
Dave Gordon
Sat, 23 August 2008

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In his self-published autobiography, Before I Forget, Arthur Stewart Collins recalled how in elementary school he reveled in learning. “I loved history - the explorers, the pioneers, the nation builders, the war heroes.” It was he who later became the war hero, who went on to fly reconnaissance missions during World War Two. He died of natural causes on April 16, in Toronto, and was to turn 88 this month, on August 4.Mr....




John Edwards Made a Kosher Apology
Dave Gordon
Mon, 11 August 2008

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Every time that a public figure makes an apology, I get a thrill out of dissecting it for its flaws. Too many people think an apology is just saying you're sorry, as though accidentally stepping on someone's foot is the same as betraying someone's trust. Unfortunately, few public apologies really measure up. I am no fan of John Edwards....




The Jewish Defense League Returns to Canada
Dave Gordon
Mon, 28 July 2008

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 FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, July 28, 2008 The Jewish Defense League, which began some forty years ago, with chapters in the US, and eventually various parts of Europe, reestablished its Canadian office more than a year ago from over a decade hiatus, and endeavours to counteract anti-Israel activism, while proactively filling a void they say is left by the established Jewish community. The JDL made its most recent public event in March when it hosted a lecture featuring Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin in Toronto for about 350 attendees....




Iraq's Yellowcake is a Lesson for Iran in the Crosshairs
Dave Gordon
Tue, 15 July 2008

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 Some 550 tons of Saddam Hussein's nuclear yellowcake has just been shipped from his former storehouses, and taken to Canada for energy uses. This news item has renewed speculation over whether Saddam had, or could have had, nuclear missiles, and a delivery system for it, had the US not entered Iraq in 2003. In fact, one renowned intelligence expert, John Loftus, believes that some of the raw nuclear materials that Saddam had been building were secretly transferred to Syria or Sudan....




Time is Life’s Essence: Part One
Dave Gordon
Thu, 10 July 2008

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 One of the gravest sins a person can commit is one that, sadly, is done on a daily basis and is rarely recognized as wrong. Wasting someone's time is an ethical crime and a moral sin, but many people treat time – both their own and that of others – as an endless commodity that can be used or misused at will.  Committing this sin against another person is an act that God evaluates seriously, in large part because time is something that can never be refunded....




Parshat Devarim: Words, And How Best to Use Them
Dave Gordon
Fri, 8 August 2008

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 After reading this parsha, I am reminded of the greatest advice for offering criticism I have ever read: “A man convinced against his will, will be of the same opinion still.” Dale Carnegie wrote those golden words in his book “How to win friends and influence people” some seventy years ago. If there was a theme to this parsha, it would be those golden words. Moshe gave an overview of the community’s behaviours over the course of 38 years, rebuking the Israelites for a plethora of failures, including the Golden Calf, Korach’s rebellion, complaining about lack of food and water, etc....




An Apology Too Late, Isn’t Always Too Little
Dave Gordon
Wed, 6 August 2008

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 It's a stereotype come true. The ever-so polite Canadian so eagerly saying "sooory" has nowhere been more evident recently than the very person who represents Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He's been on an apology roll in the last year or so: Native residential school abuses, the Arar torture affair, Chinese head taxes, and lately for an embarrassing flap with an immigrant ship turned away almost a hundred years ago....




McGuinty’s (Lack of) Faith at Queen’s Park
Dave Gordon
Tue, 1 July 2008

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You may have heard that some want to take Christ out of Christmas, and give us all "happy holidays." In a recent example of sanitizing culture, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government wants to eliminate the Lord's Prayer from the daily proceedings in the Legislature. The prayer was a tradition established in 1793 under Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe....




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