Jack's Newswatch

How was your week? Glenn Beck’s was pretty good, thanks. On Saturday he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and faced a crowd conservatively estimated at one million people (but liberally estimated at 87,000). “Something that is beyond man is happening,” Beck said. “America today begins to turn back to God.” Two days [...]

Canada #1 — CBC | Harper ‘Bloc bashing’: MP The Bloc Québécois MP who accused the prime minister of sending propaganda to high school students says Stephen Harper is taking the opportunity to indulge in “Bloc bashing.” [...] #2 — CNews | 100 days for repeatedly raping girl CALGARY – Repeatedly raping and sodomizing a [...]

WASHINGTON—The most powerful voice in America’s energy debate is coming to Ottawa for a series of meetings to learn more about Canada’s controversial oilsands development, the Star has learned. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected in the Canadian capital Wednesday and Thursday for a summit of G8 Speakers. But the journey now will include several [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai has again challenged the patience of his international backers as he desperately tries to keep an FBI-sponsored corruption investigation from breaching the walls of the presidential palace. At the center of the controversy is a body set up in February by the FBI and supported by the Afghan Interior [...]

The corralling of 250 people at Queen and Spadina Streets for hours in torrential rain at the end of Toronto’s G20 summit remains a flashpoint in a weekend that saw the largest mass arrests in Canadian history. In the face of an onslaught of complaints, lawsuits and inquiries, Toronto police Chief Bill Blair on Thursday [...]

In tiny Ahousaht, an isolated Nuu-chah-nulth community off the coast of Tofino, B.C., concepts like the Criminal Code of Canada and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are called “European law.” For many on the reserve, which has seen more than its share of tragedy, it remains a foreign justice system, one that has done [...]

Liberals have become hysterical. Who can blame them? Just when things were going so well, their beloved leader has done the unthinkable – he has flopped. Not only has President Obama crashed in the polls, but he has managed to anger the right, the left and the center of the country, not an easy feat. [...]

OTTAWA — Questioning the country’s top cops’ motive for supporting the long-gun registry isn’t only the province of crazies. While Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz caused a furor this week when he opined in an online op-ed the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police support the registry as a furtive means of taking away Canadians’ guns, [...]

Various polls report that George W. Bush in some states is now better liked than President Obama. Even some liberal pundits call for Bush, the now long-missed moderate, to draw on his recognized tolerance and weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque or the Arizona anti-immigration legislation. Apparently the erstwhile divider is now the healer [...]

According to media reports this week, the federal Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) is undertaking a project to review best practices on the nation’s Indian reserves. Officials made a list of Canada’s 65 most economically successful aboriginal communities and is sending a senior official to meet with 33 chiefs. The goal is [...]

#1 — BBC | Mexico clash ‘leaves 27 drug cartel gunmen dead’ The Mexican army says it has killed 27 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border. [...] #2 — BBC | South Africa to resume deporting Zimbabweans South Africa is to start expelling Zimbabweans again, from 31 December, the government [...]

#1 — CBC | Judge’s nude photos ordered returned A provincial court judge has ordered a Winnipeg man to return sexually explicit pictures of a prominent Manitoba judge to her husband. [...] #2 –CBC | Fuel tanker aground in Northwest Passage A fuel tanker carrying 9½ million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in [...]