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Opportunities Editor: The upcoming election offers great opportunities! In every instance, we can choose to do what’s best for our communities or, on the other hand, what’s profitable, in the short term, for us as individuals. Our Founding Fathers had the same opportunities. Sadly, they opted for personal gain, taking land from Indigenous people and enslaving others. Fortunately, they gave us the power to learn from mistakes (theirs and ours), and we can choose to see how caring for others brings blessings to our selves. Compassion is, according to the Dalai Lama and Bishop ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

PARIS - If you grew up anywhere near the Canada-U.S. border, you know that picking up a hockey stick and heading to the nearest frozen pond or cul-de-sac is just part of life. But did it ever occur to you that it might also be your best basic military training? Well, Canadians can now thank ...

Tim Graham

Columns

The People's Republic of Late-Night Comedy will do its part to boost Democrats during the midterm election season. See the season debut of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Zohran Mamdani is not on the ballot, but these comedians are deeply in love with the radical leftist Muslim, so they feel ...

Victor Joecks

Columns

Little kids aren't the only ones who act like closing their eyes will keep them safe. Look at how many people want to avoid discussing how Islam threatens liberty. In 1992, Imam Siraj Wahhaj said, "If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace ...

Robert B. Reich

Columns

Today, with just over five weeks to go before the midterm elections, I want to point out a critical distinction that's not being picked up in the media — between people who voted for Trump in 2024 but do not identify as part of the MAGA movement and people who voted for Trump in 2024 and ...

Letters to the editor

Letters to the Editor

It's happening here! Editor: Recent events have reminded me of some books I have read: 'It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. What will happen when America has a dictator, written in 1935. This story looks at what could happen if authoritarianism and fascism took hold in the US. I read it several years ago and remember thinking, thank goodness it couldn't happen here. Well, guess what, folks, it is happening here. Another excellent novel that shows how fascism works is Isabel Allende's "A Long Petal of the Sea." The protagonist is a doctor fleeing the Spanish Civil War, which took ...