Glenn Woiceshyn

After being pushed to the wall with damning evidence, U.S. President Bill Clinton finally, albeit grudgingly, confessed to the American people that he did have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. It wasn't the first time he cheated on his wife and then, when the...

A year has passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and the fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the tragic and senseless death of princess Diana?Although the investigation report from the French magistrate has yet to be...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal recently ruled that the Canadian Government must pay roughly 200,000 former and current civil servants, mostly women, up to 13 years in back-pay because of alleged discrimination against female-dominated job classifications....

Preston Manning, leader of the Reform Party, Canada's official opposition party, wants to dethrone the ruling Liberal Party in the next election. However, Manning's party is branded "right-wing" -- a label not sufficiently popular with Canadian voters. Furthermore,...

On May 18, 1998, the U.S. Justice Department, 20 states and Washington, D.C., formally filed antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft. During a press conference, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein and several state attorney generals painted Microsoft as an enemy...

Barry Goldwater, in his 1964 speech accepting the Republican Party's nomination to run for president, responded to repeated accusations of "extremism" as follows: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that...

In 1991, Delwin Vriend was fired from his job as a lab co-ordinator at a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta, for being an active homosexual, a "lifestyle choice" that contravened the college's moral code.Vriend took the Government of Alberta to court for...

When I need to purchase a new computer (or software program), I know that computer entrepreneurs are free to innovate and compete for my money, and I am free to choose the best offer in terms of performance, quality and price. Am I free to purchase the best education...

Good government? Isn't that an oxymoron?Many today believe so. Who can blame them? Our political system has increasingly become a chaotic jungle driven by competing pressure groups ("special interests") seeking special "favours" and handouts from government....

The Great Ice Storm of 1998 caught Canadians in Quebec and neighboring provinces totally off guard. Montreal, the hardest hit, looked as if it were bombed by ice. Millions suffered days to weeks of sub-freezing temperatures without electricity and heating. At least 25...

Contrary to media reports, the UN-sponsored "global" treaty banning land mines signed in December of 1997 by more than 100 nations, excluding the US, Russia and China, is not about preventing innocent people from being maimed or killed by the existing 60-120 million...

'National unity crisis' makes many Canadians immediately think of the looming threat of Quebec separation. But the crisis is broader. Many non-Quebeckers are fed up with the way the federal government is running the country. Quebec separatism is one manifestation,...

Reena Virk, a 14-year-old teenage girl, was brutally beaten and murdered on the night of Nov. 14, 1997, in the Victoria suburb of Saanich, British Columbia. Seven teens, six of them girls aged 14-16, face charges of aggravated assault. Paradoxically, this...