Frank Touby

Bike lanes aren’t a 21th-century transportation solution if they’re placed on main streets. They become a politically correct obstruction to vital traffic flow in North America’s fourth largest working city. Further, bike lanes are for most a fair-weather option. Bike-users ...

There really isn’t any reason to keep blathering on about the cash Canada paid to Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was tortured by Americans in their illegal off-shore prison in Cuba with the open approval of his Canadian ...

In a further desperate attempt to cling to power, Ontario’s incompetent premier, Kathleen Wynne, is adding assault and further injury to members of Cathedral Court Housing Co-operative. At issue is the co-op’s position lying just a few metres north of the ...

It was a clearly trumped-up (no relation, no pun) sarin scam to blame Syria’s Bashar Assad government for the alleged gas attack against Syrian civilians. There is a group of terrorists (known as “White helmets”) who are subject to U.S. ...

From the city that actor Peter Ustinov described as “New York run by the Swiss,” the wonderful city to where I moved from my home in Palm Beach, Fla. in 1971 has been turned toward ruin. Everywhere you look Downtown ...

But maybe it’s not corrupt. Perhaps it just smells that way. Maybe OMB is just comprised of honourable men and women who aren’t trying to boost developers’ profits and are trying to build a picturesque new sky-high wonderland of cramped ...

I can’t help wondering whether it’s treason for a government to support a fascist so-called “free-trade” deal like NAFTA and CETA. I use the term “fascist” advisedly. As WWII Italian dictator Benito Mussolini defined the term, fascism is a merger ...

The Great Depression of 2007-2017 proceeds unabated in February and journalism has suffered terribly along with many other professional crafts as the business cycle continues to tank. Once-successful businesses are shutting down and those that continue are cutting back. Jobs ...

How did this become a Liberal thing? Selling influence with their government seems so Tory and yet the egregious, bald-faced sale of access to office holders infects Liberals, festering in both Ottawa and Queen’s Park. influence peddlingInfluence peddling It’s so ...

Frank Touby — In the past I always felt good about the objectivity of Canadian news media versus those in the U.S. when it comes to independent reporting. But lately not so much and now, after the 2016 U.S. presidential ...