The Harper Conservatives have always had a strange notion of what constitutes "accountability".  Perhaps more bizarre, despite being the most restrictive, message controlling government we've seen, Conservatives still proudly tout their accountability to anyone

The Hamoodur Rehman Commission Report (HRCR) is missing many crucial pieces of the puzzle with regards to the factors that led to the division of Pakistan (into Pakistan and Bangladesh) in 1971. A fresh inquiry is needed to fill this major gap.

On December 16, 1971, Bangladesh (formerly East

I have posted on the interesting ideas put forth by Americans (and others) on the White House "We the People" website previously, but recent developments are worth noting particularly as they involve a crime committed in another country.

On April 30, 2013, a 5-year-old boy shot and killed his 2-year-old sister in Kentucky. (Washington Post) It was a tragedy, but a headline like this certainly stirs the pot about the issue of gun control. In the wake of other shootings, certainly Sandy Hook and the death of school children,

As Pakistanis are hunkering down for an election in which for the first time in 65 years, one elected government will hand over power to another elected government, I’ve been watching from afar and thinking about what we’ve seen unfold in the past year. Sometimes those of us who are

CBC Ombudsman’s office hears complaints from Canadians – will they care that CBC is censoring the news about CBC human right abuse ?

The Office of the CBC Ombudsman represents the public to ensure CBC upholds its information standards and practices.

I filed a

Defending censorship of the press should not be CBC’s job

Canada has a culture and legal system based on  “freedom of the press.”

Whenever dictators and totalitarian governments censure, jail and murder journalists we gasp collectively.

Why then did CBC