If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he’s an internet star now. A video about the atrocities carried out by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has gone viral, racking up millions more views seemingly by the hour. The marketing campaign is an effort by the advocacy group Invisible Children to vastly increase awareness [...]

Canada will be monitoring Burma’s elections next month with a keen hope to see reform amid allegations of voting “irregularities,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Thursday, on a historic visit to the isolationist country. Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s opposition leader and a Nobel Peace laureate, greeted the minister at the home in [...]

Pakistan has charged Osama bin Laden’s three widows with illegally entering and living in the country, the interior minister said Thursday. The three women have been in a Pakistani detention since May of last year, when U.S. commandos raided the house where they were staying with bin Laden and several of their children. The commandos [...]

Beginning of Story Content Every week, Gord offers his take on a variety of NHL topics Rumours of a conflict between ex-Leaf coach Ron Wilson and defenceman Luke Schenn were confirmed to me by someone close to Schenn. Give Schenn and his handlers credit for keeping it quiet but the prize young defenceman and Wilson [...]

Beginning of Story Content A freakish, glorious spring day surfaced in Toronto mid-week. The sun shone, a warm wind rustled the leafless trees, and it reached 15 degrees on the temperature gauge. I’m told it was just that way in many parts of the country. I ran in shorts and sleeveless, with my bounding terrier [...]