Republican Reckoning.. Quake Toll Rising.. Penashue's Twin Troubles

Thursday, November 8, 2012 Military Probes Racially Charged Skit The Canadian military has launched a formal investigation after a racially charged video was leaked to CBC News. The GOP Reckoning Begins After A Revealing Defeat Was McGuinty Going To Abandon Elliot Lake Rescue? Death Toll From Guatemala Earthquake Climbs To 48 Double Trouble For Penashue Following In His Footsteps? BLOG POSTS Christopher Sands: So Obama Won -- Now What? Barack Obama won, and will serve a second term as 44th president of the United States. But Canada may be a winner too. In the 2012 U.S. elections the most important issue for Canada was the same as for most American voters: how to get the U.S. economy growing again. Perhaps the biggest obstacle to a U.S. economic recovery in the past year has been uncertainty. Investors and families have wondered: what is going to happen to health care? Are energy prices going to keep rising? What about taxes -- with record deficits and debt, they look likely to go up, but by how much and who will pay? And if federal spending cuts are coming, how will they affect me? The answers matter. Karen Cleveland: Five Big Don'ts for the Office Holiday Party Temperatures have plummeted. Clocks are set back. Any day now, your inbox will be inundated with an influx of holiday invitations. One invite will likely be tied to celebrating the season with your colleagues. Here are five sure-fire ways to flop at the office holiday party -- so, don't. Conrad Black: "One of the Dumbest, Most Futile Elections in History" Mitt Romney was never going to be a candidate for Mount Rushmore, but barely 40 years after he warned of it, America has become, in Richard Nixon's eerie phrase, "a pitiful, helpless, giant." It is almost irrelevant to the world, except as an engine of fiscal incontinence. Craig and Marc Kielburger: Why Won't Canada Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs? Cluster bombs have been employed in at least 31 countries since the Second World War. Eighty-nine per cent of tens of thousands of cluster bomb casualties are civilians, a quarter of them children. Canada does not use cluster bombs, and was among the first to sign the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008. However, four years later Canada still has not ratified because of concerns how the Convention will impact our relationship with allies. Supriya Dwivedi: How the President Won the Vagina Vote This past election cycle was simultaneously sobering and scary. As access to birth control took centre stage and the terms "trans-vaginal ultrasound," "legitimate rape," "forcible rape," unfortunately entered into the political lexicon, it is patently clear why the President won the vagina vote.

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