Opinion Editorial

An example of a woman wearing a niqab. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)

Courts blew it on the niqab

It’s been six long years since a niqab-wearing Toronto woman first accused two relatives of sexually assaulting her as a child, and the case is no closer to being heard.

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Debt load warnings not heeded

While in the process of packing his woollies and his wellies for his upcoming adventure in Great Britain, outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney has again issued warnings to Canadians to get their personal debt in order.

Canada's Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser arrives at a news conference on the release of his report in Ottawa October 16, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Lost in translation

If Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser wishes to get his knickers in a knot over Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird's English-only business cards, perhaps he can get his culottes equally twisted over the federal bureaucracies' lack of spokespeople whose first language is English.