[NEWS] Four Globe and Mail links

[rfmcdonald]

I've mentioned that I like the Globe and Mail, right?

• Columnist Margaret Wente doesn't think much of Canadian federal Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff, arguing that partly because many Canadians can't empathize with a public intellectual like Ignatieff, the Conservative Party has taken over Canadian centrism.


• Ingrid Peretz writes about how the almost ridiculous toughening--criminalization, even--of normal crossings of the US-Canadian frontier is starting to separate the Québec community of Stanstead from its Vermont sister community of Derby Line.


• The Toronto Humane Society, under new management, might euthanize most of the remaining two hundred animals in the shelter--apparently, mainly, animals with long-term conditions and otherwise unadoptable--before rebooting.


• Doug Saunders writes about how the Moscow subway suicide bombings represents the latest spillover of the growing Russian war in the North Caucasus into Russia proper.