Canada

Everything from its cost to its red-steel helix look has been mercilessly attacked

A roundup of odd police reports from across the country

Thought gun advocates would be celebrating the demise of the gun registry? Think again.

Montrealers see them as a scourge; in B.C. they’re coddled house pets

’It’s the practices that are on the boundaries of what is acceptable to people that raise interesting problems’

And on the difference between protecting it at home and advancing it abroad

Promoting religious freedom abroad is meant to appease a domestic constituency

Religious freedom is essential to stabilizing struggling democracies

In one third of countries, the problem is getting worse

One has reason to doubt that the government is undertaking the careful thinking necessary