Good news, bad news: jail for Oscar Pistorius and global warming for allThe NHL learns a lesson, Boko Haram seizes control, and other good or bad stories that caught our eye this week
The continuing tyranny of collective self-governmentNote: You can still go to jail for not filling out the census
2012 on Parliament Hill: John Geddes sums up a year in 12 chaptersA search for coherence at the closing of the year
A clearer path for fighter jets, but a grim day for Peter MacKayJohn Geddes explains why rebooting the plan is not as easy as pressing a button
The F-35: Not just costly but obsoleteTo aviation nerds, the Joint Strike Fighter is looking more and more like an ugly mutt
At last, the job of my dreamsSome boys yearned to be firefighters or astronauts—others aimed for the bacon
Hacker attackA rash of high-profile thefts reveals just how unsafe the Internet we depend on has become