In Depth
John Gray
Reality Check
Sometimes it is a wayward twist of the facts by politicians; other times it's simply a tangle of mistaken assumptions. The result is the same – a yawning gap between reality and what we read or hear. The aim of Reality Check is to bridge that gap.
- September 18, 2006
- The revamped law and order debate
- Aug. 18, 2006
- Redefining America's political centre
- Aug. 1, 2006
- Equalization for the nation
- July 26, 2006
- Outside the law
- July 20, 2006
- Intentionally or not, Harper took sides
- July 14, 2006
- No miracle solutions in sight for Canada's native people
- July 6, 2006
- Tony Blair: When leaders stay past their sell-by date
- June 28, 2006
- The burden of being a Liberal in opposition
- June 19, 2006
- Two small rainbows and more uncertainty in the Middle East
- June 16, 2006
- North American cars
- June 13, 2006
- Realists and idealists and a bag of hammers
- June 9, 2006
- Transporting suspected terrorists to torture
- June 6, 2006
- Kids' stuff for Joe Volpe
- June 5, 2006
- Canadians in Afghanistan, where the news is never good
- May 31, 2006
- The promise to do, well, ah, something about the Senate
- May 30, 2006
- Meech is over - but equalization is just beginning
- May 29, 2006
- Canada's prisoners of secret evidence
- May 25, 2006
- What would Joe think now?
- May 24, 2006
- George Bush, the public good, and the private citizen
- May 23, 2006
- Is Montenegro the sign of a new day for the Balkans?
- May 18, 2006
- The Gwyn Morgan debacle and a bout of prime ministerial petulance
- May 16, 2006
- Fixing a date with the ballot box
- May 12, 2006
- What do we want the Canadian military to do?
- May 9, 2006
- A diplomatic war about genocide
- May 8, 2006
- Once more, talk of the Cold War
- May 5, 2006
- Politics so ugly, so soon
- May 3, 2006
- The perils of the politics of child care
- May 2, 2006
- The budget: Harper has not yet declared his native policy
- April 28, 2006
- Iran and the bomb. What's the world to do?
- April 25, 2006
- Is France really taking a hard-right turn to Le Pen?
- April 21, 2006
- The passport imperative: Time to think of the U.S. as a truly foreign country
- April 19, 2006
- Forget the rhetoric: The gun registry is still the law
- April 13, 2006
- When a separatist stops believing in separatism
- April 10, 2006
- Is Iran in Washington's gunsights?
- April 7, 2006
- Who calls the tune at the Canadian Medical Association Journal?
- April 6, 2006
- Tough choices about tough justice
- April 4, 2006
- Harper's cautious view of the world – and his new best friend
- March 31, 2006
- Senate reform, anyone? Anyone?
- March 27, 2006
- The hard slog of democracy
- March 22, 2006
- Bush's new security strategy spells trouble for Canada in the future
- March 21, 2006
- After the deaths, the other costs of avian flu
- March 16, 2006
- Corralling the Liberal-left: Bob Rae's plan of attack
- March 13, 2006
- Why exactly are we in Afghanistan?
- March 8, 2006
- Poor Peter MacKay: The reality of office, Act 1
- March 7, 2006
- Bombardier: Too close to the sun?
- Jan. 24, 2006
- What happened to Paul Martin?
- Jan. 24, 2006
- Quebec – still: The problem with Quebec endures
- Jan. 18, 2006
- The cost of helping others
- Jan. 16, 2006
- When a democracy is not really democratic
- Jan. 13, 2006
- Who cares about child care?
- Jan. 12, 2006
- For the military, is the cheque in the mail?
- Jan. 4, 2006
- Ships, taxes and patriotism
- Jan. 3, 2006
- Once more, few women, fewer minorities
- Dec. 14, 2005
- Was the American ambassador meddling in a Canadian election?
- Dec. 13, 2005
- Where are the women in Parliament?
- Dec. 9, 2005
- Why Jack Layton scrambled for cover on private clinics
- Dec. 8, 2005
- Is happiness a banned gun?
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ABOUT JOHN GRAY
Biography
John Gray has worked for a number of Canadian newspapers, including most recently more than 20 years with the Globe and Mail, where he served as Ottawa bureau chief, national editor, foreign editor, foreign correspondent and national correspondent.