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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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.