A fall from grace for anyone is not fun to watch
Bill Rea
      I feel sorry for Eliot Spitzer, but only to a limited extent. Spitzer, as you probably know by now, was the governor of the State of New York who was forced from office last week because he has spent thousands of dollars for the services of prostitutes.
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National Affairs
No longer allowed to state the obvious
Claire Hoy
      In his weekend announcement that he was now a candidate to become the mayor of Vancouver, city councilor Raymond Louie played his own race card. The Vancouver-born son of Chinese immigrants, the 43-year-old Louie would be the city's first Chinese- Canadian mayor and he thinks that's a real plus.
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