Almost three years ago, we warmly welcomed Dr Raymond Xerri, our new Consul General, to the Maltese/Canadian community.  To say that we were excited would be an understatement.  We had heard...

Faster commuting options is not a luxury but a fatal alternative as compared to a safe commute. Although Malta saw the sharpest decrease in traffic fatalities in the European Union during 2020, the...

It’s probably not the right time for the Pope to visit Malta. The country is still abuzz with the election that was held last week. Its ramifications are still very much on people’s...

The way the author tells it, it was 1975 and Dom Mintoff was hurriedly working to set up the national airline. After some initial toying with an alliance with other airlines, the choice had...

Is it really all over? We saw long lines at polling places demonstrating how intensely Nationalists and Labourites both believed that the course of our democracy was indeed on the line. Voter...

The Nationalist Party continues to lose ground. The election held last Saturday is the third massive defeat for the PN, and each time the distance between it and the ruling Labour Party becomes...

We had been used to having very high turnouts in elections. Except for one time in 1966, since Independence Malta always exceeded the 90% line in terms of voter participation. Between 1976 and...

Since the start of Russia's unjustified and unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the European Union has taken on a two-fold approach in responding to the conflict. On the one hand, the European Union...

The 2022 election saw many new faces elected to Parliament, and a number of notable veterans lose out. The Nationalist Party suffered a major defeat at the polls, but the voters also seemed to...

There were no surprises at the Naxxar counting hall yesterday, except for a high level of absenteeism which, in itself, is a vote against the political parties. As amply predicted, the Labour...