UncategorizedWhy Michael Ignatieff is hard to find these daysHe’s the fourth Liberal leader since Chrétien. This in a party that once took 81 years to burn through that many leaders.
OttawaUPDATED: Those tough-on-crime Quebecers(The UPDATE at the bottom of this post goes out, with all my love, to everyone who said I was extrapolating too much from one...
OttawaMUSIC: La relèveHere’s streaming video of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, playing Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story , a...
OttawaNortel: Two more thoughtsWe’re having a pretty good discussion about Nortel over here , as we try to decide whether Roger Martin’s stern lecture in...
OttawaRoger Martin on Nortel: Business hardball as she is played, or notI’m surprised Roger Martin’s piece on Nortel and RIM and the Harper government and, well, Sweden for that matter , from...
OttawaSays here we’re doomedA fascinating article in The Atlantic Monthly explains patiently why weekly print newsmagazines are certain to vanish from this...
OttawaThe weekend’s must readRoger Cohen puts everything he’s seen and heard during an extraordinary year covering Iran’s elections, and the challenges they...
OttawaMUSIC: The conductor who’s becoming a household unpronounceable nameThe New York Times marks Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first New York appearance the way a lot of newspapers around the world have been...
OttawaThe Globe’s productivity solution: Everybody write about productivity!New Globe editor John Stackhouse is clearly less worried than his predecessor was about being labelled a wonk. No sooner was...
OttawaCalgary flame warsIn an otherwise lucid column , the normally lucid Globe architecture writer Lisa Rochon shows the danger that attends anyone who...