OttawaThe Paul Martin legacy band and travelling liquidity roadshowIt is good to see it being acknowledged that this business of convening the heads of government of, say, 20-ish countries to put...
UncategorizedMusic: Dept. of extraordinary bargainsHere’s some stuff I found on iTunes. On a long drive the other day, I just loaded all the CDs from this set of Beethoven...
OttawaImporting some o’ that Canada-style right-wing politicsA few weeks before our recent election unpleasantness began, I had lunch in Ottawa with Reihan Salam and Ross Douthat, two young...
Ottawa"Sensible?" Surely you jestDoug Bell over at the Other Place sends two emails to Brian Topp, who sure doesn’t look 48, and gets two fascinating answers in...
OttawaCanada in the world: as promised, we’re getting noticedQuebec experts in human rights say they’re facing a lot of questions about Canada when they travel abroad. "People ask us, ’What’s...
OttawaIt’d be a new challengePresident of Montreal Board of Trade, who argued that Montreal must be represented in the Harper cabinet even though no...
OttawaCanada-EU free-trade: Here’s your briefing book. Don’t leave it somewhere.Highlights from the two-year (really-badly-)hidden agenda: • Joint communiqué from Canada’s prime minister and EU president...
OttawaCanada-EU free tradeNot so much . "Sarkozy and Harper will sign something vague that commits to nothing." What killed the momentum? The no-fixed-date...
OttawaLiberals: Friday’s found poempeople close to MPs An associate of Mr. Manley as one of the recipients put it associates of Mr. McKenna he was far removed...