OttawaRemember Iraq? (Advice followed)My colleague Michael Petrou reminds us to remember Iraq . Good idea. Let’s survey the latest grim tidings. The recent spate of...
OttawaDo MacKay and Natynczyk not talk?John Geddes on the the general’s extraordinary news conference
OttawaThinking through Canada’s climate change positionYesterday I posted remarks from Environment Minister Jim Prentice at a news conference, in which I thought he framed the Canadian...
OttawaFirst the HST, then pensions—Ignatieff’s new game?Patterns in politics are obviously more revealing than isolated actions. When Michael Ignatieff decided last week to throw Liberal...
OttawaJim Prentice sums up Canada’s climate change postionDoesn’t our Lancaster Sound plans stand at odds with our international negotiating position?
OttawaVietnam, Afghanistan; LBJ, Obama: not exactly, but still...There’s nothing less helpful in a political debate than a fatuous historical analogy. Whenever somebody levels a charge of...
OttawaHow the Geneva Conventions applied in AfghanistanThe interesting question of how the Geneva Conventions apply to detainees taken by Canadian troops in Kandahar and then handed...
OttawaOn training Canadian troops to handle detaineesIn his testimony before the House committee on Afghanistan, David Mulroney just expressed great confidence in the training...
OttawaBehind the detainees issue: the 2006 Kandahar surpriseThe Richard Colvin controversy raises broader historical questions about why Canada was so ill-prepared for combat in...