Thoughts about thinking politicians
Whenever we seriously consider a political leader—or, for that matter, any public figure—one of the inevitable problems is to...
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John Geddes
John Geddes is Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s and has covered federal politics and policy for more than two decades. He also writes regularly about art.
Natynczyk gets it right: out of Kandahar, full stop. But what (or where) next?
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk just told CBC’s Evan Solomon that he’s started doing what’s required to pull...
Are we really soft on crime?
The Tories prefer tough talk to hard proof on punishment
Tariq Ramadan does turn-away business in Montréal
The controversial Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan packed them in for his talk in Montréal last night, according to this story , no...
The case against the gun registry I’d like to hear
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police put out a news release that makes the case—as they have many times—for the gun...
Recalling how police use the gun registry, and how very, very often
Last spring, just after Prime Minister Stephen Harper revived scrapping the gun registry as a Conservative priority, I tried to...
Not so fast, Karzai
Meet the Canadian who uncovered fraud, and sent Afghanistan back to the polls
Next steps after Afghanistan’s run-off vote is scrapped
How will Karzai’s win become acceptable—and what will be the steps to make sure the same farce doesn’t happen again.
CBC: It’s not a wheel, it’s a carousel
Lots of interesting discussion about the new-look CBC news. Critics generally see the revamped style as too much about the hosts...
Who’s not getting the shot
I’ve been thinking about what additional piece of information it would take to jolt all those people who are still saying they...