Reading Wolf Hall and the morning paper
I happened to stay up late last night to finish the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall , in which novelist Hilary Mantel imagines...
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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.
Our next Governor General on tech policy failures
David Johnston, who was named as Canada’s next Governor General today, is known as a man who doesn’t rock the boat. As a stolid...
UPDATED: How Harper picked his GG is more important than who he chose
The PM should hand over the names of his expert advisory committee
It’s Harper’s world now
After the G20, the PM’s reputation on the international stage is at least temporarily enhanced
Not just tough banking rules, but tough referees, too
A nearly final version of the G20 communiqué includes a commitment to combine a new rule book for banks, which won’t be finalized...
The other G20 issue: remember China?
With our focus so firmly fixed on the tension between the U.S. accent on stimulus and the deficit preoccupations of Canada and...
Harper and the G20 tension between the U.S. and Europe
The notion of Canada occupying a middle ground between the United States and Europe is an old, familiar one, and usually rather...
Spending and saving: they’re different no matter what the G20 says
No amount of verbiage can make austerity the same as stimulus
News of G8’s demise greatly exaggerated
Speculation that the G8 is on its way out, doomed to be replaced by the newfangled G20, was dismissed by Prime Minister Stephen...
A walk on Toronto’s streets, emptied by the summit
Toronto was quiet this morning. The prospect of G20 summit protests, mixed with some confusion over which thoroughfares are...