OttawaReading Wolf Hall and the morning paperI happened to stay up late last night to finish the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall , in which novelist Hilary Mantel imagines...
OttawaOur next Governor General on tech policy failuresDavid 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...
OttawaUPDATED: How Harper picked his GG is more important than who he choseThe PM should hand over the names of his expert advisory committee
CanadaIt’s Harper’s world nowAfter the G20, the PM’s reputation on the international stage is at least temporarily enhanced
OttawaNot just tough banking rules, but tough referees, tooA nearly final version of the G20 communiqué includes a commitment to combine a new rule book for banks, which won’t be finalized...
OttawaThe 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...
OttawaHarper and the G20 tension between the U.S. and EuropeThe notion of Canada occupying a middle ground between the United States and Europe is an old, familiar one, and usually rather...
OttawaSpending and saving: they’re different no matter what the G20 saysNo amount of verbiage can make austerity the same as stimulus
UncategorizedNews of G8’s demise greatly exaggeratedSpeculation that the G8 is on its way out, doomed to be replaced by the newfangled G20, was dismissed by Prime Minister Stephen...
OttawaA walk on Toronto’s streets, emptied by the summitToronto was quiet this morning. The prospect of G20 summit protests, mixed with some confusion over which thoroughfares are...