Another expert on why the top court didn’t go further on KhadrNews that the Canadian government won’t try to bring Omar Khadr home from Guantanamo Bay, despite last week’s Supreme Court of...
A veteran court-watcher on the Khadr issue: a fine balanceAfter the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling last week in the Omar Khadr case, advocates for the Canadian being held by the...
Rights and Democracy: Transparency and AccountabilityFrom last October, the then-president of Rights and Democracy, Rémy Beauregard, speaks to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee...
Will the last country on earth to use first-past-the-post please turn out the lights?British PM plans to ditch first-past-the-post So that’s reform of the upper house, more power for MPs, and electoral reform, in...
Rights and Democracy: Did the right hand know what the right hand was doing?In the Star , Haroon Siddiqui provides the latest update on the surreal weirdness convulsing the Montreal organization Rights and...
Archives: W.P. Kinsella on Holden Caulfield and writing SalingerThe reclusive author came to life in W. P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel
Train within nowherePeter Shawn Taylor has found a transit project so questionable I actually think even I wouldn’t support it: a light rail transit...
Hey look: Rights and Democracy and the bigger picture (featuring one of my trademark Harper-is-a-brain-in-a-jar bits)From the print edition, this week’s column offers what may — may — be a coda to all this Rights and Democracy foofaraw (see...
Music: Break, blow, burn and make me newGerald Finley sings the showstopper from John Adams’ opera Doctor Atomic . It’s the night before the Trinity explosion and Robert...