AccountabilityWatch: Hey, remember that five year ban on lobbying by former public office holders?Oh, don’t worry, it’s still in place. But according to a spokesperson for interim Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd, since the...
"The rule of law, and nothing else, is what makes us exceptional."Anne Applebaum wrote the definitive history of the Gulag. She gets that what happened to U.S. detainees wasn’t the Gulag, but...
"...the ill-treatment to which they were subjected...constituted torture."The activity detailed in this 2007 report from the International Committee of the Red Cross , if confirmed – and much of it has...
WWMD? (What would Macchiavelli do?)Y’know, I’m reading Heather Scoffield’s somewhat bone-chilling interview with David Dodge , who was a deputy minister of Health...
Do the evolution (V)Gary Goodyear gets some support from, well, pretty much the last person you’d expect to be defending him at this moment. On...
Here and thereGeorge W. Bush comes to Calgary to defend his war in Iraq. Two MPs go to San Diego to visit with a soldier incarcerated for...
Ottawa’s new carbon policy, written in WashingtonOur colleagues at l’Actualité are chuffed about their new interview with Jim Prentice (conducted by Alec Castonguay, who is...
Do the evolution (IV)Dan Gardner, who must be having quite the day, responds to Gary Goodyear. Apparently, the problem here is not merely that the...