OttawaNDP reports significant progress toward attendance goals— Peter MacKay, yesterday in the House of Commons. Today NDP MPs Paul Dewar and Dawn Black arrived at Room 130-S for one of the...
Ottawa’Our parliament is a collection of lords’Of Canada’s 308 MPs, 69 are presently women. Of Afghanistan’s 249 MPs, 68 are women. And so it is somehow true that Afghanistan’s...
OttawaWhat’s it been, after all, a week and a half? Time for a new Afghanistan policyFrom the Inkless emailbox:
OttawaAn interesting choice of words"It looks like Stephen Harper is going to be the last defender of Guantanamo Bay." That’s Omar Khadr’s lawyer, Bill Kuebler...
OttawaAfghanistan: Meanwhile in lovely Nova Scotia......Defence ministers from all the countries with soldiers in Regional Command South (including, most notably, Kandahar) are...
GeneralCompromises and consistencyKathy English, the Toronto Star ’s Public Editor, recalls what happened when the family of Je Yell Kim, "a dental technician in...
OttawaAfghanistan: "Winnable, but only just"From George Packer’s New Yorker blog (and by the way, I spent part of the week wondering at the very existence of such a thing as...
GeneralMegapundit: Concentrating the mind, wonderfullyMust-reads: Jeffrey Simpson on Michael Ignatieff. Do you have him in plebeian? Perhaps Michael Ignatieff could try saying...
OttawaAfghanistan: Today’s total must-readOur colleague Michael Petrou weighs in today with a concise explanation of the current woes in Afghanistan . Michael has shown me...