OttawaTowards an understanding of the understanding (II)At my request, a few thoughts from Lorne Sossin on the Conservative-Liberal-Bloc memorandum of understanding.
Ottawa’I will consider the matter closed’With a slight allowance for the potential of future trouble, the Speaker officially declined yesterday to entertain a point of...
OttawaTowards an understanding of the understandingAfter conferring with both sides (or at least two of the three sides) of the detainee document agreement, it would seem that this...
OttawaHow to answer a questionFrom Question Period this afternoon, the definitive moment of this particular moment in our collective history.
OttawaThe memorandum of understandingThe official memorandum of understanding on the release and review of documents related to the treatment of Afghan detainees is...
OttawaLet us settle this with press releases and leaksThe final agreement on Afghan detainee documents will apparently not be released, for whatever reason, until it is ready to be...
OttawaThe Commons: United in mutual disdain"Mr. Speaker," Mr. Rae replied, "let me return the favour to the Prime Minister and say those comments are also totally false"
OttawaThe Ignatieff doctrineThe Liberal leader is presently outlining his foreign policy in a speech to a Toronto audience. Simultaneously the Liberals have...
WorldAmerica’s more friendly faceObama has reached out to hostile nations and criticized Israel. Is his soft diplomacy really working?
OttawaDown to threeThe Afghan detainee document negotiations apparently have come to a conclusion—a deal announced in the House just now—but the...