UncategorizedThe Commons: Huzzah, Mr. Ignatieff asks a question that is not entirely rhetoricalBut never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
OttawaOur future in Afghanistan: didn’t the House say something on this matter?Defence Minister Peter MacKay says keeping Canada’s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar after 2011 is a possibility, and...
Uncategorized’I’m no longer talking about Afghanistan’Midway through a Hill Times piece on the former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan and the intellectual credentials he brings to...
UncategorizedPeace yes, truce noThe commander-in-chief comments on the Olympics and the war in Afghanistan. The Governor General’s position seems to be in keeping...
OttawaUPDATED: Dubious Poll Reporting Achievement of the Week Award: Sun Media/Leger MarketingHonestly, ITQ isn’t trying to pick on Sun Media or Leger Marketing here, but -- well, actually, she sort of is, but only because...
Uncategorized’Serious and pervasive problems’As Andy Worthington notes , the National Institute Of Military Justice recently released a report of its observers on the...
UncategorizedDonuts, hockey, tax cuts and AfghanistanThe quintessential speech of Stephen Harper’s premiership?
OttawaCanadians on Afghanistan: Turns out they may have been right all along.When, in the course of her usual morning newsblitz, ITQ finds herself confronted with headlines like this , and this, and this --...
OttawaBeyond 2011: What will we be doing in Afghanistan?What exactly will Canada’s role in Afghanistan be after July 2011? That is, of course, the date by which our “military...