OttawaMixed metaphor of the dayWe are riding a horse. Obscured by a tree. That has just been cut down. Ken Dryden on the government’s environment policy . What...
WorldThe dream job from hellThe U.S. faces foreign crises everywhere. It’s Hillary Clinton’s job to fix them.
OttawaHis badThe New York Times on Barack Obama’s admission. The primary weapon for a president who really intends to clean up Washington is...
OttawaFair enough: If it’s not a "War on Terror," what is it?Newsweek suggests the Obama administration is seeking for a new name for the... for the, uh... for the geographically-dispersed...
GeneralTough Week for ObamaNo one said it was going to be easy. The pressures of the first 100 days, the problems that were inherited, the persistent...
Ottawa’He was tortured... Full stop’James Morton on Omar Khadr . Mr. Justice Richard Mosley of the Federal Court of Canada has already determined that Omar Khadr was...
OttawaThe vision thing (II)Lawrence Martin on Ignatieff . Dumbing down has been equated since the Reagan era with having the common touch. But, according to...
OttawaOh, he’s good, but he’s no CarterHendrik Hertzberg, who used to write for a president, is still unpersuaded by Obama’s inaugural. Hertzberg’s view is close to my...
OttawaPaul Martin on KhadrFrom Hell or High Water. ...with the benefit if hindsight, given the revelations about events there, I must say that I now regret...
OttawaCanadians on KhadrNew Harris-Decima polling . Fifty-four per cent of respondents to the Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey said Khadr, held by...