UncategorizedThe Oda ado: overblown?In the spirit of devil’s advocacy, Colby Cosh lays out the defence case
GeneralMitchel Raphael on why kids love spending time at Paul MartinlandDon’t tell the PMO they helped him, Margaret Atwood and Elizabeth May and The Queen, the Emperor and Obama
GeneralHarper is on to something in cutting aidPOTTER: "A rare case of Tory ideology actually aligning itself with sound public policy"
UncategorizedCIDA’s democracy promotion in ZimbabweIf Mugabe were to accuse Canada of meddling in Zimbabwe’s domestic politics, he’d have a point
UncategorizedCIDA’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: millions raised, nothing spent“Funds will be disbursed in the near future”
UncategorizedWhere our money goes in AfghanistanColleague Aaron Wherry points to an op-ed by University of Ottawa professor Nipa Banerjee, who ran Canada’s aid program in...
UncategorizedObama’s new policy on Iran: Don’t mention the tortureFor five years, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center , co-founded by McGill international law professor Payam Akhavan, has...
UncategorizedForeign Affairs flies into action on the Zahra Kazemi case: “We are concerned that a very negative story might be published on the basis of the above allegations.”Last November, I published a story about an Iranian exile by the name of Behnam Vafaseresht who claimed to have been jailed at the...
UncategorizedAdvice for the Information Commissioner: Do your job.Longtime readers of this blog may be familiar with my ongoing battle with the Canadian International Development Agency over an...
UncategorizedTesting governments’ commitment to transparencyThe Canadian Newspaper Association released its fourth annual Freedom of Information Audit . The report reveals what anyone who...