OttawaBehind the detainees issue: the 2006 Kandahar surpriseThe Richard Colvin controversy raises broader historical questions about why Canada was so ill-prepared for combat in...
Uncategorized’The deliberate cover-up of unwanted truths is more the norm than the exception’Writing in the Ottawa Citizen, Nipa Banerjee, a former CIDA official described as the head of aid in Afghanistan from 2003 to...
UncategorizedWhat should have been known and when?Gen. Michel Gauthier made reference Wednesday afternoon to the Globe and Mail’s reporting in April 2007 as to when he first became...
UncategorizedWhat was reported?The generals say there was nothing in Richard Colvin’s memos to warrant action. The CBC , Star and Globe review a couple of...
UncategorizedReally?From Bruce Cheadle’s analysis of the scene. And from the Twitter feed of CBC radio reporter Alison Crawford.
UncategorizedThe Commons: Lost in translationHarper and MacKay can’t seem to get their stories straight
UncategorizedThe generalsReports from the testimony of Rick Hillier and Michel Gauthier from the Canadian Press , Globe , Star , Sun , CTV , CBC and Inside...
Uncategorized’I’m not getting into the personality, the professionalism’Peter MacKay maintains he never saw Richard Colvin’s reports, only that he received briefings to which there were attachments of...
UncategorizedThe Danish experienceFurther to this , it seems the Danish government is currently being sued by a former detainee who was seized by Danish forces and...
UncategorizedThe burden of proof (II)Sébastien Jodoin , a public interest law fellow with Amnesty International in Ottawa, sends along a response to these questions...