Uncategorized’Beneath the office’In a written statement, Michael Ignatieff responds to Stephen Harper’s comments .
Uncategorized’Disparaging remarks, rhetorical flourishes are not going to help us get to the bottom of this issue’Even at sea, the Prime Minister sticks to the high road .
UncategorizedWeekend readingThe Canadian Press tries to make sense of Peter MacKay’s admission that the government had concerns about the treatment of Afghan...
OttawaThis one’s for the guy who didn’t like my "rant" about torture on the teeveeA lobbyist wrote me the other day to say some comments I made on the CBC after Richard Colvin’s committee testimony were...
Uncategorized’The issue will not go away’Three important dispatches from Embassy magazine this week. Laura Payton on the plight of the whistleblower . Lee Berthiaume talks...
UncategorizedTorture: all about scoring pointsColvin’s testimony elicited the usual Ottawa question: will it help or hurt the Liberals?
UncategorizedWhat do we know for now?In lieu of Richard Colvin’s memos, there is, again, Richard Colvin’s affidavit and what he says there about those memos. In that...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ’Let us get beyond the rhetorical flourish’The Conservatives plead for patience
UncategorizedDavid Mulroney’s side of the storyEarly reviews from the Canadian Press , Globe , Star , Canwest , CTV , CBC and Inside Politics . Analysis of one of Mulroney’s...
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...