OttawaWho gets to pay tribute to Vaclav HavelIn November, Elizabeth May was twice denied the House’s consent to mark Remembrance Day. This afternoon she was apparently denied...
GeneralVaclav Havel mourned by world leaders and ordinary CzechsWorld leaders gather in Prague for the funeral of the former Czech president
WorldVaclav Havel: a life almost too full to be trueHavel’s translator, Paul Wilson, on the statesman, the dissident, the artist
OttawaRemembering Havel, and how he and Mandela made us thinkIn the space of a few months in late 1989 and early 1990, two events occurred that made it seem anything evil in the world’s...
OttawaHavel in Ottawa, 1999Vaclav Havel died today. Perhaps my friends at the National Post won’t mind if I reproduce the column I wrote for that paper’s...
OttawaThe art of the politicI’ve posted this before somewhere, but for various reasons it feels appropriate to post it again. it’s from Vaclav Havel’s Summer...
OttawaCentral Europe tugs Obama’s sleeveTwenty- two Central and East European politicians of a certain (largely mid-90s) vintage, including eight former heads of state or...
OttawaIran: Now the hard partRiot police at Freedom Square and Revolution Square. (UPDATE: reports of water cannon and tear gas.) The protesters have resisted...
OttawaVaclav Havel, New Year’s Day speech, 1990One of this week’s subjects is inaugural addresses. From Havel we learn three things: The rest is here .