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Wednesday Night #1475
Good policy is not the property of any political party and good ideas that are in the interests of the country need to b ...
Mulroney – Schreiber
Schreiber-Mulroney affair: the main players and for real junkies, the CBC offers an interesting backgrounder Parsing the ...
Afghanistan post 2009 elections
Afghan elections 2009; Hamid Karzai More on Afghanistan Afghan “peace jirga” is marked by rockets, suicide a ...
Wednesday Night #1474
In Japan, new boss meets same problems as old boss The ruling Democratic Party of Japan selected Japanese Finance Minist ...
The American Power Act
See also Gulf of Mexico oil spill and U.S.: Environment and energy Robert Redford — Mr. President: Now Is the Time ...
The Ghosts of Gandamak
By WILLIAM DALRYMPLE * (NYT Op-Ed) THE name Gandamak means little in the West today. Yet this small Afghan village was o ...
Environment and Law
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) British campaigner urges UN to accept ‘ecoc ...
Wednesday Night #1466
Given that this evening’s special guest was Nigel Penney, much of the discussion centered on science and educa ...
Canada at 150 — Andrew Coyne comments
The end of the Liberal empire Andrew Coyne on how the former Natural Governing Party might avoid certain doom Going into ...
Canada at 150 – a new way of conducting politics
Pascal Zemprelli: The dawn of politics 2.0 Politics 2.0 is about a culture change in Ottawa. It is politics moving from ...
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North Korea/South Korea June 2023-
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The Papacy 2024-
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Democrats/progressives – November 2024
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Putin’s War Russia-Ukraine September 2024-
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U.S. Education May 2024-
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Israel, Palestine/Gaza February – July 2023
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Climate change, uncertainty & security February 2021- May 10, 2023
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SCOTUS & the US courts December 2020- May 2022
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Wednesday Night #1974
January 15, 2020, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1974
This is such sad news, Diana. He was a presence of calm and reason in our discussions which were sometimes…
Re The UN General Assembly Speaker Schedule is Here! I note that whoever will be speaking for Canada this year…
So many memories, particularly of the years as neighbours on Rosemount Avenue, with shared activities, adventures and lively political discussions.…
I’m sure by now all have heard about Biden’s dropping out. Although we all agreed last Wednesday that this was…
Molly Minturn - My family is heartbroken to share that my father died in surgery on Monday, Feb. 10. It…