Archive for October, 2006
War, the Canadian way
The war against terror in Afghanistan can be won, and Canadians may be just the soldiers to win it–if the home front is willing
As a hundred soldiers of the Regina Rifles’ D Company bounced in their landing craft, chugging toward Juno Beach early in the morning of June 6, 1944, they were engulfed in an […]
Is it illegal to pray in public in Canada?
Is it illegal to pray in public in Canada? Strictly speaking, no. But if it interferes with someone else’s rights, perhaps. Benjamin Berger, a University of Victoria law professor specializing in charter rights and religion, says religious liberties–like other liberties–are always limited by the parallel rights and interests of others. “Public spaces are classically a […]
The Pea (CO)
There is an intriguing piece in The Hill Times about the Arar inquiry Committee to probe what Zaccardelli told ministers. In particular, I find these two paragraphs interesting, on the nexus of the Privy Council Office (PCO);
A former CSIS agent, who asked not to be named, told The Hill Times that he would not at […]
Out of Africa
Please note that former Power Corp Proxy Prime Minister Paul Martin has been named to "co-chair of a high-profile panel that will advise the African Development Bank Group on its strategy." That’s great! More info please.
The independent advisory panel includes international development experts, business leaders, top economists and a Nobel laureate.
A Nobel laureate! Well, la-dee-dah. […]
For ‘progressives’
A review in the October New Criterion "Into the whirlwind" by Daniel Mahoney (reg. required) of From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States edited by Paul Hollander. Here’s a review excerpt:
Rooted in what Hollander suggestively calls the “violence of higher purpose,” the misdeeds of Communism […]
The Loan Avengers
Despite contribution limits, candidates have found an easy way to get their hands on big bundles of cash: the good old campaign loan
They say money flows into politics like water (and other fluids) flows downhill. And when there’s a leadership race or a campaign on, the floodgates swing open. At least it used to be. […]
Peace of the Grave
It certainly hasn’t lacked for drama. If anything, testimony in Saddam Hussein’s trial, which began Aug. 21, for the crime of genocide against Iraq’s Kurdish population has been blood-curdling. Witness after witness has vividly and horrifically described the deadly gas attacks unleashed on Kurdish villages in 1987, estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands. Peasants […]
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