Kady smells a stonewall
The CBC’s Kady O’Malley brings prescient analysis—and that rarest of journalistic qualities, a political memory—to the Conservative scheme to fabricate a dastardly opposition “refusal” to hear diplomat...
View ArticleCanadian army officer finds detainee policies ethically dubious
The National Post ferrets out a Canadian army officer’s surprisingly critical master’s thesis on Canada’s handling of Afghan detainees. In an exhaustive critique, the author concluded Canada’s decision...
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Blatchford makes herself useful
In the PMO War Room, columnist Christie Blatchford must have seemed an inspired choice. She can turn a purple phrase with the best of them. She stands foursquare for troops, widows, and orphans. She’s...
View ArticleBlatchford resorts to the bucket defence
In a follow-up to her screed against diplomat Richard Colvin, Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford resorts to a full-blown bucket defence. According to Blatchford: There is no evidence Afghan...
View ArticleThe Globe and Mail newsroom steps up
Several Globe and Mail reporters who looked looked at the leaked Colvin emails that fueled Christie Blatchford’s recent philippics against the diplomat came up with a very different picture. To begin,...
View ArticleText of ambassadors’ letter
The following is the full text of the open letter from 38 former Canadian ambassadors, protesting the Harper government’s attacks on Richard Colvin: The issues raised by the Richard Colvin affair are...
View ArticleChristie’s comeuppance
Ten days ago, we speculated on the embarrassment Globe and Mail journalists must feel over columnist Christie Blatchford’s obsequiousness to the Harper government, as displayed in her columns attacking...
View ArticleText of the ambassadors’ letter – feedback
Contrarian reader Cliff White writes: What a wonderful letter: short, succinct, to the point, and balanced. I’ve personally found this whole affair very disturbing. Although the media in general have...
View ArticleColvin redux
The clarity and detail of the rebuttal Richard Colvin filed with the House of Commons this morning stand in stark contrast to the government’s flimsy response. With devastating thoroughness, Colvin...
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What’s happened to the United States of America?
For all its foreign policy lapses, the United States has long stood as a beacon of individual freedom. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights constrain government action against individuals to a degree...
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