War, the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously observed, is a continuation of politics by other means. Yet there are times, writes Canadian military historian Tim Cook, when the reverse is true and politics …
Read MoreFor politicians, culture is the love that dares not speak its name. Since Pierre Trudeau, no prime minister in the last 30 years has enthusiastically embraced things cultural — even those who practise them in …
Read MoreBefore the publication of Brian Mulroney's memoirs, there was one sure bet: whatever he wrote ”” and whatever he left out ”” would tick off someone. If he took the mag- nanimous approach many self-biogra- …
Read MoreBefore the publication of Brian Mulroney's memoirs, there was one sure bet: whatever he wrote ”” and whatever he left out ”” would tick off someone. If he took the mag- nanimous approach many self-biogra- …
Read MoreOne afternoon in February, 1992, then Opposition Leader Jean Chrétien was having a coffee at the Four Seasons Hotel bar in Washington, DC, accompanied by his communications director, Peter Donolo, and a journalist ”” me. …
Read MoreOne afternoon in February, 1992, then Opposition Leader Jean Chrétien was having a coffee at the Four Seasons Hotel bar in Washington, DC, accompanied by his communications director, Peter Donolo, and a journalist ”” me. …
Read MoreThe first time I saw Peter Jennings in the flesh, he was lined up at a press centre in Communist-run East Berlin in the fall of 1989. The ongoing collapse of the Soviet Union and …
Read MoreAndrew Cohen is Canada's peri- patetic prophet of doom. A networker par excellence, his Rolodex is chock-full of the best names in journalism and academe in Toronto and Ottawa ”” and he has the dinner …
Read MoreAndrew Cohen is Canada's peri- patetic prophet of doom. A networker par excellence, his Rolodex is chock-full of the best names in journalism and academe in Toronto and Ottawa ”” and he has the dinner …
Read MoreA good way to measure who has genuine influence around Ottawa has always been this rule: ”œThose who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know.” In other words, a key requirement for playing an …
Read MoreA good way to measure who has genuine influence around Ottawa has always been this rule: ”œThose who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know.” In other words, a key requirement for playing an …
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