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In the past 13 years, conservatives in Canada have endured an incredible odyssey. It’s a trip that took them from a successful national government based on a creative pan-Canadian...

I intend to address today’s topic ”” ”œeducation and talent” ”” with a call to action. Alain Dubuc calls Quebec North America’s most egalitarian society, and we do indeed...

I’ve been asked to share with you the story of Canada: A People’s History, and what I learned about Canada through that television project. Later, I want to talk...

Pity the poor arts communities in Alberta. They just can’t seem to get the respect they deserve. While the corporate community has for the most part been a great support-...

My father was a Canadian professional soldier with a strong historical sense he transmitted to me in an ideal way ”” by possessing a large, well-illustrated library of classics...

”œOur position on the dictators of the earth and secular groups and others that resemble them is that there are innocents among them and unbelievers among them and that...

Depuis maintenant cinquante ans, le gouvernement canadien fait du maintien de la paix l’une des facettes les plus médiatisées de sa politique étrangé€re. En plus d’é‚tre une activité qui...

It is time for an honest reckoning of NATO’s progress in Afghanistan. There is a widening gap between the Harper government’s relentlessly upbeat descriptions of the NATO mission and...

Dé€s le début 2002 et le renversement du régime théocratique qui controÌ‚lait toute parole publique, les médias afghans se sont développés aÌ€ un rythme effréné aussi bien graÌ‚ce aÌ€...

The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has been much criticized for its apparent inaction and/or lack of control of the border that it shares with Afghanistan. It has...

Les scé€nes de combat intenses et les images de cer- cueils drapés de l’unifolié ont placé l’engagement canadien en Afghanistan au cœur de l’actualité poli- tique au pays en...

Tip O’Neill was speaking of elections in America when he famously said, ”œAll politics are local.” After the ”œthumpin’” voters handed Republicans November 7 over the war in Iraq,...

It is a truism in American politics that midterm elections are a referendum on the performance of the president. In 1974, the electorate, repulsed by Watergate, delivered a sharp rebuke...

The Democrats emerged as the clear winners of the midterm electoral contest in the United States. For the first time since the 1994 ­”Republican Revolution,” majority control of the...

The recent victories by Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate mark a major power shift northward within the United States that will increase the attention paid...

There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang...

In the final speech of his first northern tour, at the end of the summer, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered hope, as had many federal politicians before him, that...

Fifteen years after the first report on Canada’s competi- tiveness by Michael Porter of Harvard in 1991, Canada’s ability to produce high value-added, knowledge-based products has actually deteriorated relative...

Political leaders are often judged by their first hundred days. Without the levers of government, and burdened by flak over a deal with David Orchard, there was little Peter...

In the past 13 years, conservatives in Canada have endured an incredible odyssey. It’s a trip that took them from a successful national government based on a creative pan-Canadian...

A 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,...

The water-cooler take on Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein has long been that Woodward was the plodding, anal one and Bernstein was the fun twin ”” the guy who...

Ma premié€re voiture était une bien vieille et bien laide chose. Mais elle roulait, ce qui répondait aÌ€ peu pré€s aÌ€ mes attentes. Pour l’entretien, je suivais une ré€gle...