Wednesday-Night

25 July 2007
Our mental capabilities are exhausted from the intense and challenging conversation of last week’s Salon covering Global Governance, China, Iraq and the Geopolitics of Environmental Change including Canada’s claims to the Northwest Passage
The relevance of our WN topics was confirmed today by the BBC report today that Russia is sending a mini-submarine to […]

Gore gets the green, so can you

Gary Lamphier

CanWest News Service

July 08, 2007

CREDIT: STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore thanks singer Melissa Etheridge during the Live Earth concert July 7, 2007 in Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Some of the biggest names in the music world committed to performing in Live Earth concerts in […]

 
Drought strategy treats H2O like an energy resource
Reuters
Thursday, July 19
How much is a drop of water worth? That was the question posed yesterday by the European Union’s environment chief as part of his plans to put a price on the liquid, which he said was becoming a scarce commodity.
As part of his strategy paper to […]

Hope, Concern Greet China’s Growing Prominence
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
23 July 2007
By Michael Deibert
While China’s growing trade and investment flows to Africa have sparked a sometimes contentious debate with the United States and Europe over who has the continent’s best interests at heart, a closer look at the dynamic developing reveals a political landscape […]

This Wednesday we will sadly say farewell to Anne Sophie Coleman, who leaves Montreal for an exciting new post in Washington where she will be dealing with issues relating to China and intellectual property rights. Probably even more challenging than the role she has occasionally had to assume on Wednesday Nights! She will be sorely […]

18 July 2007
By Isabel Chimangeni IPS
Lusaka
Votes cast for presidential contender Michael Sata in the recent election suggest a growing discontent among Zambians over the effects of increased Chinese involvement in their country.
President Levy Mwanawasa won the Sep. 28 poll, but Sata received an overwhelming majority of votes in the capital — Lusaka — and […]

In the heat of the debate over the Conrad Black trial (and tribulations), we offer the following 2005 piece by his staunch supporter, Adam Daifallah, in counterpoint to John Moore’s thoughts.

Conrad Black, profiled by Adam Daifallah, Oct. 25
National Post
October 25, 2005
The National Post is looking for Canada’s most important “public intellectual” — which we […]

Canadian elites’ judicial “blind spot” for those we admire

People tend to forgive those sins and sinners with which they can identify. The families of drunk drivers rally around their loved ones when they are on trial. “It was a small mistake”, they argue, “out of character and something anyone else could easily have done.” Were […]

 
More on Canada, Russia and the Arctic
Whose Pole?
National Post Editorial
 
July 28, 2007
Moscow cannot unilaterally declare Santa Claus a Russian citizen. Yet that is what the government of President Vladimir Putin appears to be attempting with its launching this week of an expedition that will plant a flag on the seabed 4,200 metres beneath the […]

Monday, July 9, 2007

A VIEW FROM WASHINGTON, D.C

The Media and the Prime Minister:
How Poisonous Are Relations?
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Harper believes inter alia that the scrums previously held after
Cabinet closed-doors sessions were hare and hounds exercises
with the media operating under ‘survival of the rudest’ rules.
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By David Jones
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