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24 June 2008
Speaking of Obama and NAFTA
Sen. Obama had staked out an increasingly negative attitude on NAFTA as the primary season unfolded - particularly in Pennsylvania and Ohio. One unspoken reason why his position is wobbly, is that he doesn’t want to say what he really thinks, and that is, Canada is […]

23 June 2008Public Sector Integrity Commissioner? How did we miss this somewhat Orwellian title? Not that we don’t believe whistle-blowers’ allegations should be investigated and they protected from retaliation. But,  according to David Kilgour et al:
The Harper government’s constantly-repeated mantra is that they have provided ‘ironclad’ whistle-blower protection.
However the facts suggest that:

The […]

With thanks to Professor Paul Quirk of UBC and Foad Mardukhi who maintains an impressive listserv on many topics of interest.

22 June
Higher Learning Adapts To a Greening Attitude
Students Lead Drive Reshaping Curricula
By Susan Kinzie
Washington Post Staff Writer
The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and […]

June 21
Cranky Parliament still got things done
Don Martin, National Post
Change anathema to Harper
While there’s no doubt the Harper government is tired and limping toward the end of the parliamentary session, it’s unlikely the Prime Minister is going to re-emerge in the fall and start banging on about embracing change.
This is because transformative change is an […]

June 20
ADQ’s decline is good news for the Liberals
Charest can thank his bounce in polls on his two Bourassa-era advisers
JOSEE LEGAULT, The Gazette
If John Parisella and Michel Bissonnette were to team up for good, create their own strategic counselling firm and register it on the stock exchange, its shares would be going through the roof.
When […]

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June 19
OTTAWA: IMMIGRATION CHANGES PASS PARLIAMENT
Federal Immigration Minister Diane Finley has welcomed the support of both the House of Commons and the Senate for proposed changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Mrs. Finley says the government now has the “tools in place” to bring people to the country quickly who have skills which […]

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Terry & David Jones, the consummate diplomats, are with us from Washington on their annual fact-finding mission which always turns up more facts about Ottawa and Quebec than we can ever unearth. We can, of course, quiz them in turn about the buzz in The Nation’s Capitol […]

June 18
South Africa’s Mbeki meets with Mugabe, Tsvangirai : South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been designated to mediate Zimbabwe’s political crisis, on Wednesday met separately with President Robert Mugabe and his political opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai. USA TODAY/Associated Press
More political opponents killed in Zimbabwe
Four political opponents of Robert […]

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June 17
Feds under fire over Kyoto Protocol in court and at UN
(National Post) OTTAWA — The Harper government is fighting off challenges in court and at the United Nations for allegedly not meeting its obligations under the […]