Wednesday-Night

David Brooks gets his wish.
We had hopes for Bill Richardson, whose practical international negotiating experience would have served Obama well, however Senator Biden should make a good presiding officer of the Senate and the country needs thoughtful leadership in the legislative body that should guide an support foreign affairs policy (after government by Executive Orders, […]

Conrad Black says prison strip search story ‘fiction’
CBC News Conrad Black has used his latest newspaper article written in prison to refute a media report that said he had to endure a “full-body cavity search” in front of other inmates. In Saturday’s National Post newspaper, the Canadian-born former media mogul writes that “the source and […]

We are delighted that Anne Lagacé Dowson, the NDP candidate in our by-election will be joining us this Wednesday. As all of you who have not been hibernating (what would be the summer verson of hibernating?) in the woods, absent all forms of print and telecommunications news, the race in Westmount-Ville-Marie is […]

See also Afghanistan news on Wednesday-night.com and
CBC Background on Afghanistan 2008
Robert Galbraith
August 20
(NYT Editorial) The more territory the Taliban controls, the more money it can raise from narcotics and black-market activities to mount an even fiercer challenge against the foundering civilian governments in Kabul and Islamabad. And the more territory the Taliban controls, the more […]

Gathering Storm of Expectations in Nairobi Slum
NAIROBI, Aug 20 (IPS) - For the first time in its 60 years of existence, there is a ray of hope for the one million inhabitants of Kibera, one of the world’s most densely-populated slums. After spending most of his life on opposition benches — or in prison — […]

August 18
Disgruntled investors lose Ontario court bid in ABCP meltdown
(CBC News) Disgruntled investors, who bought asset-backed financial instruments, will need to go to the Supreme Court of Canada if they still want to scuttle an agreement in one of the country’s largest financial meltdowns ever.
On Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal turned down a bid […]

FINALLY, an issue we can relate to … woops! That sounds politically incorrect.
In Dog We Trust
In these dog days of summer, let’s consider the most important decision facing Barack Obama. Long ago, as he set out on this race, he made the one campaign promise he can under no […]

More on the 2008 campaign and issues
Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supplied considerable information. Now that the Democrats have united (sort of) behind Barack Obama, we are moving away from following the issues in one post. There are now […]

17 August
Russia’s Arctic ambitions challenged
With rich oil and gas reserves at stake as the Arctic ice thins, US and Canadian ships are teaming up to conduct a seismic survey of the Beaufort seabed north of the Yukon-Alaska border
16 August 2008
Russia leads scramble for Arctic
(The Telegraph) With the polar icecaps melting, and oil prices at […]

August 15, 2008
David Jones . Don’t kid yourselves, Canada
Citizen Special
Sometimes one wonders why a politician marches into a swamp clearly marked, “Here lie alligators.” Is it hubris — the conviction that water walking is not confined to Biblical characters? Is it an effort to float a lead balloon by someone confused as to whether lead […]