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Our Democracy is Broken: How do we fix it?
CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen moderates a head-to-head debate between Maclean’s Andrew Coyne and Paul Wells on the state of Canada’s democracy. Guest panelists … including former NDP […]

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Letting the left claim the cerebral high ground
The Palin phenomenon builds on the same foundation as U.S. president George W. Bush: pro-America conservative Christian populism. Faith and gut instinct will show us the way, especially when dealing with radical Islam. Wishy-washy liberal intellectuals who would negotiate with […]

Here is the wonderful  Montreal City Weblog that does 99.9% of our Montreal-focused work for us. It is full of current news and information, along with some excellent links and several years’ worth of weekly archives. The latter make entertaining if discouraging reading as one is reminded how many are recurrent and unresolved topics. Grateful […]

Conrad Black addresses McGill students via prison phone
Conrad Black has published a thousand-page biography of Richard Nixon, but as he spoke to students at McGill University on Wednesday, he had all of 15 minutes to convey his thoughts on the former U.S. president. Anything longer, and the warden would have cut the call.
The rapid-fire lecture, […]

Conrad Black’s umbrage over the Christopher Buckley memoir of his remarkable parents does less to diminish the book’s charm and much more to highlight Mr. Black’s serious lack of humour - and more important - whimsy.

Conrad Black: Christopher Buckley’s book of grievances
Chrisopher Buckley’s complicated new little book, Losing Mum and Pup, is more about the […]

Adam Daifallah is a Canadian author and journalist and a dedicated blogger. A native of Peterborough, Ontario, he is currently studying law at Laval University in Québec City, where he is the recipient of the Richard J. Schmeelk scholarship. Adam is a graduate of Queen’s University (Class of ‘02) with a BA (Hons.) in history […]

The 2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference – organized by a group of students from the Laval and McGill Faculties of Law (headed by Adam Daifallah and Hugh Meighen) – aims to bring together constitutional experts and student delegations from all of Canada’s law faculties to debate and discuss the evolution of the Canadian […]

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 […]