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Canada 2010: G8 & G20 ; At Issue panel on The National (CBC)
No politics please, we’re nation-building: PM
WHITEHORSE - He stood astride an ice flow, F-18 jets roaring overhead for a perfect photograph, reannounced feel-good government initiatives and gave a rousing speech to party faithful warning of the evils of an opposition coalition.
But Prime Minister […]

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 […]

(CBC Archive) Conrad Black: Tracking the media tycoon’s career and conviction (National Post) Conrad Black
Conrad Black: My prison education
In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, […]

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Sarah Palin Blames Environmentalists For Gulf Oil Disaster
Her logic is that because environmentalists push for tougher drilling regulations onshore in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (also known as ANWR) it forces oil companies to explore deeper offshore drilling which has more risks.
4 April
Discovery Channel Insider: Sarah […]

Pierre Arbour’s foresight and generosity in creating his eponymous Fondation Universitaire continues to foster bright young students through the Master and Doctoral levels providing them with means for acquiring the education that will enable them to make a contribution to the Quebec economy and their fellow humans not only in their chosen fields but to […]

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 […]