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(NYT) YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s ruling military junta gave no sign to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that it was prepared to accept any outside pressure about the future of democracy here, rejecting his request on Saturday to visit the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and offering […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Iran on the Economist ; Huffington Post Iran Uprising Live-Blogging ; The Land of Nod

Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
(National Post Comment) … according to Iran’s Press […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion ; Stratfor Iran Situation Reports and Analyses ; More on Iran
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the […]

(CBC Archives) Massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square live reporting from June 4 1989
Jeff Widener: Returning to Tiananmen Square
 

Jeff Widener/Associated Press
Tiananmen Square
By Nicholas D. Kristof
In the spring of 1989, Tiananmen Square, set in the center of Beijing, became the site of largest pro-democracy movement in China in the 20th century.
It began that year with Hu Yaobang, […]

Forget for the moment the upcoming Summit of the Americas and the new Cuba policy announced in advance of the meeting; the crisis in Thailand and cancellation of the ASEAN meeting by Protests in that country. Pay no attention to the the Conservatives’ battle over whether Mr. Mulroney is a member of the Party,  […]

T H E  R E P O R T  See photos
In a charming thank-you, one of the first-time guests accurately described the evening as “cheerfully tumultuous”  - and that it was, despite  the  serious nature of most of the topics.

The economy — The precipice of systemic problems exists
There was a time when Business Administration students […]

VISION, PRINCIPLES AND RESPONSIBILITY IN LEADERSHIP
Remarks by Hon. David Kilgour, J.D.
Queen’s Canadian Leadership Conference 2009
Queen’s University, Kingston
24 January 2009
Congratulations to Queen’s on this conference. Also for using it to support the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is doing much to ease the pain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic among our sisters and brothers in Africa.Your […]

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated return of Cleo Paskal from her wanderings (who else do we know who covers the UK, Athens, Faroe Islands and India in what seems like a minute?). Cleo […]

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 […]

 
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMICS, TRADE AND APPROACHES TO GOVERNMENT

Remarks by Hon. David Kilgour. J.D.
Canadian International Council/Conseil International du Canada, Victoria Branch
Changing Dynamics in Canada – U.S. Relations
Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria May 12-13, 2008

Published in The MetropolitaIn as International security, trade and governance Vol.I No 3 31 May
According to a legend, in creating […]