Wednesday-Night

Exclusive to The Suburban
To use Robert Galbraith’s words, this was “extreme journalism”. Robert and his colleague Guido Schmidt are in Spin Bolduk, a dangerous Afghan crossing on the Pakistani border. Osama Bin-Laden had been seen here at the start of the conflict. Robert Galbraith has gone further, faster and deeper than any independent journalist in […]

14 November 2007
A few weeks ago, Tony Deutsch suggested as a topic the subject of the New York Times article “The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question“. It seems that a number of Nobel economics laureates take issue with the kind of work that has often been honored.
Complaints about prize winners generally fall into one […]

Voices of Afghanistan By Robert J. Galbraith, Exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan — For over a month, my colleague Guido Schmidt and myself have been living in and speaking to the people of Kabul, Afghanistan’s largest city. We have grown beards (which is a sign of respect here) and […]

Photo by Robert Galbraith
By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan — This photo essay documents a two-hour patrol by Britain’s Coldstream Guards, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul on Oct. 25.
The patrol of three heavily-armoured and armed Snatch Land Rovers and 15 guardsmen left British Camp Souter to an area known […]

By Robert J. Galbraith, exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Mohmad Noman, a 34-year-old member of the Afghan Border Police (ABP), leads his drug-sniffing dog Eirofi around the exterior of a tanker-trailer truck in a courtyard of the Border Police Headquarters in Kabul. Using a series of hisses while motioning with his hand, […]

Of course the news this week for the inhabitants of this northern realm is all about the Speech from the Throne and the will-they-won’t-they reaction from the Opposition (Liberals above all). Incidentally, we are not overwhelmed by a great feeling of inclusiveness when the full text of said speech published on the Gazette website […]

October 17, 2007
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Kabul, Afghanistan - Six years after the Taliban’s horrendous bombing of the fabulous Buddha complex at Bamiyan, Afghanistan’s greatest national treasure and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, efforts are being made by the Canadian government to save another great piece of Afghan heritage from death by neglect.
Last week it was announced that […]

October 17, 2007
Hello from Rob in Kabul
Salaam a la Comb! Everything going fairly well in Kabul. Nothing works like clock work in Afghanistan. There is a lot of e-mailing and waiting for the ok to go here or there, or the chance to cover this or that. We tried to get […]

10 October 2007
Gerald Ratzer OWN and Tony Deutsch OWN, being responsible members of the McGill Pension Fund Committee, have conducted due diligence on the Tar Sands and are back from Fort McMurray fully propagandized and ready to share their findings.
If this is our only topic (which is unlikely), it will be a fascinating Wednesday Night. […]

A glowing - and well-deserved tribute to Robert Galbraith by Beryl Wajsman (see excerpts below), who has just left for Afghanistan, appeared in The Suburban on 3 October. We wish Robert Godspeed and a safe return, look forward to his promised reports and will miss him greatly at Wednesday Nights. We are […]