Wednesday-Night

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, whether U.S. or foreign based. We cannot recollect such intense excitement over primaries and admit to obsessing about the latest pronouncement from Wolf, Brian, Charlie (Gibson or Rose), Tim, not to mention all those wonderful political […]

January 25, 2008
Afghanistan needs us
Without the presence of international troops, chaos would erupt
JOHN MANLEY
Saturday, January 26, 2008
The opening lines of my independent panel’s report make it clear that Afghanistan is at war and that Canada is a combatant. That’s the situation today, but a close reading of our work says it doesn’t have to be […]

January 22, 2008

Masdar City will be constructed in the desert on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. The aims are to use only renewable energy sources, and to eliminate 99% of the waste stream. This artist’s impression shows wind turbines on the edge of the city and public transport links running through.
(Reuters) ABU DHABI - Gulf […]

9 January 2008

Welcome back to all who have enjoyed protracted holidays in exotic, or not-so-exotic habitats! We have missed you and once again extend warmest greetings and good wishes for the coming year, as we look forward to many more enlightening evenings of quiet discussion and/or passionate debate.
There’s little doubt that the Iowa and […]

Do see last week #1345 - a wonderful evening with Marc Garneau - good conversation and great photos by Robert Galbraith
If two weeks ago our theme was Let it Snow, this week should likely be Winter Wonderland. However, we confess that after digging ourselves out of the house (resisting the temptation to hi-bear-nate), aching […]

We are honoured that Robert Galbraith has permitted us to reproduce his eloquent and moving conclusions on his tour in Afghanistan.
EIGHT WEEKS IN NOVEMBER
Let Us Not Forget What It Means To Be Canadian
Special to The suburban by Robert J. Galbraith
Sometimes I feel that there will always be war. As long as there […]

The eve of the UNFCCC COP13 in Bali, should serve as a fitting conclusion to the Unisfera Conference on Business & Sustainable Development. In light of Canada’s role in the outcome of the Commonwealth Conference (and the concurrent Australian election results), along with the release of Maude Barlow’s book “Blue Covenant: The Global Water […]

November 26, 2007
We are delighted to confirm that Robert has returned safely from his two-month tour (in the military sense of the word) in Afghanistan and we are honoured that he has invited us, along with The Suburban, to publish this summary of his thoughts on the experience. We believe that these […]

22 November 2007
Wednesday Night discussions of Afghanistan have often included suggestions that one solution to the problem of compensating opium poppy growers for lost revenue would be to encourage poppy cultivation for pharmaceutical purposes rather than for the drug trade. The Senlis Council report on research of this option is encouraging, but we wonder if […]

21 November 2007
Six years ago coalition forces headed into Afghanistan to eradicate the Taliban. Now an international think tank says more than half of the country is under the Taliban’s thumb. Meanwhile, an Oxfam report sharply criticized US-led development efforts in the region.
In war-torn Afghanistan, the Taliban is gaining ground again as it continues its […]