Wednesday-Night

21 November 2007
There are the obvious topics that have dominated the news over the last few days:
The OPEC Summit and what may or may not have been resolved in that wonderfully inclusive forum where the presidents of Iran and Venezuela railed against the U.S. and then everyone came together for a (relatively) warm and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Margaret Lefebvre advises that the government commission on: The living conditions of seniors a social issue that is the responsibility of all Quebecers, is anxious to hear from seniors on matters that include, but are not necessarily limited to healthcare. The Minister has scheduled a special session to take place in Dorval […]

If you didn’t see the following from American Diplomacy on 6 November, it may be of interest.
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The author, who has been published frequently by American Diplomacy, returned recently from a visit to Easter Island and discusses below some of the theories about that mysterious South Pacific isle. He seeks to […]

7 November 2007
It’s a very mixed and quite bleak bag this week, with the crisis in Pakistan dominating the international news, along with seemingly concurrent violence in Afghanistan (See also) In Pakistan the opposition centers around Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry, who after refusing to ratify General Musharraf’s order suspending the country’s constitution, warned the […]

5 November 2007
After a hard-fought campaign in Westmount, the incumbent English Montreal School Board (EMSB) commissioner [and Wednesday Nighter] Ginette Sauvé-Frankel was given a clear mandate by local voters for another four years at the post.
Though marred by low voter turnout across the province, Sunday’s school board elections saw a slightly […]

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 […]