All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Rights of Canadian citizens
August 26, 2009, Comments Off on Rights of Canadian citizens

Cannon presses Iran over detained Canadian (CBC) Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has pressed his Iranian counte ...

Canada's Northern Strategy
August 22, 2009, 1 Comment

Canada’s Northern Strategy ; Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security in a Transforming Circumpolar World (click to do ...

Wednesday Night #1433
August 19, 2009, 4 Comments

More to come The U.S. Healthcare debate Throughout much of the world and certainly most of the western world, universal ...

Don Hewitt 1922-2009 R.I.P.
August 19, 2009, Comments Off on Don Hewitt 1922-2009 R.I.P.

60 Minutes Creator Don Hewitt, 86, Dies (CBS)  Don Hewitt, recognized as a father of modern television news and the cre ...

Egypt
August 18, 2009, Comments Off on Egypt

For the first time in five years, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is visiting the White House, meeting with U.S. Presid ...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921-2009 R.I.P.
August 16, 2009, Comments Off on Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921-2009 R.I.P.

Eunice Kennedy smiles sitting next to her brother John, Palm Beach, Florida, 1941. Photograph: Morgan Collection/Getty I ...

Invest in the planet and clean up
August 16, 2009, Comments Off on Invest in the planet and clean up

Native American group and others invest in algae biofuel The Southern Utes tribe, one of the wealthiest Native American ...

Wednesday Night #1432
August 12, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1432

Work in progress – more to come With glittering representation from the Federal and municipal levels of government ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #17
August 12, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #17

I shall use that power next week Wednesday, enabled by the Truly Magnificent Gavel, to convene us for another informal e ...

Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?
August 9, 2009, Comments Off on Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?

Media Matters Why Neoconservative Pundits Love Jon Stewart (New York Magazine) “There is genuine intellectual curi ...

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