All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper
June 15, 2009, Comments Off on Tom Flanagan on Stephen Harper

The way Mr. Flanagan sees it now, Stephen Harper is adrift in a vacuum of policy and principle, conniving only to retain ...

Jeff Rubin: Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
June 15, 2009, 2 Comments

A peak at oil reserves (The Economist) ACCORDING to BP, an oil company, the world has enough oil reserves to meet demand ...

Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?
June 14, 2009, Comments Off on Thomas Friedman: Winds of Change?

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book about the Middle East, and recently I was thinking of updating it with a new introducti ...

William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead
June 13, 2009, Comments Off on William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead

Conrad Black’s umbrage over the Christopher Buckley memoir of his remarkable parents does less to diminish the boo ...

Blackrock
June 11, 2009, Comments Off on Blackrock

Barclays lands capital-boosting BlackRock deal LONDON/BOSTON — BlackRock has agreed to buy Barclays Global Investo ...

U.S. Healthcare
June 11, 2009, Comments Off on U.S. Healthcare

Health Care, North and South of the Border (Nicholas Kristof)  … my column examines Canadian and American health ...

Wednesday Night #1423
June 10, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1423

See Wednesday-Night.com for photos and more AECL ; Douglas Lightfoot’s letter of June 7 to Minister Lisa Raitt on ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #15
June 10, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #15

Isn’t this a most glorious stretch of sunshine? [Obviously not written from Montreal’s WN] Enthralled with b ...

Europe and the EU
June 8, 2009, Comments Off on Europe and the EU

The European elections saw a record low turnout of 43%. The centre-left did badly in most countries. The centre-right Eu ...

China: Tiananmen Square
June 4, 2009, Comments Off on China: Tiananmen Square

(CBC Archives) Massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square live reporting from June 4 1989 Jeff Widener: Returning to T ...

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