All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

U.S. post 20 Jan 2009
January 20, 2010, Comments Off on U.S. post 20 Jan 2009

 Next week, the speech will be pretty much forgotten, and people will scratch their heads to remember a single quote fr ...

Yemen
January 18, 2010, Comments Off on Yemen

CIA World Fact Book U.S. Department of State Background Note BBC Country profile The reputed home of the Queen of Sheba, ...

Wednesday Night #1454
January 12, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1454

On 13 January 1898, Émile Zola’s letter J’accuse was published.  Wikipedia notes that “As a result o ...

Wednesday Night #1453
January 6, 2010, 1 Comment

Leonard Cohen Poet-in-residence at Westmount High With a background of the soundtrack of some of the poet’s wonder ...

Canada & the world II
December 31, 2009, Comments Off on Canada & the world II

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic Is Security Council Seat a Tory Priority? (Embassy August 2009) Exper ...

Canada after 2008 election
December 31, 2009, Comments Off on Canada after 2008 election

Our Democracy is Broken: How do we fix it? CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen moderates a head-to-head debate between Maclean’s ...

Wednesday Night #1452
December 30, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1452

market likely to be better in 2010 T H E  I N V I T A T I O N The last Wednesday Night of the Oughties decade (or what ...

The airline industry
December 30, 2009, 3 Comments

Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Bran ...

Wednesday Night #1451
December 23, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1451

  The outcome of the Copenhagen conference, although disappointing, was certainly predictable.  To be valid and enforc ...

UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen)
December 19, 2009, Comments Off on UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen)

Reuters FACTBOX: Who Is Going To Copenhagen? UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Host country site) Telegraph U.K ...