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Canada at 150 — Andrew Coyne comments
April 7, 2010, Comments Off on Canada at 150 — Andrew Coyne comments

The end of the Liberal empire Andrew Coyne on how the former Natural Governing Party might avoid certain doom Going into ...

Canada at 150 – a new way of conducting politics
April 5, 2010, Comments Off on Canada at 150 – a new way of conducting politics

Pascal Zemprelli: The dawn of politics 2.0 Politics 2.0 is about a culture change in Ottawa. It is politics moving from ...

Wednesday Night #1465
March 31, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1465

There is a difference between public interest and what the public is interested in. If you are to be tough (as a politic ...

Kimon Valaskakis and Angéline Fournier on Canada at 150
March 31, 2010, Comments Off on Kimon Valaskakis and Angéline Fournier on Canada at 150

The English outline (not published) of the op-ed that appeared in La Presse (see below) Kimon Valaskakis and Angéline F ...

Wednesday Night #1464
March 24, 2010, 1 Comment

Diana, who arrived from the David Suzuki Foundation fundraiser at which Thomas Friedman of the New York Times was the sp ...

Stewart L. Udall R.I.P.
March 21, 2010, Comments Off on Stewart L. Udall R.I.P.

Stewart L. Udall, Conservationist in Kennedy and Johnson Cabinets, Dies at 90 Stewart L. Udall, an ardent conservationis ...

Undercover Boss: can bosses learn from working at a low level?
March 8, 2010, Comments Off on Undercover Boss: can bosses learn from working at a low level?

Arianna Huffington: Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television? (HuffPost) Undercover Boss, the new CBS r ...

The UN and governance
March 4, 2010, Comments Off on The UN and governance

The decline of the international civil servant (Foreign Policy) The U.N. practice of hiring political appointees has ens ...

Wednesday Night #1461
March 3, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1461

More on Wednesday-Night.com The evening started on a somber note, as Diana noted with sadness the deaths of Judith Patte ...

The Politics of Earthquakes
March 3, 2010, Comments Off on The Politics of Earthquakes

If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, pe ...

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