When Michael Ignatieff spoke last year at the Liberal policy convention, I was impressed enough with the delivery and content that I posted the speech here at this blog. Ignatieff spoke today at the University of Ottawa and while I wasn't there, several sources in Ottawqa have messagesd me here ...   more »

CANCUN, Mexico - Was at work this morning at 0430 local time here doing hits on the hour with CTV Newsnet and Canada AM. It´s now just 10 am local time and stinking hot. I´m not complaining ...
Prime Minister Harper is in a helicopter heading for Chichen Itza where ...   more »

ON BOARD CFC01 - We have just touched down in Cancun with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper travelled here from Ottawa this evening. And while Harper's wife Laureen stayed home, the Prime Minister enjoyed the company of the Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson and the American Ambassador to ...   more »

I’m travelling this afternoon to Cancun, Mexico as part of the media group accompanying the Prime Minister to his trilateral meetings with U.S. President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox. We arrive in Cancun this evening at about 10 pm local time. (Cancun is on Central Standard Time.)

Harper ...   more »

A couple of weeks ago, I’d asked Department of National Defence officials what were the rules so far as enemy combatants captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Here’s the response I received last week from a DND media affairs officer.

(AKIN) What happens to detainees when they are detained ...   more »

I realize that the politics of Internet governance can be a real tough slog for most people but, as a reporter who spent years covering the in and outs of these issues, let me assure you that this is huge news: The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has essentially said ...   more »

A paper released this week by a trio of Statistics Canada researchers suggests that levels of foreign ownership in Canada of non-financial industries is at its highest level since the 1960s.

During recent years, there has been a sizable increase in the share of non-financial corporate assets controlled by foreign ...   more »

Mike Gifford, who once represented Canada in international agricultural trade negotiations, argues that Canada’s poultry and dairy producers could be in for some disruptive shocks as the next round of international trade talks concludes.

The Doha Round of global trade talks [came] to an important juncture in December as trade and ...   more »

Some notes from Michael Hart and Bill Dymond, “The Cul-de-Sac of Softwood Lumber” in Policy Options, November 2005.

How did the two governments get into this mess, and how do they get out? A useful start is to understand the
nature of the problem. First, Canada is blessed ...   more »

The mega-bucks musical adaptation of The Lord of the Rings opened last night in Toronto and the critcs weren’t very kind.

The New York Times’ critic Ben Brantley went north to discover that “the musical numbers are often solemn, incantatory affairs, suggesting Enya at an ashram” and labels the ...   more »