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View Article  Top Foreign Affairs bureaucrat quits

Peter Harder, the deputy minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has resigned, my colleague Robert Fife is about to report on CTV Newsnet.

Harder was rumoured to be one of those in line for the job of Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada’s top civil service. That ...   more »

View Article  Blog posting software: Anyone on BlogJet 2.0

I’ve been using BlogJet 1.6.2 to post to this blog and others whenever I’m working on my Windows XP machine. It’s a reliable, stable, if bare-bones product. On my Mac, I’ve been using Ecto. It’s got some features that are different from BlogJet. I’ve been waiting for a ...   more »

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