From today's Washington Post: NATO Conflicted Over Afghanistan As War-Torn Country Backslides, Allies Differ on How to Stabilize It KABUL -- Four years after NATO began an expanded mission in Afghanistan, members of the 26-nation alliance are divided over anti-drug and reconstruction policies, rising civilian casualties and what some say is heavy-handed U.S. leadership, according to interviews with military officials and diplomats.... NATO's internal conflicts are playing out against a background of increasing violence in Afghanistan, where the extremist Taliban group is resurgent, suicide attacks and roadside bombings are on the rise, and opium production is at an all-time high.

...six weeks after the 17-city “reasonable accommodation” road show got under way and derogatory remarks against Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and other religious minorities started flying – it seems that Quebecers think the chairmen were right to worry. In a new poll, 62 per cent – rising to 74 per cent in central Quebec, scene of the Hérouxville controversy – said the commission should have done something from the outset to prevent racist and anti-Semitic statements from being expressed.

“Bombardier has been subsidized by Canadian taxpayers over great many decades and now they will sell to Americans — and only Americans — for 40 per cent less?... Bombardier Recreational Products was actually spun off a few years ago from Bombardier, the publicly traded plane and train maker, and is now privately owned by the Bombardier family.