Errata, observations and working notes
from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Ignatieff concedes he was wrong on Iraq
Michael Ignatieff, a Canadian Member of Parliament who very nearly became the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, wants to explain how he may have been on the wrong side of this whole Iraq business.
Who, you might wonder, would care about Ignatieff's intellectual turnabout? I, too, thought it might ...   more »
View Article  Back from holiday --- and apparently my profession helped bring down a bridge while I was gone
...some exchanges that were posted to a list I subscribe to for journalists who are into using data analysis to dig out new kinds of stories. Most of the journalists on that list are based in the United States and, apparently, there is some discussion that the "Media" somehow contributed to the collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis. Here's part of that discussion...   more »

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