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Bob Rae on CTV Question Period Dec 7th
Bob Rae speaks with Jane Taber about the Liberal leadership race, and the coalition to defeat Stephen Harper.
Richard Colvin is a hardworking Canadian diplomat who was simply doing his job when he wrote memos about reliable evidence of mistreatment of Afghan prisoners by Afghan authorities. The focus must now turn on why it took Ottawa a year to admit there was a problem...
The decision by Prime Minister Harper to miss any appearance at the United Nations the same week as the presence of senior leaders around the world, including President Barack Obama was a typical triumph of his personal spite over long term Canadian interests...
Edward Kennedy was a great friend of Canada. He came here often, spoke eloquently about the environment and health care, and over many years took a deep interest in Canadian public policy...
August 23, 1939 was a dark moment in human history. On that day the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact that was breathtaking in its cynicism and calculation...
I know nothing of the private character of Stephen Harper. He has a sullen sharp-eyed look as he faces the Liberal opposition, and we all have opinions as to "what he is really like". But none of us know the answer, so all we have to go on is politics. It is of the public character that I speak...
What was a poorly kept secret is now leaking all over Ottawa. When John Diefenbaker was elected he used to fulminate about "the Pearsonalities" in the East Block, then the offices of the old Department of External Affairs...
Watching the debate in the US about health care has been a fascinating, if depressing experience. And the fact that a Canadian woman has played into the hands of the Republican lobby because of her understandable anxiety about her medical condition doesn't make me mad, if just makes me sad...
These are the words on the Air India monument in Ireland, now found as well on the monuments in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver...
I am in Vancouver to attend a memorial service for my dear friend Jim Fulton, a larger than life figure who served with me in Parliament thirty years ago. A wonderful man who received a wonderful tribute from many friends and family...
On the evening of June 9, 2009, I arrived on a flight from Delhi to Colombo, Sri Lanka...
We are told that celebrations have broken out in the Sinhala community in Colombo. That is understandable, but it should be a celebration marked with sadness as well...
First thing in the morning these days I find the BBC website on my blackberry to find the latest on the tragic events in Sri Lanka...
I lived here fifty years ago (!) when Eisenhower was President, the Senators were in the last place in the American League and the kids in my third grade class made fun of me (among other reasons) because I wouldn't sing the national anthem or put my hand over my heart when everyone else was...
The news that the government of Sri Lanka has declared a two day pause in the fighting in northeastern Sri Lanka should lead to increased efforts for an extended ceasefire...
The focus everywhere is on "the economy," but it is ironic that conservatives are outdoing each other by promising to spend money on "shovel ready" projects, with Stephen Harper seen getting on to a ski-doo after bringing a cheque for a new winter trail...
