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Political scientists (II)6 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 1 week ago: Chris Selley considers Jason Kenney and KAIROS. Heaven only knows what went on here. Maybe it’ … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, democracy, Faith, Foreign Aid, Israel, Jason Kenney, Kairos, Politics

So what do we do now?23 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 4 months ago: March 31. “If these reports are true, this will create serious problems for Canada,” sai … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Stephen Harper, Afghanistan, Jason Kenney, Human Rights, Peter MacKay, Taliban, NATO

Here's Why You Should Worry About Pakistan's Insurgency

milnewsca wrote 4 months ago: 1)  Read this and this. 2)  Read this (.pdf) if you want to get it straight from the horse’s m … more →

Tags: Taliban, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, Security

Mitchel raphael on the NDP MP who got bubbly from a Tory2 comments

Mitchel Raphael wrote 5 months ago: Poet laureate a traitor? Pierre DesRuisseaux is Canada’s fourth parliamentary poet laureate. At his … more →

Tags: Canada, Marlene Jennings, Rona Ambrose, diane ablonczy, Gay Pride, Pierre DesRuisseaux, poet laureate, Employment insurance working group

Laureen Harper and the biker flick26 comments

Mitchel Raphael wrote 6 months ago: Heritage Minister James Moore hosted a reception for the Canadian motorcycle film One Week at the Na … more →

Tags: Capital Diary, Glen Pearson, james moore, Justin Trudeau, Laureen Harper, Martha Hall Findlay

Road trip3 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 6 months ago: Glen Pearson goes to Italy with Bev Oda. These aren’t easy days politically in Ottawa; the constant … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Glen Pearson, Foreign Aid, CiDA

Wanted: Someone to Schlep AFG Display Around Canada?

milnewsca wrote 6 months ago: An interesting sequence of events in Canada’s latest attempt to communicate what we’re d … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, The Political Circus, What's Canada Buying?, Task Force Afghanistan, Afghanistan 360, Multimedia

Afghan Mission Civilianization Continues

milnewsca wrote 7 months ago: The good news:  Canada has set up a travelling multi-media display to make the rounds showing off wh … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, The Political Circus, Afghanistan, CiDA, Peter MacKay, Afghanistan360

Guess Who's Missing...

milnewsca wrote 7 months ago: ….from the statement announcing the latest update on Canada’s mission in Afghanistan? Fr … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, The Political Circus, Afghanistan, Lawrence Cannon, stockwell day, Peter MacKay

MPs dole out the pork, literally4 comments

Mitchel Raphael wrote 7 months ago:   The Canadian Pork Council held a Hill BBQ to show the safety of Canada’s white meat in the midst o … more →

Tags: Capital Diary, Gerry Ritz, Gord Brown, Jack Layton, jean-pierre blackburn, Justin Trudeau, Larry Bagnell, Lisa Raitt, michael ignatieff

Rise of the Conservative-Socialist Coalition (Scene 2)11 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 7 months ago: From Bev Oda’s scrum after QP. Question: How come it took only one word from either Michael Ig … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Stephen Harper, michael ignatieff, Jack Layton, Sri Lanka, Toronto, TAMIL TIGERS, Tamil

Rise of the Conservative-Socialist Coalition (Scene 1)2 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 7 months ago: From Question Period this afternoon. Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the Sri … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, gardiner, Gardiner Expressway, Jack Layton, Sri Lanka, Stephen Harper, Tamil, TAMIL TIGERS

Flaherty aide bids adieu2 comments

Mitchel Raphael wrote 8 months ago:   Adam Chambers, the aide constantly at Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s side has gone back to school … more →

Tags: Capital Diary, adam chambers, Jason Kenney, Jim Flaherty, Ted Menzies, Terence Young, Tim Powers

Canada's Tamils Force the Rest of Us to Consider Sri Lanka's Bloodshed4 comments

corsullivan wrote 8 months ago: Last October, I noted that Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrillas (officially the Liberation Tigers of T … more →

Tags: Conflict is Changing, Terrorism, tamils, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka, TAMIL TIGERS, Tamil Eelam, LTTE, David Miliband

Mitchel Raphael on the lululemon cabinet minister

Mitchel Raphael wrote 8 months ago: A) Once a day? B) Once a decade????? When the Canadian Medical Association was visiting the Hill, ma … more →

Tags: Canada, Barack Obama, Chuck Cadman, peter van loan, Glen Pearson, Rona Ambrose, Josée Verner, Mark Eyking, Myron Thompson

The Commons: "To all our parliamentarians, where are you?"31 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 8 months ago: The Scene. Aside from the lonely man in religious garb who often spends his days pacing in front of … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Tony Clement, michael ignatieff, John Baird, Parliament, House of Commons, Jim Flaherty, Jack Layton

Where is our GPS?4 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 9 months ago: Glen Pearson goes on the television. I was pulled out of the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday to … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Africa, CBC, Glen Pearson, jim abbott, Foreign Aid, CiDA, Don Newman

CAN Mission: Less Green, More Civvy

milnewsca wrote 10 months ago: More signs of Canada painting the mission in Afghanistan as more of a civilian one than a military o … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar, Public Diplomacy, Afghanistan, stockwell day, Peter MacKay, David Emerson

The Commons: Afghanistan, now with pictures12 comments

Aaron Wherry wrote 10 months ago: The Scene. It was the nice-seeming man from the civil service, briefing reporters before the officia … more →

Tags: Beyond the Commons, Capital Read, Afghanistan, Taliban, NATO, stockwell day, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, Kabul


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