No, dear Globe and Mail reader, this post is not about Alberta. So get lost!
It’s about Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, who said in a speech yesterday that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” Iran’s nuclear ambitions are well known and its capabilities slightly less well known.
Dan Drezner asks whether he’s crazy. […]
Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court. Peter Schramm rounds up some useful news reports and commentary.
I have no opinion on this matter except that it’s probably the prudent thing for Bush to do.
While I’ve highlight some of her strengths in previous posts, I should clarify that I never tried […]
The National Post reports the Toronto School Board has warned teachers against celebrating Hallowe’en because it might be disrespectful of Wiccans.
Of course there’s no mention that its demonic and cultish aspects, however ironic, might offend Christians, Jews, and Muslims (and other faiths). A family on my block refuses to handout Hallowe’en candy because their […]
In today’s WSJ, Thomas Griesa, a trial judge in New York, defends Harriet Miers on the basis of her extensive litigation experience, something I’ve noted in the past that has been overlooked by her critics and that the SC needs.
The Globe and Mail put these 2 stories front and center on today’s front page:
“Calgary gets paved with black gold”
“Martin seeks a ’sign’ from U.S. on softwood”
The 1st story is all about all the conspicuous consumption going on in Calgary, all at the expense, implicitly told, of all you hard working Torontonians. See here […]
Alberta-Canada Now re-posts a letter from today’s Calgary Herald that well sums up what’s at stake in the conflict between Alberta and ROC over oil revenues.
I don’t know whether ABN does so intentionally, but ABN illuminates also why this conflict goes to the root of the constitutional problems underlying Alberta indignation:
A Tory government in Ottawa […]
Albertanicus alerts us to this article on how northern Montanans are contemplating copying the irrigation network that feeds southern Alberta farms.
So no, Montanans are not envious. They are not complaining that Albertans are lucky to live in a place that happens to have miles and miles of irrigation canals; that they’re lucky to be […]
The Ottawa Citizen reports that the far majority of Canada’s overseas missions, and its spending, is on NATO- and US-led missions, and not on UN peacekeeping missions, which reverses what was the case a decade ago:
Canada has all but abandoned taking part in United Nations missions and is now on par with Peru and Guatemala […]
Victor Davis Hanson’s new book on the Peloponnesian War is out. Paul Johnson reviews it and Joe Knippenberg comments on Hanson’s parallels between then and now. Here’s Hanson’s own words on some of these parallels:
Many, for example, recently cited the Iraq war as the modern equivalent of the disastrous Sicilian expedition of 415-413 […]
Colby Cosh is making the case that Alberta’s public education system surpasses that of Ontario. Join the fun.
