Japan, which still has either the second or third largest economy in the world (depending on exactly how you measure these things) is back in the news. And its reappearance seems vaguely pregnant with potential intriguing messages for such places as the United States and Canada. Today’s Globe and Mail, eg, ran an Associated Press […]
[UPDATED APRIL 22, MAY 3, 2011]. In today’s Globe and Mail Brian Mulroney’s former chief of staff Norman Spector reports on an intriguing new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll, originally published in slightly more depth in today’s La Presse in Montreal. Among other things “the poll … asked Canadians how they would vote if the […]
The latest polls on Canadian federal politics clearly show the Harper Conservatives with the single largest share of the Canada-wide vote. (See, eg: Harris-Decima, May 18 ;Â EKOS, May 20 ; Harris-Decima, May 27 ; EKOS, May 27.) In all these same polls, however, the Harper Conservatives have a smaller share of the vote than […]
It is no surprise that what you make of the deal on Afghan detainee documents finally cooked up by MPs from all four federal political parties in Canada (at the last minute, this past Friday) depends on who you are and where you sit … According to John Ibbitson at the Globe and Mail – […]
According to Marc Emery’s wife Jodie, the Canadian Conservative minority government’s “Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has approved the extradition of her husband” to the United States, where he faces jail time “for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet.” Emery “surrendered himself to authorities this morning at court in Vancouver.” His “lawyer, Kirk Tousaw, said as […]
UPDATED MAY 8: As obscure as it may otherwise seem, the Greek financial crisis (“New protests as Greece approves austerity bill”)Â has now reached inside our still deeper obscurity in the true north of North America, etc, etc (“Canada’s Dollar Touches Lowest Since March on Greece’s Crisis”; “Loonie sinks as gold swims”). One further consequence […]
Canada, the late Robertson Davies used to say, is the kind of country you worry about. And even though the present Canadian confederation has now been in business for 143 years (or at least will be this coming July 1), it is still all too easy to imagine that soon enough it will disappear off […]
Some will view today’s EKOS poll on Canadian federal politics, for the CBC, as just further evidence that a snap spring election in the true north remains somewhat less than probable – even if Conservative minority Prime Minister Stephen Harper is still “refusing to cower before the new clout of his parliamentary [majority] opposition.” (In […]
One thing that’s always been a bit hard to understand about the Harper minority government’s reluctance to release the now fabled “Afghan detainee documents” in Canada is why the prime minister should be quite so worried? It wasn’t his minority government that started the current Canadian adventure in Afghanistan. And, as Tasha Kheiriddin at the […]
So if Canadians are rightly “turned off by the ‘prurient obsession with the private lives of a couple who are encountering serious difficulties’” [best wishes Helena and Rahim], what else is going on that properly begs more serious attention? Well, for one thing: “A former CSIS director has panned the Conservative [minority] government’s plan to […]
