I’m pretty much expecting to wake up today and read a number of stories about how the YouTube interview of the Prime Minister didn’t work, about how we should leave interviews to journalists, and that all this internet, audience driven stuff is a big waste of time. I’m not sure I agree. Was the interview [...]
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YouTube Interviews: Strengths and Weaknesses
Torturing Afghan Prisoners: Blind and Dangerous
As most (Canadian) readers are probably aware by now (American readers will probably still be interested), yesterday, a senior Canadian diplomat, Richard Colvin, testified to Members of Parliament that Canadian soldiers regularly detained innocent Afghan citizens and then handed them over to Afghan authorities who they knew would torture them. In short, the Canadian government [...]
Insite – Incremental Death?
Yesterday the federal government announced it would extend the legal exemption that allows Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection site, to stay open until June 2008. (to understand why the Injection site is important click here, here and/or here) So the good news is brief and temporary: Insite, gets to stay open an additional 6 months. And [...]
Africa is not a liberal idea
Taylor and I published this piece in Embassy Magazine today. They’d asked for our reaction to PM Harper’s speech at the Council on Foreign Relations… — Embassy, October 3rd, 2007 OPED Africa is not a Liberal Idea Taylor Owen and David Eaves “It was clear that he had a particular feeling about the continent (Africa) [...]
Our New/Old Drug Policy: Welcome to the 1980s
The Tories are beginning to lay down the ground work for a new (or should we say old) drug strategy. The ‘new’ strategy? A TV campaign informing kids that drugs are bad, an increased presence at the border and a slight increase in funding for drug rehabilitation. If it sounds like the 1980s all over [...]
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