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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 [...]

Posted 19 November 2009 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy § canadian politics § public policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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 here’s the [...]

Posted 05 October 2007 | David Eaves § canadian politics § public policy § vancouver ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

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…
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Embassy, October 3rd, 2007
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Africa is not a Liberal Idea
Taylor Owen and David Eaves
“It was clear that he had a particular feeling about the continent (Africa) and particularly that underdog [...]

Posted 03 October 2007 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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 again, [...]

Posted 02 October 2007 | David Eaves § canadian politics § vancouver ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

cut and run from cut and run

So it turns out that if you use Bush-like rhetoric people start to believe that you also share in his goals, aims and methods. And, given the president’s popularity is somewhere in the 20’s or 30’s in America, he’s almost certainly the most unpopular person in the world for Canadians.
Little wonder that Canadian support for the [...]

Posted 13 July 2007 | David Eaves § canadian foreign policy ‡ Comments ° Also tagged: , ,

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