From the Obama visit to Parliament Hill yesterday, the CBC’s Susan Bonner assesses what made an impression upon her and her media colleagues, “The impression seemed to be that Stephen Harper had a message that he wanted to deliver directly to…
Extraordinary Rendition: The extrajudicial transfer of terror suspects from one state to another, usually to states with lower standards on human rights in their treatment of prisoners. Barack Obama on extraordinary rendition: “Under executive…
There were only about 1000 people on Parliament Hill today to greet President Obama as much of downtown was locked down. There were barricades and security officials on the MacKenzie King bridge and checkpoints a plenty as the Parliamentary precinct…
Picture taken on Sussex today just outside the US embassy. President Obama’s motorcade arrives in Ottawa. The Presidential limo is just out of frame on the right. There’s an indent on the door where a magnetic presidential seal is affixed when the…
“We have to chart a path somehow in which we make some hard choices, some lesser evils, that is to say I’m not sure we can keep to a pure civil libertarian position all the way, for example we might have to engage in the preventive detention of…
There are reports today that the CBC has secured a pre-visit interview from US President Barack Obama. Congratulations to the team at the public broadcaster, for any network that’s what they call an exclusive in the biz. These sorts of of coups are…
Thanks to everyone that tuned in. We had a bit of a technical glitch going in that prevented the recording of the video but we’ve addressed the problem now. We’ll be doing more of these in the future on a regularly scheduled basis with other voices…
Today, I launched RightofTwitter.ca, a communitizing website for the right-of-centre twitter community in Canada. In one stop you can view (and follow) Canada’s leading right-of-centre voices in one place and track the live discussion of right-wing…
Programming note: I will be joined here on the blog with Preston Manning tomorrow (Feb 13) at 1pm EST (11am MST) to talk about how conservatives should approach the global economic crisis. Join us here tomorrow to put your questions to Mr. Manning…
From the Wall Street Journal this morning, About half-way through President Obama’s press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. “All, Chuck Todd,” the President said, referring to NBC’s White House correspondent.…
