Foreign Affairs and Defence
And in non-census-related news…
A 20-year old letter allegedly written by Iranian “Green revolution” leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to Iran’s then-president President Ali Khamenei is causing a…
Tag: Iraq
12 posts tagged "Iraq".
Stephen Harper
Obama, Harper and Ignatieff
Extraordinary Rendition: The extrajudicial transfer of terror suspects from one state to another, usually to states with lower standards on human rights in…
CBC
CBC expresses its “regret”, again
On last night’s The National the CBC issued a statement of regret for the use of the video of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan to illustrate a story about the…
CBC
CBC misuses images of Canadian soldiers
The following story was aired during The National last night on CBC. The story describes U.S. President George W. Bush’s veto of Democrat legislation limiting…
CBC
CBC: Selective suspensions, selective viewpoints
A few days ago Christine St-Pierre, a french-language reporter at Radio-Canada (the CBC) was suspended after writing an open letter of support to our 2300…
US Politics
Dems: “Hey, that’s our electoral platform…”
What do you suppose the motive is behind this? BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered to halt attacks on the U.S.-led military if the…
Digital Politics
Tracking the trends
Google, the leading online search provider in the world, has released a new service called Google Trends. The service summarizes all Google searches by region…
US Politics
I thought musicians were supposed to be original
Look over there, it’s another artist railing against George W Bush and the establishment. Yawn. According to the UK’s Independent: Could Neil Young, a cultural…
Stephen Harper
Text of the PM’s speech regarding CPT hostages
I received the following just a while ago from one of my contacts in the government. It’s the transcript of Stephen Harper’s comments that preceded his speech…