I’d be curious what others think about this. Seems to me like a temporary measure. But maybe that is what is needed, a ‘temporary’ wall until the tempers subside. The problem with walls though is that once they are up, they usually end up sticking around for a while…
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David Eaves and I have an op-ed, here and below, in today’s Globe and Mail.
Beyond Vimy Ridge: Canada’s other foreign-policy pillar
This is a hallmark year for Canadian foreign policy. 2007 marks the anniversaries of two events through which Canada contributed significantly on the international stage: the Battle of Vimy Ridge and Lester Pearson’s Nobel Peace [...]

Repulsive comments such as this and this make a tragic situation even more desperate.

A couple of weeks ago I attended a panel at the Columbia School of Journalism on the future of newspapers. The panel was held in order to debate a recent piece by The American Prospect Editor Robert Kuttner. I have been writing a long response/rebuttal essay, which I will post a bit about [...]

Andy McCarthy cites Geneva, Sullivan rebuts:
Unlike prisoners detained by the U.S. in Iraq - some of whom were tortured so badly they died? Memo to Andy: your beloved administration has derided the Geneva Conventions as “quaint”. They have sanctioned not gentle questioning, but waterboarding, sleep deprivation and stress positions for prisoners captured in a war, [...]