On this Day, 143 Years Ago
March 8, 2010: The Historica-Dominion Institute reminds us that on this day, 143 years ago, the Westminster Parliament passed the British North America...
Banning Somalia’s al Shabaab
Well it's about time! The Canadian government has added al Shabaab, an Islamist terrorist organization responsible for conducting dozens of attacks in the...
Muslim cleric condemns terrorism in the name of Islam
Notable Islamic scholar Tahir ul-Qadri is now at the spear tip of a movement among Muslim intellectuals to rescue their religion from association...
Tough Love from the Godfather of Realism
On the subject of the ISA's 2010 Convention in New Orleans, there's one more panel I want to describe. For students and practitioners...
Dennis Baker’s Argument
Dennis Baker's Not Quite Supreme, the Courts and Coordinate Constitutional Interpretation (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010) is formidably well grounded in British legal history....
On Blogging
In February I attended the International Studies Association's 51st Annual Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of all academic conferences centered on International Relations,...
Invest in this!
On of my greatest bugbears is the abuse of language, for as the Chinese remind us, when words cease to carry clear and...
Swaggering Bureaucrats: the SSHRC and CAUT
Last week I published Rhoda Howard-Hussmann's letter criticizing constraints on aboriginal research set by Canada's granting agencies. (Read the entire letter: February 5,...
