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It is hardly surprising that nine months after a Canadian election that has destroyed the former party of government and the current principal unofficial opposition party, followed by the death of the leader of the Official Opposition at the height of his popularity, there should be some disarray in political Ottawa. The great Liberal party, ...
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I regret offending my cordial acquaintance Douglas Gibson. And I salute him for coming to the defence of his authors, Max and Monique Nemni, biographers of Pierre Trudeau. I think I can set his mind at ease on some points. Mr. Gibson reproached me in the National Post edition of January 18 for negatively reviewing ...
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Updating and extending my year-end tour of the international horizon — as Portugal tries to attract investment from its formerly impoverished and strife-torn colony Angola, the Philippines pays a lower interest on a bond issue than is available to Spain or Italy, and the president of France asks China to buy Eurobonds — it seems ...
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Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and, just released, A Matter of Principle. He can be reached at cbletters@gmail.com.It would be unfair to dismiss the administration’s latest assault on the U.S.’s defense capability as the folly and cowardice some commentators are already alleging. Without a worldwide rival of comparable strength threatening all American strategic...
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Paul Litt’s recently published book, Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner, is a long overdue recognition of Canada’s (briefly serving) 17th prime minister. Turner’s principal misfortune was to be sandwiched in between Pierre Trudeau’s over-extended incumbency and Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives, who swept in after the then-traditional 20 years of Liberal rule. ...
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Though it is probably happening too late to be overly gratifying to her, events are piling on to vindicate Margaret Thatcher completely in her reservations about British integration in Europe. Her response to the proposal to reduce Britain to a local government in a federal Europe was, memorably: “No, no, no, and never.” And her ...
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My year-end column will be a tour of the political horizon, with a reflection on the comparative virtues of good government. But anyone gripped by the fear that I am going to sermonize some treacle about civics at them has nothing to fear. In all of the European Union, apart from a few of the ...
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As Christmas remains a religious occasion, a few thoughts from that perspective commend themselves. This newspaper seems to have been plunged into mourning for Christopher Hitchens, perhaps best-known for his belligerent atheism. I must say that I had a few fierce written exchanges with Christopher over the years, mainly in Britain’s Spectator magazine, but not ...
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It is an exquisite irony that Germany, of all the world’s principal nations, is now playing the strongest and bravest hand. Within living memory, Germany was history’s pariah, governed by the regime generally reckoned to have been the most evil in all of history, and almost universally held responsible for both world wars, which consumed ...
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I’m talking, of course, about former newspaper baron Conrad Black. In a repeat from an episode that ... His former business partner, Vancouver businessman David Radler, has already served his 29-month sentence after pleading guilty to various fraud ...
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Judge Amy St. Eve is running the trial against Conrad Black.
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