Articles tagged with: Stephen Harper
By Dan Gardner
So I was thinking about the implications of a prime minister getting away with telling Parliament to do something indecent with the ceremonial mace and this naturally led me to imagine which figures …
By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully …
November 27, 2009
Greetings everyone,
You will find below a letter from ICLMG addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling for the establishment of a Public Inquiry into the case of Afghan detainees transferred by Canada to …
By Jane Taber
The word “cover-up” is just on the tip of Alex Neve’s tongue. But in a morning press conference, Amnesty International’s Canadian chief wouldn’t go as far to characterize the Afghan detainee situation as …
By Omar Alghabra
Stephen Harper welcomed a new addition to his office.
Nigel Hannaford has been hired as Harper’s speech writer.
Mr. Hannaford was a Calgary Herald columnist who is known for his ultraconservative views.
It only took me …
From CBC News
There were mixed messages from the government over whether the Tories will appeal a Federal Court judge’s ruling that Canada must press the U.S. for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay.
During …
From CBC News
Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 4:30 PM ET
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is required to press the United States for the return of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay to “comply …
By Neil Macdonald
When former Conservative finance minister Michael Wilson arrived in Washington three years ago to take up his post as Canada’s ambassador, he had an underling arrange a couple of meet-and-greet receptions for some …
SHEEMA KHAN
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
Nascent relations between the Harper government and the Obama administration have been marked by the absence of public discourse about the fate of child soldier Omar Khadr.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper …
Whatever it is about Abousfian Abdelrazik that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government seems to want to sweep under the table, it is past time that Parliament took a hard, close look at the case.
Abdelrazik is …
By Linda McQuaig
Anyone who has ever seen George Galloway in action knows why he had to be stopped at the border. He definitely poses a threat – although not the security one alleged by the …
By Faisal Kutty, guest columnist
“My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return to Canada after being tortured for over a year …
By FAISAL KUTTY
“My priority right now is to clear my name”, said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The …
