We have seen this scenario before, and to my dismay, we are seeing the same reactions from international “leaders”. From promises of a merciless response to commitments to annihilate the enemy. [Respectively, Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls.] But we need to stop dealing in this currency of violence. We need international leadership that gets us…
[An edited version of this text was published in the Montreal Gazette, July 25th, 2012] I almost allowed myself to forget. The article by Jack Layton’s daughter Sarah takes us back to last summer, a paradoxical time of optimism, sadness and melancholy. Between his election success on May 2nd and his passing on August 22nd,…
[Originally appeared in The Gazette April 22, 2010 Re: “It isn’t easy to fight clean” (Opinion, April 20).] Stanley Taube does what he accuses winners of wars of doing: writes his own version of what really happened. The Second World War did not spell “finis” to the Geneva rules, as Taube claims. In fact, it…
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