Category World Affairs
Cuban Baseball
Suppose you had to choose between the dream of a lifetime and ever seeing you family again. How would you choose? What if the choice was between riches and poverty? That’s an easy one. Except with the money you lose your family and your home. Does that change the equation? There are a group of […]
Middle Eastern Conflict
I was at a briefing recently on Parliament Hill about the situation in Northern Iraq. I can’t tell you about it. One of the reasons I attended was to get an update on what is happening in the region. I was there twice last year and do feel I have a bit of connection to […]
Nahum’s Tomb
Anyplace else they would make this into a major tourist attraction. In Alqosh I didn’t see any signs to indicate what was there. In a ruined synagogue, open to the elements, is the tomb of the Old Testament prophet Nahum. The stone tomb is covered by a tarpaulin of sorts. This is not on the […]
Trump Versus Clinton
A friend sent me a link to a Donald Trump video he wanted me to share with you. He said it was going viral. It wasn’t, at least not when I looked at it on YouTube. Unless the definition of viral has changed. And, quite frankly, the video was boring. Maybe another time I’ll come […]
Korean Reflections
They play ice hockey in South Korea. They became interested in it during the Korean War, watching Canadian troops in action. That was one of the pieces of trivia I picked up last month when I was invited to dinner at the Korean Embassy, a meal coupled with a briefing on Canada-Korea relations. Strictly speaking, […]
Still Remembering Kent State
I posted this on May 4 2015. A year has passed, it has now been 46 years since that day. But I still do remember and want to pause again to reflect on a world where so often things can go horribly wrong. Forty-five years later their names are a footnote to history. But I […]
The Debate
It must be a week since I last wrote about Donald Trump, who is so close to sewing up the Republican Party nomination for the US presidency that he can almost taste it. Rather than write something new, I thought it fitting to re-post this piece from last August, the first time “The Donald” graced […]
Vimy Ridge
It was 99 years ago today that Canada became a nation. At least that is one version of the narrative. Canada became a country on July 1, 1867. It severed legal ties, more or less, with the United Kingdom on December 11, 1931 with the passage of the Statute of Westminster. But military independence came […]
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