Bob’s Personal Take on Today’s Current Affairs
Jimmy Coutts was a friend of my family’s for fifty years, and his passing is a terrible blow. He was a deeply caring and generous friend, and a source of …
Read More →A tragic coincidence of events reinforces my conviction that Canada still needs a real strategy on suicide prevention.
Read More →Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison and emerged without bitterness. In Canada political parties spend a few years in opposition and govern as if it’s permanent pay-back time. If …
Read More →We mourn today the loss a truly great man, Nelson Mandela. He was the President of South Africa, and an honorary citizen of many countries, including Canada. But above all, …
Read More →The short, sharp news report, “Canada eliminated by Serbia in Davis Cup semi-final” conveys the brutal bottom-line of the result, but hardly does justice to the remarkable spirit and success …
Read More →The results are in for the provincial election in Sri Lanka’s northern most province, the area around Jaffna, and they are clear as a bell: nearly 80 percent of voters, …
Read More →Tripoli, June 27, 2013: Even at a sea side hotel the distant sounds of guns from a militia clash in south Tripoli break the silence of midnight. The West and the …
Read More →Arlene and I came in late last night to Niagara Falls after visits to Goose Bay and Kuujjuaq in northern Quebec. Spoke this morning to the Canadian Association for Suicide …
Read More →Have spent a couple of days in Fredericton at a conference on the Charlottetown Accord. It was good to see many friends who, like me, haven’t had much chance to …
Read More →Three and half centuries ago Thomas Hobbes’ central insight after the chaos of the English Civil War was that the first test of sovereignty is the ability of the state …
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