Bob Rae

Hon. Bob Rae: Lawyer, Mediator, Speaker, Writer. Political Leader. Active on First Nations, Social Justice, Internat'l issues. Liberal. Toronto, Ontario

Sri Lanka’s Tragedy

First thing in the morning these days I find the BBC website on my blackberry to find the latest on the tragic events in Sri Lanka. On a thin, 5 square mile strip of land on the northeast coast of the country...

On 01 May 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

On Haiti

Haiti is a small country, taking up the western third of the island of Hispaniola, its geography a backwards “C”, with the capital Port au Prince at the lower west coast of the country. It...

On 07 Apr 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Washington Notes

I lived here fifty years ago (!) when Eisenhower was President, the Senators were in the last place in the American League and the kids in my third grade class made fun of me (among other reasons) because...

On 01 Mar 2009 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Harperville

When I was a kid one of my favourite tv shows was Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” I remember one show where the passengers in a plane come through the sky only to discover that on their...

On 01 Sep 2008 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment

Harpercrats vs. Diplomats

What was a poorly kept secret is now leaking all over Ottawa. When John Diefenbaker was elected he used to fulminate about “the Pearsonalities” in the East Block, then the offices of the old Department...

On 01 Apr 2008 By Bob Rae / 0 Comment


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