In my latest column for the Economy Lab feature in the Globe’s ROB I make the case that, “It is opportunity’s evanescence that we Canadians too often ignore at our…
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Brian will be on the concluding panel in the afternoon of June 24, 2014, on the benefits of the oilsands regionally and nationally.
In the latest of my seemingly endless screeds for the Ottawa Citizen and other PostMedia newspapers today I mine the D-Day invasion and the West’s success in the Cold War…
One of the things that has always struck me about Canada is that whatever powers the provinces have must be respected without question and if they exercise them everyone rushes…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I dissect the significance of the European Court of Justice’s decision to recognise an individual’s “right to be…
In my column for the ROB’s (Globe and Mail) Economy Lab today I put under the microscope the Supreme Court of Canada’s doctrine of the Crown’s duty to consult and…
Recent events in both South Africa (successful elections) and Northern Ireland (arrest and release of Gerry Adams) provide the backdrop for this week’s column in the Ottawa Citizen and other…
Brian will be the guest speaker at the Cercle’s May meeting on May 15, 2014, and will be speaking (mostly in French) 0n the topic of “Le secteur des ressources…
May 14, 2014 Army Officers Mess 149 Somerset St. West, Ottawa Link for tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/queens-birthday-dinner-tickets-11220698411?ref=enivtefor001&invite=NTU5ODY3My9ibGNAbWFjZG9uYWxkbGF1cmllci5jYS8w&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=inviteformalv2&utm_term=attend&ref=enivtefor001
“Social licence” is a concept on everyone’s lips these days as we debate pipelines, dangerous rail cargoes, appropriate forestry policies, etc. But this benign sounding term conceals a multitude of…