In the ‘whatever is begun in anger ends in shame’ department, Canada risks descending into pariah status with the latest revelations of complicity in torture in Afghanistan.
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Charles and Camilla visit Hamilton!
Hamilton proved not to be a hotbed of republican sentiment last week on November 9, 2009 when Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, visited Dundurn Castle.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Wall in 1989 was a joyous occasion for me. I lived in West Berlin in 1981-2 and understood the brutality, ugliness and the simple lack of convenience that the Wall brought to the great city of Berlin. The Wall was an interesting geo-political artifact of the Cold War but it was also very offensive, as walls that imprison populations tend to be.
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Evidence-Based Medicine
In Saturday’s’ Globe and Mail there was an interesting article by André Picard about the career of Dr. David Sackett, who pioneered the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM). EBM promotes the idea that rather than just relying on tradition or expert opinion in medical diagnosis, the proper approach is to find available evidence and then attempt to apply it. This idea seems to make great deal of sense.
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