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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
As a a direct consequence of the political paralysis that has seized Ottawa in recent months, almost all activity undertaken by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in Afghanistan has been stymied by a built-in 2011 sunset clause that Canadians have never been told about. Pretty well all non-military reconstruction and development work is to end in 2011. The Ottawa press gallery hasn’t...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 02/26/2010
Posted: February 24, 2010, 3:30 PM by NP Editor Full Comment, afghanistan, Terry Glavin http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/02/24/terry-glavin-message-from-a-warlord.aspx At his massively fortified residence in Kabul's posh Wazir Akbar Khan district, Berhanuddin Rabbani, the godfather of Afghanistan's warlord bloc, uttered a dire warning. Any "exit strategy"...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
... the law. We should not violate the law.” National Post Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.
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The Contentious Centrist (Free subscription) | 02/16/2010
Dispatch from Afghanistan Via: Terry Glavin Two paragraphs stand out: I. "Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes, Rosa Parks, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, Immanuel Kant, Abraham Lincoln, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, Jawaharlal Nehru. These are among the faces you will find in oil-painting portraits on a wall of a classroom in Marefat High School, each carefully...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 02/17/2010
... then all you’re left with is corruption.” National Post Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. Photo: Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah. ( Paula Bronstein...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
In recent days, UN officials and military commanders have begun to discuss a once-taboo option for Afghanistan: a negotiated political settlement with the Taliban. In a new series of commentary articles, beginning today, National Post contributors assess whether diplomacy can bring peace to Afghanistan. From 1994 until 2001, while the Taliban was turning Afghanistan into a slave state and the people...
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Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
... against democracy, women’s rights and peace. You have to be a something of a fool not to see it. Terry Glavin : To the embarrassment of its most principled supporters and against all internal entreaties, Amnesty International has persisted in whoring itself out to Cage Prisoners, a front for Taliban enthusiasts and al Qaida devotees that fraudulently presents itself a human rights...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
... will even give you a tax receipt for your trouble. National Post Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
... that's okay too. I promise I will try not to laugh. National Post Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. photo: Jack Layton. (Kevin Van Paassen/National Post)
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Creekside (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
... should just "move on" he said, backed up by a sound clip from Afghan occupation promoter Terry Glavin, who deemed the parliamentary Afghan committee's attempt to get documents necessary for their work "a kangaroo court". Hawn also repeated his favorite little chestnut about "some Taliban being hit with a shoe". Does ex-Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
Following up on this.... "Keeping our Promises--Canada in Afghanistan Post-2011: The Way Forward" 1) A reminder from the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee's Terry Glavin that the committee that's been chasing the detainee wild goose " has rendered itself irrelevant to the central question of Canada’s current and future engagements in Afghanistan" . 2) Terry...
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Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Terry Glavin Lauryn Oates Prof Douglas Bland Nasrine Gross Fred Litwin Grant Kippen Ambassador Jawed Ludin Major-General (Ret’d) Lewis Mackenzie Nipa Banerjee I attended this Free Thinking Film society event. It is an effort by the Canada Afghanistan Solidarity Committe. Here is a list of the participants. The CASC wants us to have a real conversation about Canada's Afghanistan...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
... be shy about using its influence to pressure the Afghan government toward democracy, according to Terry Glavin, lead author of the report, being released Tuesday in Ottawa. "What people told us was not to be (afraid) of treading on Afghan sovereignty," Glavin said. "We must tell the president that rule of law is important." A blue-ribbon panel is to discuss...
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The Torch (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
... (1111 Bank Street, Ottawa) Compact Music (190 Bank; 7851 ½ Bank Street, Ottawa) more from Terry Glavin about additional participants : ... The Canadian chairman of the Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission who blocked the fraud-plagued first round in last year's Afghan presidential elections will join the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee on a growing panel of...
