Politics

Opposition parties must piece together a winning alternative vs. a populist government. Defaced CAQ poster, above, reflects views of some in Montreal. Volatile. Yes, that’s politics in Quebec. Parties rise and fall, leaders come and go. Political movements look dynamic, even unbeatable, then get levelled. Remember the Union Nationale? The ADQ? The NDP’s run as…

With Trudeau and his policies in the news these days, I have naturally been drawn to my past experience with Prime Minister Trudeau. Pierre Trudeau, that is. The real one. This would be back in 1979, a distant historic era for today’s millennials, but often on my mind as we live under the reign of…

By David Winch, UN Special, May 2009 The arrival was a shock. The airport, a shambles. After a day and a night on flights from Geneva to Paris to Togo and beyond, here we were in Central Africa. Years later, the memories of this, my first field mission, remain vivid. Arriving from the North, the…