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Lewis MacKenzie

What is the UN waiting for? Deploy in Gaza1

Retired major-general and former commander of UN peacekeeping forces argues that the Security Council should show some backbone. 12:00 AM 1

Tom Kent

Dear Iggy, this is not a year for an election117

On the road to 2010, we have entered 2009 with politics transformed. 12:00 AM 117

Jeffrey Simpson

So how bad will Canada's economy be?72

Forecast: Our economic fate remains entwined with that of U.S. 12:00 AM 72

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Measured action1

Ground invasion of Gaza Strip is consistent with the Israeli government's prudent, limited aims 12:00 AM 1

The back burner14

No plausible justification for delay in promised investigation into listeriosis outbreak 12:00 AM 14

World junior hockey

From the Archives, Jan. 6, 1987 12:00 AM

Test your memory


See what you recall about 2008: Test your memory of the year past with Jeffrey Simpson's New Year's quiz 28

Say what?

Week in quotes: Kesterton's Verbatim

GeekWatch


Today's hot spot: Danny Williams: Opinion on the Newfoundland premier's move to seize Abitibi's assets is running strongly in favour, judging by our reader comments

Test yourself


The week in questions: What is the name of Sarah Palin's new grandson? 17

Collected Wisdom


Secrets of an instant turn-on: Why today's appliances are never really 'off' 16

Globe Columnists

Insight, analysis and opinion: The Globe's regular columnists; Christie Blatchford: General Interest; Murray Campbell: Queen's Park; Marcus Gee: International Affairs; John Ibbitson: The United States; Roy MacGregor: This Country; Lawrence Martin: From Ottawa; Gary Mason: British Columbia; Rex Murphy: General Interest; Rick Salutin: From the left; Doug Saunders: Reckoning; Jeffrey Simpson: National Affairs; Margaret Wente: General Interest

Munk Debates


Farrow, Hillier face off: The Munk Debates pitted the humanitarian actress against the battle-tested general 19

Mia Farrow: We owe them protection: The case for humanitarian intervention 34

John Bolton: Aspirations don't make foreign policy: The case against humanitarian intervention 39

GlobeSalon


Panel debates the three crises of Canada: Prominent Canadians debate the issue in this online feature. 35


Globe panel on Obama's historic U.S. election win: Prominent Canadians debate the issue in this online feature 24


Eminent Canadians on 'what next' for Canada?: Prominent Canadians debate the issue in this online feature 40


What do you think of China as Olympic host?: Prominent Canadians debate the issue in this online feature 81


When is an apology not enough? or too much?: Prominent Canadians debate the issue in a new online feature 108

The Grano Series


In the U.S., 'ordinary leadership will not be sufficient': David Gergen is uniquely positioned to size up the men and woman who would be president 9; Video: David Gergen

Society

Who's who gathers for Grano lecture: The main attraction was Oxford and Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson

Amazon.ca Widgets

Jenkin's view

Globe cartoonist offers his favourites from 2008

Earlier discussion

Michael Bell answered your questions on Gaza

Passages

Sir Edmun HIllary, Paul Newman and Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A year of the departed14

Marketplace

In Depth

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Canadian politics

Lawrence Martin: Ignatieff is a man of magnitude. So where is he?416

The thinker doesn't have the luxury of much thinking time 04/01/09 9:30 PM 416

Globe editorial: A provincial wing will not suffice for Tories

The Conservatives need to reach out in order to navigate Quebec politics 04/01/09 9:30 PM

Lawrence Martin: The smart money says Harper exits this year312

If he does, he'll join a tiny club of Tory achievers who've gone out a winner, leaving the party in a united, salutary state 01/01/09 10:35 PM 312

Globe editorial: Will 2009 bring quicker thinking?27

Let's hope that that political leadership will improve in the coming year 31/12/08 9:19 PM 27

U.S. politics

Rex Murphy: Obamamania: Pass the defibrillator45

Normally, the press stands apart from mass adulation 02/01/09 10:54 PM 45

Neil Seeman: Why Obama's hot body matters110

Never before have North America's leaders been so fit, yet our citizens so fat 31/12/08 1:44 PM 110

More Globe editorials

Private saving, collective loss20

Canadian consumers appear to be living up to a stereotype of caution 04/01/09 9:30 PM 20

Censorship in China6

Keeping The Dark Knight out of theatres isn't doing anyone any favours 04/01/09 9:30 PM 6

Israel and Hamas: Both sides need to save face257

Thus far it has been a relatively ‘safe' war for Israel, but it could turn perilous very quickly 02/01/09 10:54 PM 257

In dispute with Ukraine, Russia exploits winter10

The major economic powers must stop tolerating the Kremlin's role as a direct player in the energy business 02/01/09 10:54 PM 10

More Commentary

Frank Ching: Flotilla politics5

By joining an international anti-piracy task force, China sails into new world order 12:00 AM 5

Lysiane Gagnon: When my sisters left Quebec60

In a quirk of history, French Canada now imports its missionaries 04/01/09 9:30 PM 60

Peter Singer: Is Canada ready for bioterrorism?34

Not all weapons of mass destruction are created equal. Some of the nastiest are particularly easy to get – and deploy 04/01/09 9:30 PM 34

Kidjo and Montaner: We must save Zimbabweans24

Remind our elected leaders of their responsibility to protect 04/01/09 9:30 PM 24

Margaret Wente: Good news, yup, good news, for 200930

It's not all doom and gloom and nasty economic news. Honest 02/01/09 10:54 PM 30

Jeffrey Simpson: Time for a little mea culpa47

One should know that the unexpected is the expected, and that reality takes a bite out of ideology and certainty 02/01/09 10:55 PM 47

Christie Blatchford: Forces prove 'open and transparent'156

MacKay, Hillier defend military's response to incident 03/01/09 1:16 AM 156

Globe Essay

Michael Bell: Pathless in Gaza

Ceasefire, reoccupation, pulling up Hamas by the roots - none of these options offers a solution 02/01/09 10:32 PM

Laura Penny: Consumerism in a time of downturn25

Policy-makers have cause to worry but shoppers have a golden opportunity. 20/12/08 1:55 AM 25

Tom Grimmer: Life after Deng196

China's door has been open for 30 years, but the world's perceptions remain skewed 13/12/08 12:00 AM 196

Jeffrey Simpson: After the storm588

The convulsion has left a weakened government, a nervous opposition and a legacy of miscalculation 05/12/08 8:00 PM 588

Gerald Owen: Peace, order and good government124

The Magna Carta. The English civil war. The monarchs vs. democracy. And now 'conventions of the Constitution.' 05/12/08 3:00 PM 124