Is the Office of the Auditor General of Canada reliable?
By Paul Winn and Bob Hughes
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) is considered to be an independent and reliable source of the objective, fact-based information that Parliament needs to fulfil one of its most important roles of holding the federal government accountable for its stewardship of public funds. And so it [...]
Racism in the USA
By David K. Chan
Whether you are a red or blue state follower is less important than the values that we bring to our children and our children’s children. If any one “race” has “claim” to the U.S., it’s the indigenous Native Americans. Other than that we are all immigrants here.
As an American born Chinese growing [...]
India in Afghanistan
By Jeremy Kahn
What’s more dangerous than being an American in Afghanistan? Being an Indian in Afghanistan. On Oct. 8, 09 a car bomb exploded outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 17 people and wounding 76. The attack came 15 months after another bomb damaged the embassy and killed 58, including the Indian defense attaché. [...]
Corruption in India
By Shashi Tharoor
One of the questions people keep asking me since my entry into politics is what we can do about corruption. What would I do, one citizen recently asked in an on-line chat, if I became the “concerned authority”? No such prospect — the Vigilance Commissioner isn’t a Member of Parliament! — but in [...]