Published July 6, 2013, in The Waterloo Region Record.
If it can be said that Egypt's military intervention this week in its governing process was an abuse of democracy, then it can also be said that Mohammed Morsi's conduct in the presidency was equally an abuse of democracy.
Here's a little news story by journalist Samantha Power on my latest book, Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada (UTP: 2013).
Why is it that we teach our kids the ABC song? You know, the song with ABC lyrics set to the tune, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?
We teach our kids this song, and then we spend pre-school and Kindergarten teaching kids that LMNOP are in fact separate letters and not just one word!
It seems to me that someone dropped the ball. I think a better tune would be Three Blind Mice. For instance:
I, for one, welcome our new overload masters, the MOOCs. The next logical step, according to Benjamin Ginsberg, is to embrace MOOAs!
According to Ginsberg:
Steve Saideman has a new post that tries to answer the question: "how to balance the imperatives of today with the long term incentives/interests"?
He tries to get at this question by interrogating a set of sub-questions. The first is:
