... anti-racist, tolerant or sensible about it. National Post Journalist, author and blogger TerryGlavin 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: P hoto dated November, 1985 of the late Talwinder Singh Parmar, who lived in...
... to hide their defeat at the military field." National Post Journalist, author and blogger TerryGlavin 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.
... then grand, all in. Slow and steady wins the race. National Post J ournalist, author and blogger TerryGlavin 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: Grant Kippen, chairman of the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission,...
... House, nevertheless, isn't sure it should shoulder. National Post Journalist, author and blogger TerryGlavin 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.
TerryGlavin's recent post on Ottawa's 'consensus of silence' on Afghanistan prompted a reply from New Democrat MP Paul Dewar. It is posted below, with TerryGlavin's response. Dear Terry, In reaction to your commentary in the National Post today, Paul Dewar wishes to share the following information with you. New Democrats have consistently advocated for an end to...
... of language, perhaps they should do us all a favour and just keep their mouths shut. National Post TerryGlavin is an author, journalist and adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia.
The Israelis were behind the JFK assassination. Martin Luther King's assassination was a plot, too. Probably the same guys who made swine flu before it escaped from the laboratory. Reopen the files! If Afghans want to fight each other, let them. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9-11. Nobody but Spaniards were involved in the Spanish Civil War. You are all devils. Here is a white book. I will now...
There's a new sheriff in town . Fake leftist TerryGlavin ("Transmontanus") cites this dinosaur with respect --quite in keeping with his role as the policeman's friend . But he does capture the money-quote from the just-appointed boss of CSIS, Richard B. Fadden : Why then, I ask, are those accused of terrorist offences often portrayed in media as quasi-folk heroes, despite the...
Post of the week: TerryGlavin "Proximate Cause" . The BNP: Some more posts, to add to the lists here , here and here . Johnny G: A hollow victory for the goodies . Modernity: Thinking about no platform . LGF: BNP's mask falls off . Duncan: Debating no platform . Dave Hill: Can the BNP define British ? Patrick Hayes: Would the BBC give a platform to Hitler (or cut to the money...
TerryGlavin makes a number of other good points in this post , especially regarding President Karzai's brother and the CIA: ... "Bravery is not an American monopoly. Most allies report many soldiers volunteering to return to Afghanistan despite the increased violence. A Canadian officer who lost his leg in a roadside bomb attack in 2007 recently returned to Kandahar, in his words,...
TerryGlavin susses ou t Egregious Eric: Child's Play. A Canadian Forces report cites 29 incidents in which the Taliban have used children to help commit atrocities in Afghanistan's southern provinces over the past few months, eight since the beginning of October. As many as a dozen children have been killed in three recent explosions during bomb-making classes in Kandahar... Here's today's...
... actually stack them up, with 8-year-olds at the front and 15-year-olds at the back." Hat tip: TerryGlavin's blog, which is a must-read site. Terry knows more about Afghanistan than almost anybody else in the country.
From TerryGlavin : While scores of greasy diplomats, would-be power brokers and other such backroom characters have been slinking in and out of the presidential palace in Kabul in recent weeks, a quiet Canadian has been doing his job as the head of Afghanistan's Election Complaints Commission... It isn't helping that Afghanistan is threatening to become merely an American project, with...