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Author: Akaash Maharaj

March 31, 2011 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: The Arab Spring – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

In my broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that despite our sometimes chequered history in the region, Western states have an obligation to enforce the Libyan no-fly zone, both to protect civilians and to ensure that the Arab Spring and the hopes for democracy in

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November 21, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: Truth, Casualties, and War – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

Videocast of my televised essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on Canada’s role in Afghanistan: Our ability to successfully conclude the mission and effect an honourable departure is being prejudiced by an ignominious political retreat from the truth: the truth about why we went to Afghanistan in the

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November 21, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: Truth, Casualties, and War – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

Videocast of my televised essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on Canada’s role in Afghanistan: Our ability to successfully conclude the mission and effect an honourable departure is being prejudiced by an ignominious political retreat from the truth: the truth about why we went to Afghanistan in the

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October 25, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: An Injection of Moralism – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

In this, my second broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that the efforts by the federal government to place emotion above reason and shut down Insite are unworthy of our country’s better traditions and higher responsibilities. It is little more than an effort to purchase

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October 25, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: An Injection of Moralism – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

In this, my second broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that the efforts by the federal government to place emotion above reason and shut down Insite are unworthy of our country’s better traditions and higher responsibilities. It is little more than an effort to purchase

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October 2, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: The Rights of Vulgar Little Cowards – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

In this, my maiden broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that freedom of expression is too fundamental a right to be casually abridged, and that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal must be stripped of its power to regulate public expression.

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October 2, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: The Rights of Vulgar Little Cowards – Akaash Maharaj Videocast

In this, my maiden broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that freedom of expression is too fundamental a right to be casually abridged, and that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal must be stripped of its power to regulate public expression.

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March 20, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Globe and Mail: Unashamed to Own the Podium

Reflecting on my own experiences representing Canada in international sport, I argue that good sportsmanship and the virtues of sport are inextricably bound-up with the determined pursuit of sporting excellence, despite the scattered carping over the O…

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March 18, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Team Canada Rides Again – Akaash Maharaj Podcast

CBC Radio One’s Fresh Air interviews me on whether Team Canada will be able to repeat our improbable dominance of tent pegging, the cavalry sport of horse, sword, sabre and lance, as I saddle-up to compete at the 2010 International Championships in New Delhi.

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March 18, 2010 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Team Canada Rides Again – Akaash Maharaj Podcast

CBC Radio One’s Fresh Air interviews me on whether Team Canada will be able to repeat our improbable dominance of tent pegging, the cavalry sport of horse, sword, sabre and lance, as I saddle-up to compete at the 2010 International Championships in New Delhi.

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February 21, 2008 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Advisory: UNICEF Team Canada and the Campaign Against Childhood HIV-AIDS

No one is more astonished by the results of the International Tent Pegging Championships than we are. My hope for the Championships had been to represent Canada with honour, and to serve the cause of the world’s most vulnerable children. Having snatche…

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November 2, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Red Party Blues, The Liberals in Crisis? – Akaash Maharaj Podcast

TV Ontario’s The Agenda debates the question of how long Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party can, or should, endure the Conservative government’s electoral brinksmanship. Steve Paikin moderates, as Professor Christine de Clercy, Dion biographer Linda D…

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May 8, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Power, the People, and the PMO – Akaash Maharaj Podcast

With more than a year of minority government behind us, Steve Paikin and The Agenda assemble a national panel to ask if political power in Canada is still primarily a matter of the proverbial “who do you know in the PMO”. With Jeffrey Simpson, Norman …

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April 18, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Public Degradation and Public Discourse – Akaash Maharaj Podcast

A CBC Radio One national debate on the decline of civility in Canada’s public discourse. More than a question of discourtesy, the decay of the tenor of political dialogue diminishes the dignity of the nation itself. Hosted by The Current and Avi Lewis,…

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April 5, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Group Sword at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

On the final day of competition at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in Oman, my horse Shomool remained in a surly mood. The rider to our left is keeping a considered distance, as Shomool had just attempted to deliver a slaying kick to his horse; Shomool’s rear hooves came within

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April 5, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Group Sword at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

On the final day of competition at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in Oman, my horse Shomool remained in a surly mood. The rider to our left is keeping a considered distance, as Shomool had just attempted to deliver a slaying kick to his horse; Shomool’s rear hooves came within

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April 3, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Group Lance at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

On the first day of group competition at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in the Gulf States, I was matched with riders from the Oman National Team, and we galloped four abreast through the course. Competing in UNICEF’s colours, I am u…

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March 22, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Individual Sword at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

After an abysmal showing the previous day at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in Oman, my horse Shomool and I redeemed ourselves in the sword discipline, though not before galloping through a near-death experience involving a stone wall…

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March 20, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Individual Lance at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

A photocast of the individual lance with ground targets discipline, at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in Oman. I am riding an assigned horse named Shomool, representing Canada, and wearing UNICEF’s emblem. The lance is not my favour…

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March 18, 2007 Akaash Maharaj

Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Practice Run at the International Tent Pegging Championships – Akaash Maharaj Photocast

A photocast of my practice run with the lance at the world equestrian skill-at-arms championships in Oman. My horse, Shomool, is galloping through the course at a greater speed than I had ever experienced on horseback. I am holding the lance at a rat…

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