Build a Wall? Canada’s Response to Trump
Donald Trump’s main export to Canada has been a sense of national smugness, that his outrages and absurdities could never find purchase here. But it would be an act of…
Akaash Maharaj
Toronto Star: Build a Wall? Canada’s Response to Trump
It would be an act of monumental self-deception for Canadians to believe that our country is an island set above the rage bubbling across the world.
A Dream Worth Fighting For
The arc of history may bend towards justice, but there is nothing inevitable about progress. Societies can and do regress as well as progress. They can be dragged backwards by…
Testifying at Parliament on Social Media Oversight
My address to the House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights, on how government can or should combat the spread of hatred on social media platforms. Democracy’s most…
Advisory: Launch of the Guelph Equine Public Policy Group
The hard reality is that Canadian horses and horsepeople suffer when our voice goes unheard in the corridors of power. The Guelph Equine Public Policy Group will ensure that Canada’s…
TVO’s The Agenda: Animal Welfare at a Crossroads – Videocast
The courts have ruled that the Ontario SPCA’s police powers are unconstitutional. What is the future for animal welfare enforcement in Canada’s largest province? Who can or will protect creatures…
The Arc of History – Podcast
All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our common humanity and our common…
Advisory: GOPAC Thanks our Outgoing CEO
Serving as CEO of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption was one of the great honours of my life, and I am immensely proud of all we achieved together…
The Mosaic Institute and the Arc of History
While the arc of history may bend towards justice, there is nothing inevitable about progress. Societies can and do regress, as well as progress; they can be pulled backwards by…
Lara Prychodko: Goodbye to the Girl with the Freckles
I first met Lara Prychodko in kindergarten, as her parents dropped her off at our school. I said our final goodbye at her graveside last week, as her parents laid…
An Unlikely Colonel
I was more astonished than I could express to learn that the Governor had commissioned me as a Kentucky Colonel, for contributions to global affairs and international equestrianism.
Hope Finds a Way: Working with Kosovo’s Parliament
It seemed as if all the Balkan peoples, in trying to claw out their separate identities, would drag one another into the abyss. Yet, hope finds a way. We will…
Hope Finds a Way: Working with Kosovo’s Parliament
It seemed as if all the Balkan peoples, in trying to claw out their separate identities, would drag one another into the abyss. Yet, hope finds a way. We will…
Montreal Gazette: WADA and the IOC Will be One Another’s Salvation or Undoing
In my article in the Gazette, I caution the International Olympic Committee against undermining the World Anti-Doping Agency. Not everyone who stands up to you is your enemy, just as…
Montreal Gazette: WADA and the IOC Will be One Another’s Salvation or Undoing
In my article in the Gazette, I caution the International Olympic Committee against undermining the World Anti-Doping Agency. Not everyone who stands up to you is your enemy, just as…
WADA and the IOC Will be One Another’s Salvation or Undoing
Too many of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s ostensible sport partners appear to feel that the agency has betrayed them, by unmasking the ugly truths that lie behind the Olympic’s impeccable…
The World Anti-Doping Agency Think Tank
I joined the WADA Think Tank in Lausanne, as the agency grapples with state-sponsored doping. We are all careering towards a confrontation between the high ideals of sport and the…
TVO’s The Agenda: A Culture of Corruption?
Is corruption endemic in the political and economic classes? I joined TVOntario's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, to discuss the extent and potential remedies to corruption in Canada's public institutions.
Huffington Post: An Open Letter from the World’s MPs to David Cameron
The Panama Papers starkly revealed that Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have become the venues of choice for the anonymous corporations that facilitate tax evasion, organised crime, and terrorist…
An Open Letter from the World’s MPs to David Cameron
The Panama Papers starkly revealed that Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have become the venues of choice for the anonymous corporations that facilitate tax evasion, organised crime, and terrorist…