TORONTO — Canada’s media are all aflutter over whether the country’s Own the Podium campaign was too… unCanadian. Some media pundits have suggested that:
a. the campaign failed because Canada is not going to score more medals than any other nation,
b. the campaign put undue pressure on Canadian athletes to excel, thus compromising […]
NORTH POLE — Merry Christmas to everyone, and best wishes for a peaceful day and year for all.
Our hearts and prayers are with our troops overseas, their families at home, my friends around the world and the family, whom I do not know, two blocks away whose home burned tonight.
God bless.
TORONTO – As I was going through past blog entries and tagging them with regional indicators… so you, gentle reader, can search for entries relevant to, say, “Tajikistan” or “Canada” or “USA,” I came across an entry from the last Canadian federal election campaign.
In it, I noted Ontario Liberal Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s then comment […]
TORONTO – I’m back in Toronto, after leaving Dushanbe on August 7 and stopping in London for a few days. Three days after arriving in Toronto, I was back aboard a 737-600 winging my way west with my two sons for a two week holiday in my hometown: Kamloops, B.C. Yesterday, we flew back to […]
Is that a double double on tap I see before me? Nay…. just my Dushanbe bathwater.
DUSHANBE — It has been uncharacteristically rainy in Dushanbe the last few days. The upside of this is that it temporarily washed some of the dust from the air and today dawned notably cooler and fresher than it’s been in […]
Canadian cars are the height of Cool in Kabul.
DUSHANBE — Overheard during dinner at La Grand Dame:
“My mother’s advice to me was ‘just smile and swallow, Dear!’”
– from a stunningly beautiful and entirely anonymous young woman
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PUL-E-KOMRI, AFGHANISTAN — There is a grimy little roadside place in Pul-e-Komri where we often stop for lunch on the […]
Two Afghan women walk past a graveyard on the outskirts of Kabul
DUSHANBE – An article in the Globe and Mail today reports that Canada’s military has paid up to $9,000 to families of local Afghans killed in “friendly fire” incidents without, the headling stresses, admitting liability. Online trolls who pass their time commenting on newspaper stories have […]
Canadian politics is front page news in Kabul.
KABUL – Some half-baked observations and thoughts in passing over the past week…
Canadian politics front page news in Kabul
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the front page (albeit below the fold) of Daily Outlook newspaper in Afghanistan. Canada’s political football match over the future of its Afghanistan mission is closely […]
KABUL —
A quick administrative update
You can now reach this blog through http://www.coffeewithmarktowhey.ca.
The .com version of that address should also soon work to get you here!
DUSHANBE – I haven’t posted for a bit due to a combination of travel, workload, illness, fatigue and technology challenges. Not, necessarily, in that order.
I have some catching up to do.
In the meantime, I read an excellent post on Heather Yaxley’s blog which echoes many comments I’ve made in the past about public relations practitioner’s […]