http://allangregg.com No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The pollsters and the pundits were doing a lot of back peddling following the results of the New Hampshire Primary on Tuesday. At least eight polls released in the days before the vote showed Democratic candidate Barack Obama leading Hilary Clinton by anywhere between seven to thirteen points – all ... http://allangregg.com/?p=54 In 1905, from his small cubicle in a patent office in Zurich, Albert Einstein issues four papers that forever change our understanding of theoretical physics and the functioning of the cosmos. In the same year, Henri Matisse launches an exhibition of garish colours that shocks Paris and spurs Pablo Picasso ... http://allangregg.com/?p=53 A continued presence in Afghanistan is very unlikely to win the federal Conservative government new converts, but it could very well cause the Conservatives to lose the next election. So the status quo is probably not an option for the government. A cynic - or a student of public opinion - ... http://allangregg.com/?p=52 Allan Gregg returns to CBC News At Issue Panel from openflows on Vimeo http://allangregg.com/?p=51 THE UNFINISHED CANADIAN The People We Are By Andrew Cohen McClelland & Stewart, 270 pages, $29.99 REVIEWED BY ALLAN GREGG As the title suggests, journalist turned academic Andrew Cohen sees Canadians as “unfinished,” a species whose insularity and self-satisfaction have prevented us from achieving our full national potential. So that we ... http://allangregg.com/?p=46 A few years ago, as part of my TV Ontario program, I interviewed Naomi Klein and I asked her how it could be that her contemporaries and generation, who were so obviously connected to the world they lived in, showed no interest – in fact actively eschewed --politics, parties and ... http://allangregg.com/?p=50 There is a general consensus that Canada has a productivity gap. Yet the issue refuses to capture the public’s imagination or to take a higher priority on the nation’s political agenda. Claims that the sky is falling run contrary to public confidence that the economy is buoyant and resilient. At ... http://allangregg.com/?p=49 NOTES FOR REMARKS TO THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION LUNCH – OCTOBER 24, 2006 ….NOW, IF I WAS THE ONLY PUBLIC AFFAIRS PRACTITIONER EVER TO APPEAR ON TELEVISION, IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE IT WAS ME WHO WAS TRULY EXCEPTIONAL – OR PERHAPS EVEN DISTINGUISHED. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT, TODAY, ... http://allangregg.com/?p=48 Appeared in Sept 2006 issue of The Walrus Magazine If the British North America Act were being written today…natural resource ownership would most likely remain with the federal government. -- “Policy Options,” October 2005. It should have been a love fest. Leading up to the March 30, 2006 Alberta Progressive Conservative Annual General Meeting polls declared Premier ... http://allangregg.com/?p=47 Having a variety of voices in the Liberal leadership race will be good for the party, but whoever wins will have to borrow heavily from the others to win back voters As most predicted, the Liberal leadership contest has turned into a packed race. The absence of an obvious front-runner has ... http://allangregg.com/?p=45