The UK: After the Riots
\r\n \r\nIf you’re like me, you’ll have watched the riots in the streets of London and other English cities with a mixture of shock, dismay and outrage. There was a great deal of criminality on...
View ArticleCondolences
\r\n \r\nCanada lost a remarkable public figure this week. I would like to offer my most sincere condolences on behalf of myself, the staff at the British High Commission and the British people to Mr....
View ArticleNew Speaker of the House of Commons
\r\n \r\nLast week I met the new Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, the Honourable Andrew Scheer. He’s the youngest Speaker in Canadian history, but as a former Deputy Speaker he brings...
View ArticleStrengthening UK-Canada links
\r\n \r\n We were lucky last week to have David Cameron in Ottawa. He flew in from New York, where he was speaking to the General Assembly, to a whirlwind programme here. First, he laid a wreath at...
View ArticleIn the name of equality
\r\n \r\nA female doctor with the International Medical Corps examines a woman patient at a mobile health clinic in Pakistan (DFID/Russell Watkins) Today is International Women’s Day – a day that has...
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