Graeme Smith

An excerpt from Smith’s book, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now

Maclean’s Podcast: Paul Wells in conversation with Graeme Smith

Globe and Mail reporter Graeme Smith had this to say during a panel discussion convened by This Magazine to discuss a decade of international intervention in Afghanistan:

Graeme Smith talks to the director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

We’ve posted the trove of Afghan detainee documents online

Peter MacKay owes Helena Guergis a note of thanks

In 20 years in journalism I have never seen anything resembling the systematic and sustained repudiation to which Christie Blatchford, the Globe and Mail‘s marquee columnist, is being subjected by her own newspaper. There is room in any good paper for disagreements among colleagues, and frankly there should, for a long time now, have been room for more of that at the Globe. But this goes further. This is breathtakingly methodical. And I believe it was needed.

A collection of documents, testimony and news reports related to Richard Colvin and Canada’s handling of Afghan detainees. The Colvin encyclopedia is updated as events warrant.

That would be the surge of talking heads staring into webcams and telling The Mark News what they think should happen next in Afghanistan. Prominent among the faces is the one belonging to Colleague Petrou. Graeme Smith, the long-serving and authoritative Kandahar man for the Globe, is on hand too, with what sounds eerily like my own recent position, except better-informed..