Peter O'Neil

Peter O’Neil of the Vancouver Sun takes an enterprising approach in this story that bids to inject some life into the debate over the federal government’s Senate Reform Act. O’Neil surveyed professors at British Columbia and Alberta universities, and found that 18 of 25 who responded didn’t like the bill, which is now being debated in Parliament.

On his “Letter from Paris” blog, Postmedia’s Peter O’Neil offers a fascinating posting on Tony Judt, including the full text of an email Judt sent responding to his questions last spring about the attitude of Europeans toward war. The timing of the exchange early last March is poignant: only a few days later, news came out that Judt was dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,  or Lou Gehrig’s disease.