Well, if nothing else, Stephen Harper might just have earned Canada a ringside seat to the outbreak of a Middle East regional war. The way the International Crisis Group sees it, the Saudi air war on Shiite Yemeni rebels might just be the burning fuze that explodes the Sunni-Shia powder
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Writings of J. Todd Ring: Stop calling it a “shutdown” – it’s not, it’s business as usual
(See the article by Brian Anderson on Motherboard, mentioned below – it is excellent, as well as blisteringly funny.) You can’t really say something is shut down when it wasn’t functioning to begin with, Motherboard’s Brian Anderson only half jokingly says, and of course, he is right. (Kudos to him
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