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Aaron Wherry

Aaron Wherry covers the House of Commons and its 338 residents for Maclean’s.

Ottawa

Don’t look back in anger (II)

Stephen Harper, March 3, 2008 . "Mr. Speaker, the truth is that in the past several months, as the problems of the Liberal Party...

Insufficient evidence

Gilles Duceppe has been cleared of charges he gestured rudely in the direction of the government benches this week. The latest...

Don’t look back in anger

Stephen Harper, Oct. 2 . "What Canadians are worried about right now is not the job situation, not losing their home like in the...

Mixed metaphor of the day

We are riding a horse. Obscured by a tree. That has just been cut down. Ken Dryden on the government’s environment policy . What...

Middle-brow

From the Canadian Press assessment of Patrick Muttart’s departure. Muttart also overhauled the party’s election ads. He pushed for...

Lowered expectations

Rona Ambrose, then environment minister, July 5, 2006 . "The transit tax credit will not only save people money, but by taking...

His bad

The New York Times on Barack Obama’s admission. The primary weapon for a president who really intends to clean up Washington is...

The vision thing (II)

Lawrence Martin on Ignatieff . Dumbing down has been equated since the Reagan era with having the common touch. But, according to...