OttawaHow many times does he have to tell you?From Maclean’s , Dec. 18, 2006. Page 18, Chapter 1 of our Liberal leadership epic. From the night of Paul Martin’s defeat. John...
OttawaProgramming noteTo clear up persistent confusion, we’ve gone ahead and rechristened this blog. In the beginning, there was a daily column called...
OttawaBTC: The opinion too hot for Megapundit"If Canadians only could vote in tomorrow’s U.S. election, Barack Obama might take upward of 90 per cent of the vote. Yet if Obama...
OttawaBTC: Trivia question to which I’m not sure I have the answerWas Howard McCurdy , in 1989, the last non-white person to contest the leadership of a major political party in Canada?
OttawaBTC: How much is that cabinet in the window? (III)The Hill Times puts the price tag at $66.7-million. (That appears to include salaries for the Prime Minister and the Prime...
OttawaBTC: Random questions of the momentWhen will Canadians elect (sorry Kim) a Prime Minister who is not a white guy? When will a major party choose as its leader...
OttawaBTC: How much is that cabinet in the window? (II)CP’s Alex Panetta does some real research and puts the price for Stephen Harper’s cabinet at $24.2-million—a 42% increase from...
OttawaBTC: What do you see?This week’s asbestos thing is probably difficult to get excited about. A little lacking in relevance to your day-to-day life, what...
OttawaBTC: Passive aggression pactLet the record show that the non-aggression pact between Messrs. Ignatieff and Rae endured precisely nine days—expiring at...
OttawaBTC: AlsoJohn Geddes and I have a piece about where Stephen Harper might (must?) go from here. The most interesting insight contained...