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Aaron Wherry

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

Ottawa

BTC: It’s a date

Jack Layton and Stephen Harper are booked for a 1pm tea at 24 Sussex this Saturday.

BTC: Recycling

Dusty old quotes from previous versions of Stephen Harper are being swapped rather frantically these days. Here is perhaps the...

BTC: On your marks

Further to this , the explanation from the Governor General’s office is as follows. "The PM prefers to have the GG in Ottawa at...

BTC: ’It’s a joke’

If nothing else, Mr. Dion did just seem to use the word "prefab" as a verb. Something I did not think to be possible, but, after...

BTC: The Kremlin

The National Archives in Ottawa are housed in what is surely one of the capital’s least appealing buildings. With its broad grey...

BTC: Morning in Toronto

Another town hall, this one in a rather cavernous movie studio in east Toronto, Jack Layton’s riding and, once, the riding of Reid...

BTC: Number Six

On the ferry ride to Toronto island, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, standing side-by-side at the stern of the boat, made...