OttawaTories: Economic union by 2010The Conservative platform is mostly a damp squib, more or less by design. Or at any rate they’re trapped: if they were to put...
OttawaThe mathematics of majorityI think this is quite the most fascinating thing I’ve come across for a long time. It was brought to my attention by a reader of...
OttawaThe Tories are in troubleIgnore the daily squiggles of each individual poll -- they’re meaningless noise. But average them all together, track them over...
OttawaInsta-poll: Advantage... Harper!Ipsos again: Poll gives nod to Harper, with Layton second Responses: a) What about Duceppe? b) The story isn’t that Harper...
OttawaDon’t do as I don’t say, do as I don’t doIn my other piece this week , I discover to my shock and horror that Stephen Harper also has a risky scheme to tax everything --...
OttawaArt classMy column this week wades into the Harper vs. subsidized artists fracas, arguing that it takes two sides to make a wedge issue: As...
OttawaDébat des chefs: secondes réactionsAnother poll, this one by CROP for La Presse: Duceppe et Dion, les grands gagnants From the French press: Dion présente un plan...
OttawaDébat des chefs: premières réactionsIpsos is first out of the gates with the insta-poll. Winner? Dion, by a wide margin. But Jack gets most "visually attractive"...
GeneralCoyne: This isn’t a culture war, it’s a good old class warIt’s the culturati, not their Harperite foes, who have made the arts cuts a ‘wedge issue’
CanadaGreen? Who, me?Harper has a green plan too, though he’d rather not talk very much about it right now