UncategorizedBacking down -- and lovin’ it!In Question Period today, Peter Van Loan sure sounded surprised to learn that, as ITQ first reported yesterday, Officers of...
UncategorizedRumours of Ontario’s penury are much exaggerated by my good friend the federal Finance MinisterIn the innertubes-only ur-comment section the Globe reserves for the interesting articles it can’t fit onto its real comment...
UncategorizedSenate reform: If you’re not an expert then you’re an expertFrom Emmett McFarlane , a doctoral candidate at Queen’s and a former editor of The Gazette at the UWO (so we like him), comes this...
UncategorizedLiveblogging the Industry Committee, clumsilySo this is where MPs hide. I’ve been wondering where André Arthur, the talk-radio independent MP from Quebec, has been. Last week...
UncategorizedThe prime minister’s Senate reform plan......is seriously not popular with some of the country’s finest constitutionalists. But surely people who’ve read Pierre Trudeau’s...
GeneralPraise for Bev Oda?And from her Opposition critic? Indeed. Keith Martin, in the scrums today, on the CIDA minister’s decision to untie Canada’s food...
UncategorizedGov’t of/ for/ by the peopleClearly this has been around for a long time, but as I struggle with PowerPoint it’s new to me, and a handy cautionary tale: the...
UncategorizedLiberals in Quebec: Always look on the bright sideJames Curran, who as of yesterday was days away from giving up on the federal Liberal party, still has enough fight in him to...
UncategorizedADQ for the NDP!It’s true. Well, "polling true" anyway, and that sometimes resembles real-life truth: according to today’s big CROP poll...
UncategorizedThe velocity of celebrationIf you go to this page you can download some free MP3s from Palmetto, one of the smartest U.S. independent jazz labels. I...