GeneralSomeone should do something about thisChief Electoral Officer of Canada Announces Fourth Quarter Allowances Paid to Registered Political Parties OTTAWA, ONTARIO---...
GeneralLogrolling in our timeIn today’s Ottawa Citizen Observer section, we have an excerpt from chapter 9 of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of...
GeneralIt’s not a bailout, it’s patronageReuters the other day had a widely-circulated piece about the prospects for newspapers getting a piece of the bailout action. And...
GeneralHonour Amongst the ParliamentariansHere are the best two sentences I read this week: "But even if better practices can be instituted to guide the parliamentary head...
GeneralUp Next: The FutureThe monthly news magazine published by UBC has a neat little feature this month: they asked a handful of researchers to talk about...
GeneralUSA Stat of the DayIn 2000, 539 white and 851 black juveniles committed murder, according to an analysis of federal data by the authors. In 2007, the...
GeneralFirst we take BismarckToday’s WSJ front-page-quirky-story is about Russian academic Igor Panarin, who has made a bit of a name for himself predicting...
GeneralFowler/Guay WatchIt has now been two weeks since Canadians Robert Fowler, Louis Guay, and a third (possibly fourth) person disappeared in Niger, on...
GeneralThe End of HuntingtonSamuel P. Huntington - a longtime Harvard University professor, an influential political scientist, and mentor to a generation of...
GeneralMonkey Uprising: Holiday EditionItem the First: They turn on the humans Item the Second: They take over our technology Item the Third: They adopt our traditions...