Remembering the Chrétien PMO: will that be Donolo’s way?
Peter Donolo returns to Ottawa enjoying high standing among the media and political insiders. That’s justified. Donolo was...
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John Geddes
John Geddes is Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s and has covered federal politics and policy for more than two decades. He also writes regularly about art.
John Manley says he wasn’t a player in the Donolo move
Among some versions swirling around Parliament Hill of how Peter Donolo was recruited as Michael Ignatieff’s new chief of...
Peter Donolo comments (cautiously) on his return to Ottawa
Chretien’s former director of communications is now Ignatieff’s chief of staff
Pierre & Maggie: The untold story
From 2009: John English on the most fascinating marriage in Canadian history
How Canada’s seen: I try not to think about it, but fail.
Fretting about how Canada is seen by Americans is a mostly pointless and entirely maddening pastime and I try, I honestly try, not...
Hillier on Afghanistan troop training "schemes" that "lack credibility"
This week’s issue of Maclean’s (on newsstands today—get ’em while they’re hot) features Kate Fillion’s interview with Gen. Rick...
Stepping back and looking forward on Afghanistan
This morning’s news on Afghanistan should spur the Canadian government to plan and communicate much more clearly about exactly...
Where the pandering is
Andrew Coyne’s heartfelt review of "Where the Wild Things Are" is a lovely read. But my colleague’s premise—"Most films ’for’...
Information overlord
A new commissioner takes aim at Ottawa’s secretive ministries
Public and private lives, literary and political
I’m struck by the similarity of the opening lines of two recent book reviews. Reviewing the new biography Charles Dickens: A...