How the term "head of state" is actually used in Canada
Some comments on previous posts insist there’s no ambiguity about who is Canada’s head of state. They assert, “It’s the...
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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.
Playing against type
Was this a fluke, or the dawn of an era of a more human, more likeable Harper?
UPDATED: If you do all the head-of-state stuff, aren’t you the head of state?
I’m still not convinced this head-of-state argument is as simple as many are suggesting. Surely at some point, if the Queen no...
State of the head of state debate
It’s not clear at all to me that the Governor General cannot be called Canada’s head of state in at least some...
The state of the head of state debate
It’s not clear at all to me why the Governor General cannot be called Canada’s head of state in some contexts. (Monarchists...
Izzy had his kids read up on next-generation flops
Back in the summer of 2000, when CanWest Global Communications Corp. bought 13 large newspapers, 136 small ones, and half of the...
Steyn and Levant on free speech, and what MPs are thinking of doing about it
The free speech advocates testify before the House of Commons Justice Committee
Problems in the natural health products aisle
The struggle to implement quasi-scientific regulations on an industry that’s based on unscientific folklore
Our future in Afghanistan: didn’t the House say something on this matter?
Defence Minister Peter MacKay says keeping Canada’s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar after 2011 is a possibility, and...
What’s not wrong with Canadian democracy
Argument about what ails Canadian democracy, if anything, is picking up lately, which is good. But it seems to me that much of the...