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Two flaws in the Tories approach to crime
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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.
Kevin Lynch tells us about policy making in testing times
It’s not often Canada’s top bureaucrat, Kevin Lynch, gives a major public speech. The Clerk of the Privy Council traditionally...
Man of the world
Harper’s best incentive to tour the globe? The friendly foreign press.
Ian Brodie offers a candid case study in politics and policy
Harper’s former chief of staff delivers a frank explanation on why the Tories cut the GST
Dodge says not so fast with the stimulus spending
David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada Governor, is starting to sound like the closest thing we have to an economic sage. I guess...
The AIG bonuses: what matters more than what’s legal?
President Barack Obama’s worst moment on yesterday’s Jay Leno show came, not when he made that bowling gaffe, but when he airily...
Skepticism about that new Shakespeare portrait
An authoritative voice is casting the inevitable doubt on the latest purported “life portrait” of William Shakespeare. If...
Confidence man
Upbeat and daring, Mark Carney takes the Bank of Canada into uncharted waters
Uneven progress on renewable energy
The biggest story you probably didn’t pay much attention to this week was Ontario’s plan to let...
Harper’s upbeat economic outlook in context
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s upbeat speech earlier this week on Canada’s economic prospects can now be read in the context of...