Flaherty tables a cautious budget, casts ahead to next steps
Back in 2006, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty began his first budget speech by reflecting on how “budgets say something about your...
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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.
Mulcair’s weary, winning moment
A flat speech raises the question, is Mulcair as skillful a political performer as he has mostly been given credit for?
On Topp’s decision to stay in for a last desperate try
Brian Topp’s decision to stay in the race, if that’s what it still is at this late hour, for a fourth round of tallying up ballots...
On Angus going to Mulcair on the NDP convention floor
After his attempt at rap last night as part of the Paul Dewar showcase, Charlie Angus might not appear like quite so serious a...
Quick takes on the NDP leaders’ showcase: Cullen, Dewar, Topp, Ashton, Mulcair, Nash and Singh
A review from the floor of the candidates’ presentations at the NDP leadership convention
Ring around the robocalls
Conservatives quietly admit something went wrong in that Guelph riding. Their mission now is to stop the scandal from infecting the rest of the party.
Peggy Nash’s not-so-long shot at the NDP leadership
The Toronto MP pitches government as the great job protector
Many, many complaints to Elections Canada, not just a few
The agency has been inundated with 31,000 "contacts" on the bogus calls issue
Bogus calls, real outrage
The robocalling scandal that’s sweeping Ottawa is raising troubling questions about the state of Canadian politics
In conversation: Justin Trudeau
The Montreal MP in a wide-ranging interview from 2012