Best immigration minister ever? Meet Kenney’s competition.
There’s some loose talk going around about Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney being perhaps the best ever in that...
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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.
Canada’s foreign worker boom
Since 2006, Canada’s low-wage temporary workforce population has ballooned by 70 per cent
Selling guns without mandatory checks on new owners [UPDATED]
There’s not much point prolonging the argument about the government’s determination to scrap the registry for rifles and...
About those pandas: a modest alternative proposal
To reject outright China’s generous offer of exotic creatures for public display would be unwise, of course
Jack Layton’s mother makes her pick
Nobody saw this one coming. Doris Layton, mother of the late NDP leader Jack Layton, this morning endorsed her son’s former...
Canada’s unofficial (and unelected) opposition
Former high-ranking civil servants are outspoken critics of the Harper government
Beatty’s list: business priorities and political realities
The anxious tone the Prime Minister recently injected into the debate on Canada’s economic competitiveness was picked up today...
Dickens at 200: still the best we’ve got on being poor
His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force
Canada’s Commonwealth edge
New research suggests paying heed to Commonwealth ties would be a shrewd foreign-affairs strategy
Harper finally takes some risks
The PM could be looking for trouble—especially on pensions