The EU’s mess seen from Canada (bonus: fresh Mark Carney quotes)
The Bank of Canada governor on the necessity of transfers from rich countries to poor ones
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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.
Flaherty’s non-negotiable terms fit health spending reality [UPDATED]
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s decision to lay down the law, rather than open up negotiations, on health care transfers from the...
The museum is the message
A federal science museum offers a polished image of the oil sands
Remembering Havel, and how he and Mandela made us think
In the space of a few months in late 1989 and early 1990, two events occurred that made it seem anything evil in the world’s...
Why Ottawa’s ban on veils at citizenship ceremonies is unlikely to survive
’It’s not in accordance with any interpretation of Canadian law’
Exits: No rush for the doors
Canada’s top soldier in Afghanistan tells Maclean’s he’d go back if he could
MacKay had places to go
Could the government have allowed a federal photo op to go ahead with just two MPs?
Starting to sort out the Attawapiskat numbers
How much money would it take to fix the housing crisis on reserves?
My wish list: John Geddes on pundits, politicians and policy
Why Senate reform efforts should die an early death along with all the hand-wringing about productivity
Diamonds and squalor up on James Bay
A frequently mentioned dark irony in the story of deplorable living conditions at Attawapiskat, Ont., is that the Cree community...