Defence spending: does the party in power spell the difference?
With Canada pulling its fighting troops out of Kandahar this month, there’s growing interest in whether the government’s...
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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.
Giving CUPW less than they bargained for: an Ottawa tradition
Looking back at the Maclean’s story about the back-to-work legislation Jean Chretien’s Liberals imposed to end the 1997 postal...
The detainee documents: it’s not about who respects our soldiers
The questions about detainee treatment have to do with the government, not soldiers
The life and times of Jack Layton
The NDP leader has left a lasting legacy on Canadian politics
Caravaggio’s unsettling images at the National Gallery of Canada
In the first room of the big summer show Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome , which opens on June 17 at the National Gallery of...
In conversation: Peter Milliken
How minority Parliaments lower the tone, why tossing out MPs fails, and his favourite Scotch
Senate appointments: "There oughtta be a law"
John Geddes on why the ’patronage chamber’ is an affront to democracy
The NDP’s union-made caucus
The real power structure in the party comes from organized labour
The Insite case: it should never have ended up in court
There’s little debate about the health questions and crime implications of Insite
Will Canadian politics turn more polarized?
The gravitational pull of the Liberals toward the middle is gone