John Geddes

Days into a contest of meanness, a surprisingly clear contrast on honest-to-goodness platforms has suddenly emerged

The most telling moment in Michael Ignatieff’s launch event for the full Liberal platform today in Ottawa came in an...

Compared with Ignatieff’s openness, Harper’s risk-averse approach is looking brittle

Stephen Harper has been wrapping up his stump speeches with an allusion to Wilfrid Laurier’s famous prediction that the twentieth...

I read my colleague Andrew Coyne’s impassioned, insightful "Is Canada a nation?" item, and remembered posting on closely related...

As I did yesterday , I turn to Prof. Don Desserud, the University of New Brunswick expert on our parliamentary system, for...

When I posted this yesterday on Stephen Harper’s appeal to immigrants and their children (and grandchildren, I suppose), I...

The rush to secure the middle class vote

The biggest ovation Stephen Harper earned at his rally in Brampton, Ont. this morning didn’t come when he issued one of his grim...

The question, it seems to me, is a simple one: can the party that didn’t win the most seats in a Canadian election legitimately...