They’re coming after your family
Days into a contest of meanness, a surprisingly clear contrast on honest-to-goodness platforms has suddenly emerged
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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.
The Liberal platform: simplicity itself
The most telling moment in Michael Ignatieff’s launch event for the full Liberal platform today in Ottawa came in an...
The campaign-trail contrast: will Harper adjust?
Compared with Ignatieff’s openness, Harper’s risk-averse approach is looking brittle
Laurier’s limited vision
Stephen Harper has been wrapping up his stump speeches with an allusion to Wilfrid Laurier’s famous prediction that the twentieth...
From the archives: "Nation? You can have it."
I read my colleague Andrew Coyne’s impassioned, insightful "Is Canada a nation?" item, and remembered posting on closely related...
"An odd (!) understanding" of how Parliament works
As I did yesterday , I turn to Prof. Don Desserud, the University of New Brunswick expert on our parliamentary system, for...
What to call voters, besides Canadians?
When I posted this yesterday on Stephen Harper’s appeal to immigrants and their children (and grandchildren, I suppose), I...
Suddenly average Canadian families are a top political prize
The rush to secure the middle class vote
Harper’s first stop in suburban, heavily ethnic territory [UPDATED from his second]
The biggest ovation Stephen Harper earned at his rally in Brampton, Ont. this morning didn’t come when he issued one of his grim...
Who gets to govern? Venturing deep into the post-May 2 scenario weeds
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...