The clash over coalitions on the campaign’s first day
There’s nothing like starting a campaign by calling your opponent an outright liar
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.
Projection puts Tories in majority, first time since 2008
Conservatives in line to elect 157 MPs according to LISPOP
They’re worth taking seriously. Seriously.
Let’s start by acknowledging the considerable achievements of the leaders we’re about to find so lacking
Jack Layton’s health: more of what he’s said
With an election all but inevitable, the NDP leader’s health is a legitimate issue
The lame-duck budget of 2011
Strangely, the budget that set a likely election in motion is a cautious document
Ignatieff’s roots, immigrant and otherwise
The Conservative response to a recent Liberal video , in which Michael Ignatieff talks about his Russian father coming to...
Does Layton have the nerve?
Getting the NDP onside is Harper’s best bet to save the government, but Layton sounds far from conciliatory
The F-35 jet cost controversy: now we’re getting somewhere
Why will Canada’s jets cost less than Washington’s estimates?
Stockwell Day, so-con icon, bows out
From the outset, Day’s religious streak bothered other conservatives, including his future boss
Jason Kenney on Shahbaz Bhatti
In Canada last month, the Pakistani politician predicted his own murder