The gun registry vote: a shaken MP, an unsatisfying debate
How can voters judge whether their MPs did the right thing?
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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.
Why oppose registering guns but support licencing their owners?
I’ve just been listening to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews responding to opposition MPs in Question Period on the gun...
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News will never be the same
Kory Teneycke announces his departure from the Sun TV News project
"Bread and circuses, eh?"
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Federal scientists should be allowed to speak up
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RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
The Mounties were set to publicly acknowledge the benefits of projects like the Insite facility. Then they backed away.
The passing of a great voice for art
Obituaries for Shirley Thomson, the former director of the National Gallery of Canada, inevitably make much of her role in buying...
What is MacKay saying—precisely—on exiting Afghanistan?
There’s a lot of flexibility in "the letter of the motion"
More on Tony Judt
On his "Letter from Paris" blog, Postmedia’s Peter O’Neil offers a fascinating posting on Tony Judt, including the full text of an...