OttawaThe gun registry vote: a shaken MP, an unsatisfying debateHow can voters judge whether their MPs did the right thing?
OttawaWhy 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...
SocietyNordiques arena: A pricey precedentWinnipeg built an NHL-calibre arena with ‘minimal’ money from Ottawa. It’ll be different for Quebec City.
Ottawa"Bread and circuses, eh?"As we try to sort out exactly where the Prime Minister stands on federal funding for pro-sports arenas and stadiums—starting, of...
OttawaFederal scientists should be allowed to speak upInteresting story from Postmedia’s Margaret Munro this morning on how the Conservatives have moved to tighten control on what...
CanadaRCMP and the truth about safe injection sitesThe Mounties were set to publicly acknowledge the benefits of projects like the Insite facility. Then they backed away.
OttawaThe passing of a great voice for artObituaries for Shirley Thomson, the former director of the National Gallery of Canada, inevitably make much of her role in buying...
OttawaWhat is MacKay saying—precisely—on exiting Afghanistan?There’s a lot of flexibility in "the letter of the motion"
UncategorizedMore on Tony JudtOn his "Letter from Paris" blog, Postmedia’s Peter O’Neil offers a fascinating posting on Tony Judt, including the full text of an...