OttawaAccountabilityWatch: Hey, remember that five year ban on lobbying by former public office holders?Oh, don’t worry, it’s still in place. But according to a spokesperson for interim Lobbying Commissioner Karen Shepherd, since the...
OttawaWell, that certainly didn’t come up at last night’s science awards ceremony ...But if the story in today’s Globe and Mail had come out just a few hours earlier, we probably would have paid considerably more...
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OttawaSee, he does have a soft spot for research scientistsLiveblogging the PM at the NSERC research awards
OttawaOf Cs, big and little, and how size sometimes matters.This is something that came up more than once over the weekend, during my attempt at liveblogging a panel at the Manning Centre...
OttawaUPDATED: Well, that’s something that ITQ didn’t hear about at that Manning Centre conference this weekend ..... at least, not at Saturday’s session on political social networking : a (not actually all that secret as of this morning)...
OttawaMetaliveblogging: Watch out, Manning Centre Conference - ITQ is headed your way!I admit it; I pretty much ditched y’all yesterday afternoon, virtually speaking -- I had every intention of liveblogging Colleague...
OttawaYesterday’s Senate Budget Debate - The "Good Parts" VersionYou might want to get comfy before hitting the jump, because as promised/threatened , ITQ will now subject her readers to a...
OttawaSenate Question Period: Oh, you’ll soon have an audience, senator ...... an audience of one, at the very least, that is -- just as soon as ITQ is able to persuade the Senate Speaker to allow...
OttawaUPDATED: Ethics to Oliphant Commission: Past committee testimony? Sorry, that’s privileged.From the third report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (March 12, 2009): For what it’s...