OttawaPBOWatch: Okay, maybe the Liberals are putting some thought into the coming budget report card.Enough, at least, to realize that it’s worth paying attention to the recommendations that the Parliamentary Budget Office released...
OttawaUPDATE - The First and Possibly Last ITQ Committee Walkabout: Liveblogging Government Operations but not, as it turns out, Procedure and House AffairsYes, it’s come to this. Unable to choose between the two definitely-maybe-livebloggable meetings scheduled for this morning, ITQ...
OttawaFederal Accountability Act, this is your life! - Liveblogging the Conflict of Interest and Lobbying Commissioners at EthicsHearken back for a moment to those idealistic days of yore when a steely-eyed leader of the opposition promised that, if...
OttawaITQ Committee Lookahead: As below, so above.Or, "What’s that, canary? You have a bad feeling about going back down the mineshaft?" As was the case during the last...
OttawaNewSpiritOfCooperationWatch: Great moments in ministerial/stakeholder relationsNote to newly ascended junior cabinet minister Gary Goodyear and staff: it’s rarely a good sign when a Globe and Mail story about...
OttawaPBOWatch: Okay, the Parliamentary Budget Office has now officially put more thought into those quarterly budget reports ...... than the party that came up with the idea to have the government provide them in the first place. Or so it seems from the...
OttawaOpen Wide: Liveblogging the Info Commissioner’s annual reportAt a news conference to discuss the release of his office’s first Special Report in over two years, Information Commissioner...
OttawaGreat moments in amended press releases: [Insert outraged MP here]Oh, how I’ve missed you, Ryan Sparrow - and I’ll cheerfully admit that it took me far too long to spot the difference. (Next...
OttawaBreaking News: It’s back! Ethics committee to resume investigation into In and OutAs passed by the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics earlier today (full liveblog available here ):
OttawaIs this the end of the New New New Spirit of Nonpartisan Cooperation?Liveblogging the Ethics Committee