OttawaUPDATED: The first rule of Jim Flaherty’s figh—er, consultation club: Don’t talk about the consultation club!Okay, it’s time to run a little ITQ-flavoured fact check on Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s claim that a “great deal of...
OttawaBlogging from Bountiful: Winston Blackmore in his own words-Winston Blackmore, December 10 2008 It hasn’t been updated since his arrest, but even so, Winston Blackmore’s blog makes for...
OttawaFrom the macleans.ca archives: No Big Love Lost (originally posted 6/25/2007)Is British Columbia finally ready to take on the polygamists of Bountiful? Kady O’Malley This month marked the second-season debut...
OttawaHey, look! The Parliamentary Budget Office is at it again!This time, acting on a request from Liberal industry critic Gerard Kennedy, they’ve asked Industry Canada for more information on...
OttawaUPDATED: Breaking: Bountiful’s Big Love headed for the Big House?Ooh. So BC’s Attorney General Wally Oppal may have finally mustered up the courage to give Canada’s anti-polygamy law a long...
OttawaPrelude to a public inquiry - Liveblogging the Oliphant Commission (Day One)Join ITQ for full liveblogging coverage as the lawyers for Team Mulroney, the Schreiber Schtrikeforce and the . . . Attorney...
OttawaThe first annual macleans.ca poll: Which politician is least likely to survive The Most Dangerous Day of the Year (tm Inkless Wells)?Which is tomorrow, as it happens. Why? Colleague Wells, currently on one of those special research missions, explains via email:...
OttawaUPDATED: Dear Liberal Party: Hey, that actually *was* an answer.The official reply from Canada’s New Office of the Leader of the Opposition, in response to a query on recent reports that an...
OttawaITQ Public Service Announcement: All lobbyist disclosures not created equalI was actually going to write about this last year, which was when I first became aware of what is, I suspect, a largely unknown...