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I’m back from a week in China; if you are at all interested in knowing what I’ve been up to, check out my blog of the trip, over...

Close the mouth Shut the doors of cunning and desire And to the end of life there will be peace without toil.Open the mouthMeddle...

Wonkronicity Alert: Hey, remember a few weeks back, when Halifax Chronicle Herald reporter Steve Maher and I took a road trip to...

From Debates of the Senate (Hansard), April 9, 2008: Then again, maybe she’s holding out for Web 2.0.5., or whatever future...

Oh, Carole Lavallée. During the Mulroney/Schreiber hearings, you became known to ITQ readers as the Voice of Sanity - now, here...

Why Neil Turok wasn’t at the announcement of his own appointment

From this morning’s post-QP scrums; Denis Coderre responds to comments reportedly made by Senator Michael Fortier on whether he...

Must-reads: Daphne Bramham on polygamy; Jeffrey Simpson on the refugee system; Susan Riley and Chantal Hébert on l’affaire...

If your kid is lying about his or her grades, it might not be a bad thing. Lying isn’t generally good for your health. It can be...

Neil Turok, chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, named the new executive director of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo