darling prize of MayI’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...
adviceClose the mouth Shut the doors of cunning and desire And to the end of life there will be peace without toil.Open the mouthMeddle...
Inside the (metaphorical) Queensway - Parliamentary reform reduxWonkronicity Alert: Hey, remember a few weeks back, when Halifax Chronicle Herald reporter Steve Maher and I took a road trip to...
Senator Marjory LeBreton is now (not) your friend.From Debates of the Senate (Hansard), April 9, 2008: Then again, maybe she’s holding out for Web 2.0.5., or whatever future...
The pause that refreshes in the corridors of powerOh, Carole Lavallée. During the Mulroney/Schreiber hearings, you became known to ITQ readers as the Voice of Sanity - now, here...
When Senate appointments go horribly wrongFrom this morning’s post-QP scrums; Denis Coderre responds to comments reportedly made by Senator Michael Fortier on whether he...
May 9 shall henceforth be known as National Embarrassment DayMust-reads: Daphne Bramham on polygamy; Jeffrey Simpson on the refugee system; Susan Riley and Chantal Hébert on l’affaire...
Sometimes, it’s better to lieIf 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...
Dr. Hawking is pleasedNeil Turok, chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, named the new executive director of Perimeter Institute in Waterloo