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The Canada Gazette now offers RSS feeds for some - but not all - news.UPDATE: Got a hankering to head up the Canadian Human Rights...

Hey, remember when we had a Justice committee? You know, one that would hold regular meetings, albeit regular meetings that would...

Torontonians derive a bizarre pride from being hated. They write articles and books , and even make movies about it. Toronto...

A videoblogthing report from the front - well, the Hot Room, anyway - with a bonus conspiracy theory involving Diane Finley!

We’ve taken a few (well-deserved) potshots at the ADQ over the past week or two. It’s sometimes hard to resist kicking a party...

NDP MP Paul Dewar is So Not Impressed by -- oh, I’m going to journalistic Hell for this one -- NoWatergate:

The Canada Gazette now offers RSS feeds for some - but not all - news.UPDATE: Got a hankering to head up the Canadian Human Rights...

Newsflash: Native Scarbarian Mike Myers has made another summer movie. Newsflash, part deux: This time, he’s not playing a horny...

12:50:55 PM So sorry, y’all, for the eerie silence emanating from these parts this morning; there were, shall we say, technical...

You have to tip your hat to Dalton McGuinty. Another premier, on discovering that his province was about to qualify for payments under the federal equalization program, might have seized the occasion to demand that the program be enriched. But as the premier of the largest province in Canada, McGuinty no doubt feels an obligation to rise above such petty concerns. Surely statesmanship, then, explains his demand that the program from which Ontario may soon be drawing $1-billion and change should be radically curtailed -- or in McGuinty’s words, to "revisit the perverse dimensions of the existing fiscal network that ties us to the rest of the country."

Statesmanship, or utter confusion. Perhaps aware that his adversaries would blame Ontario’s impending descent into "have-not" status on his government’s economic policies, McGuinty tried to change the subject by attacking the feds, dusting off his favourite complaint from yesteryear, the so-called $20-billion gap - the amount by which federal tax revenues collected in Ontario exceed federal spending in Ontario. The result was utter intellectual chaos, as the premier shuffled numbers and definitions back and forth like a cardsharp at three-card monte, with casual disregard for logic, truth, or basic mathematics.