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When Chantal Hébert predicted this whole Larry Smith business in an eerily well-informed Dec. 3 column , I took a moment to mourn...

Why did the PM vote against one of his own MPs?

With Parliament now quiet and our MPs duly scattered to their ridings, this blog is embarking on a short vacation. Regular...

A new Hungarian media law will hand out fines for unbalanced news coverage

It’s good of the PMO to send reporters a full transcript of Stephen Harper’s interview with a crew from TVA that included at least...

Books from 2010 that you shouldn’t overlook

I finally got around to reading Patrick Deane’s installation address as President of McMaster University , which came highly...

PAUL WELLs on Gilles Duceppe, the long-form census, and ’Inception’

WELLS: A year’s polling shows an extraordinarily stable electorate

Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred by the country’s constitution from serving as president for three...