Who’s always got time for Tim Hortons?Jim Flaherty’s staff, that’s who! According to lobby communications logs (and yes, ITQ wishes there was a slightly less clunky way...
Happy one year anniversary, 40th Parliament of Canada!I know, it seems like so much longer , doesn’t it? ITQ is just disappointed that the prime minister doesn’t seem to be planning to...
Public and private lives, literary and politicalI’m struck by the similarity of the opening lines of two recent book reviews. Reviewing the new biography Charles Dickens: A...
’I don’t think it’s that much worse than it was’Peter Milliken, now the longest-standing speaker in Parliament’s history, reflects on the state of the House.
What’s new at the public opinion research depository? So glad you asked!Oh, PORRD . What would Hill journalists do during break weeks without you? And look -- your latest offerings are downright...
Note to PCO: Y’all might want to consider spending a little less money advertising the Economic Action! Plan ...... and putting a little more time and effort into documenting how the money is actually being spent. The Parliamentary Budget...
Can you hear that whistle blowin’? (Let the witch hunt begin!)It’s going to be a very long, and not particularly relaxing weekend for senior civil servants. The CP story ran last...
How the term "head of state" is actually used in CanadaSome comments on previous posts insist there’s no ambiguity about who is Canada’s head of state. They assert, “It’s the...
Hey look: Holbrooke’s getting a new tempFrom the print edition, which this week is ridiculously entertaining in many ways, my column , about how things are changing on...
UPDATED AGAIN: A constitutional crisis? On the Friday before a long weekend? Come on! Sadly, as the ever-vigilant Colleague Potter points out , that’s one way to describe the current...