Public intellectual (II)Douglas Bell responds to Andrew Steele’s advice for Michael Ignatieff. Steele points to Ignatieff’s review of Leslie Gelb’s new...
The Commons: ’The government is trying to patch EI with duct tape’The opposition peppered the PM on Employment Insurance. Layton recommended Harper "learn to count"
A noted returnThe Bloc’s Francine Lalonde, who is battling cancer, returned to the House today and received a standing ovation from all sides...
Jason Kenney is unimpressedFrom his Twitter feed . I’m always amazed by how many special interest micro-issues the opposition raises during QP, rather than...
Music: It sounds better in the original GermanThe Montreal Symphony Orchestra (as we called it at The Gazette ; it calls itself the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, even in...
Questions without answersFans of Parliamentary procedure take note, the Speaker allowed three questions today (all by the NDP, two having to do with...
SnubWatch: What, Mr. Smartypants is too good to share a page with David Warren? Wait, don’t answer thatBarack Obama publishes an op-ed in 31 newspapers and magazines around the world. None are Canadian .
Try the vealMike Duffy, comedian . Duffy also roasted Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and NDP leader Jack Layton, as well as the Jean...
Forgotten footnotesFrom a profile of Stockwell Day, written for this magazine eight and a half years ago by John Geddes. He owns a .38 handgun, which...
UPDATED: GallowayWatch: We’re through the looking glass here, people.UPDATED AGAIN - Scroll down for the latest. Okay, let me see if I’ve got this straight. Thanks to a somewhat curiously headlined...