Programming noteFrom here on, this blog will be adopting the Wells Declaration (contained in this thread) and applying it to all reader...
The Race for Kingsmere: Barry Devolin is a man with a plan - a 3 point plan, to be precise.Behold the ’whatever’ that he considers ’necessary’ to transform the House from a partisan echo chamber to a forum for civilized...
CPC ConventionWatch 2008 – Protecting the health and safety of Canadians, one almost-certain-to-be-ignored policy resolution at a time.Before we get started with the latest additions to the ITQ cheatsheet for the upcoming Conservative Party policy convention –...
Pedigree: check. Manifesto: check.Dominic LeBlanc throws his hat into the ring. OUT IS THE NEW IN-DATE : Coderre out! Gerald Kennedy out! It’s getting chilly and...
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "Which is to be master -- that’s all." (An ITQ Poll!)With Andrew Scheer officially throwing his bicorn associate deputy speaker’s hat into the ring, we now have at least five MPs...
Journalistic ethics is only sort of an oxymoronAs a general rule, media ethics debates work best in journalism schools (where they can safely and entirely be discussed in...
Competitive streak. Here then are Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest making more damn-fool noise about a high-speed rail in Canada. Canada? Don’t they...
More or less ridiculous than the Pinball Clemons comparison?Lawrence Martin goes ahead and makes the inevitable Ignatieff-Obama comparison . "Is there any hope out there, anyone capable of...
In praise of the vaguely irrationalAnne Applebaum : "If some Americans walked away from their election-night party vowing to improve the world around them, maybe it...
The search continuesNoah Richler : "If Canada is to experience its own extraordinary, galvanizing political progression, it will not be because it has...