Best concession speech ever?The race speech is the one for the history books, but this might be the speech of the campaign.
"Can you explain that ’electoral college’ thing one more time?": Liveblogging from Ottawa’s election-watching party circuitITQ will be liveblogging her way through the Ottawa election-watching party circuit tonight, so check back around 7pm for sporadic...
Vancouver South Recount: Welcome back to elected officialdom, Ujjal Dosanjh!According to ITQ’s tireless source on the ground, the recount is over and after a full ballot-by-ballot recall, Ujjal Dosanjh has...
How many times does he have to tell you?From Maclean’s , Dec. 18, 2006. Page 18, Chapter 1 of our Liberal leadership epic. From the night of Paul Martin’s defeat. John...
Noticed on the way into work this morningSometimes, even after many years, you notice what a pretty city Ottawa can be.
Programming noteTo clear up persistent confusion, we’ve gone ahead and rechristened this blog. In the beginning, there was a daily column called...
John Manley is not running for the Liberal leadershipThis has been another instalment of Things That Won’t Surprise You At All.
Dept. of 20-20 hindsightI asked this already, in the comments to another post, but it’s been nagging at me: Why did the Conservatives spend two years...
Asymmetric warfare on the St. Maurice, 1640— Jesuit Relations XXII (1640), 307. Quoted by Harold Innis in The Fur Trade In Canada . Reading this account of the early years...
Committee business – Maybe thirteen isn’t such an unlucky number after all.As first rumoured right here on ITQ, and reported today by the Globe and Mail , the Conservatives are plunging ahead with their...