The decline and fall of Canadian democracyI’ve seen this graph in a couple of places, but as someone sent it to me I’ll post it here. It combines falling turnout with...
MUSIC: The Beethoven intervention: Which Beethoven symphonies should you get?I wrote about Beethoven earlier today — Thursdays are slow around here, and I’m trying to get the election out of my head, and...
The Green Shift that might have beenThe instant, universal wisdom after the election -- the more instant, the more universal, as always -- was that the Green Shift...
Dept. of peripherally campaign-related things we’ve been talking aboutFrom a long column on Barack Obama, which for our purposes you can mostly ignore: We were talking about this thing only this...
BTC: Optimism alertFrom the Globe’s Adam Radwanski . "As it sinks in that minority parliaments are more than just a blip on the radar, Canadians may...
And for all you parliamentrivia nuts out there ...... who may, like ITQ, already be bored by all things shuffleological , here’s an equally fascinating, if far less frequently...
On today’s "explosive" Liberal caucus meetingIt wasn’t explosive. Here’s a memory from that distant golden time, i.e. this morning, when some people expected it to be...
The Paul Martin legacy band and travelling liquidity roadshowIt is good to see it being acknowledged that this business of convening the heads of government of, say, 20-ish countries to put...
Lawrence Cannon is the new Jim Prentice? The Official ITQ Cabinet Shuffle Speculation ThreadIf David Akin is right - and he is, more often than not - this will, at least, be a mercifully short round of the traditional...
BTC: Principles and prudence will you get you nowhere, sirFor those of you still keeping score, Stephane Dion’s new biggest mistake was refusing to bankrupt the Liberal party in the...