Ottawa

Our MPs are constantly clapping for each other. In the Mother Parliament, they don’t accept such nonsense.

Michael Chong challenges the Senate as the upper chamber a decision on the Reform Act

A man of bold suits and big knots fought his fights in the Commons

The text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks on the announcement that Justice Minister Peter MacKay will not seek re-election

Our Ottawa bureau parses MacKay’s exit speech, and the Prime Minister’s farewell

Like his father before him, MacKay showed how deferring to one’s superiors is a fantastic way of gaining and retaining power

Charlie Gillis on the risks and rewards of time spent on the sidelines

His romantic escapades captured the national imagination—yet his time in office was shadowed by a larger ’women problem’, writes Anne Kingston

With his roots in the hard-scrabble of ‎rural Nova Scotia politics, he was key in creating a Conservative party with Red Tory voices intact

The PC story may be drawing to a close, but that of the federal Conservatives is still being written, writes Aaron Wherry