Belinda Stronach

Belinda Stronach has a new idea! Let’s take it seriously for a few minutes.

At this year’s Politics & the Pen gala, Anna Porter took home the $25 000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing for her book The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future. Below, Porter with House Leader John Baird.

Belinda Stronach calls for a roaming Parliament.

As someone who is employed for the expressed purposes of describing—”sketching,” as they say— the words, actions, behaviours and appearances of public figures, I am a keen student of community standards as they relate to physical description. And so, of course, I have been watching with great interest the discussion that has resulted from the printing and retracting of Stephen Marche’s description of Toronto mayoral candidate Rob Ford as “fat.”

Mercer and Stronach play with water guns (PHOTOS)

Large protests over civil rights violations at the G20 continue to happen in Toronto. Last week,  people “took back” the intersection of Queen and Spadina where riot police famously held people for hours in the rain. On July 17th, Canadians Advocating Political Participation (CAPP) have rallies planned in three cities – Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.

Why toilets matter more than teachers, MPs say it with hair, and The fake lake lives on

Frank Stronach’s big payout

Bowling for Haiti

And who flirted with Rosemary Thompson

This review of Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s romantic pursuits was slightly more entertaining when it appeared under its original headline, “Happy ending for the Love Tory.”

Why the Larry O’Brien trial might have politicians thinking twice about switching sides