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Brian Topp

Ottawa

Something we have lately taken to taking seriously

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is presently concerned with a study of "issues related to prorogation"...

Fixing the system

Starting with the premise that last December’s proroguing of Parliament was "entirely inappropriate, democratically illegitimate...

By-elections

It doesn’t help to parse these things too closely, although Brian Topp remains a champion on that front. By-elections could hardly...

To the extreme

Brian Topp, in conversation with Douglas Bell, considers what declining voter turnout means for our politics.

Old friends

Brian Topp assesses the future of relations between Stephen Harper and Jack Layton, and dishes a bit on the past. Follow the link...

BTC: Local v. national

Back during one of those heady days of mid-August when the ethics committee was sitting and Paul Szabo was slowly losing what...

BTC: The engagement gap

This week’s magazine piece on Jack Layton and the NDP led to a chat with Brian Topp, the party strategist who ran the last...