Brigette DePape
Idle No More is a Christmas gift to us all
Brigitte DePape on an unexpected offering at the end of 2012
Dear Michael Moore: Leave Canada alone
The provocateur is still doing what he does best: weighing in on his nation’s big backyard
From rogue page to activist icon
Brigette DePape on the Power of Youth
The Commons: Humble brag
Across the street and behind a metal barricade, a young man in a bike helmet, holding a pink sign that read “contempt,” was yelling at Conservative delegates as they filed into the giant glass orb that is the Ottawa convention centre. He yelled about the G8 and the $50 million. He yelled about Bev Oda. He yelled about the defeated candidates now in the Senate. He yelled the word “mockery” more than a few times. Most of the delegates ignored him. Some smiled and laughed and waved.
When Senate pages attack
From his scrum after QP yesterday, Bob Rae suggests we not overreact—ANTHRAX!—to Brigette DePape’s breach of decorum.
‘Actions like these provide the answer to the Harper government’
Brigette DePape explains herself.
Throne speech protest spurs security review
Senate will re-examine hiring and background checks for parliamentary pages
Don’t get cocky
Mark Jarvis manages to take issue with both sides of the Brigette DePape debate.
‘We are taking this incident very seriously’
Senator David Tkachuk, chair of the Senate standing committee on internal economy, budgets and administration, rose in the Senate yesterday to offer his colleagues the following update on the rogue page situation.
Michael Moore offers DePape a job
American filmmaker urges Canadians to “bring out their inner hockey stick”
‘An iconic moment’
Michael Moore salutes Brigette DePape.
‘It offended her professional responsibilities’
Ned Franks considers the circumstances of the rogue Senate page.