Cambridge

Chris’ Picks

Former Liberal MPs are the new investigative reporters. Apparently.

In what should have been a press conference on the status of his healthcare reform package, Barack Obama strayed from his usual habit of staying on message and waded in on the controversy surrounding renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his arrest by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police outside his own home last week. No one was surprised that the question came up in the hour-long media conference and the president evidently had a point of view. Obama’s statement that the police acted “stupidly” in handcuffing the professor, a 57 year old man with a cane, has done much more than anything else to give the story legs.

Sadly, ITQ was not able to hitch the last train to Cambridge in order to be there to liveblog the stimultastic spectacular set to get underway later this morning, so she’ll just have to watch it on television like everyone else. Including, as far as we can tell, the finance minister, which seems odd, since it is his report after all.

Meet John K. Bell. He’s the Cambridge businessman who asked Michael Ignatieff a question yesterday that prompted an answer that may or may not be the single most controversial thing any Canadian politician in recorded history has ever said.

The Iggy tour of Southwestern Ontario continues. Hamilton! Kent Bridge! Chatham! Brantford! Waterloo! Cambridge!