Chris Selley
Is the Reform Act enough? Or is it too much?
More considerations of Michael Chong’s proposals
Thirty questions to ask before proceeding with the Reform Act
Michael Chong and the unraveling of the system
The Trudeau attack ad: Context and the Canadian Liver Foundation
Reaction to the Conservative party’s new ad
The Warawa Affair
What’s going on here? And where do we go from here?
Omnibus No More
Chris Selley points to one part of C-45, last year’s second budget implementation act.
Throwing the gun registry under the bus
Chris Selley mocks Justin Trudeau’s latest comments on the gun registry.
Fixing the system
Chris Selley calls for a move to a ranked ballot.
Laughing at them
Chris Selley isn’t impressed with the NDP’s web ad, but encourages mockery.
Talking to Omar Khadr
Michael Friscolanti’s exclusive story about Omar Khadr’s conversation with forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner is now online. Chris Selley reads it and considers.
One year later
Bruce Cheadle and Colin Horgan (more from Colin here) take in the commemoration of Jack Layton on Parliament Hill. Chris Selley considers.
Dancing around religion
Over the last two weeks, the odd debate about Stephen Harper’s religion has wandered off in various directions.
50 yards from Parliament Hill
I almost never disagree with Chris Selley. Indeed, I am almost willing to make it a rule not to disagree with Chris Selley. But his analysis yesterday of Brad Trost’s groping for more backbencher power in Parliament is uncharacteristically superficial. Selley celebrates Trost’s public ruminating over his inability to spurn the party whip on polarizing issues; wouldn’t it be nice, he asks, if we had a Conservative Party more like the eclectic, dissent-tolerating one in old Westminster? Perhaps it would be. But there is an awkward plain fact staring us in the face.