Ottawa’To them I say: rise above petty politics’The Finance Minister is, at this moment, delivering the following speech to an audience at the Chateau Laurier. That sound you...
OttawaAt the risk of applying logic to the PM’s latest fixation (UPDATED)Stephen Harper has developed some obscure sort of Tourette’s or something that makes him blurt out warnings about a coalition...
OttawaThey are conspiring as we speakMore from the Prime Minister’s swing through southwestern Ontario.
OttawaWhere were we?A coalition government was last a tangible possibility some 21 months ago. In early December 2008, with the drama at its...
OttawaThe new drinking gameThe PM’s pitch to Quebec sounds a lot like his pitch to Ajax, which sounds a lot like his pitch to southern Ontario
OttawaThis new era of smaller governmentUnnoticed in Mr. Harper’s shuffling of cabinet earlier this month was this: by leaving the title of minister of state for status...
Ottawa’The one exception is Canada’In light of the Australian result, Patrick Dunleavy with the London School of Economics surveys the world’s major Westminster...
OttawaAustralian algebraHowever loopy matters were here in the early winter of December 2008 , we can now look with some pity upon the Australians, they...
OttawaBrave new worldThe Czech Republic is expected to soon be ruled by a coalition of "losers." Slovakia seems likely to follow . Belgium’s next...