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Will there be an investigation into Harper’s muzzling of federal scientists?
OTTAWA – The federal information commissioner is being asked to investigate the suppression of scientific information by the Harper government.
Canada is a ‘petro state,’ thanks to heavy oil and gas lobbying: Polaris study
OTTAWA – A new study reveals heavy lobbying by the oil and gas industry has far outstripped any other interest group seeking to influence the Harper government over the last four years.
Lessons learned from the F-35 acquisition debacle
Defense expert Philippe Lagassé explains what the AG report means for the government, DND and public works
Tory operatives, to the brainstormery!
FESCHUK: Subverting voters won’t be so easy in 2015. Maybe that’s why the PM has been practising hypnosis.
Politics all the way down
COYNE: Stop crediting the Tories with scruples they show no sign of possessing
Two appendices to ‘The coming Tory majority’
My story for print Maclean’s on Conservative fortunes in provincial politics is now on the web. As is often the case, I had help with the story from lots of people who didn’t make it into the finished version, and gathered information and had thoughts that didn’t quite fit.
The coming Tory majority
Conservatives could rule more than half the country by next fall. What’s behind the blue surge.
Coyne v. Wells: Canada’s place in the world
Is the Harper government’s recent foreign policy record a sign that it has lost its way?
Does Harper have a plan?
WELLS & COYNE debate Stephen Harper’s political record, and how the PM will go down in history
Harper is on to something in cutting aid
POTTER: “A rare case of Tory ideology actually aligning itself with sound public policy”
Are we really soft on crime?
The Tories prefer tough talk to hard proof on punishment
Fixed-election fraud
Today would have been election day in Canada—and that could have had perverse consequences