GeneralBailouts now, damn the consequencesWhen you’re standing in the midst of an economic storm, it’s hard to see more than a few feet in front of you. The actions...
GeneralMegapundit: "Bob Rae chaos theory"Must-reads: John Robson on our "disgusting" politics; Don Martin on the Dion interview; Chantal Hébert on Harper’s Quebec...
UncategorizedTough talkThere was a darkening in Stephen Harper’s rhetoric today. The line that popped in his speech to a rally in Winnipeg early this...
OttawaNot quite the conflagration we’d been banking onI realize this will spoil a really great panic the opposition / press have worked themselves into, but... Canada’s economy...
GeneralMegapundit: We Ontarians aren’t all smiles and sunshine, Mr. HarperMust-reads : Jonathan Kay on Man on Wire ; Andrew Cohen on the end of politics; John Ivison on Stéphane Dion’s...
GeneralMegapundit: The free market is dead. Long live whatever comes next.WEEKEND ROUNDUP Must-reads: Rex Murphy on our crummy debates; Chantal Hébert on the economy as non-issue; George Jonas on...
GeneralMegapundit: Defending the indefensible—with a smileMust-reads: James Travers in Nova Scotia; Christie Blatchford on Julie Couillard; Jeffrey Simpson on the debate. What debate were...
UncategorizedWhat would Galbraith do?I keep thinking about what John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) would have had to say about the financial markets meltdown. In his...
General"Capitalism as we know it will be wiped out"Since the economic crisis kicked into high gear this month, many pundits have tried to convey how serious it is by describing it...
OttawaOn the issues: The economyIs Canada’s economic consensus fracturing? Stephen Harper wouldn’t be much of a politician if he didn’t desire a majority...