OttawaWhat to call voters, besides Canadians?When I posted this yesterday on Stephen Harper’s appeal to immigrants and their children (and grandchildren, I suppose), I...
CanadaSuddenly average Canadian families are a top political prizeThe rush to secure the middle class vote
GeneralWant Harper to be less of a dictator? Give him a majority.Five years of tory minority rule have been a drunkard’s walk of vote-buying and bed-feathering
OttawaLayton’s versionTwo questions remain for Stephen Harper to answer. But to this and this and this , you can add what Jack Layton wrote five years...
OttawaThe Commons: Rave-upThe circular amphitheatre, used in other circumstances by a circus school, was bathed in red light. A muscular DJ spun pounding...
OttawaHarper’s first stop in suburban, heavily ethnic territory [UPDATED from his second]The biggest ovation Stephen Harper earned at his rally in Brampton, Ont. this morning didn’t come when he issued one of his grim...
UncategorizedCoalition matters: the Coshist talking pointsColby Cosh on why the Conservatives’ indignation over deals with the Bloc and the NDP is insincere
OttawaThe ’04 leaders debateMr. Harper says the Conservative party "allowed" Mr. Martin to govern after the 2004 election. Mr. Duceppe says what Mr. Harper...
OttawaGilles Duceppe, federalist hardliner"Mr. Duceppe clarified that he, too, would never be part of a formal coalition with the other parties, saying it would be...
OttawaThe Quebec appealMichael Ignatieff always has two speeches, the one in the prepared text and the one he delivers (while only periodically checking...