OttawaBTC: Democracy is hardAfter each debate last week someone would ask me who I thought "won" and I would say what I honestly believed to be true: "I have...
OttawaBUMPED AND UPDATED: A gentle suggestion to our nation’s fine political bloggersUPDATE: This is the posting where I invited Inkless readers and bloggers across the country to post their accounts of local...
OttawaBTC: Boutros Boutros-Ghali!Pierre Trudeau! Jacques Chirac! Marcel Proust! Christian Dior! The president of Harvard! The guy who founded the modern Olympic...
OttawaThe only thing they have to fearI didn’t care much for Stephen Harper’s accusation, earlier in the campaign, that the opposition were cheering for a recession...
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...
OttawaHow much does a war cost, anyway?Find out on Thursday, when the Parliamentary Budget Officer makes his debut with a detailed cost accounting of Canada’s...
OttawaNo! Not the dreaded Operation Hey, Pull My Finger!Secret Conservative memo somehow finds its way into reporters’ hands blah blah blahzzzzzsssnarf... — Right Side Up , p. 207
OttawaTories: Economic union by 2010The Conservative platform is mostly a damp squib, more or less by design. Or at any rate they’re trapped: if they were to put...
OttawaBTC: He was for Europeans before he was against themEurope. Not worth the risk . Just ask Stephen Harper. *** "The trip to Poland this year was my first. I had a number of very...
OttawaA note on the stakes"Never will an election have posed to Canadians so starking choice." — S. Dion, in North Bay tonight