OttawaPlay the blues and go: Farewell, Steve Harper, we barely knew ye!Inkless hopes to be on the Montreal-Ottawa train in an hour. Yes, I’m leaving the Harper tour, or it’s leaving me, eastward bound...
OttawaBTC: The meaning of Elizabeth MayOne of those bearded men was Daniel Breton , an NDP candidate in Quebec touted as a co-founder of the Parti Vert du...
OttawaBTC: Trend-spotting in MontrealThomas Mulcair rolls up to this morning’s announcement with four other men in suits... each sporting either a beard or goatee.
OttawaBTC: Bait and switchSome suggestion tonight at the bar that this story didn’t get enough attention, breaking late on Tuesday as it did. (One union...
OttawaBTC: ElitistsFrom an Ottawa Citizen story about Preston Manning and Carleton setting up a master’s program for politicians. "According to data...
OttawaBTC: Programming noteIn Montreal this evening to catch up with Jack Layton and the recently dubbed Kitchen Air . Reports from the road to follow.
OttawaBTC: Family is everything (VII)From Michael Valpy’s story of the curious greeting card. "Yet Mr. Arkin is gripped by a mystery: This week, a Rosh Hashanah card...
OttawaStephen Harper: It’s what’s for breakfast!The new, accessible Stephen Harper welcomed a pack of journalists over for breakfast in Scarborough this morning. Here’s what it...
GeneralCanadian politics just crackedOpen, I mean. A little. First the Bloc , then the NDP , and at last the Conservatives have buckled, and now the Greens are in the...
OttawaHey, why not make it six?Somehow, I doubt Elizabeth May - or, for that matter, any of the other leaders - would object to the opportunity to go after the...