OttawaDept. of peripherally campaign-related things we’ve been talking aboutFrom a long column on Barack Obama, which for our purposes you can mostly ignore: We were talking about this thing only this...
OttawaImporting some o’ that Canada-style right-wing politicsA few weeks before our recent election unpleasantness began, I had lunch in Ottawa with Reihan Salam and Ross Douthat, two young...
Ottawa"Sensible?" Surely you jestDoug Bell over at the Other Place sends two emails to Brian Topp, who sure doesn’t look 48, and gets two fascinating answers in...
OttawaIt’d be a new challengePresident of Montreal Board of Trade, who argued that Montreal must be represented in the Harper cabinet even though no...
OttawaCanada-EU free-trade: Here’s your briefing book. Don’t leave it somewhere.Highlights from the two-year (really-badly-)hidden agenda: • Joint communiqué from Canada’s prime minister and EU president...
OttawaCanada-EU free tradeNot so much . "Sarkozy and Harper will sign something vague that commits to nothing." What killed the momentum? The no-fixed-date...
OttawaThe Beginning After The EndHere’s the top of our Inside Story, the epic history of the 2008 federal election. The rest — six "chapters," plus an epilogue...
OttawaBring on the next election!I’ll be over here tonight, (small-) group liveblogging the Obama-McCain debate with a few colleagues, starting at 9. As for the...
GeneralWe did really well in another country somewhere"Ms. May r ejected suggestions that her campaign helped to elect more Conservative MPs. She said that if Canada allotted seats in...
OttawaHere’s a request. You’ll all be busy, but maybe sock this one away until February or something.CalgaryGrit on the new, more compact Liberal caucus: "The one bright spot in this is that it will be a small, but...