OttawaThe Backbench Top TenAfter a week off to accommodate all that thinking in Montreal, here is the return of our weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of...
GeneralMaclean’s Interview: Bernice PackfordThe 95-year-old on why she wants to kill herself, despite being healthy, and why she thinks a doctor should be allowed to help
UncategorizedThe Backbench Top TenOur weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs
Uncategorized’My bill has a specific objective’For those at all intrigued by last night’s sketch , the full debate on Francine Lalonde’s bill begins here in yesterday’s Hansard.
UncategorizedThe Commons: ‘This is not an easy issue’Francine Lalonde: "We should not refuse them the right to die with dignity"
UncategorizedThe Commons: ’Will they stop already?’Stories are changing, but not the Prime Minister’s
UncategorizedWhat they said (III)On April 23, 2007, the Globe reported what it had learned from interviews with 30 detainees. Two days later, the paper revealed...
UncategorizedWhat they said (II)In the first few months of 2007, the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan was discussed during 14 sessions of Question Period:...
UncategorizedWhat they saidRichard Colvin testified that he and his colleagues in the field began informing Ottawa about the treatment of detainees in May...
UncategorizedThe right to dieConservative MP Steven Fletcher says Francine Lalonde’s bill on euthanasia is flawed, but the idea needs to be properly...