OttawaThe enduring allure of the written wordAnd so it turns out that the assistant who sent out Garry Breitkreuz’s colourful press release also wrote a letter to the editor...
Ottawa’This language is not me’In a press release distributed by his office earlier today, Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz was quoted as likening the Canadian...
OttawaHappiness is a warm, registered firearmMichael Ignatieff lays out the Liberal approach to crime
OttawaNeeded: a Parliament of rogues-- Jane Taber, in today’s Globe . No, no, no. This is exactly what’s wrong with so much coverage of politics. It is not "going...
UncategorizedFor it before he was against it, Easter editionFun facts. From 1892 to 2005, Canada had a solicitor general. From Oct. 2002 to Dec. 2003, Liberal Wayne Easter, as noted here...
Uncategorized’That was totally useless. Thank you.’Strolling casually around the House of Commons foyer yesterday, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan happens upon a group of...
UncategorizedFor it before he was against it (II)Two footnotes to that footnote, taken from a pair of subsequent stories Joan Bryden wrote for Southam. In the first, the future...
OttawaThe case against the gun registry I’d like to hearThe Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police put out a news release that makes the case—as they have many times—for the gun...
UncategorizedFor it before he was against itAn odd footnote to the gun registry debate that was pointed out to me last night: though he voted against it on third and final...
OttawaRecalling how police use the gun registry, and how very, very oftenLast spring, just after Prime Minister Stephen Harper revived scrapping the gun registry as a Conservative priority, I tried to...