OttawaSitting down for accountabilityDuring QP this afternoon, the opposition directed five questions at Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis during QP in...
OttawaThe Commons: There once was a woman from Montreal"The question she wants answered is, ’What about my priorities? When am I going to matter?’"
OttawaThe Backbench Top TenOur weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime...
OttawaWhat of ministerial accountability?In light of revelations that an aide to Christian Paradis meddled in access to information requests, that aide’s subsequent...
OttawaThe language warNot in Ottawa today, and thus couldn’t witness the poetry of Question Period firsthand, but perhaps the transcript speaks for...
OttawaThe House of Commons is profoundly sad at Maclean’sThis evening the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion expressing its profound sadness at this magazine. The following is...
OttawaStanding up to imagined tyrannyYesterday’s House debate on the census starts here . The following is the first government interjection and the response from...
OttawaMake your own CommonsNo sketch today on account of commitments elsewhere. In lieu, here is today’s exchanges between Marlene Jennings and Carolyn...
OttawaThe Commons: Vic Toews makes a funnyIn fairness to Toews, it must be hard to explain why thousands of dollars were spent on glow sticks
OttawaThe good ole daysNeil Reynolds pines for the days when our politicians were (likening female colleagues to prostitutes?) wittier. Whatever your...