OttawaThe Backbench Top TenOur weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime...
OttawaThis week has three sketchesOur weekly look back at all we saw and heard. Tuesday. In search of loose change Wednesday. Anatomy of an outrage Thursday. Aboard...
OttawaThe Commons: Aboard this tiny shipOn the G8 bill: a vintage steamboat with a $400,000 price tag
OttawaThe courage of your convictionsEmployment with the government apparently now requires that one is an able player of hide-and-seek.
OttawaThe fluid nature of democracyIn Britain to visit the new coalition prime minister, Stephen Harper offers his interpretation of what the Westminster system, and...
Ottawa’This is a watershed moment’The text of yesterday’s post-QP debate —previously referenced here —on the parameters of humanity is now online.
Ottawa’Well, I have my job to do, you have your job to do.’This was, by his telling to me, what John Baird told Paul Szabo, chair of the ethics committee, upon turning up uninvited at a...
OttawaThe Commons: Anatomy of an outrageTo what extent should one be allowed to accuse another of evil?
OttawaYou can’t say that in ParliamentFor those of you keeping track, you can no longer refer to another MP as a "token Quebecer"—or a "token" anything for that...