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In something of a surprise—at least to me as I sat in the gallery waiting for Francine Lalonde’s bill to be debated—the NDP...

Jack Layton will table the following motion tomorrow.

The opposition persists in its questions and the government insists on dismissing those queries

Mark Kingwell’s essay on political civility, to which I referred last week, is now online .

And now the debut of a new weekly feature here at Beyond the Commons: a wholly arbitrary ranking of the ten most worthy, or at...

Mark Kingwell has an essay about political civility in the new issue of the Walrus that I encourage you all to read—though it...

Our weekly look back at all we saw and heard. Monday. Adjust your cuffs and carry on Tuesday. ’I have the feeling that nothing...

The prepared text of Michael Ignatieff’s speech in reply to the Speech from the Throne.

The prepared text of the Prime Minister’s reply to the Speech from the Throne.

Well, not a ’public inquiry’ at least