UncategorizedThis will not end wellThe Auditor General wants to see MP expense reports. Sheila Fraser began preliminary talks with the House of Commons and Senate...
Uncategorized’One step ahead of the chimps’Amy Langstaff writes to defend the honour of honourable heckling. It is not an excess of heckling that is undermining...
Uncategorized’If he chooses to mislead the public, he can expect strenuous, factual resistance’The Toronto Star checks the Prime Minister’s statements in the House last week. Stephen Harper is welcome to tell the 350,000...
Uncategorized’I thought of Uruguay’Nicola Ross reviews Elizabeth May’s Losing Confidence. The tone of May’s warning will make staid Canadians who have faith in the...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ’Why do you hate ShamWow?’The Liberals, Bloc and NDP gang up on the Conservatives over employment insurance
UncategorizedA moment to say nice things (II)Question Period does not always lend itself to the most flattering impressions of our elected representatives—and the action...
GeneralWhy every day is amateur hour in the HouseTo call question period a zoo would be an insult to the relative civility of wild animals
UncategorizedWe are smart enoughLee Prokaska considers those ads. The root of the issue is not which party is worse regarding attack ads. It is, rather, a matter...
UncategorizedA moment to say nice thingsOur little pamphlet celebrated the parliamentarians of the year last night—and the written testaments to each MP’s excellence...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Twelve-hundred daysHarper, newly engaged, unleashes attack ads and a warning: "That honeymoon is over"