Question Period LiveJustin Trudeau’s first QP as prime ministerThe new House, full of Liberal rookies and veterans alike, is an awkward, beautiful expression of democracy
OttawaThe Throne Speech and the ambitious politics of Justin TrudeauJustin Trudeau has set himself up to be defined by his ambitions. The flip side of that could doom him. Aaron Wherry on change’s possibility
OttawaA new Speaker of the House for a new kind of Parliament?Geoff Regan is now the Speaker of the House. What impact will he have—or can he have—on how parliamentary work is done?
PoliticsA reboot proposal for Canada’s ParliamentA new report from the Public Policy Forum points to a better way to run Canada’s legislatures
OttawaFarewell to the House of Commons: Last words from departing MPsA collection of final remarks from some of the 55 members of Parliament who will not be running for re-election
PoliticsIrwin Cotler’s perfect endingLiberal MP Irwin Cotler uses his second last day in the House of Commons to uphold ’the vitality of our democracy’
PoliticsThe Lamented Parliament: Further readingThe foundational texts for the most-lamented era in our Parliament’s history
Question Period LiveOttawa readies itself for the 2015 election campaignStephen Harper and Tom Mulcair battle one last time before the election that could seal their fates
PoliticsThe House votes for (some vague notion of) freedom!MPs vote to endorse their own freedom, or at least some undefined and non-binding notion of freedom
PoliticsNDP MPs pose with a pile of paper, for democracyNDP MPs pose with a stack of paper to protest the government’s use of time allocation to limit debate in the House of Commons