UncategorizedBTC: The truth of Pierre Poilievre—revealed!As noted here at various points, the opposition Liberals don’t tend to take Pierre Poilievre very seriously. But, lo and...
UncategorizedWeekend Notes (Vol. 1, No. 16)After the Globe reported this week that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were reaching out to members of the Taliban, Defence...
UncategorizedBTC: Reality bitesSo last Sunday, CBC asked Pierre Poilievre to come on the air and explain his party’s opinion of the in-and-out controversy. I...
UncategorizedThe Commons: A wee battleSmilin’ Jim Flaherty and Squeaky Omar Alghabra have at it in a rhetorical smackdown The Scene. Perhaps because they are both...
UncategorizedBTC: Remember when the National Post doggedly pursued allegations of government wrongdoing?Funny. Just yesterday the government was publicly lauding the work of former Post reporter Andrew McIntosh. He left some years ago...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ‘A bit of respect, please’If this government has demonstrated anything, it is that it has little interest in being taken seriously The Scene. Michael...
UncategorizedBTC: Prime Ministerial lawsuit watchUh oh. While Gilles Duceppe rarely disappoints when he ventures into English, his response to a reporter’s question this afternoon...
UncategorizedBTC: Conservative contention of the day"In fact," Stephen Harper said yesterday, making a cameo at Question Period, "the Conservative Party of Canada has never refused...
GeneralHoosiers, starring Barack ObamaMust-reads: Dan Gardner on tobacco advertising; Thomas Walkom on our elusive recession; John Ivison on equalization. Land of...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ‘In the kingdom of hypocrisy, the Prime Minister is king’The second day of the Pierre Poilievre era goes about as smoothly as the first The Scene. That Dion fellow, in case you were...