OttawaThe Commons: Sound and fury signifying a lack of anything"It is like a skit out of Monty Python, except it is not funny"
Ottawa’Rubbish’For those of you scoring at home, last night’s report of merger talks by unspecified "insiders" is now being roundly , soundly and...
OttawaDemocracy is in the eye of the beholder (II)Both today and yesterday the Conservatives sent up a dutiful backbencher to express fear and outrage at the prospect of a...
OttawaThe Commons: Struggling to swim in their own reflecting pool"Didn’t anyone in government think that a $2 million, 72-hour fake lake to host a meeting on fiscal restraint was a bad idea?"
OttawaThe endless feedback loopJack Layton, asked during a post-QP scrum yesterday, comments on recent government moves in response to the likes of Graham James...
OttawaJack Layton goes to townThe Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual general meeting this weekend will hear from all three leaders of the national...
OttawaFrom the ground upGlenn Wheeler argues that any future Liberal-NDP coalition will have to be driven by party rank-and-file.
OttawaThe new consensusLast week, Michael Ignatieff said the auditor general and the Board of Internal Economy should discuss their differences over an...
Ottawa’This is not the hill you want to die on, for God’s sake’Jim Prentice says there’s no need to have the auditor general review MP expenses. Jack Layton’s spokesman says it doesn’t make...
GeneralMitchel Raphael on who Laureen Harper got Paul Gross to call and dancing SenatorsPeter Milliken’s ’luxury’ lodgings, Rona Ambrose hears bad news about her shoes, and Where were all the MPs?