GeneralJack Layton knows the purr pointsNDP leader Jack Layton and his MP wife Olivia Chow adopted a black cat named George, who was previously owned by Chow’s former...
Ottawa’United, however fleetingly, in framing a joint future’Using the example of Gordon Brown, the Telegraph’s Mary Riddell explains how even the least mesmerizing of leaders—see all of...
OttawaChange envyObama causes 47 per cent of Canadians to feel disappointed with their political options
OttawaTed Menzies will not be silencedThe lo-fi, but immensely helpful, HowdTheyVote.ca appears to have been updated through the current sitting of Parliament. The most...
Ottawa’Assuage the bitterness’Interesting point from a New York Times story on whether Barack Obama’s arrival will change the debate in Washington. "It’s...
OttawaLet he who is ’democratically legitimate’ cast the first stoneIn regards to Richard Van Loon’s piece in today’s Citizen, as discussed by our Potter, one question that I would quite sincerely...
GeneralA very NDP ChristmasFormer NDP MPs Bill Blaikie and Alexa McDonough returned to the Hill for the NDP Christmas party in 200 West Block. Both were...
OttawaWhat they’re thinking on Queen Street and what to make of it allIn Toronto for the weekend and picked up the current issue of Now magazine. It is very—and very explicitly —in favour of the...
OttawaThe least welcome of bulletinsWhenever a Canadian soldier dies overseas, a series of press releases go out over the gallery wire—official statements of...
GeneralTwo leaders at Press Gallery dinner and no speechesOnly two party leaders—Jack Layton and Elizabeth May—showed up at the 2008 Press Gallery dinner this year. Neither gave a...