OttawaThe UnCanadian Activities Committee (II)It is perhaps counter-productive to go round parsing the rhetoric of Pierre Poilievre, but counter-productive seems to be a bit of...
OttawaThe first draftAn inside account of two bewildering weeks in Ottawa—the product of more than a dozen interviews—is now online . It was...
OttawaIf I were an editorial cartoonist... looking at the spate of recent polls showing massive public hostility to the coalition and all its works, I’d sketch out the...
OttawaSeven days in 11 postsThursday, Nov. 27. The Commons: Gaming the system Friday, Nov. 28. Today in Parliament Friday, Nov. 28. The Commons: ’Sir, did you...
CanadaUPDATED: Canadians rally around—and against—the Liberal-NDP coalitionLetters from Calgary and Vancouver
GeneralWill this week in politics be good for democracy?After every election, with no knock-out punch landed, an appeal to vote-rich Ontario made, and the "most negative campaign in...
Ottawa’Democratic right’"And the Opposition does not have the democratic right to impose a coalition with the separatists they promised voters would never...
OttawaText of Jack Layton’s remarksMy fellow Canadians, tonight we are at a crossroads in our collective history. An economic storm unlike anything seen in a...