UncategorizedSpending powerlessHere at the sprawling Maclean’s Ottawa nerve centre, we sometimes while away the hours asking one another whatever happened to...
UncategorizedLiberals(photo: La Presse) The Ontario and Quebec premiers and their cabinets met today in Quebec City. Their topic was a carbon...
UncategorizedBTC: Say goodnight, Boo Boo (Day Two)The latest on the misplaced dossier from the Globe. "Many relatively routine documents get stamped classified inside the...
GeneralDebunking the crucifix mythHere ’s L. Ian MacDonald in today’s Gazette on the Bouchard-Taylor commission’s recommendation to take the crucifix out of the...
GeneralCrisis? What crisis? (Oh, that crisis.)"I don’t know many societies in the world where we could have had this type of exercise on such explosive subjects in such a...
UncategorizedReasonable accommodations, free parkingMarty’s post on the Bouchard-Taylor leak fiasco got me thinking, yet again, about what a peculiar beast the Bouchard-Taylor...
UncategorizedLa place to be, apparentlyI’ve been away and haven’t kept pace with Ottawa’s rhythms. (It seemed reasonable to assume Ottawa doesn’t have any rhythms.) On...
UncategorizedTerre de nos aïeuxWhen lecturing others on history it is almost always a good idea to read some first. This morning’s Le Devoir is topped by this...
UncategorizedADQ for the NDP!It’s true. Well, "polling true" anyway, and that sometimes resembles real-life truth: according to today’s big CROP poll...
UncategorizedQuebec: On s’expliqueOur ITQ blogger wonders why the decline of support for Dumont could be good for Stephen Harper, since the same guy who’s making...