Jim Abbott

It would seem that Conservative members of the special committee on Afghanistan failed to show up for today’s 4pm meeting. Here is...

The Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians held a dinner in the Fairmont Château Laurier ballroom. Below, former Reform...

The MPs report on their summer vacations and try out some new put-downs

The Associated Press explains why things got so shovey and grabby, and recalls last year’s sledgehammer incident. The Guardian...

Ezra Levant held the Ottawa launch of his new book, Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human...

Glen Pearson goes on the television . I was pulled out of the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday to appear on “Politics” with...

Jim Abbott is up now defending Tim Uppal’s right to impugn the character of Michael Ignatieff. Mr. Abbott is trying to explain the...

Well, huh. How about that? Apparently, my entirely uninformed theorizing on what might have gone so horribly wrong in Surrey last...

The government has just released the new House seating plan. John Baird’s new seatmate is Jason Kenney (nice of them to stick two...

And other news from a fine day for democracy The Scene. Emerging from the House after Question Period, Michael Ignatieff shuffled...