OttawaThe Commons: Seriously, Mr. Flaherty needs your helpThe Scene . The peanut gallery seemed to find the first full day of Canada’s 40th Parliament to be a bit of a bore. Which is to...
OttawaAs Paul says, please try to keep upJanuary 16: Ottawa turns down auto aid January 17: No bailout for Ford, Flaherty says February 29: Canada won’t bail out auto...
UncategorizedTelling truth to power, and to all of us, tooA neutral watchdog provides reliable data on an important issue. Better shut him down.
OttawaBTC: How much is that cabinet in the window?Canada’s new ministry is 37 strong. Twenty-four ministers. Twelve ministers of state. One government house leader. Ministers and...
GeneralMegapundit: Aftershocks from the blowback of the tsunamiMust-reads: Don Macpherson on Mario Dumont; Murray Campbell on how politicians shouldn’t deal with gun violence. Shuffling towards...
OttawaRandom observation of an RDI watcherJim Flaherty’s spoken French, while still shaky, has improved faster than, say, Jim Prentice’s.
OttawaBTC: Don’t panic"What Canadians are worried about right now is not the job situation, not losing their homes like in the U.S. What they’re worried...
OttawaVerbatim: Jim Flaherty, whom we have all missed latelyFrom the Inkless low-carbon anti-elitist Québécois-nation-friendly emailbox:
OttawaBTC: The undercardCBC just aired something of a supplementary debate on the economy. They’re calling it the X-Challenge , but let’s pretend they’re...