UncategorizedThe Commons: In ReviewThe best, worst and merely laughable of the recently completed Parliamentary session The Scene. Late last week, at the press...
UncategorizedThe Commons: The Prime Minister gets all hot and botheredHelpfully, Peter Van Loan cools him off with a glass of water The Scene. Someone somewhere the other day was lamenting the Prime...
GeneralWinning the hearts and minds with incompetenceI was watching Andrew on At Issue last night when something Peter Mansbridge said struck me. I’m paraphrasing, but Mansbridge...
UncategorizedBTC: Say goodnight, Boo Boo(This post will be updated below. Last updated at 2:40am.) The popular guess among the dozen or so reporters gathered in the foyer...
UncategorizedFight boredom with Korean dance: ToriesThis week Josée Verner and Stephen Harper gave $25,000 of YOUR tax dollars to the Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada, a...
UncategorizedBTC: The Conservatives mock hip-hop because they careOur Mr. Wells has posted a list of all the arts organizations that the government foisted funding upon the other day. One of those...
UncategorizedIt’s a great day for Korean danceFor those who were wondering, here’s the list of 16 arts organizations Josée Verner gave funding to yesterday. UPDATE: This blog...
UncategorizedAnd Josée Verner discovers TorontoThe minister of Canadian Heritage -- for that is indeed what she is, and we forget so easily, yet we mustn’t -- will be at the...
GeneralActually, it’s not that obscure ...... and it’s no more of a throwback to 18th-century Britain than any other parliamentary privilege enjoyed by Canadian MPs: Given...