Maclean's Politics

In my column for the latest issue of Maclean ’s, I write about the uproar over the Senate that began with Mac Harb and Patrick...

So Peter Kent and Vic Toews are out and Michelle Rempel and Chris Alexander are in. So what exactly? Will this new cabinet now...

So it turns out Stephen Harper really did write a book about hockey, and it really is going to be published. Although, given the...

John Geddes on the makings of an ambitious, and potentially expensive, Liberal platform

At his going-away party in March, Kevin Page, the first and so far only parliamentary budget officer (PBO), was presented by his...

Parliamentary budget officer Jean-Denis Frechette is not Kevin Page. “I am who I am,” he says. “I’m Jean-Denis...

John Geddes (Ottawa bureau chief) and Econowatch bloggers Erica Alini and Stephen Gordon discuss the debate around the Canada Jobs...

With the Prime Minister asking to prorogue Parliament until October, we provide answers to all of the questions you might have. So...

You don’t normally look to Question Period, the daily yelling match in the House of Commons, if you want to see politicians at...

Here’s a discussion of the big decisions, intimately linked, facing two leaders: Barack Obama’s coming yay-or-nay on the fate of...