UncategorizedBTC: Back to you, Mr. BernierThe former foreign affairs minister, in a statement , yesterday. "Last Monday, I informed the prime minister of my resignation as...
GeneralIs that a prosthetic device, or...Talking of bugs in the bed, Couillard’s story is not that implausible. Apparently the Mounties did just the same to Gerda...
GeneralUndercovers agentIn all the hoo-haw over the Bedbug affair (incidentally, talk about burying the lede: this Toronto Star story doesn’t get around...
GeneralThe amnesiac, the control freak, and the ’woman scorned’Must-reads: Christie Blatchford on the National Day of Action; Lawrence Martin on Maxime Bernier; Greg Weston on the Olympic...
UncategorizedBTC: Say goodnight, Boo Boo (Day Three)Not to dwell unnecessarily on this question of timing , but compare these two sentences. First, from Mr. Bernier’s statement...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Wait for the bookOh what insights Peter Van Loan might one day bestow upon us The Scene. Down south, where political reputations are taken quite...
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: Who, what, when and so onSo back once more to the morning’s Globe story and the assertion that Maxime Bernier tried to resign Monday morning, but was made...
GeneralMs. Munsinger, we presume?Must-reads: Christie Blatchford and Chantal Hébert on the leave-behind scandal; Dan Gardner on perfectly safe pesticides; Rosie...