NDP

Layton imagined Harper would be psyched to meet with him to discuss NDP priorities. It was adorable.

Young MPs will be under the microscope

Canadian politics didn’t strip him of everything. He remains a thinker.

Alice Funke questions the vote-split theories.

The existential crisis that is Ruth Ellen Brosseau’s election is captured here in four sentences.

Harper was tightly controlled, Ignatieff loose and freewheeling. Layton? Just a guy most Canadians would rather have a beer with.

This column is almost exactly five years old, hard to find online, and perhaps pertinent. I wrote it the week Parliament returned...

The likeliest route to a revival of the Bloc Québécois is a replay of those heady days in 1990

Brian Topp considers .

Dan Gardner considers .