OttawaDemocracy is in the eye of the beholder (II)Both today and yesterday the Conservatives sent up a dutiful backbencher to express fear and outrage at the prospect of a...
Ottawa’So misinformed’In this new era of ministerial accountability, Senator James Cowan wrote to the Prime Minister last week to lament that...
OttawaThe Backbench Top TenOur weekly, and wholly arbitrary, ranking of the ten most worthy, or at least entertaining, MPs, excluding the Prime...
OttawaThis week has three sketchesOur weekly look back at all we saw and heard. Tuesday. In search of loose change Wednesday. Anatomy of an outrage Thursday. Aboard...
OttawaThe Commons: Aboard this tiny shipOn the G8 bill: a vintage steamboat with a $400,000 price tag
OttawaThe courage of your convictionsEmployment with the government apparently now requires that one is an able player of hide-and-seek.
OttawaThe fluid nature of democracyIn Britain to visit the new coalition prime minister, Stephen Harper offers his interpretation of what the Westminster system, and...
Ottawa’This is a watershed moment’The text of yesterday’s post-QP debate —previously referenced here —on the parameters of humanity is now online.
Ottawa’Well, I have my job to do, you have your job to do.’This was, by his telling to me, what John Baird told Paul Szabo, chair of the ethics committee, upon turning up uninvited at a...