UncategorizedIt depends... (IV)Scene: After Question Period today, a meddlesome reporter tries to get Pierre Poilievre to explain how many jobs the government...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ’When will it stop?’Ignatieff on Lisa Raitt: ’When will the minister cease to be distracted and begin doing her job?’
UncategorizedThe Commons: So much to answer forFrom the deficit to asset review to Canada Pension, all arrows were aimed at Flaherty
UncategorizedWhen keeping it partisan goes wrong (V)Marlene Jennings’ statement before QP today. Hon. Marlene Jennings (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, last...
UncategorizedWhen keeping it partisan goes wrong (IV)For what it’s worth, Marlene Jennings, the lone black MP in the current parliament, would prefer you avoid using the term entirely...
UncategorizedWhen keeping it partisan goes wrong (III)John Baird defends his protege. With irony. Transport Minister John Baird, who is also from Nepean, called the Citizen to defend...
UncategorizedPrime Minister Hulk HoganWhile everyone’s contemplating the etymology of various Br’er Rabbit references, note the phrase Pierre Poilievre used immediately...
UncategorizedWhen keeping it partisan goes wrong (II)"I don’t think I should have used that word and I was wrong to do it.” —John McCain, March 16, 2007 . "Mr. Speaker, that...
UncategorizedWhen keeping it partisan goes wrongAs Kady notes , things apparently got a bit uncomfortable during QP this morning. Here’s the full extent of Mr. Poilievre’s...
OttawaUPDATED: The first -- and very possibly last -- ITQ post in solidarity, or at least commiseration, with Pierre Poilievre.A confession: ITQ, too, once laboured under the misapprehension that "tar baby" was actually a pithy, if anachronistic Southern...