OttawaSummer school for scandal - An ITQ refresher course on in-and-out (and why it matters)With just hours to go before the Ethics committee kicks off its eleven-months-in-the-making investigation into the Conservative in...
GeneralShuffleufagus: Oh, fine ...I swore I wouldn’t do it, but the peer pressure has gotten to me. Predictions after the jump: Jim Prentice: Minister of Quiet...
UncategorizedBTC: Fantasy baseballBack when Maxime Bernier took his leave, there was much hueing and crying about the Prime Minister’s promoting an...
UncategorizedBTC: Seen and heardOut for a walk along Elgin St. in Ottawa on Saturday and came across Pierre Poilievre, dressed in a sensible blue shirt and less...
UncategorizedWeekend Notes (Vol. 1, No. 19)In the print edition this week there are two pages under this byline on the enigmatic Peter Van Loan, thus marking the 376th time...
GeneralMegapundit: Take that, Telecom Trotskyites!Must-reads: Colby Cosh on science vs. big pharma; Susan Riley on the residential schools apology; Dan Gardner on an oil price...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Way to go, SkippyAnd so the day of apology begets its own apology The Scene. It couldn’t last. Or at least we knew it wouldn’t last. And, in some...
GeneralHaven’t I seen you somewhere before, Gary Goodyear? Liveblogging the Ethics committee Again. Forever.It’s only been two days since the threatened all-night Ethics filibuster came to a confusing and cranky temporary halt, but it...
GeneralPierre Poilievre shows his empathy for residential school survivorsAfter an introductory ramble from CFRA host Steve Madley, who muses that "we could go and argue whether [assimilation] was the...
GeneralSo this is it - the final countdown? - Liveblogging the Ethics committee debate on Conservatives’ in and out ad scheme3:24:55 PM Signs That Are Not All That Promising: You walk into committee, and the first thing you hear is one clerk telling...