How did Patrick Brazeau rate a seat in the Senate?
Removed from this week’s news, it’s a question worth asking
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PM Stephen Harper — a.k.a. Mr. Canada — and the power of symbols
Behind the PM’s new focus on history and heritage
2012 on Parliament Hill: John Geddes sums up a year in 12 chapters
A search for coherence at the closing of the year
Idle No More: more than protest is needed for progress
Theresa Spence wants to meet with the PM. But for what?
More questions about the PM’s well-connected chief of staff
Former private equity bigwig Nigel Wright gets lobbied despite ethical ’screen’—again
Time for premiers to step into void
Provinces must lead on economic as well as social policy
Three reasons Stephen Harper is going easy on Thomas Mulcair
Apart from some Conservative sass-talking, the NDP leader rises unhindered. Why? Paul Wells has theories
It’s Harper vs. Europe at the G20
What’s behind Stephen Harper’s refusal to pay into an European bailout fund? John Geddes explains
About those pandas: a modest alternative proposal
To reject outright China’s generous offer of exotic creatures for public display would be unwise, of course
[UPDATED] Black History Month, and the Canadian at Lincoln’s deathbed
A few years back I came upon one of those historical footnotes that gets you thinking: after Abraham Lincoln was shot on April...