Samara

The Ottawa grind makes MPs feel ’hemmed in and scripted.’ They much prefer all the paperwork of constituency casework, says a new report

Parliamentary democracy may have reached its lowest ebb yet. But reform could be on its way. Really. Finally.

A new book explores the lives and frustrations of our MPs

What to make of the Dimitri Soudas controversy and a rough nomination season?

The author of the Neufeld report testifies on the Hill

When the PMO edited a Senate committee report

Sixty percent of us aren’t talking about it

New report shows how we ’get political’ between elections

Tom Clark, Alison Loat and I talk about Samara’s latest report and the state of Parliament.

Samara finds that 55% of Canadians are satisfied with the state of our democracy, 20 points lower than a similar survey in...