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Senate

Ottawa

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The government that wants—on "principle"—to end the vote subsidy for political parties, finds a new way to use public funds...

Remaking the rules

Liberal critic Carolyn Bennett has apparently set off on a series of "democratic renewal" consultations. The workbook that is...

The red shift

Liberal senator Grant Mitchell contemplates the potential possibilities and pitfalls of senate reform.

How they do it

If senate reform is, as has been hinted, to be prominent in the government’s fall agenda, it is perhaps worth seriously...

The grab bag

Ned Franks takes on the blight of omnibus legislation. This could all be dismissed as somehow arcane, but, as noted a couple...

What goes on here

A day after a Conservative senator gleefully threatened an election over a legislative dispute, with the NDP leader " challenging...