UncategorizedThe Commons: Wait for the bookOh what insights Peter Van Loan might one day bestow upon us The Scene. Down south, where political reputations are taken quite...
GeneralWinning the hearts and minds with incompetenceI was watching Andrew on At Issue last night when something Peter Mansbridge said struck me. I’m paraphrasing, but Mansbridge...
UncategorizedBTC: Say goodnight, Boo Boo (Day Two)The latest on the misplaced dossier from the Globe. "Many relatively routine documents get stamped classified inside the...
UncategorizedThe Commons: The ghosts of statesmen pastJoe Clark gets his portrait, Maxime Bernier is merely hanged The Scene. Not that anyone expected to see him within a kilometer of...
GeneralThey still love him in the Beauce, we hearMust-reads: Jonathan Kay on racist child services policies; Rosie DiManno on opium-addicted Afghan children. The end of an error...
GeneralBye bye, BrodieMust-reads: Christie Blatchford on blowing up a perfectly good native fishery; John Robson vs. the anti-Monarchists; Dan Gardner...
UncategorizedBTC: John McCain will (would) take your questionsLate last week, a reader pointed out that the Republican nominee for president has mused openly of submitting himself to something...
UncategorizedTwo speechesHas it been a week already since Stéphane Dion announced his plan to save the planet? Indeed it has, almost . Not that he...
UncategorizedDion discovers Quebec again for the first timeThe Liberal leader presses the flesh in Sherbrooke. Aggressively. Today, 6:15 p.m.: Fundraising dinner. Not for him, but for...
UncategorizedBTC: Where can I find this magical place you speak of?Here is the first sentence of the John McCain profile that appeared in the New York Times Magazine this weekend. I dare say I...