Stockwell Day

Paul Wells: Spend enough time covering politics and you eventually deal with weapons-grade déjà vu. Case in point: Liberals warning about the public health system.

Tabatha Southey: Seriously, you could not do worse than Day—I’d take a committed nudist over Wetsuit Guy

With Maclean’s debate coming Aug. 6, here’s a look at how a misplaced prop or a perfect one-liner in a debate can affect fortunes—for better or worse

Thomas Mulcair joins the Conservatives in questioning Trudeau’s economic status

A few footnotes to the Trudeau imbroglio.

Elizabeth May suggests that, in the event of a by-election in Etobicoke Centre, the Greens and NDP should stand down to allow for a straightforward grudge match between Ted Opitz and Borys Wrzesnewskyj.

Whatever the impact of the attack ads run against him, one historical note on the challenge facing Thomas Mulcair. He will be attempting in 2015 to do something that most leaders of the opposition fail to do: lead their parties to a general election victory on their first try.

Columnist Richard Gwyn took home the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867–1891. The prize was awarded by the Writers’ Trust at the Politics and the Pen gala held in the ballroom of the Fairmont Château Laurier.

Stockwell Day, one of Mr. Toews’ predecessors at Public Safety, explains his position on C-30.

The government has tabled its online surveillance legislation, now dubbed the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act.”

Back in the fall of 2007, two very drunk men, who had previously been romantically involved, were arguing outside a Winnipeg bar. One shoved the other, who fell and hit his head on the pavement. Lyle Walker, 35, was reportedly able to stand up, but died a few days later from the injury. When the man who had pushed him went to trial, his lawyer and the Crown prosecutor agreed he shouldn’t go to prison. The judge accepted their joint recommendation, and Jeffrey James Bear, then 33, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 15-month conditional sentence.

MP’s big greek wedding