UncategorizedRise of the Conservative-Socialist Coalition (Scene 2)From Bev Oda’s scrum after QP. Question: How come it took only one word from either Michael Ignatieff or Jack Layton who’s not...
UncategorizedRise of the Conservative-Socialist Coalition (Scene 1)From Question Period this afternoon. Hon. Jack Layton (Toronto—Danforth, NDP): Mr. Speaker, the Sri Lankan civil war is rapidly...
UncategorizedIgnatieff clears the Gardiner? (II)And now the official statement from the Liberal leader’s office. Yesterday, in collaboration with police and out of concern for...
UncategorizedLayton clears the Gardiner?The NDP writes to say their guy was working the phones for two-and-a-half hours last night, speaking with police officials and...
UncategorizedIgnatieff clears the Gardiner?Late news from Toronto. Up to 2000 protesters from the Tamil community say they are going to move off the Gardiner Expressway more...
OttawaCorrectionishThe RCMP now estimates today’s crowd to have numbered about 30,000. For the sake of comparison, a pro-coalition rally last...
OttawaThe Commons: "To all our parliamentarians, where are you?"While 30,000 Tamil supporters were protesting outside, the discussion in the House was of other matters entirely
OttawaWe are the world (III)Tamil protests continue downtown, though now on the sidewalks, safely out of the way of moving vehicles. Lawrence Cannon declines...
Ottawa’Nobody can claim the moral high ground’Glen Pearson blogs about recent committee hearings into the conflict in Sri Lanka. Recently, we were visited by two expert...
OttawaWe are the world (II)Tamil protesters were still occupying the intersection next to the Langevin Block when I left the Maclean’s office just now. Many...