UncategorizedThe Backbench Top TenAnd now the debut of a new weekly feature here at Beyond the Commons: a wholly arbitrary ranking of the ten most worthy, or at...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Huzzah, Mr. Ignatieff asks a question that is not entirely rhetoricalBut never let it be said Parliament is no place for a Ringo joke
GeneralMPs rally around autismTo mark World Autism Awareness Day, Senator Jim Munson (below, right), and several MPs held a reception for the Canadian ASD...
OttawaOur secretly Irish anthemThe Conservatives made a minor fuss today about the New Brunswick school principal who decided—a year ago, mind you—to stop...
Ottawa’It has a split personality, if I may say so’Michael Ignatieff rose at the end of yesterday’s brief debate to a standing ovation from his side and a smattering of applause...
OttawaThe Commons: The mild voice of consensusWith the Throne Speech through, MPs returned to the House to lounge about before business began. Speaker Peter Milliken fiddled...