OttawaBTC: Imaginary governmentFrom the Globe’s Andre Picard in Mexico City. Ottawa is determined to shut down Vancouver’s safe-injection site because it’s...
UncategorizedSomebody might as well make a decisionSo a B.C. judge has ruled that the Insite safe-insection site can keep operating, in defiance of any decision Tony Clement may or...
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...
GeneralBye bye, BrodieMust-reads: Christie Blatchford on blowing up a perfectly good native fishery; John Robson vs. the anti-Monarchists; Dan Gardner...
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...
UncategorizedWeekend Notes (Vol. 1, No. 18)The Prime Minister’s second answer on Thursday included this meditation on patriotism. "Whenever this government announces...
UncategorizedFrom the magazine: A version of the truthIf you’re so interested, there are 2,400 words in this week’s magazine under this byline. The topic is truthiness. Namely, this...
UncategorizedBut Adam......surely Tony Clement has to do something to stay busy, since he’s done nothing to deliver on one of the fabled five priorities ?
GeneralDo we dare eat an American peach?Must-reads: Chantal Hébert on Elections Canada’s risk exposure; Dan Gardner on bisphenol A; Christie Blatchford on the Toronto...