The Commons: Unsophisticated debate will not be tolerated in this placeMembers of the gallery should know better than to imitate the performers below
Thou dost protest (II)CBC’s new politics show—Evan Solomon’s Power & Politics—is debuting now with a bloody faced protester claiming rough...
Imaginative fictionElizabeth May was joined in the visitor’s gallery today by author William Deverell. Here is the publisher’s synopsis of Deverell’s...
Thou dost protestMore on this in a bit, but here is the news. NDP house leader Libby Davies seems not to have minded the disruption. Conservative...
Ricky Gervais To Host Golden Globes, Oscars Officially Dull?I heard lots of people saying over the past few months that Ricky Gervais should host the Academy Awards. He’s funny, he’s...
Turnabout, fair play, etc.Peter MacKay, responding to opposition questions, October 19 . I will note that when it comes to Bloc members, I wish they would...
MPs, they’re just like usIn a Globe and Mail survey , only 49% of Canadians say they’ll get the H1N1 vaccine shot. In a Hill Times survey , only 21 of 32...
Politics as high school, high school as politicsWith kids standing in for Harper, Ignatieff, Layton, Duceppe and May, a high school social sciences class reenacts the federal...
Is it possible to get a fair hearing?Last week our Andrew Coyne argued that now is the time for Michael Ignatieff to deal honestly and directly with the deficit and...