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In the garden of electoral reform, mandatory voting is a low-hanging fruit
that all parties seem content – for now – to leave on the branch. […]
In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, Western intelligence agencies used to grab at the tiniest details to figure out, in the absence of reliable information, who was up or down in Moscow. Seating orders on reviewing stands at May Day parades. The placement of articles in Pravda. Musical choices on state radio. Any scrap or tidbit.
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The appointment Friday of a rookie minister to the pivotal parliamentary function of government House leader is the clearest possible signal that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals expect mostly clear sailing in the Commons this fall. […]
Five years on, what would Jack Layton make of the Canadian political landscape and the gloomy state of the party he led to unprecedented heights before his premature death? […]
Summer ends for the Liberals this weekend. On Sunday and Monday, the cabinet meets in Sudbury for a two-day retreat. Thursday and Friday the full Liberal caucus will be in Saguenay, north of Quebec City, for two days of meetings to prepare for the autumn sitting of Parliament. Four days after that, Justin Trudeau leaves for eight days in China, a trip his office views as a high priority. […]
As he announced he would reimburse all the money he charged Jane Philpott for limo service around Toronto, Reza Shirani of Executive Sedan Livery Service Inc. had a stern warning to newspaper columnists and other bottom-feeders. […]
Editor: I had plans Saturday evening to get up on stage and thank the many Tragically Hip fans that joined […]
So far on terrorism, Justin Trudeau is more or less the prime minister Stephen Harper told us he would be.
On the very day Trudeau became leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, in April 2013, he sat in Ottawa for an interview with Peter Mansbridge of the CBC. Two bombers had just detonated their home-brew contraptions at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding hundreds. […]
by Chantal Hébert What do the federal New Democrats, the Alberta and federal Conservatives, and Quebec’s two main sovereigntist parties […]
Stephen Harper used to call it the Sea of Troubles.
“Yes, Canada is doing relatively well,” Harper said at a campaign stop in St. John’s in 2011, as he began putting a historic thumping on Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals. […]
by Chantal Hébert Since her election as MP in 2011, Elizabeth May has been a force for good in what […]
by Paul Wells So Canada is not immune to terrorist threat. Did anyone still think we aren’t immune? Already there […]
by Chantal Hébert In the dying days of his government, Stephen Harper went to considerable lengths to ensure that the […]
But enough of summer silly-season stories. Justin Trudeau’s biggest problem isn’t that he has spent August wearing only half his clothes. It’s that Canada has spent 2016 wearing only half its economic growth.
Fixing the latter challenge will be way harder than throwing on a shirt. […]
With the regulatory process on the Energy East pipeline underway, the countdown to what could become Canada’s next big existential crisis is officially on. […]
But for better or worse, nationalism is alive and well in the world. In Russia, it expresses itself as a muscular chauvinism. It the United Kingdom, it produced the vote that has ended that country’s membership in the European Union. […]
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