IN THE YEARS since the departure of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, the Liberal Party of…
Category: Canada
Posts about the politics, people and news events of Canada.
AS THIS WEEK’S United Nations General Assembly advanced, faithful to the template, nothing could have…
WHEN THE politician and aspiring poet Nicholas Flood Davin visited Captain Richard H. Pratt’s Carlisle…
SENATOR PATRICK BRAZEAU was again in the news this week and, as is so often…
The case of Omar Ahmed Khadr has long divided Canadians into two respective camps, Bring…
FEDERAL LIBERAL LEADER Bob Rae’s citation of William Shakespeare was an indirect invocation also of…
IN RECENT MONTHS, there has been debate over the federal government’s decision to spend a…
SUBMITTING MYSELF TO the Ottawa weather, which today possessed all the charm of wet underpants,…
AT FIRST GLANCE the federal government’s proposed changes to the Department of National Defence’s soldier…
ONE MIGHT HAVE anticipated, with all the recent talk of conscience rights, that J.S. Woodsworth…
In his essay “Notes on Nationalism,” George Orwell observed that “if one harbours anywhere in…
THE RIVALRY BETWEEN Alberta’s Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties at several points alluded to another…
The Alberta race, within view of the ribbon, is yielding the gaffes which invariably issue…
I neither have a horse in, nor would desire to enter one into, the race…
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTING bureaucrat will admit that procurement processes are often initiated with the final selection…
