Accidental Deliberations

Macleans' Bull Meter assesses Jack Layton's concerns about reduced family-class immigration paired with increased use of temporary ...

It's great news that Bill Siksay's Bill c-389 to protect transgendered rights has passed third reading in the House of Commons - le...

When the Harper Cons have lost Sun Media, you know they're in trouble. And their Senate abuses have lost Sun Media : November’s vote kil...

This and that for your Thursday. - Harron Siddiqui takes on the Cons, Libs and media alike for pushing Canada into an Afghanistan extension...

This and that to end your week... - While the Cons may have received more well-deserved attention for abusing unelected positions to overtu...

Memo to John Baird: now might not be the time to pretend that the House of Commons can pass on studying issues based on the expectation th...

By the way, in case anybody is wondering how we got to the point where the Cons would feel entitled to shred a bill that had passed among C...

Assorted material for your perusal... - On the down side of the current state of Parliament, we've now confirmed exactly how concerned ...

A few items that have come to my attention... - this magazine points out seven private members' bills that deserve to be enacted - and ...

Following up on yesterday's post about the future of the Cons' dumpster budget bill in the Senate, here's one simple suggestion...

I've mentioned before that the greatest hurdles for the NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act figured to lie in the Senate rather...

It's a plus to see Chantal Hebert point out some of the interesting private member's business dealt with in the House of Commons th...

Needless to say, it's great news that notwithstanding the earlier Lib roadblocks , the NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act has p...

Following up on yesterday's votes in the House of Commons, Elizabeth May and the Greens are absolutely right in noting which environme...

There's some reason to quibble with the relative importance being assigned to some of the measures passed in the House of Commons today....

It's great to see a healthy movement afoot on Twitter to push the Libs to vote for the NDP's Climate Change Accountability Act on We...

I've seen a few rhetorical questions asking where the Greens have been when it comes to the NDP's effort to get Bill C-311 and its r...

For those interested, here's a comprehensive list of blog posts on Liblogs and Liberals Online about their party's choice to vote...

So much for my expectation that the Libs would at least want to be seen doing what they could to pass the NDP's Climate Change Accounta...

It's undoubtedly for the best that the NDP is highlighting the need to get its Climate Change Accountability Act passed to set out the...