Accidental Deliberations

I'm off for a week and a half of vacation, and likely won't be blogging in the meantime. Enjoy the meantime, and I'll be back on...

A mere two months into power, the Cons are already telling a novelist that he'll have to toe the line on climate change as part of his ...

Apparently Rex Murphy is eager to join the ranks of Harper-friendly media figures, gushing over the Accountability Act while ignoring some ...

Remember the Cons' plan to rein in government spending by ensuring that resources are used on programs that are "efficient and eff...

I don't often indulge my sports fanaticism on this blog, but I can't let the Riders' acquisition of Kerry Joseph (with a side o...

Blevkog rightly criticizes Bernard Lord's apparent willingness to put public resources toward ensuring that independent MLA Frank Branc...

Stephen Harper hasn't left much doubt that metaphorically speaking, he wouldn't complain if much of the Canadian media went up in fl...

As if we needed yet another example of the Cons seeing rules as something to be wielded against others rather than something of any real val...

While the Cons' show of false outrage prevented any meaningful questions from being answered in last night's take-note debate, the ...

Last week, Stephen Harper went of his way to claim that no political party is capable of being principled when power is at stake. This week...

Terilyn Paulgaard nicely summarizes how Klein's Third Way leads in entirely the wrong direction: PIPs (private insurance providers) won...

It's always a plus when Canada takes meaningful action to demonstrate (and give effect to) its sovereignty over its share of the Arctic...

A report on the federal government's obligations under the Nunavut Land Claim suggests that Canada can't claim to meet a job requir...

If you're looking for a remotely critical view of the Cons' selective-accountability legislation, CTV may not be the place for you :...

The NDP continues its commentary on the Lib leadership campaign - and the contrast between the leadership rhetoric now and the Libs' ac...

While Greg points out the bizarre formalities which seem to fit Harper's view of himself, the bigger issue in the Globe and Mail's ...

Reporters Without Borders notes that while it's a relief that Frederick Lavoie has been released from a Belarussian prison, the Canadia...

When Stephen Harper said that his government wouldn't continue the Libs' rural neglect, he wasn't kidding. Instead, the Cons ha...

While the first week of Parliament has by and large been a successful one for the NDP, the one obvious problem (aside from the usual outrig...

The CP reports that not only are the Cons planning for Canada not to live up to its Kyoto Protocol commitments, but their few ideas to deal...