Election fever around Parliament Hill is beginning to heat up and it is becoming increasingly likely that at some point over the next 3-4 months a federal election will be called. Parliament Hill, on the eve of the summer recess, is rife with this fever as speculation of elections, mergers, and coalitions is now the [...]
The leaves have fallen, the snow has blown, the flowers have blossomed and the heat waves are back. What better time to take a look back at the year-that-was at Queen’s Park as the legislature prepares to recess for yet another summer. Here are but a few points of reflection – in numbers – from [...]
My colleague Meagan has put forward an excellent post about Question Period in the House of Commons and how it has become a daily shouting match instead of a manner for the government and opposition to exchange information. I agree wholeheartedly with Meagan that question period has become a distraction and that the negative attention [...]
It’s difficult to decide whose face is less recognizable than the original, reality star Heidi Montag’s or the Ontario cabinet’s. As a Toronto Star editorial this week pointed out, just nine months ago Ontario’s inner sanctum at Queen’s Park featured the likes of Michael Bryant, David Caplan, George Smitherman, and Jim Watson. Of the new, [...]
Yesterday’s “flash protest” stunt in the House of Commons was silly, overly partisan and quite possibly a lie. The protesters, some of whom have been outed as NDP activists, shut down the House of Commons in support of the NDP Private Members Bill just as Jack Layton was about to ask a question. Like many [...]
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