Quiet patriotism
This is an actual quote from Liberal Leader Ignatief, who authored a rambling, mushy editorial about the Olympics and Canadian identity (or something) for the New York Times last week. I have never...
View ArticleDoomed marriage
The Ottawa gossip mill has been in override this week over rumors of alleged merger talks between the Liberal Party and the NDP. With the two-party coalition government idea having failed so...
View ArticleIgnatieff the foreigner
The dawn of a new year in Canada heralds a fresh excuse to engage in the Canadian news media’s favorite pastime: endless election speculation. Will 2011 be the year Prime Minister Harper chooses to...
View ArticleWhy does this keep happening?
The unstoppable march of history dictates that as time progresses, the United States and Canada must grow closer and closer together. Few countries are as economically co-dependent as the two states of...
View ArticleOnward, brave electioneers
As I write this, the Canadian House of Commons just voted 156 to 145 to find the government of Stephen Harper in contempt of parliament, passing a motion of no-confidence that will now trigger an...
View ArticleTrust the compass!
In an effort to get more people to, you know, care about politics and stuff, the CBC websites released a cute little “Vote Compass,” boasting that it will help confused Canadian voters finally find the...
View ArticleBudget envy
Canadian and American politics have an interesting tendency to sync up, and it’s not uncommon for a debate south of the border to overlap with a near-identical one in the north. Yet no matter how...
View ArticleA Canadian election puzzle
With less than two weeks to go until the 41st Canadian federal election formally concludes, we’re still seeing very few signs that this campaign — which all the nation’s parties were oh-so-keen to...
View ArticleThe evolution of Canadian politics
The Canadian political scene is fundamentally unstable. Anyone who doubted just how volatile our system is, or how quickly things can change within it were given a jolting reminder Monday night, as...
View ArticleLoyalties of the left
There’s a certain weird problem that keeps popping up in the backgrounds of the men seeking to lead the forces of opposition to Stephen Harper. It’s happening so frequently, in fact, that I’m starting...
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