…and other opinions we won’t hear from the Ottawa Parliamentary Press Gallery anytime soon. Jane Taber: Ian Davey is Michael Ignatieff’s principal secretary and he admires Stephen Harper’s steely control over the…
“Well, what the hell else do you expect us to do with a gun to our head” remarked one ministerial staffer at Hy’s last night when I delivered the verdict of conservative ideologues to a budget which increased special…
My sources inside the CBC tell me that Krista Erickson returns to televised reporting in front of a national audience tonight on The National. She’s said to be doing a piece on the Ottawa bus strike. (Full disclosure…
The annual federal budget in previous years has had bland, generic corp- gov-speak titles applied to their card stock-bound covers. In 2006, scoring another shot at Paul Martin post-election and seeking to underscore…
I’ve been back in Ottawa for about 36 hours after making the trip to Washington DC to observe the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. It goes without saying that the inauguration was…
Today, American radical William Ayers was denied entry to Canada. Here’s the an excerpt from the article on the story in the Globe and Mail: William Ayers, a distinguished education professor from the University of…
It was five years ago today that I started this blog. I started writing on this site as a tool to compliment my nomination campaign in Kingston prior to the 2004 general election. I wasn’t successful in that nomination…
In 2008, I had the opportunity to tour the level 4 laboratory in Winnipeg Manitoba with my boss Preston Manning. In my day job, I am the science policy and communications adviser for the Manning Centre for Building…
On Friday, I sent out an email to the tens of thousands on the Rally for Canada email list asking them to participate in a small survey concerning the upcoming federal budget. I asked people four questions concerning…
