Canadian Politics
Liberal MPs look to protect Katie Telford
The slow grind of the story of alleged interference by Beijing’s communist government in Canadian elections continued this week. The Prime Minister announced…
Ian Brodie
8 posts on Ian Brodie from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Stephen Harper
Sandra Buckler resigns as Director of Communications
Today, Sandra Buckler informed her friends and colleagues that she’ll be leaving the Prime Minister’s office as Director of Communications. Buckler started…
Conservative Party of Canada
The Death of Oily – the tragic premature demise of an almost Canadian icon
It was the first brillantly sunny pre-summer weekend of June. Joggers in Ottawa hit the river parkway and canal while sun-bathers converged on Parliament Hill.…
Conservative Party of Canada
Maxime Bernier resigns
At 7pm this evening, the Prime Minister announced that he received an offer of resignation of Foreign Affairs minister Maxime Bernier this afternoon and…
Canadian Media
On naming and dealing with scandal
As some of the air has been taken out of the so-called “Cadscam”, I thought it might be interesting to take a quick look at which communications goals were…
Economy and Budget
Political literacy
I almost let this story slip by: OTTAWA–Literacy — it’s all about reading, writing and getting your story straight. Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa. On…
Canadian Media
Globe and Mail prints correction
The following appeared in Wednesday’s Globe and Mail regarding the shoddy research printed by Gloria Galloway in Tuesday’s paper. Don’t blink, you might miss…
Stephen Harper
Breaking news: new senior staff leadership in the OLO
It’s not often that I get to break news, but its always fun when I have the opportunity. One of my senior sources in the party has informed me: Mike Donison is…