First Signs of Election Season
As we talk about a lot at this blog, the next Federal election is just around the corner. Or at least it feels like it’s just around the corner, as…
Cam Holmstrom
A Bad Moment in Question Period History
Every day that the House of Commons is in session we have Question Period. At it’s best, it’s a forum where MPs from around the country can ask questions of…
Timing of Interest
Timing can be quite the thing in politics; it can be a great boost to one’s fortunes, or it can be the biggest drain on them. It’s not always what…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario
In politics just about everywhere in the World, there are truisms that really apply just about anywhere you go. One of those truisms is while there are many good people…
SNC/PMO Scandal Comes out of Hibernation
We have reached the end of April and while Spring is coming bit by bit, it can’t get here soon enough for many of us. One group of people happy…
Fringe Flirting
Today the House of Commons returns for the last gasp of this Parliament before the Fall election. MPs will sit for seven of the next eight weeks with lots of…
How to be Great in Office
In my time on Parliament Hill, I was blessed to get to see and experience many things. But along with the good and amazing came the rough, stressful, difficult and…
The Buck Stops…. Somewhere, Right???
In the weeks since the first Ford Ontario Conservative budget, we’ve been seeing a steady drip of stories coming out about cut after cut after cut. These stories have brought…
With Friends Like These….
Now that the Alberta election has passed, the eyes of most of the Canadian political scene are looking towards this falls Federal Election as the next big political event to…
“Managing the Problem”
The House of Commons is currently on it’s last big break before they rise for the Summer. After that, when the Fall comes, the writ will drop and the 43rd…
The Morning After: PEI Election Edition
Yesterdays election on Prince Edward Island ended up delivering on the drama that many of us expected, even if the result wasn’t what many had anticipated. The result of the…
Magpie Brûlé PEI Election Night Live Blog
Tonight promises to be an interesting night in Canada’s smallest province, as Islanders go to the polls to elect their next government. Will the governing Liberals win another term? Will…
A Modest Proposal
I know it’s a bit of a cliché for some to say, but honestly it’s an amazing time that we live in. Thanks to the technologies at our fingertips and…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast: Alberta & PEI Elections
Today I took the chance to record and post the next episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this episode I gets provincial. I talk about the results of the…
Promise Made, Promise Broken
When polling firms do surveys every so often on who society trusts, there is a typical list of professions that finds itself at towards the bottom; politicians are usually one…
Failing the Test
Through out the whole SNC/PMO scandal, anonymous voices were coming out of the woodwork to smear former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould and over time, those attempts failed miserably. That failure…
Spring Election on the Rock
Spring is finally arriving in earnest; the weather has gotten nice and warm, the snow is melting away and it seems that our long winter is finally done (knock on…
The Morning After: Alberta Election Edition
Yesterday was a watershed day in our politics for this year, without a doubt. And now here we are, on the morning after, picking through the bones of the result,…
Alberta Election Night Live Blog
Today is election day in Alberta, one of the biggest provincial elections that we’ve seen in a very long time. So tonight here at Magpie Brûlé, always with an eye…
Sticking it to the Pump
In last weeks Ontario budget, there were lots of things in there that poked and prodded at the perceived enemies of the Ford Conservatives. There were also lots of cuts…