On responsibility
Shorter Con instructions to ministers:If your underlings break the law based on your instructions, it's their own damn fault for taking orders. So go nuts!
Greg Fingas
Burning questions
Since when does a faction of the Cons get to declare that Denise Savoie should stand down as a candidate for speaker for their own benefit?And if Lee Richardson and…
On dominance
Meanwhile, the obvious potential for growth in NDP support figures to have some rather important effects on the Cons' strategy as well. After all, their current coalition of support left…
On fading reasons
There's plenty to catch up on in Canadian politics from the past week, and I'll try to cover the biggest news over the next couple of days. But let's start…
New column day
Blogging may be on hold for the week, but columnizing isn't. Here's my latest, on the Cons' disaster response and the broader question of what we expect from our elected…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- John Allemang's profile of Jack Layton is well worth a read in full. But after a campaign where any show of support can easily…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- In case we didn't already have enough examples of the Wall government's contempt for voting, James Wood notes that it's dragging its heels…
On credibility gaps
Since I haven't yet seen this story linked to the spin which seems to have made it necessary, let's put two and two together.The professionals responsible for maintaining the solvency…
On consensus-building
Kady's post on the composition and chairing of committees notes that there's some risk the Cons could try to use their majority to rewrite the rules. But it's worth pointing…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The McGill Institute's Election Content Analysis includes plenty of interesting information on how this month's federal election was covered. But the most noteworthy point…
Musical interlude
Andre Visior & Kay Stone - Sunrise
On questions and answers
Lawrence Martin's theory on how the NDP can start making Question Period more substantive looks to be a good start. But I'll add that there's one more consideration worth taking…
On losing strategies
Sure, Greg is right to criticize the Libs for being willing to provoke a national unity crisis for political gain. But I'm not sure when that became reason for surprise:…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- thwap is among a few bloggers to rightly slam the Cons' obscene message to flooded Quebeckers that the only way they can hope for…
On shadows
A couple of quick notes on the NDP's shadow cabinet announced today...The most intriguing set of announcements comes in the form of several up-and-coming MPs assigned to a counterintuitive set…
On continued momentum
In case there's any doubt, the usual caveats about paying too much attention to polling are probably all the more important now that any federal election is more than four…
New column day
Here, on how the Wall government has turned what would be considered "corrupt practices" in any other voting process into a rational strategy for employers trying to prevent workers from…