The Nova Scotia tree for Boston 2011
One of the best Canadian Christmas traditions: Each year since 1971, Nova Scotia has sent Boston a large Christmas tree in gratitude for help Bostonians provided after the devastating Halifax…
Nancy Leblanc
On the lighter side
Hope your holiday preparations are as exciting as this!
Harper government flips and flops on Europe
Yesterday: “Canada could pay into IMF Europe fund, Flaherty says.” Hmmm, maybe they should have been a little more open-minded initially. Here in early November was Harper’s shortsighted message at…
Team Summerville update
Just a quick note here to highlight a positive development in relation to the upcoming Liberal biennial convention in Ottawa. Candidate for the National Policy Chair position, Paul Summerville, whom…
Merry Christmas Jean Chretien
Continuing on in the festive spirit around here today, it’s another pre-Christmas story to note: Ottawa has to pay $200,000 in legal costs incurred by Jean Chrétien in his fight…
Merry Christmas Stephen Harper and Christian Paradis
News today of a possible Conservative rebellion on asbestos: Les députés conservateurs, en particulier ceux de l’extérieur du Québec, sont de plus en plus mal à l’aise de voir leur…
Not the Canada they voted for
Sandy White, a former aide to Christian Paradis, writes in the Globe in opposition to the omnibus crime bill. While he or she (sorry, don’t know Sandy’s gender) still claims…
Cooperative federalism in action
As exercised by one of our intrepid cabinet ministers: Mr. Duncan described the provinces as being blindsided by Mr. Flaherty behind closed doors. “He put the document in front of…
The blogging life
This confession comes from the brilliant Mark Thoma who writes Economist’s View: A recent email prompts me to explain something. I post lots of excerpts from articles about economics, but…
Health care trial balloon
I think that’s what today’s Ibbitson column on future health care funding must be, a trial balloon. It is probably positioning by the Harper pros in advance of health care…
Friday night
Another good one: Guy J & Henry Saiz – Meridian (Pryda Remix). That should do it for anyone looking for their progressive house fix! Have a great night!
Late night
Here’s one take on that Newt paper at Newt.org: Ultimately, however, the most frightening thing about Gingrich’s proposal isn’t its direct conflict with the Constitution, but the implications of such…
There’s open government & then there’s not so open government
So Tony Clement was on the Twitter this late afternoon, having his picture taken while at the keyboard, tweeting on the #opengovchat stream during a Treasury Board Secretariat sponsored chat…
Late night
What exactly is Fox News trying to say about Mitt Romney anyway? Another fine moment in journamalism. (h/t to a little birdie)
In Camera government
Beyond all the excitement on the Hill today, there is an important development that Kady O’Malley has noted at the parliamentary committee level that is worth a look. Apparently Conservative…
Flaherty commits to 6% health care increases
Look who’s on SoundCloud! Excellent to see this use of audio media: In light of Flaherty’s musings this week on tying health care transfers to the umbrella and unrelated concept…
Cotler incident may harm Conservative case for lawful access legislation
In the wake of the Speaker’s privilege ruling yesterday, the Conservatives are saying that “there will be no more phone calls to voters in Cotler’s riding, spreading the word that…
Late night
“The decision to quit will not help Canada’s international reputation…critics say is becoming a climate renegade.”
New kid on the Bloc
Chantal Hébert had an interesting column yesterday. She raised the possibility of a future Quebec by-election scenario featuring new Bloc leader Daniel Paillé versus Brian “I’m a Quebec kid” Topp.…