Owen Gray

Severe Meglomania

A month ago, Brian Mulroney took Stephen Harper apart on national television. This weekend, writing in the National Post, Conrad Black told Harper his fifteen minutes were up: If Harper…

Not For You

http://www.ipolitics.ca/ Stephen Harper tells us that there are lots of things we can’t afford — like veterans affairs offices, lawyers to check the proposed constitutionality of legislation, and home mail…

Insincere Sincerity

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/ Michael den Tandt writes that the apology Sun News issued this week to Justin Trudeau will go down in history as a superb example of insincere sincerity: Having first…

Four To Go

http://lynnlipinski.me/ As Lawrence Martin sees it, there are four scenarios in Stephen Harper’s future. The first is to hold an election at the prescribed date, set in

Getting It And Them

www.nationalpost.com/ Paul Calandra’s behaviour this week — first preening arrogance, then blubbering self pity — is symptomatic of our sick politics. Andrew Coyne writes: There is no useful

The Next Wedge

http://reason.com/ This week, the Conference Board released a report predicting generational warfare between Canadians. Macleans has also jumped on the bandwagon. Linda McQuaig writes: I turn to Maclean’s if I…

A Mere Mortal

http://www.ctvnews.ca/ Andrew Nikiforuk writes that, according to Gus Van Harten, the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement — which Stephen Harper signed without any public debate — trumps both First…

A Fossil Fool

http://toronto350.org/ Stephen Harper is at the UN today to attend a meeting of the Security Council. He chose not to attend yesterday’s meeting on climate change. As

The Bunker Buster

http://backofthebook.ca/ The conventional wisdom these days seems to hold that Stephen Harper will never testify at Mike Duffy’s trial. But Scott Reid, who used to be Paul Martin’s director of…

Wearing It Proudly

http://www.macleans.ca/ This week Stephen Harper heads to the United Nations, an organization which he has consistently snubbed. The goal is to present himself as a world statesman — not to…

Better Off?

http://yrfn.ca/ The latest Conservative campaign ad proclaims that we are all “better off under Harper.” But the latest EKOS poll suggests that Canadians don’t feel

Magic Steve

http://www.stonecoldmagicmagazine.com/ Between now and the next election, Stephen Harper will try hard to be a magician. He’ll try to make his record disappear. Michael Harris writes: That is a conversation…

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