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“My challenge to members is to find their better angels and put away the anger and false indignation. Criticize by all means, but do it with respect and maybe even wit. Make Canadians proud of this House and the people in it.” – Marc Garneau, scientist, naval officer, astronaut and […]
Is the frenzy on Parliament Hill over foreign activity in election campaigns the fallout from a legitimate national security scandal – or is it, as I will contend, much ado about nearly nothing, another example of the political playacting and hyper-partisanship that has marked the House of Commons in recent […]
President Douglas Robert Ford, Jr. Pink Palace Queen’s Park Circle Toronto, Ontario My Dear President Ford, On behalf of the 1,912,057 enlightened citizens of Ontario who voted to give your Regressive Conservative party an overwhelming second majority government last June, I wish to assure you that – contrary to the […]
The Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy is hosting a series of workshops on reproducible research in the social sciences during the Winter Reading Week from February 21st to the 24th. A mix of remote courses will be offered introducing undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and researchers to introductory and advanced statistical analysis and […]
Is 2023 going to be 1947 all over again? Are we about to witness a return to extraterrestrial frenzy, official denial and coverup? Might Dawson City become the Roswell of the 21st century? Roswell is the small New Mexico town where, it was claimed, visitors from outer space made their North […]
Let’s step back for a moment and take a measured look at what has happened on Parliament Hill in the past two weeks. Imagine! For the first time in memory (in mine, at least), the party in power – a minority government, at that – has all of the opposition […]
Pierre Poilievre is quietly doing what he excoriated his predecessor as Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, for attempting to do in the 2021 election – to nudge their right-wing party toward the political centre. The change of direction and tactic occurred in two seemingly separate, but linked, steps in the House […]
As Parliament resumes today after its holiday recess, MPs will be back at work, not much clearer about what folks outside the Ottawa bubble really expect from them than they were when they left on their break a few days before Christmas. The opinion polls don’t help a great deal. […]
